The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-07-10
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
BIC CARGO OF OYSTERS SKIPPED
 FOR PLANTING IN THE SOUND.

Grace Church Sunday School Wiil Hold
 Their Annual Picnic To-day in Mnms- | Held,s Grove-George Blackstone Rt-
 c.ives Nearly s1,oOo,OOO From His 1 Uncle.
 A new hydrant is being placed at the corner of Grand avenue and Perkins street
 Miss Jennie Messer, supervisor of sewing in the public schools, has sailed | for Europe She will visit the Paris ex- position.
 Mrs. Walter N. Avery and her daugh- ter, Miss Etta L. Avery, have gone to Ocean Grove for a stay of two weeks. The New London schooner Caroline Butler has secured a good charter in the carrying of 60,00O bushels O foysters shells from this harbor for planting in the sound. The vessel will be employed until about August 1. | Captain John Thomas went to Long Island last week and bought 3,700 bush els O. shells which were loaded at Greenport. The schooner has arrived and .he shells have been planted on Captain Thomas oyster beds in the sound He expects to plant about 12,000 bushels of shells.
 Tomorrow evening, if pleasant, the ladies of the Grand avenue Baptist church, will give an ice cream festival on the church grounds. [ To-day the Sunday school of the Grace church will have their picnic at Manstleld's Grove, and they will go by trolley cars The younger members of the school will have free tickets on the cars.
 1 By the will of the late Timothy D, Blackstone, who lived in Chicago and by whose munificence the Blackstone Memorial library was put up in Bran ford and endowed with $200,000, the in stitution has received S100000 in addi- ton, making 100000 in all. It is said that George Blackstone, the proprietor of the Long Wharf Fish company at 79 Front street, and who lives on the old Blackstone homestead in Branford, has received under the will of Timothy B. Blackstone, his uncle, about $1,000,O GOO, He has, however heard no news regard ing the matter.
 William G. Graves, the popular groc- CT at 341 Grand avenue, has decided to take a we'll earned vacation Mrs. Graves will accompany him. The trip begins to-day. The itinerary is not en- tirely laid out, but beginning at New York the trip will extend up the Hud- son to West Point, Newburg, Albany, and from there probably to Buffalo, Mi agara Falls and into Canada.
 l.. Fl. Whitehead and family are at Tylerville and will remain several weeks.
 Myrtle chapter, o. r. S., will have it's annual picnic on Thursday and will go to Mansield's Grove.
 Clayton Clark. clerk in the store of the William A. Warner X Bro, Co, has gone to Tylerville on a vacation trip.
 Mrs $. M Smith of 3o4 Lenox street has gone 10 Mantle for few days.
 Miss Jessie w. Smith of 3et Lenox street has gone to Uxbridge, Ontario to visit with friends.
 Miss Jennie T. Grant of 352 Lenox street Is al Westhrook.
 Mrs M. l.. Tyler and Miss Emma Tyler of Quinnipiac avenue started for the Adirondacks yesterday to remain several weeks.
 There was a still alarm yesterday af- ternoon for a small fire in the Bishop house on Woolsey street. Fire started in a. clothes closet and firemen from No. 5's house responded and soon estin- suished the flames The principal dam age was to the clothing in the closet, damage to the house being slight
 The semi-annual meeting of Home councils Nos. 1 and 2, Brotherhood of Relief, will be held Wednesday, July II, at D. m. at S1 East Pearl street.
 The East Pearl street NJ. E. church Sunday school will hold its annual pie nic at Mansfelds Grove Wednesday, July H. Special cars have been charter- ed and win leave the corner of East Grand and Qulnnipiac avenues and Fer ry and Lombard streets at 9:15 a. m, uniting at Ferry and Chapel streets, when the final start will be made at 9:3o a. m. Returning the cars will leave the grove in a. least two sections, if so desired, in order, to accommodate those who may wish to remain in the evening Tickets for the excursion twenty cents and can he procured at the stores of CfaWTOrd x Co. ana tranclS Brothers, or of the officers of the school,
 Miss Ada Linsley and Miss Anna | Farnham will leave this week for South Royalton, Vt., for their vacation.
 MT. and Mrs. R. G. Davis and family | are occupying their new cottage at Morris Cove,
 Those who are stopping at the Hem ingway cottage at Morris Cove include | MT and Mrs, F. H. Crawford, MT. and | Mrs. E. H. Barnes, MT. and Mrs Wal | ter A. Buck, MT. and Mrs. Marcus | and their families.
 Measles are having another run on the east side. There are quite a num- Der of cases, but the patients are get ting along comfortably.
 Principal George A. Mirick of the Strong school and family are at Prince ton Depot, Mass