The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-24
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
CASE OF SMALLPOX NOT CA USING
 YER r GREAT 4 LdRM.
Brakeman Stannard is Doing Weli-
 Heptasophs Return from the Supreme Conclave in Boston-Ycsterday Try

l Conclave in Boston-Ycsterday Try ing Day.
 l The case of smallpox on Ridge street l has not caused any great alarm in this vicinity although 1t Is possible that some of the pupils in the Ferry street 1 school may have been exposed. A | number of children have been vaceinat- ed in consequence of this one case, but
 the number is not large. Dr. Wrights statement that there is not likely to be any spread of the disease has tend
 ed to quiet any fright that was appar-
 ent. He says 1t will not be necessary to close the school and there is no es- pecial anxiety among the pupils. Miss Grace Smalllnan of Forbes ave- nue has gone to Chicopee, Mass, where she attended the high school graduat-
 Ing exercises last week. R. G. Davis and family have moved to their cottage at Morris Cove for
 the summer.
 In years past many oysters were
 brought here from the Rappahannock
 river and several former shipmasters
 who went out to load vessels are well
 acquainted with the oyster tracts Of
 late very few of these oysters have
 been brought to Fair Haven. It was
 feared that this season's freshets in the
 Rappahannock and Potomac rivers
 had damaged the oyster beds, but in
 vestigation has proved these fears to
 be groundless. similar freshet a few
 years ago destroyed hundreds of thou
 sands of dollars worth of oysters. The
 recent freshets were equally as heavy,
 but the prevailyng winds were easterly ano the tides were so high that the in- Aux of salt seas overCame the great flohv Of fresh water.
 J. W. Ladd of the Southern New England Telephone company has rented one of George Baldwins cottages at the east shore.
 Fred Stannard, the Shore Line rail- road brakeman who was caught be- tween two sections of a freight train at the Cedar Hill yards Friday night, is doing we'll at the New Haven hospi- tai. His injuries were not as serious as at first supposed,
 The advent of hot weather, so long delayed is beginning to have its effect upon the Sunday congregations. At yesterdays services the congregations were perceptibly diminished Two of the churches are still without pastor .I1, ,,.nr n1n u owing to repaiYs to the audience room.
 Fair Haven was not represented In the mayors appointments for the com missions. The paving commission in cludes the name of ex-Selectman | Thomas l. Kinney who resided in Fair | Haven several years ago, but who now | lives on Whitney avenue. It Is bellev- ed he will make very acceptable | member Of the commission.
 Robert c. Hart. whose home is on | Lenox street. who has been a member | of the Quo yadis?" company since | last fall. has returned to New York. | His company has been across the con tinent, and has met with much suc- cess Mir. Hart is now engaged in re- | writing and staging a play. He is ex pected home this week,
 Ernest B. Beers, whose funeral took place last Saturday, was well known in Fair Haven, where he had many friends He has assisted here in a number of entertainments, both In the atrical selections and singing, His friends were surprised to learn of hts death, not knowing of his serious ill., ness
 Privates Lee and Smith of the Ma tonal Blues yesterday morning deco- rated with flowers the graves of de- ceased members of that company in the Fair Haven Union cemetery. |
 J. D. Foote has been chosen the com nittee for the Montowese school dis trict at the annual meeting
 Mrs. Bodge, past na tfonal president of the Woman's Relief corps, has been the guest of Mrs c. c. Kirkham of East Haven.
 Mrs Talcott of Providence has been visiting friends in Montowese.
 Sherman Moulthrop of Montowese goes out to California this month to jisit his daughter
 F. P Tyler. F. s. Wade and R. S. ( Farren have returned from the su- { ,reme conclave, IndeDendent Order of $ Ieptasophs, In session in Boston. It T. vas expected that MT. Farren would be e-elected supreme provost, but in 'ote of nearly 300 he was defeated by ust eleven votes by c. B. Roland of Scranton, Pa. Mr. Farren has occu- lied the position for two years What s known as the e7 per cent. table was dopted by the conclave. which in- reases the assessment rates enough o there will be no necessity for calling or more than one assessment per 1onth as Is done at present.
 With so much humidity and high yesterday was probably he most trying day so far of this sea- on. The temperature ran up as high s S5 degrees. If the sun had shown 1t would have been a cry hot day.