The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-24
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
GOOD FOX HUNTING ENJOYED BY
 ROBERT MEACHEN.
Shoots Four on Saltonstall Ridge-Fair Haven Vessels Arrive at Their Destin- ntion-Oyster Beds fin Good Condition

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 Robert Meachen of the Four Corners has had excellent success fox hunting the past month having shot four on the Saltonstall ridge. The week previ- ous he secured one. MT Meachen re- ports foxes quite plentiful in that neighborhood A few days ago he re- turned from hunting trip in South Carolina making his Headquarters at Georgetown. The party that he hunt ed with shot twenty y-three deer, and during his stay sixty-two deer were killed in the neighborhood about Georgetown. He reports game very plentiful in that portion of the south
 The schooner Horace P. Shares, one of the Hanscom vessels, arrived at New York Monday, ten days from Darien, Ga.
 The schooner Van Name and King, Captain Brown, has arrived at New London from Philadelphia, with coal.
 The schooner Rodney Parker, Fair Haven built vessel, which arrived at Salem from Calais, Me, leaking 400 strokes per hour, has been surveyed It is recommended that the vessel be lowed to New York. The vessel is loaded with granite.
 Members of the East Pearl street M F. church and congregation have been requested to meet at the church this evening at o'clock, that they may go in body to the Grace M. E. church, where Mrs. Grace Wiser Davis is now conducting a gospel mission.
 Miss Reynolds of Mansfield, who has been the guest of Mrs Hector w Storrs of Montowese, has returned home.
 The bridge gang were at work Sum- day driving spiles for some necessary repairs to the trestle of the Shore Line road, over the Quinnipiac meadows
 Frank Dorman of the Annex has gone to Denver for the benefit of his health He has been employed in putting up block signals for the Consolidated road and some of the employees presented to him purse of $50 before he went away
 The committee on entertainment of sFort Hale lodge, N. E. o. F., meet last evening at the home of Mrs. c. C.. French of 47 Shelter street to make ar engagements for the annual entertain ment.
 Oyster growers who have examined their grounds of late say that their condition is better than for any time during the past ten years at this sea- son There has been an absence of heavy southern and easterly storms, which are apt to do great damage to I the beds. Very little sand has wash ed in upon the grounds.
 Miss Josie Peters of Westport N. S., is visiting her sister, Mrs. M J. Barnes of 50 Houston street.
 The local baymen on the north shore of Long Island have presented a peti- tion to the Huntington town board ask dng that the lands under water within | the Jurisdiction of the town, be declar- ! led free, or that the town board take | such action as is needed to submit the | question to the voters whether the lands ! shall continue to be leased for oyster | culture or whether the town shall have | what is known as free bay. Twenty | years ago a resolution to lease the ground was adopted.
 The January meeting of the Farther Lights society of the Grand avenue Baptist church, was held Monday eve- ming at the home of Miss Kate Darby, 145 Ferry street. The subject of the evening was: The Religion of China" and several papers on the subject were read as follows: Religion of China" by the president, Miss Grace Huntley: 'Confucianism," Miss Ella Blakeslee; 'Taoism," Miss Georgia Jeffers: