The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-14
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
BIG MEETING OF THE EAST ROCK
 LODGE THURSDAY.
Anniversary O the Lodge Friday Evon- ing, December 29-Warner-MiIIer Company Will Receive n Large Cargo shortly.


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 Horace Baldwin of Wolcott street went to New York to attend horse sale and bought one. He says 200 horses were disposed of at the sale. tIIe reports horses higher than they have been in many months
 The report comes from Maryland that Chesapeake Bay oysters will be scarce this season, owing to the fact that the beds have not been protected by proper legislation. It is said that the legisla- ture of that state should adopt meas ures for the protection of this valuable industry.
 Licenses to catch oysters on public ground in Great South Bay, l.. l., nave been granted to the number of l6o, as against eighty last year, though the toleration fee of $1 has been doubled. It is said that about 400 men are em- ployed in taking up oysters i'll that bay.
 Herbert F. Hubbard has taken posi- ton as clerk in the Booth market at the corner of Grand avenue and Front street, of which his brother, William r. Hubbard, is manager. He succeeds his brother Clifford A. Hubbard, who has opened new market for the Booth Bros. in Dixwell avenue, MT. Hubbard was clerk in this market for over five years, leaving about year ago to take a place with the Merwin Provision company.
 Some of the local thermometers yes- terday morning stood considerably lower than the standard thermometer In the government weather office, PAS de- grees It was a cold night and the sudden change was severely felt.
 The Warner-Mller company have three vessels on the way here with build ing materials. The barges Buffalo En- ouirer and c. l.. Haines are coming with 5000 barrels of cement and schooner is chartered to bring in 5O,OOO fire brick and 200 barrels fire clay. The company hope to get in several more cargoes before the ice closes navigation on the Hudson river
 Mrs. John Thompson and family of Lenox street are visiting in Springfield.
 The East Rock lodge, A. o. U. w., ex- pect to have large attendance at the meeting on Thursday evening, on which occasion an address will be made by Rev. A. F. Irvine On the evening of Friday, December %, the lodge will ob- serve its anniversary exercises in the lodge hall. A fine entertainment will be given. On the evening of January 12 the lodge will give dance in Polar Star hall. The organization is in pros porous condition and taking in new members frequently.
 Under a new arrangement which went into effect yesterday there is change in the boundaries of some of the carrier routes of Station A. A considerable portion of the Cedar Hill district, which has been in the terri tory of Carrier Coogan, has been added to one of the districts connected with the main office. In exchange, Mfr Coo gan takes the route between Pine and Clay streets, which is added to his route; this district has been taken from Carrier Downes' route MT. Downes is given portion of Carrier Carroll's route in the Grapevine Point district. By this arrangement the Fair Haven districts, which were too large, have been cut down. It was at first hoped to have had another carrier as signed and a new district created in the Fair Haven territory, but the post-i office department was unable to grant i another carrier for New Haven.
 The schooner Bessie c. Beach, Captain McKeagne, is on the voyage from Fly annis to Philadelphia to load coal. This vessel has been one of the most Suc- | cessful of the Hanscom fleet of local | built vessels, the schooner having near ly paid for herself twice over. The | schooner has proved an excellent in- | vestment for her owners.
 By the will of the late ex-Selectman Alfred Hughes the estate, valued at | S25, 900, is left to his widow.