The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-27
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
CONSOLIDATEDR ROAD SECURING OPTIONS ON SALT MEADOWS.

CONSOLIDATED ROAD SECURING
 OPTIONS ON SALT MEADOWS.
 Improvements on the House of ID, M
 Smith Jr,--south Quin nipiao Stree
 Property Bought by N. E. Prepared
 Food Co.-Oyster Trade Reported Good
 The local markets received yesterday the Thanksgiving poultry and the market men were kept busy. They felt we'll pleased that the railroad strike terminated as it did, else there would have been prospect that the poultry would have been in small supply. Man ager Crook of the Booth market receiv- ed ton and half of poultry. MT. Crook said the quality of this years poultry was good and prices reasonable Full dressed turkeys are bringing eigh- teen cents per pound. Native geese and ducks, if good quality, bring sixteen cents per pound, and chickens fourteen cents One very fine turkey at the Booth market weighed thirty pounds.
 D. M. Smith, jr., has greatly improv- ed his house at the corner of East Pearl street and Pierpont street, now occupied by Rev. MT. Chalmers and family. The interior of the house has been repainted and newly papered; new back stairway built new and larger furnace installed so as to heat the en- tire house and the outside of the house is now to be repainted
 Workmen began yesterday laying masonry for the foundations of the new building for station A, at the corner of Grand and Clinton avenues.
 At St. Francis church yesterday morning occurred the marriage of Miss Margaret Hayes to Terrence D. Dona- hue. Rev. Father Blake of1ciated. Henry Hayes, brother of the bride, was best man, and the bridesmaid was Miss Mary Hayes, a sister of the bride. The ushers were John J. McCann and William T. Keenan. The bride is daughter of Mrs. Margaret Hayes. The groom is employed by the National Steam Laundry company. Upon re- turning from their wedding trip they will reside at PAY James street.
 Pioneer council, Mo- 1, a beneficial so- ciety, held it's quarterly meeting Mon day evening. It has eighty members and pays sick benefits of $10 per week for six weeks, with an assessment of twenty-five cents whenever call Is made Most of the members live in the city, but quite a delegation of Fair Ha- ven people belong to it. The report at this meeting showed the society to be fin f1ourishing condition.
 Dwight w. Allyn of 1S6 Exchange street has been appointed night bank watchman, taking the place of Oscar w. Cook of 80 Pierpont street, who re- tires December i, after faithful and efficient service of eighteen years. MT. Allyn will be the associate bank watch man of Frederick J. Miller of 80 Pier pont street
 Theophilus Eaton has received many options from the owners of salt mead ows for the Consolidated road, which the company is willing to buy at req sonable prices, and includes the mead ows west of the track of the Air Line railroad.
 H. W. Storrs of Montowese is run ming his portable sawmll in the woods of North Branford
 Frank Larrabee, the oysterman of Lenox street is i'll with typhoid pneu- monia.
 The ladies of the East Pearl street M. B. church are still busy in preparing for the big fair which will be held in Polar Star hall beginning Tuesday ev ening. December 8. Season tickets will be sold at twenty cents, single admis- sion ten cents, and supper ticket twen- ty-five cents The ladies announce that the quality of the supper furnished will be first class in every particular. The aim of the management is to raise money to pay outstanding debts against the church. and it is hoped to make S1.0OO. There are to be beautiful hall, decora tions, fine music, booths for the sale of fancy and useful articles at bar gain prices and other entertainment. Of late oyster shippers report good trade and some have been short of oys- ter shuckers. Lancraft Brothers are shipping at Glen Cove from their Long | Island beds and from Rockaway to New 1 York about 2,500 bushels of oysters a | week They have not begun to ship from their Narragansett bay beds but | will do so in few days. There Is pros- pect that the oyster trade this winter will be above the average.
 The Warren Nettleton house on Fair mont avenue, in front of the wire mill. is being remodeed by the latter com pany which purchased it some time ago. It. will probably be arranged for boarding house for the mill employees.
 George Lancraft has sold the Button property, fifty feet front on South Ouinnipiac street, to the New England Prepared Food company. The property has water front in the rear on Quin- 1ipiac river, and the company will lay
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