The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-04
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
TWO RUMM4G SALES BEG UN TER r
 AUSPICIOUSLR.

AUSPICIOUSLR.
 Winters Coal Supply for Home for th'
 FriendIess-About 100 Tons Required
 -silk Sock Sociai-Now Cottages foi
 ford's Series of Sermons-Other Notes
 Two "rummage sales" conducted by
 local churches were begun yesterday
 The ladies of St Andrews guild are having big sale at 4S7 Grand avenue and trade was brisk yesterday The Ladies guild and the Kings Daughters of the Second Congregational church began their sale yesterday morning at the store, 623 Grand avenue. Some of the merchants complain about these sales and say that it njures their busi- ness; but the sales are about over for this season, nearly all of the churches having had one
 Miss Leigh will give a whist party at I her home on Quinnipiac avenue this evening; she will entertain the whist club of which she is member
 Darius Green is taking care of the furnaces at the Home of the Friend less this winter. He will be obliged to shovel one hundred tons of coal before warm weather, as that Is the amount of coal necessary to furnish the steam heat. The society's coal bill this winter will be quite an item Itld the managers fY;o is paid.
 This evening the Silk Sock social will be given at St. James church, Arti- cles appropriate for Christmas gifts will be sold; also cake and cream.
 The schooner Bayard Hopkins is at Mansfield's wharf dscharging a cargo of lumber.
 Harry Leigh is improving his resi- dence on Quinnipiac avenue New windows are being put in and steam heating apparatus.
 Several new cottages are to be built at Cdsey Beach this season. F. l.. Phelan of this city is to have hand some cottage built ready for next sea son. Ex-Warden George M Baldwin of Fair Haven East will probably build by spring. He has a fine lot 100 feet front which he purchased of H. P. Smith.
 Ransom Russell of Front street, who is watching the cottages at Cosey Beach this winter, occupies one of the cottages of Harry Leigh There are about forty cottages at this shore, but all the owners do not pay towards the services of the watchmen and the oth- CTS say that it is not quite right.
 Rev Dr. Sanford of Grace church began series of sermons on Life Af- ter Death' Sunday evening. There are three more of these sermons to be de- livered.
 Frank F. Tyler is the acting secretary | of Quinnpiac conclave of Heptasophs during the illness of Secretary Beecher. |
 Andrew Dwyer, past chief of Colum- bia castle, K. q. E., is i'll at his home | on Lewis street with typhoid fever. He | is getting along very well at present, ! as the fever is of a mild type.
 D. B. Cornell, chief of the borough | fire department, is quite ill.
 The men of the parish of Grace church will give a supper in the parish house Thursday evening" F. H. Chat terton Is superintendent in charge and A. J. Wild will be the chef The price of the supper will be fifteen cents. The walters are J. H. Blinn, Thomas Roger son, Eugene Jeffers, C. Bertram French, John J. Wlllmott, F E. Hull Frank Pierce, F. E. Edgar and William Broadbent.
 'The people of Grace P. E. church are to have a "rummage sale" beginning Tuesday of next week and continuing Wednesday. The sale will be held in he vacant store at 412 Grand avenue.
 Blakeslee & Sons are carting stone rom their East Haven quarries to heir crusher, near the power house on 4rand avenue and the broken stone is lsed for a foundation for the remainder if the pavement on the avenue The york of paving went on with a rush The second half of the oadway has been paved as far east as he Strong school and the remainder of he distance to the drawbrdge ought to e completed by Saturday night if the -ood weather continues One of the 3lakeslees was laying /brick for a time which led the spectators to believe that the contractors are in a , urry to complete the job. $