The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-04
FAIR HAVEN HAPPENINGS
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM BOTH
 SIDES OF THE RIVER.

Funeral of Mrs. Charles Yves to be Held To-day-Parish Officers of the Grace T.. F. Church Elected.
 Catherine M. Osborn, widow of Charles Ives, died at her home on Fair Haven Heights, Monday at the age of eighty-two years and four months. She leaves two daughters, Miss Marie E. Ives, who made her home with her mother, and Mrs. Otis H. Waldo of Chicago. A son, Charles Ives, died sev- eral years ago. Mrs. Ives husband, the late Charles Ives, was for many years prominent New Haven attorney, and at one time speaker of the Connecti- cut house of representatives. He has been dead about fifteen years. The funeral of the deceased will be held this afternoon at o'clock at her late res- idence in Fair Haven Heights.
 A special town meeting was held in Town hall, East Haven, Monday even- ing to decide upon the number of schoolvisitors to appoint this year. Sen ator D. w. Futile presided. By vote of g to it was decided to appoint nine school visitors and they will be select ed at the town election the first Mon- day In June. For some twenty-five or thirty years the schools have been conducted under the old district sys- ta,,, fc IoI +o t,xy IA consolidated system. Last year only two school visitors were appointed.
 An excellent entertainment was giv- en in the Sunday school room of the Grand avenue Congregational church Monday evening by the little folks, and some of their friends. The enter tainment was entitled Kinder Pic tures." The living pictures were ar- ranged after Maud Humphrey and were interspersed with vocal and in strumental music. Besides the pie lures there were recitat.ons by Ethel Thompson and Isadore Goldberg and a solo by Miss D. Gertrude Duel. Among the pictures were Mother Goose, Lit tie Boy Blue, Nursery Band, Little Jack Horner, Tommy Shocks and Bet ty Brooks, Babes in the Woods, Little Nancy Etticote, Playing Peek-aBoo, Pussy Cat Why do You Stare, Three Little Maids from School, Good King Arthur, The Chocolate Creams, Little Bo Peep, Cinderella and Spain and America. At the reception after the entertainment the little workers dress ed in costume served cream.
 Another of the Hanscom fleet of coast CTS has arrived from the south. The three masted schooner w. w. Con- verse, Captain Lewis, from Fernandina with lumber, arrived at New York Monday. The schooner made the run in ten days. The cargo is consigned to the Yellow Pine Lumber Co.
 New concrete walks have geen laid around the school house in Foxon and the old walks repaired. A we'll twenty six feet deep has been driven on the school house grounds furnishing an abundant supply of excellent water.
 w. A. Warner left last evening for New York on a business trip.
 GRACE PARISH MEETING.
 At the parish meeting of Grace Epis- copal church Monday evening the fol- lowing officers were elected: Vestry- men, A. J. Weld, Sylvester Smith. E. H. Fenton, J. c. Reeves, H. H. Nettleton, H. H. Smith, James T. Jones, John Keast, F. G. Hull, L. A. Humiston, B. B. Miller, J. G. Wilmot, A. M. Cross- land, Arthur Sherwood; senior warden, w. S. Lowe; junior warden, F. H. Fen ton; clerk, c. A. Smith; auditors, J. J. Wilmot and S. Gilbert; delegates to convention, w. S. Rowe, T. Prozenson;
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