The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-06-13
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
STRONG SCHOOL GRADUATION IN
 THE AFTERNOON
Parents of Children Attending the School So Dcsire-Annual Meeting of Cemetery Assoctation-Funera of Mrs. Henrietta smith Yesterday.

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 The Farther Lights Mission society l of the Grand avenue Baptist church
 held it's last meeting of the season | Monday evening In the church parlors. | About twenty-five members were pres ent. The subject for the evening was
 Sowing the Seed" in the home mission work. Several members read articles on the subject. The sum of $S50 was
 raised for home missions, and the re- maining amount iii the treasury near | ly as much more, was voted for for eign missions. During the year a box l of useful articles, valued at $l5 has been | sent to the Hasseltne house in Newton | Center, Mass, besides various sums in cash for missions The society was or ganized in November under the direc- | tion of Mrs. F. w. Stone, and is com | posed of thirty-three young ladies. The closing meeting was much enjoyed and the only drawback was the fact that the members went home in thunder storm. It has been decided to hold the grad uation exercises of Strong school in the afternoon. An expression from the par ents of some of the pupils showed that twelve favored the evening and 113 an
 afternoon graduation.
 A lawn festival will be given on the
 lawn of the Grand avenue Baptist
 church Thursday evening by the ladies of the church.
 The annual meeting of the Fair Ha-
 ven Union Cemetery association was held in the chapel Monday evening. It was the first meeting under the amend ed bylaws, changing the time of the annual meeting from December to June. It was decided that holding the meet ings in June a larger number would at tend and that the meetings should be held in the chapel No reports were made, as the term was only six months. The old board of officers were reelected as follows: President, l.. F. Deming; secretary. John s. Sanford, 2d; treasur- CT, D. M. Smith; superintendent, c. D. Parmelee; directors, Ii. w. Crawford, J. P. Merrow, Henry A. Stevens, R. B. Farren, F. H. Hemingway, Herbert Barnes. r. H. Francis John o. Row land, c. D. Parmelee A tax of $1 on each of the lots, about 800, was laid.
 The funeral of Henrietta F., widow of Lester Smith, was held from her late residence, 19S Quinnipiac avenue yester- day afternoon, Rev A. F. Irvine of the Second Congregational church offciat- ing. The bearers were Charles N Mack. Orton A Rose, Sherman Russell, and Willis Hemingway.
 At the annual meeting of the New Haven Congregational club held Mon day, Herbert Barnes was chosen a member of the nominating committee and Lewis l.. Bradley was elected a member of the social committee.
 Miss Susie Post of Grand avenue is visiting in Buffalo, N. Y.
 Some of the pupils of Strong school are talking of forming a glee club to sing at the graduating exercises.
 All the rooms of Strong school will be utilized at the beginning of the school year in September. There are now in use seventeen school rooms and Gran miss hall, which is used for the pupils of the eighth grade. It is intended to reopen room 17, which was in use last year. This year it was not in use, Miss Austin will be the teacher in charge, | who taught there last year. This room | will form a grade between the fifth and sixth grade. There are now about $50 pupils in attendance and 1t is expected | there will be 300 next year.
 A new pier is to be built for distance | of 125 feet out from the rocks at Light house Point, near the old lighthouse. | This will enable steamers to land pass engers It is probable that the east | shore steamers will make landings there,
 Morris Hemingway's schooner Dan Sooy, which has been laid up in the | river above the drawbridge nearly a l year, was taken out of the river yester- | day and will go to Virginia to bring a load of seed oysters to plant in the | sound.
 Mrs. Ava II. Grannis went to Balti- | more yesterday to visit relatives She | has been in poor health of late and l hopes to be benefited by the change.
 Tomorrow a trolley ride to Gillern & | Quinns Morris Cove hotel will take | place un1er the a1SnicPs of AuxiliarV |