The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-10-11
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
SECOND MEETING OFIHE LADIES'
AID SOCIETY

OF the Grand Avenue Church-Reports
show a Prosperous Year-Big Mceting g
of Fort Hale Lodge, N. e. o. p, To-
might.
The ladies' aid society of the Grand
avenue Baptist church held it's annual
| meeting Wednesday afternoon and
elected officers as follows: President,
Mrs. Henry A. Keech; vice president,
Mrs. Fred l.. Willis; secretary and
treasurer, Mrs. s. j. Latta; directresses,
Mrs. Henry Kay, Mrs. George W. Hat
| field, Mrs C. D. Manwaring, Mrs. Fred
erick Seibert, Mrs. George Grips, Mrs.
John III. Vest auditor, Mrs. e. w.
Stone. Mrs. Latta read her report as
secretary and treasurer, which showed
receipts for the year of over $600-the
| most prosperous year in the history OF
the society They paid out the sum of
$57S for the benefit of the church, most
ly toward the refitting of the interior
of the building, the painting of the
church and building of fence. From
the rummage sale recently held the So
siety netted $S4.
INcAl L lluey cNSllliS at lilS iiiCCliii6
of Fort Hale lodge, N. e. o. p, there
will be mock trial on two members
of the lodge. The committee Of fifteen
members pron1is vry amusing enter
tainment for the lodge. AT the last
meeting four applications were receiv-
ed.
John w. Dixon the well known
blacksmith on Grand avenue near East
Pearl street, recently removed with his
family from As Pine to 35 Downing
street, into a new home which he re-
Gently purchased of Jason Bishop. The
house has been refitted and is in first
class condition.
Darius Green has begun his duties as
janitor of the Home of~the Friendless
Flor another winter. He says he will
have to shovel seventy-f1ve tons of coal
during the fall and winter to supply
the fires. Mr.. Green is an expert carpet
heater and his services are in much de-
mand He says he has cleaned 375
carpets the past season, and has fifty
more to clean.
| The Jefferson company is painting
the woodwork on the exterior of N. w,
Kendall's large residence.
John Leydecker Of Englewood, N. j.,
who has been in this city looking for
his missing son, Howard Crosby Ley
decker, came over to Fair Haven yes
terday to make further inquiries. He
called at station A, where the letter
| written by the young man was mail
| ed last week. Neither Superintendent
Mulvey nor the clerks remember seeing
! the young man. The father says one
of the officers of the steamer Richard
Peck remembers seeing Leydecker on
| the trip up to this city, ana that seems
| to have been the last trace of the boy
| 1t seems there was some slight misun-
derstandng between the boy and his
| father, but the latter says 1t was not
sufficient to warrant his leaving his
home. The father believes his son has
gone away to start out alone in the
world. and believes nothing has hap
pened to him.
| Mrs. W. 0. Montgomery, who has
visited relatives in Fair Haven, has re-
turned to her home in Bell Haven, N.
c., and visited her brother, Walter
Chase of Baltimore en- route.
Letters uncalled for at station A are
as follows: Mrs. S. P. Aldrich. Mrs.
Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Cernek, John
Cernek, Miss Sarah N, Gresham, and
W. s. Lavare.