The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-02-11
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
NAYIGATION IMPEDED BY ICE IN
THE OUINNIPI.4C RITER.

Seventh Anniversary Of Fort Hal,
lodge, N. Il. q. P.-Hearing on Con.
domination of Ice Ponds-A Request OF
The English schooner Clayola, dis
masted and with decks covered with
ice, attracted much attention in the
harbor yesterday. 1t was stated on
Saturday that this little schooner was
not sighted from the Guilford shore, but
1t was another craft a large three
1 master. This vessel was at anchor for
/ three days near Faulkner's Island bar
and rode out the gale. On Friday she
sailed. The weather then was terrible
severe and there We're no other craft in
sight.
| There is much ice in the Quinnipiac
river and navigation is much impeded
The tugboat William which brings in
manJ craft to the Fair Haven wharves
lost her rudder in the ice Saturday af-
ternoon.
The seventh anniversary Of Fort Hale
lodge No. 225, N. e. o. r., will be cele-
brated this evening at Harmonic hall.
"Dr. Baxter.s Invention. or Youth Re-
stored by Electricity" will be present.
ed by six members and also the farce
Don't Judge by Appearances" There
Will be vocal and instrumental music,
and the entertainment will be followed
by dancing. The admission is twenty
five cents.
Eugene c. Hill, Of Fair Haven, will
be a candidate on the republican ticket
this spring for the position of controller
of the city He is well posted in the
matter of the city's finances, and If sue
cessful would fill the position with abii-
ity.
Yesterdays fine weather was much
appreciated, and the people were glad
that the predicted snow storm was side
tracked.
County Health officer Hoadey an
nounces that there will be a hearing
early this week in regard to the con-
domination of the Hemingway ponds for
Ice hearvesting 1t is likely to be a
spirited contest TO. both sides claim to
be in TIE right Meanwhile the big
houses are being filled with ice.
Attorney sidney E. Clark, Of Hart
ford, has nearly completed his fine cot
tage at Short Beach. The house will
cost between $4,000 and $4,000
Mrs. Herbert Barnes recently visited
her husband at Il private sanitarium in
Hartford on the sixty-seventh anniver-
sary If his birth. His condition remains
about the same.
Adelphi lodge, F. and A. NJ, is ar
ranging for an interesting lecture tc be
given at their hall on the evening of
February %. Edgar c. Snyder will give
an illustrated lecture on Alaska The
tickets are selling well.
Mrs. Eliza Linsley, of Shelton accom-
panied her sister, Mrs. Helen Green
field, Of Is Woolsey street. on her return
to her home after visit Of two weeks
In Shelton. u
On Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock
the LADIES' Aid society will give If
teen-cent oyster supper in the chapel of I
The Grand avenue Baptist church. The
regular supper will be served to those. /
VINO 90 not care Tor oysters. Inc Ia 4
lies will meet at o'clock in the after
noon for work.
The schooner Thomas Il. James, Cap
ain Pierce, is at New York from Saw
annah after a run of eight days with a.
largo of lumber. The James was one
If the Hanscom fleet. She was ashore
1t North Carolina in November 1890,
md it was months before she was in
again. The Fair Haven
stockholders dropped out rather than
,ay their heavy assessments for re-
The Home of the Friendless on elm
on avenue receives a bequest of $1,000
n the will of the late Nathaniel z.
3rockway, of Wooster street The mon
y will be welcomely received, as the
leeds of the home are greatly increased
ince the institution was enlarged and
he number Of inmates doubled.
The monthly meeting Of the Farther
lights society of the Grand avenue
Baptist church will be held this evening
L o'clock at the home of She presi-
lent, Miss Grace Huntley, SO Pierpont
treet