The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-11-29

Steamer I'm IA Storm Funeral of Mrs.
Ludington Was solcmntzed Yesterday
Personal Items.
Preparations We're going on briskly
on every hand yesterday for Thanks
giving. The grocery stores and mar
kets were very busy, trade being good
until late in the evening. In many
households active preparations We're
made for to-day's feast and in a num-
Der of homes a number of relatives and
friends will be entertained. Quite a
number of people from out of town ar
rived yesterday to spend Thanksgiving
in Fair Haven.
The postof1ice will close at noon. The
delivery window will not be opened this
evening, as it has formerly been, new
rule of the department providing that
carriers need not report at offices on
the night of a holiday.
Several thousand pounds of poultry
were sold in Fair Haven yesterday
Manager Crook of the Booth market re-
ports that his store received nearly a
ton of poultry, most of which will have
been disposed of by to-day. Turkeys
are selling at from 16 to 20 cents per
pound.
There was only one letter posted at
Station A this week as uncaled for; 1t
is directed to A. Lindberg.
The local schools closed yesterday at
noon for the usual Thanksgiving vaca-
ton and the children will resume their
studies Monday morning.
Ami Iudington and family moved up
from Shell Beach yesterday. They
have been stopping in their cottage
since early summer.
A section of the new state road in
East Haven will be completed in few
days. The contractor Is making very
gond progress on the job.
Mrs r. S. Field of Brooklyn is Wis
iting Mrs. r. G. Hart of All Lenox
street.
Henry w. Tyler of Northford will
soon start up the feed mill which he
has leased from the New Haven Water
company.
Mary Dugan has bought of s. r.
Blatchley % feet of land on Haven
street.
The oyster steamer William M. Mer
win, en- route to Narragansett bay to
load oysters for Milford, came into
Stonington harbor for protection from
the rough sea Sunday and remained
until Tuesday morning, when she pro-
ceeded east. The steamer was making
pretty rough weather and the captain
did not deem it safe to 60 by Watch
Hill point.
Rev. Duane N. Griffin, pastor of st.
Andrews M e. church, officiated on
Tuesday noon at the marriage of Miss
Edith Belle Davey to DIR. Albert Won
Tobel of Meriden. The wedding took
place in the Center Congregational
church, Torrington. The bride was at
one time soprano in the quartette choir
of the Grand avenue Baptist church,
A whist party was given Tuesday
evening by Mrs G. II. Conway OF IA
Shelter street
The schooner P. II. Wharton, Captain
Harrison, which arrived Tuesday from
Chincontague, Va, with oysters, still
lies anchored in the stream just above
the Quinnipiac drawbridge. The cargo
will not be discharged until after
Thanksgiving, but had the vessel ar
rived little earlier, the oysters would
have been disposed of for the Thanks
giving trade.
The funeral of Julia Ann, widow of
Jesse Ludington, was soemnzed yes
terday afternoon from her late home
IS East Pearl street Rev. DR.. Mitchell
officiated Mrs. Hettie Bradley Kelley
of Hartford sang two selections. The
bearers were grandchildren and great
grandchildren of the deceased; they
were Herbert B. Van Name, Nelson A.
Ludington, jr, d. M Smith, jr., Jesse
Ludington and Clifford Roberts of Fair
Haven and Charles Newton of Hart
ford.
A Montowese football team will play
a Wallngford team at MontoWese this
afternoon.
Thanksgiving services will be held at
Grace and St James churches this
morning. At the East Pearl street M.
E. church there will be services at 10
o. clock with sermon by the pastor The
usual services will also be held at st. |
Francis r. G. church.
Captain John Cochrane of the soop |
H. D. Simonson arrived here Tuesday |
night from Keyport, N j., after a |
stormy passage. He left here last week |
and was overtaken by the northeaster I
Captain Cochrane was washed over
board and it was only by the strenu-
Gus efforts of the mate, Norman Peter
son, that he was rescued. The cabin
was flooded and the captain was Obliged
to return to his home in Oakdale for
new outfit of clothing, The sloop brings
about 700 bushels of oysters for the S
c. Burwell company and the Long
Wharf Fish company.
AN ATTEMPTED ROBBERY
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