The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-07-04
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
NO PUBLIC CELEBR1TI0N OF THE
 FO URIH.

But There Will be Noise and Picnic
 anu Cessation of Business and Great
 Consumption of Ice Cream-Trotting
 at Riverside ParIS-Othcr Notes.
 There will be no celebration of Fourth or July in Fair Haven. Business will be pretty generally suspended, however, and the postoffice will be closed at noon. Extra cars will be run on the electric roads morning and evening-in the morning to give many people opportun- ity to attend the public exercises at the Hyperion theater and in the evening to witness the fireworks on the Green. There will be many private excursions and picnics and several of the river craft will carry people out on the Sound. The usual excursion by the steamer Richard Peck, which has oc- cured for years, and omitted this year, will be much missed.
 It is expected that the members or Woolsey lodge, Knights of Honor, like all the other lodges of this order Will have to pay an increased assessment this month. There has been an in- crease ordered to make up for detl- ciency in receipts. This is good, sound order although the assessments have increased in recent years. Woolsey was one of the first benevolent lodges formed in Fair Haven and was very prosperous for a time. The officers say the lodge is getting where all the other lodges are bound to land, as every order must raise by assessment an amount equal to the disbursements for penelts' While the increase will not be rellshed, it Is not believed many will drop out.
 Jessie c. Newton has sold to James B. Moran, S5 feet of land on Grand ave nue.
 Edward E. Bristol has sold to Minnie T. Bristol 60 feet of land on ToWnsend avenue.
 Louis Broadwell has sold to Warner D. Judson fifty feet of land on oouth Front street.
 E F. Thompson and family of East Haven have moved to their cottage at Cosey Beach.
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 East Haven cemetery by Mrs. John An drews to the memory of her husband.
 A writer in the Fishing Gazette says: 'I learn that the great oyster syndicate on paper has permitted nearly all it's options to expire and that the proposed combination will not materialize, at least not for the present. l never be- lieyed the plans proposed by the pro-
 111o h,yt IT-a ing to set my opinion against that $10,- COG, ,000 that was so much talked of but never seen. It now turns out that all the plans for controlling the oyster trade have vanished.
 The trotting at Riverside Park to-day promises to be interesting, and good attendance is looked for. Several Fair Haven horses will participate and good work is expected of them.
 The oystermen have been getting ready for shell planting which will be- gin once. Right after the Fourth of July is the time when shell planting has begun for many years. The warm dry weather, it is said, will be favorable for a good set and the oysters are reported full of spawn-another favorable indica- ton.
 Eight candidates were added to the membership of the Second Congregation al church on profession Sunday; three were added by letter. The pastor, Rev. A. F. Irvine, dedicated his infant child 10 the church and baptism will follow at later period.
 Captain Pond left yesterday for Bridgeport to bring around the steam CT Victor which is tp rim on the paw- son Park route beginning to-day
 Rev. A. F. Irvine left yesterday for Northfleld to remain ten days.