The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-27
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
MEMORIAL DAY EXERCISES AT STRONG AND WOOLSEY SCHOOLS.


 Business Meeting Held by w. c. T. U. ot Mrs. Ezra HeaIy's-schooner Grace Seymour Has Shipped Crew of Russ slams Entertainment at Grand Ave- nue Baptist chureh-Other Items.
 Exercises preliminary to Memorial day will be held in the Strong and Woolsey schools this afternoon. At the Strong school in the Eighth grade there will be readings and music; there will also be an address, probably by Judge E. c. Dow. The school rooms will be trimmed with flags and flowers. Rev. MT. Chapman and Senior War den Potter of St. James, church and Senior Warden w. s. Rowe and Treas urer Fenton of Grace church attended the consecration services at Christ church yesterday.
 Rev. William E. Vibbert, D. D., of New York, son of the late Rev. Dr. vibbert of Fair Haven, participated in the services attending the consecration of Christ church yesterday.
 "A business meeting of the w. c. T. U. was held on Tuesday at Mrs. Ezra Healy's Exchange. Miss Susie Kan ahan was elected press superintendent. The Saturday evening prayer meet ing of the w. c. T. U. will be held this week with Mrs. Simmonds, g Woolsey street.
 The Sunday afternoon meeting of the Union will be held in the Sunday school room of the East Pearl street M. E. church at o'clock.
 The regular parlor meeting of the union will be held at Mrs. c. w. Kan ahan's, 3 Wolcott street, next Tuesday at 8 p. m. After the meeting there will be held a dairy tea from to 8 p. nl., for the benefit of the union. All inter ested in the work are invited to at tend.
 The annual meeting of the Ladies' Aid society will be held in the parlors of the Grand avenue Congregational church Wednesday evening. Reports of the work of the year will be made and officers elected. It will be their last meeting for the season.
 Rev. Donald G. Colp, assistant pastor of the Grand avenue Congregational church, has gone to North Dakota, and will supply a church until September when he returns to New Haven.
 The schooner Grace Seymour of the Hanscom fleet, Captain Holmes, has shipped a crew of Russians at New London.
 There will be road races next Mon- day by the Clipper Wheel club, over the Peauot course, with the start at Four Corners also one-mile race. The races were to have occurred to-day, but are postponed owing to the weather.
 An entertainment was given in the chapel of the Grand avenue Baptist church Wednesday evening for the benefit of the Sunday school library Superintendent c. D. Manwaring was in charge The programme was as fol- SNlows: Reading, Back There in '61," ;" Mrs. F. c. Sage; piano duet, "Leust- spiel overture" Mrs Norton and Mrs. Sheffield; tableaux, "A Real Inconven- jence.'' aSandy's Romance" May Nor ton: stableau, "One of the Heroes of the { Day-Sams Son. contralto solo, 4sThere, Little Girl, Don't Cry" Mrs. Sheffield: recitation, "The First Party, " lone Hart; tableau, "A Real Conven- ience;" reading, Emory L. Smith; tab leau, "Off to the War" bass solo, ''The Slipper of St. Ives,' Robert c. Hart; tableau, ,"A Glimpse of Cuba" recita- tion, .'Jane Jones'" May Norton; tab 1eau, "The Goddess of Liberty" She programme was well rendered. The young elocutionists, May Norton and , lone Hart were especially well receiv- cd and responded to encores. The last 4ableau sThe Goddess of Liberty" was prefaced by the singing of "The Star Spangled Banner" by the audience. Mrs E. B. Warren impersonated the goddess.