The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-06
FAIR HAVEN HAPPENINGS
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM BOTH
 SIDES OF THE RIVER.

1Aeury tS. Snlth Connneu to HIS nome as the Result of a FalI--All Content Whist Club Entertained by Mrs. J. F. Heming- way-Eight-Inch Tee Being Cut-Per- sonal Mention. East side stockholders in the corpor- aton of Swift & Go. Of Chicago receiv- cd their regular dividends yesterday. Enclosed in the envelopes were printed statements of the company's affairs, showing that for the year 1897 their business amounted to $121 59S, ,670.6s. There is something like $300,000 worth of stock held in Fair Haven and it has earned the past year per cent, or say S1S,000.
 Henry R. Smith is confined to his home from the effects of fall on the ice, injuring his hip. The same hip was injured several years ago, when Mr. Smith was thrown from carriage.
 Lodge Deputy l.. J. Mundelin and of ficers of East Rock lodge, A. o. U. w., will install officers of Israel Putnam lodge on the evening of January IA; and Lodge Deputy E. E. Mix and other officers of Israel Putnam lodge will in stall officers-elect of East Rock lodge on the evening of January 20. The lat ter occasion will be quite an affair and members of other local lodges will be present.
 There are eight or ten days more. of work riveting the iron section put up in the draw of the new bridge. It re- quires seventeen thousand rivets to se- curely fasten the draw sections and the riyets are made of three-quarter and seven-eighths-inch iron. Sixteen rivet- CTS are at work and four forge fires are necessary to heat the great bolts. The draw is a complicated affair, with it's great web-like system of trusses, cross sections and braces, but the boss build CT says it is a very strong structure and first-class in every detail.
 Harry Mozealous, who has been spending the holidays at his home on the east side, has returned to the Bos- ton Institute for the Blind. He is talk ing course of instruction in voice cul- ture at the Boston Conservatory of Mu- sic in addition to his duties at the h. stitution for the Blind.
 The All-Content Whist club held it's second meet of the season last evening with Mrs. J. F. Hemingway of Quinni- piac avenue. The members of the club are MT. and Mrs. c. D. Parmelee MT. and Mrs. F. H. Hemingway, MT. and Mrs. B. J. Stone, Mrs. J. F. Heming way, Miss J. c. Hemingway, MT. and Mrs, Charles Kelsey, Wells J. Bray and A. F. Hemingway.
 Mrs. c. E. Brays Sunday school class l. hA church were entertained at her home two or three evenings ago. A fine spread was served to the dozen lads, games played, and Roy and Stewart Hemingway interested his friends with some very pretty stereopticon views. The class enjoyed their call very much
 The east side ice men are busy this week preparing to cut ice, which Is about eight inches thick. Many thou sand tons of Ice are stored in these houses every favorable winter, but very little old ice will be carried over this season. If the present weather contin- ues the ice dealers will begin housing early next week
 Now that Lieutenant Hall has declin- ed the majorship of the Second compa- my, Governors Horse Guards, friends of Captain Luzerne Ludington are hop ing that he will be elected to the posi- tion. Captain Ludington has been a member of the Horse Guards twenty five years and has always been zealous for the upbuilding of the company. Those who joined the command with him twenty-five years ago are c. E. Bray, clerk of the borough of Fair Ha- ven East; William F. Mansfield, E. H. Crawford, Alfred Thomas E. B. Rowe and the late John Woodward, all of Fair Haven, and all are now ex-mem- bers save Captain Ludington.
 A ipocketbook was recently found in the old East Haven cemetery and is now in the hands of Town Clerk J. s. Tyler of that town.