The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-28

LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
PLANS FOR GENERATION ON ME-
 MORIAL DAY, COMPLETED.

Graves of the Honored Dead In Fair
 Haven Cemetery Wil be Decorated-A
 New Flag Raised by Firemen at No. 5's
 House-Patriotic Exercises at Strong
 School.
 The committee having charge of the Memorial day celebration have com pleted their plans. The committee con- sists of Giles w. Clark, chairman; John w. Hill, William D. Crockett and Lu- Zerne r. Barnes. Polar Star hall will be open at a. m. on Monday for the reception of flowers. If the weather is pleasant the procession will form at 9 a. m. and march across the bridge, countermarching and proceeding to the Fair Haven cemetery, where the 12O graves of soldiers and sailors will be decorated. Giles w. Clark will be the marshal. The procession will be con- posed of Bunnelps drum corps, about fifty members of the G. A. R. and school children. After the parade and decoration of graves there will be ex- ercises at Polar Star hall, to include an address by Rev. MT. Chapman and music.
 At the Grand avenue Baptist church Sunday evening there will be a memo rial service. The pastor, Rev. Dr. Sage, will speak on "The Boys of '61 and the Boys of '9S.'' There will be special mu- sic and the church will be handsomely decorated.
 At the East Pearl street M. E. church Sunday Rev. Robert T. McNicholl will preach in the morning on the subject What Think Ye of Christi" A pub lie meeting under the auspices of the W. c. T. U. will be held In the evening at 7:S0 There will be special music by the choir. The pastor will deliver an address; subject, Cause and Cure of Drunkenness"
 A new flag, 10 by 20 feet, was raised on No. 5's engine house on East Pearl street yesterday afternoon. A new flagpole was recently erected on the roof and the handsome flag was dis played from the same. Several rapid strokes were given the fire alarm bell as a salute to the flag.
 Rev. D. M. James, who received a severe ankle sprain while here on visit, was able on Thursday to leave for his home in Hinton, West Vir- ginia.
 Mrs. Nellie Stone, who has been visit
 ing Mrs. George Black for the past six months, has started for her home in
 California.
 Exercises recalling Memorial day
 were held in the eighth grade at the
 Strong school yesterday afternoon. The school rooms were prettily decorated with flags and flowers. A goodly num- Der of visitors were present. An ad- dress was delivered by l.. B. Brown of Admiral Foote post, G. A. R. He spoke of the meaning of Memorial day and what 1t stood for, and referred to the
 duties of good citizenship. He gave
 some incidents of the civil war, and was listened to with interest. There were number of declamations and IGCIIdIlOIlS Uy pupllo 1llu lIiuolCy 1iiSlud- ing three patriotic hymns sung by the school. There were vocal duet by
 May Seco and Dottie Konuff and a trio by Minnie Rogerson, Olive Robertson and Minnie Allyn. An interesting fea- ture was the salute to the flag.
 Hiram Camp division No. IA, S. of T., held a very plesant session on Thurs
 day evening, and although the weather
 was unfavorable, there was a good att tendance. The bottle of beans that was
 guessed on a week ago was brought
 out and counted. The prize was secur-
 ed by Miss Mattie Hall, she having
 guessed nearest to the number of beans
 in the bottle. Under good of the order the members held donkey party and | enjoyed game of hurry up," the prize for which will be awarded next week. At the next meeting fruit race will be held, together with other entertain ment. The visit to East Haven divi-
 sion which was to have been made on Monday evening was postponed owing |