The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-25
FAIR HAVEN HAPPENINGS
EAST PEARL STREET CHURCH TO
CELEBRATE.
Special Service to he Held ON the Last
Sunday in February-Truant Officer
Looking for Eight Boys-Other Items

The people of the East Pearl street
M. f. church will hold very interest
ing service on the last Sunday in Feb
ruary. 1t is intended to hold special
services during the day to celebrate the
event Of the church becoming free from
debt. At the morning service it is in
tended to burn the mortgage and there
will be sermon by Rev. DR.. ]. M.
Buckley, editor of the Christian Advo-
cate. DR.. Buckley will also preach in
the evening. There will be a platform
meeting in the afternoon, with short ad-
dresses and it is expected that a history
of the church which is being prepared
by the pastor, Rev. r. T. McNicholl,
will be read. There will be other inter-
esting exercises to be announced later
when the programme Is prepared.
Ex-Represntative Leonard r. An
drews and wife Of East Haven are sick
with the grip.
A. deer has been seen in the woods in
the northern part Of East Haven near
Lake Saltonstall and q party of hunters
have been trying to kill the animal.
E. H. Mather, formerly superintendent
of the New Haven Street Railway, is i'll
at his home in New Britain.
The Nonpariel Laundry company
which has large steam laundry on
Blatchley avenue has been dissolved.
Alderman Charles L. Wright, one of the
partners, buying out the interest Of
James 3. Moran Mr.. Wright will oon-
tinue the business 1t is understood
that Mr.. Moran, who has been in the
company seven years, will start in bust
ness for himself.
On Wednesday evening, February L.
at the Grand avenue Congregational
church, there will be given recital by
Mary Dudley Burke, assisted by good
musical talent. This entertainment will
be presented under the auspices of the
Ladies' Aid society and it will be the
endeavor to make it one of those popu-
lar entertainments which the society has
given in the past.
Private George e. Avery of Battery
E, Fifth United States artillery, is
spending a ten days furlough at the
home Of his mother, Mrs. Lavina Avery,
IA Saltonstall avenue. The battery is
stationed at Fort Wadsworth, New
York.
Fl. II. Nettleton of Lloyd street, leader
of the choir of Grace church, has been
i'll with grip several days. Last Sunday
Mr.. Northrop took his place in the choir
and it is probable that he will sing next
Sunday.
Truant Officer Sullivan was over here
yesterday looking for eight lads who
have been absent from the various
schools. He located them all; some of
them were playing truant and the 9TH
ers were at their homes i'll.
Mrs. Patrick Bree is very i'll with
heart trouble.
Upson & Cranniss have been getting
out some very long spiles for the foun-
datiolis for the new East Chapel street
drawb,idge. Some of the spiles We're
sixty-tive feet long. A course of these
are to be driven and another tier of
twenty-foot spiles will be driven over
them. The firm has also shipped
large order for spiling to Boston.
The ice dealers had men at work cut
ting ice all day yesterday, the storm
proving no bar to the work. They are
housing good ice and are saving all that
it is possible to secure.