The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-10-17
FAIR HAVEN HAPPENINGS
yESyERD1Y,S WIND SQUALL AND
 THE OYSTER BOATS.


 House-Two Men Overboard-other Notes-"Ye Village Choir''-Carriage BuiIders, Convention-A Wedding
 yesterday's souall kicked up quite rumpus on the rivers and the harpol' Several oyster boats down the halool were pitched around, and 1t requlreo careful handling to keep them lrolil heinz overturned. A sharpie containing two men was caught near the fale po'' house and before the sails could pc furled the boat was overturned he men succeeded in working the boat on to the flats where it was lighted pall- ed out and then they proceeded up the river
 The members of "Ye Village Cholr' will meet this evening at O'CLOCK Ill inc chapel of the Grand avenue Baptlst church for the second rehearsal It IS requested that all who are to participate shall be present.
 A delegation from Columbia castle will go to Bridgeport this evening u participate in the institution Of a new castle of the Knights of the Golden Eagle.
 F. l.. Buckingham of East Pearl street is attending the annual convention ol the Carriage Builders assoclatloL III New York. His daughter, MISS Lila Buckingham, and his son, Leroy A. Buckingham, will go down to-day 10 meet their father.
 Frederick J. Reed. clerk in A. H. Granniss' store 2S Grand avenue, ana Miss Mary Corse, were married Moh- day at the M. E. parsonage by Rev R' IT McNicoll Frank Burns was the best man and Miss Reed, the sister or the groom, was the bridesmaid.
 Mrs Elizabeth Knowles of this city, formerly of Fair Haven, leaves to-day for Topeka Kan, to visit her two brothers. and will remain west all Win ter.
 Barney N. Rowe of Quinnipiac ave- nue. who has suffered with a trouble of the eyes for several months, has had an operation, which 1t is believed will restore his sight
 Mrs Harvey Barnes of, Lenox street is in Providence visiting her husband, who is captain of an oyster steamer on Narragansett bay.
 Mrs. Hart has received a letter from her husband, R. c. Hart, who was in San Francisco at the time of writing. He is with the Quo Vadis company, which is touring in the west.
 A stone crusher has been set up on the open lot on Grand avenue near Ha- ven street. and is in operation crushing stone to be used for the concrete foun- dation to support the brick pavement that is now being laid on the north side of Grand avenue. Contractor Blakeslee has purchased of the city the cobble stones taken out of the street and they are being crushed. A great mass of these stones are piled up in an immense heap near the crusher. It will save quite an expense for hauling stone by this arrangement.
 Four barges have arrived in the har- bor with nearly 100000 brick for the Grand avenue pavement, and the work of laying the new pavement has recom- nenced The brick layers were out of work owing to the non-arrival of the brick, and this will set back the job considerably and the contractors will have to expedite matters in order to complete their contract before cold weather sets in,
 Several members of Union No 3 are attending the state convention of the w. c. T. U. in session In Meriden.
 Joseph Jacobs of Saltonstall avenue sheath knife with handle skilfully fash toned out of Walrus tusk. The knife was made in Norway by sailor and presented to MT. Jacobs.
 The Ladies' Aid society of the East Pearl street M. B. church will meet to- morrow afternoon and supper will be served at 6 o'clock in the church par lors.
 The literary meeting of the Epworth league will be held tomorrow evening at the home of MT. and Mrs. Henry w. Crawford of Chambers street.
 Owing to the meeting of the Baptist state convention the Ladies' Aid society to have meet this afternoon in the par 1ors of the Grand avenue Baptist church has been postponed until next week.