The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-30
FAIR HAVEN HAPPENINGS
WORK ON CENTER PIER OF CHAPEL
 STREET DRAW SUSPENDED,
,istmas Entertainments-

Several Christmas Entertainments- Fifteenth Wedding Anniversary CeIe- hrated by MT. and Mrs. Morgan E. Fowler.
 Frank P. Tyler recently returned rom Buffalo on business connected with the Empire Knights of Relief of which he has become the supreme deputy for New England, Eastern New York and New Jersey. The institution IS nine years old and MT. Tyler claims that it is on a scientific plan and charges equitable rates. It is expected that one of the branches of the order will be established in this city.
 Major Luzerne Ludington is i'll with the grip at his home on Quinnipiac avenue.
 MT. and Mrs. Louis c. Smith of Cleveland are visiting relatives in Fair Haven.
 Henry R. Smith of Fair Haven Heights, who has been i'll with the grip, IS improving, but is not able to be out yet.
 Work on the center pier for the new Chapel street drawbridge has been sus- pended for a few days. The mud has been dredged from the bottom of the river to a depth of thirty-fiv feet and concrete foundation has been built up to within few feet of low water mark. In building the concrete w. A. Warner & Bro. has furnished 5000 bar rels of cement. which has been mixed with broken stone in forming a firm foundation on which the masonry will be built. It will be of East Haven stone and furnished by Walter Connor.
 Miss Jennie Frykland of Brooklyn, N. Y., formerly of Fair Haven, is visiting Miss Ella Jacobs of SaItonstall avenue
 The last of the Christmas exercises for the Sunday schools took place last evening with very successful enter tainment given in the Sunday school room of the Grand avenue Congrega- tional church. The entertainment for the Sunday school of St. James church was held Wednesday evening. The ex- ercises consisted of the singing of car- ols, recitations, etc., and the distribu- tiOn of presents.
 J. Collins Pierpont of Atwater street Is out again after an illness of ten days from the effects of the grip.
 The local stockholders in the firm of Swift & Co.,, are expecting to receive a quarterly dividend of 1% per cent. on January 1. About $250,0O0 of the stock is held here.
 &ao1 1I,a af f1a Quit, f,Nio cnl, al remembered Janitor Holaday at Christ mas presenting him with a bookcase.
 Captain F. c. Crossley has been look ing over an 1900 ton schooner with a possible view of purchasing the boat.
 The cantata, "A Trip to Old Chris" given Wednesday night by the Grand avenue Congregational Sunday school was repeated last night in the Sunday school room of the church for the bene- fit of the public. The characters are: Blanche. .. ... =. Miss Lulu Lennon Cassie. .... =. ....... Lena Gierding Madie ... ... ... ...... Emma Parker Dora ..... =. Daisy Parker Kittie Sing..... June Brown Ullacalula.. :. Miss Mary Griswold Dan. :. ..................H Henry Musch
  Jack. :. ..............R Robert McArthur Dick
 5 Tom. ,...... Fred Smith Willie Wiles..... ..!.. George Kissel Old Chris. :. :. Dwight Chamberlain
 Chorus of soldier boys-F7red Smith, Charles Connor, Wilber Smith, Carl Me- Cain, Ira Hill, Robert McArthur, Her bert Nelson, Walter Hemingway, George Halleck, Fred Duffy, Sherwood Hano- yer.
 Chorus of farmer boys-Charlie Lain- 20, Harry Kimball, Willie Wickman, George Halleck, Harry Brocket, Henry Musch.
 Chorus of Chinese maids-Josephine Hemingway, Hattie Baldwin, Jean Me Arthur, Inez Broadway, Grace West, Mabel Geirding, Junie Brown.
 Between the acts of the cantata the eFour-and- twenty black birds baked in a pie" and "The Old Woman who lived in the Shoe" and all her children enter tained. The programme:
 Overture
 Christmas Welcome. First part of cantata, "A Trip to Old
 Chris.
 Shoe
 Solo by Old Woman and chorus by chill
 dren.
 Remarks by one little girl.
 Recitation-"Hush"- little girl with
 candle.
 Motion play by five children. Childrens chorus-"Poor Mother is
 Tired"
 Recitation-'tAll Ready for Santa
 Claus''-Visa Huntley.
 Recitation-"A Christmas Thought
 Ruth Seeley.
 Recitation by three children, Susie, Cake walk-Hennessy children. Song and chorus-Ruth Mccain and all
 children.
 Christmas address-Gladys Visel. Black Birds.
 Mr. and Mrs. Morgan B. Fowler of Ouinnipiac avenue celebrated their fif- teenth anniversary Wednesday evening. A party of their friends were invited to calI and the occasion was very pleas ant for all. MT. and Mrs. Fowler re- ceived a number of fine and useful presents. There was music, games and a fine supper was served.
 James GirlSen, formerly of Fair Ha-