The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-21
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ROTH
 SIDES OF THE RIVER.

Repairs Begun on East Pearl Street M.
 E. chureh-Borough of Fair Haven
 East Well Lighted by Electricity
 Picnic ofSt. Andrews sunday School
 Funeral of Mrs. E, W. Easter This Afternoon.
 Assessor c. w. Hemingway is mak- ing out the grand list book in prepara- tion for the collection of the borough taxes. The grand list last year was about s1,OOO,O It is expected there will be an increase this year as num- Der of new residences have been built Some of the oystermen are catching shells in Quinnipiao river, below and above the Grand avenue drawbridge, for transplanting out in the sound There are more or less small oysters among the shells and it Is good stock for transplanting in the fall for set. Miss Carrie M Chapman of the Ferry Street Kindergarten is enjoying her NdCdllOl at bdHld1u ldke.
 Mrs. Frederick Siebert and daughter, Florence, leaves to-day for Newberry, Vt. for stay of several weeks. Henry D. Curtiss of East Haven, who has been quite i'll, is recovering. F. Foote Andrews and William H. Robinson of East Haven have been ap- pointed appraisers on the insolvent estate of Gilbert Van Sickles. | The farmers in the neighborhood are well along with having; the weather | has been favorable for cutting hay and a good crop has been raised.
 Substitute James Hart is taking the place of Letter Carrier Patrick McCar- tin during the vacation of the latter.
 The Sunday school of St. Andrews church, East Haven, held it's annual picnic at Mansfield Grove yesterday. There were about 100 who enjoyed the days outing in the Grove and along | the shore.
 Ice cream and cake will be served in
 the parlors of St. James, church this evening, from until 10 by the Young | Peoples Social Chapter. Ice cream with cake only ten cents.
 | The funeral of the late Stephen Hal loran of 165 Poplar street was held at the family residence yesterday morn ing at S:30 o'clock. Father Brennan read mass at St. Farncis' church. The
 pail bearers were: James Maroney, Thomas Maroney, Thomas McNerney, Andrew McNerney and Michael Grif- fin. The deceased was a resident of
 Fair Haven for thirty-flve years.
 The funeral of Edward Geer took I l-te, lot
 home, 19 Woolsey St. Rev. R. T. Me Nicholl of the East Pearl street M. E.
 church officiating. The interment was in the Fair Haven cemetery. MT. Geer
 was 73 years of age, but had been in
 very good good health until last Sun l day when he was seized with dysen-
 tery and died that night He had been
 employed for many years by the Fair
 Haven and Westville R. R. Go. In the
 days of horse cars he was a driver
 many years and when the change came
 to electricity he was employed by the | company about the car house.
 The funeral of Mrs. Edward w.
 Easter will be soemnized from her late home, 235 Lexington avenue, this l afternoon, at 2:30 o'clock.
 Repairs have begun on the East
 Pearl Street M. F. church. Major Pat
 rick Maher has the contract for build- ing the connection with the East Pearl
 street sewer.
 There are now 25 electric lights used
 in lighting the streets in the borough
 of Fair Haven East. The last light or
 dered was the one at the corner of l Grand avenue and Russell street. Sev- | eral years ago when the question of lighting the borough streets with elec-
 tricity came up. there was quite con-
 test, many opposing the scheme. The lights have proved popular and but | few oppose them now.