The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-04-30
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
ELEVENTH V1RD CAUCUS TO DE
 HELD THIS EVENING.

Caucus Will be Held ut Central HaIl--
 Miss Florence sicbert Wins n Valuable
 Pin-Extensive Improvements nt the
 Booth Market.
 The republicans have held their cau- cuses In three of the Fair Haven wards and the last of the series will be held by the voters of the Eleventh ward at Central hall this evening at o'clock. These caucuses have been well attended and there is prospect of large num- Der to attend the gathering this even ing. The committee thought that the basement of Polar Star hall would be large enough for the Twelfth ward cau- GUS Thursday evening, but the voters turned out SC strong that 1t was neces- sary to convene in the hall above. There Is much interest in the coming state convention and in the selection of delegates. There was no contest In the Fourteenth ward, but in the other wards both Mclean and Warner dele gates were voted for; the Warner peo- pie will undoubtedly secure the four To- cal wards, having already secured three. It is expected there Will be two tickets in the field this evening and the contest promises to be lively.
 Miss Florence Siebert, daughter of Constable and Mrs. Frederick Siebert, was awarded building lot Saturday, She attended the Dixwell avenue park excursion given by Wilbur & Co. and received the prize offered for the tallest woman; her height was six feet two and quarter inches and her closest competitor six feet. Miss Siebert is on- ly sixteen years of age. The building lot is finely located at the park and MT. Siebert may build there.
 At the last session of the Maryland legislature a law was enacted exempt ing the waters of Mill, John and Back creeks in Calvert county --for three years. This was done on account of the depletion of the beds, which were for merly very rich in oysters. Several of the local oystermen have been on these creeks and are confident that the ex- emption will greatly assist oyster pro- pogation in those localities.
 Mrs. John M. Lane, formerly of Fair Haven, is here from San Bernadine, Cal, visiting her sisters, Mrs. Walter Turner and Mrs Harry Fowle. Her son, Herbert Lane, who is studying for the ministry at Nyack, N. Y., is also here on a vacation.
 The class of 1900 Strong school has adopted class colors-dark red and sil- yer; it was at first thought best to se- lect white and gold, but the former was adopted. The colors will be used in bunting form in decorating Granniss hall for the class and graduating exer-, cises.
 The committee on the class pin, con- sisting of Messrs. Sturges, Nettleton and Woodward has examined over one hundred designs for the pin. Nearly every jeweler in the city has sent sam ples. No decision has been arrived at as yet.
 Some extensive improvements are be- ing made in the Booth market at Grand avenue and Front street The big ice box has been moved so as to afford more room and 1t Is to be faced up in ash. The office has been taken out, af- fording still more room. There is to be several new cases for the display of goods and Manager Hubbard will make great change for the better in the market.
 Rev. Dr. Mitchell has returned from @ visit to Virginia and preached as usual at the Grand avenue Congrega- tional church yesterday.
 The Oystermen's National bank of Sayville, l.. l., Is success, as shown by the fact that one of the stockholders has refused $13O for one share of it's stock, which cost $10O a year ago.
 The schooner Horace P Shares, Cap- tain Mount, has arrived at New York from Darien, Ga., via Delaware Break water, with lumber.
 The Warner Miller company have been awarded the contract for furnish Ing the water commissioners of the city of Hartford 17,0O0 feet of vitrified pipe; the contract comprises about one hun dred carloads of pipe. Deliveries are to be made at the rate of 5000 feet per month.
 Rev. c. W. Jackson, Miss Jackson and MT. and Mrs. Le Roy Crockett of Mon- .owese attended the missionary conven- ton in New York.
 Mrs. Hemingway mother of L. R. was called to Springfield recently by the death of sister.
 In the appointment of deputies of the N E. o. P, just made, Charles T. Jones )f Fair Haven is reappolnted for Bea- ,on lodge, No. 69, and D. w. Benjamin becomes deputy for Fort Hale lodge No ,25. s. w. Langley of Fair Haven Is chairman of tho committee on appeals.
 Harry Rowe Shelley's sacred cantata, Death and Life" was repeated by the vested choir of Grace church last even ng. The soloists were: Master Bur- we'll, soprano; Eugene Jeffers, tenor; F. 2. Edgar, baritone; c. w. Worcester, nasso, and H. H. Nettleton narrator.