The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-17
FAIR HAVEN HAPPENINGS
WORK BEGUN ON 4 BREAK WAT ER
 AT COSEY BE4CH.

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 Dragon Whist Club Meets Tomorrow
 Evening-Fair Haven Hunters Ex.
 cuse-Donntions Offered for New
 Engine House in East Haven.
 Work has begun at Cosey Beach by Captain George H. Townsend on a breakwater for boats and yachts It is to be about 200 feet in length and will be great addition on the water front, in affording q shelter for small craft in the summer. Spiling has been driven and if is to be backed up with a sheath ing of heavy planking. The spiles are about half driven and the work will proceed during the winter as the wealth CT permits. The improvement will cost about $2O00, and will be greatly appre- clated by all who own boats and yachts.
 A temperature of only seven degrees above zero Saturday gave quite win try air on the shores of the river, which were covered with ice. The cold weather made the first skating of the season, and large number of juveniles resort ed to Hemingways and other ponds. A polo game on the ice Saturday after noon-
 The Dragon Whist club will meet on Tuesday evening at the home of MT. and Mrs. A. l.. Chamberlain, East Grand avenue. There will be six tables and two prizes for the ladies and two for the gentlemen.
 A. H. Granniss, Thomas Coyne and Patrick Welch have returned from hunting trip to Long Island. They found plenty of rabbits, cartridges and quail, but law of the state of New York prevents the shipment of game out of the state.
 Captain and Mrs. Horatio N. Pond and daughter and Miss Ada Blackstone of Branford have started for Jackson vile to remain for the winter
 A temperance rally under the auspices of the Connecticut Sunday School asso- citation and the New Haven Superinten- dents union will be held in the Calvary Baptist church Thursday evening, De- cember 20. Walter R. Downs of Fair Haven will be the toastmaster at the supper at 6:30.
 Charles w. Pratt has bought of John c. Pratt seventy feet of land on Pop lar street.
 The snow storm which came early yesterday morning was for the most part unexpected It had it's effect upon church attendance, which was rather small in the morning, but evening ser vices were attended about as usual
 Heart versus Brain" was the subject of an illustrated service, which was largely attended at the Second Congre- gational church in the evening. Rev. Frank R. Luckey preached in exchange with Rev. Dr. Mitchell of the | Grand avenue Congregational church i yesterday morning
 In the evening Dr. Mitchell took up a series of subjects suggested by the close of the century The topic was Salt | and Incense of the Closing Century"
 Rev. B. w. Stone of the Grand ave- nue Baptist church in the morning preached an interesting and practical discourse on the topic "Wine or Spirit Filled"
 Attorney Grove J. Futile and Ed ward T. Thompson and others have of
  zine house in East Haven. The move- ment is growing in interest and seems likely to succeed.
 Three schooners loaded with oysters from Narragansett bay arrived on Sat urday for Lancraft Brothers. The car goes amouned to some 4,000 bushels of fine oysters. This stock was planted by the firm in the spring from Connecticut seed and have made fine development The captains of these vessels have to select good weather to make the winter run around Point Judith and Watch Hill, and sometimes they encounter l pretty severe weather by reason of sud den storms en route. ( The past week has been pretty cold | and with rough water for catching oys- Lers, but the steamers go out in quite ( severe weather. But the unfavorable l conditions make the catch lighter Recent storms have been severe for he oysters bedded in-shore and some If the bivalves have been covered with I mud and sand, but it is believed the de- )Osit is not deep enough to kill them. Except in very heavy accumulation of his wash upon the grounds the oys- CTS are enabled to gradually work out If the mud. 7 George M. Graves the veteran ship vright, who has been very i'll the past |. CIV weeks, is now able to get out a Iit- J le.
 Another of the big Branford cars which has been equipped with motors nd other attachments was run out on he road for trial Saturday. There are K of these cars numbered from 125 to 30, inclusive. BEAUTIFUL WINDOW 'DECORA- rHI0MS 1 "