The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-07-03
FAIR HAVEN HAPPENINGS
MANY ENDEATORED TO ESCAPE | THE HEAT.

salo of Building Lot Postponed Guid-
 ing Star Lodgc-Lndies' Union of the
 Beach-Other Notes.
 Y The preparations for the illumination of Blatchley avenue are now complete and everything points to grand dis ! play. The illumination on the street N last year was one of the most beautiful hsights in the city. This year the illum-
 Iinations are to be more elaborate than
 lever. Lines of lanterns are to be run N from one side of the street to the other, la distance of nearly seventy-five feet. { Lines from trees to houses, thirty feet \ distant, in fact the whole avenue from
 Chapel street to Grand avenue will be J a mass of lanterns and a blaze of red
 fire and fireworks. The residents on this beautiful street seem to take per- sonal pride in making these celebra- tions a grand sight and thousands of
 people from all parts of the city visit
 that section to enjoy it.
 And still the mercury climbs in the thermometrical tube. Yesterday it at tained a maximum of 96 degrees, which I eclipses all records this season. This N must be hotter than the weather in A Cuba" remarked citizen yesterday Aand he was probably right in Lhis con-
 lclusions Many people went down on l AI,n 1>rid door a to ynt q Whiff of ] fresh air. Others went to the shore. i; But despite all attempts to keep cool ! thers-~Nas much suffering. If this ] weather continues much longer there is < promise of considerable sickness.
 The auction sale of fine building lot ' lot on Lenox street, rear of 151 Quinni- I piac avenue, which was to have taken < place last evening, was postponed ow- q ing to the heavy shower until Friday, rJuly 5th, at 6:30 p. m. R. B. Mallory is
 he auctioneer
 Guiding Star lodge, Shepherds of
 ethlehem, has postponed it's usual \ sneeting from July 4th to the evening of July Sth.
 Mrs. William Sheffield and her daugh- x ter, Miss Ruth Wilson, left yesterday flor Sheffield, Mass, to remain several !, weeks.
 x w Mrs. Miles J. Barnes and three chil- \ lren left yesterday for her old home in jl kestport, N. S., to stay until septem- 7 aer. Miss Josie Peters, Mrs. Barnes
 gster, accompanied them. N The ladies' union of the Grand ave- \ he Congregational church will con- d ert its social rooms into ice cream par < rs each Wednesday evening through
 Ye summer, beginning this week. The I Ely charge is for cream and at the J eual price. The programme of enter
 Anment arranged for this evening in . hdes music through the evening by
 n orchestra and at S30 a half hour of KHeMtations, singing, etc., as follows: RS6ng, Lullaby, Miss Edna Sims; reci- Atation, The Bridgetender's Story, Miss AEsther Rose; orchestra; reading, se- &scted, Miss Gertrude Bradley; The ' Nool Committee, a dialogue by nine .-c-..ssrng- ladies. A very pleasant time is ] Expected.
 | The Sunday school of the Grand z kenue Congregational church will hold I Is annual picnic on Saturday at Dou- fe Beach.
 E Robert McNicholl, who recently com ,~ feted his studies for the school year ! Boardman, has gone to his home in nv Britain.
 3'he annual picnic of the Sunday hool of the Grand avenue Baptist <, hurch will be held at Double Beach,
 "Wednesday, July 10.
 F. w. J. Sizer, of the east side, has
 Shen for several years vice president af the National Savings bank and it is Expected that he will be elected presi- Aent to succeed the late Maier Zun- IT