The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-02-06
FAIR HAVEN HAPPENINGS
PROSPECTIVE FULFILLMENT OF
CANDLEMAS DAY REYELAIIONS,
The Weather Points That Way-The
Late Miss Hannah e. Forbes-FuneraI
of Amos GiIbert--East Haven Hose
Company's Dance Tonight.


Miss Hannah E. Forbes died at St
Luke's home, Middletown, on Monday
at the age of seventy eight years. Fol
the past twelve years she had been the
matron of the home She formerly re-
sided here and was a siste of the late
Albert Fl. Forbes, a tinsmith doing
business on East Chapel street. The
remains will be brought here to-day and
the burial will be in the Fair Haven
cemetery at AS p. m. The committal
service will be performed by Rev. r. T.
McNicholl.
The funeral of the late Amos Gilbert
was conducted from 403 Lenox street
yesterday afternoon at o'clock. Rev.
DR.. Phillips, of st. James p. E. church,
officiated. The burial will be at Tor
rington.
Home council No. 5, Brotherhood of
Relief, has elected officers as follows:
President, A. H. Ellis; vice president,
G. A. PARCEL; secretary William S.
Rowe; sick visiting committee, Charles
Hotchkiss, c.. A. PARCEL and John H.
Thompson.
Some of the weatherwise people say
that the teachings of Candelmas day
are being fulfilled by the present cold
weather, and they say we are likely to
have some pretty rough weather yet.
IF Candlemas day be fair and bright,
Winter will have another flight;
But if, perchance, should snow or rain,
Wintar,s pona won't oOrno AGAIN -
Mr.. land Mrs. G. T. Conway left yes
terday for California for stay of sew
eral weeks.
A. H. Grannis, the newsdealer was
out yesterday after d weeks illness.
The East Haven Hose company will
give an entertainment in town hall this
evening and tomorrow evening. There
will be music and dancing, and supper
will be served one evening.
The Mallet family, who have lived on
Hemingway avenue, East Haven, have
removed to Foxon, where they will open
boarding house in what was former
ly hall for the accommodation of the
workmen to be employed in construct
ing the tunnel for the New Haven Wa
ter company
The first sleighing of the season was
enjoyed yesterday by a number Of own
ers Of horses and sleighs, despite the
rough weather. In the afternoon sew
eral drove up on Whalley avenue,
where great crowd were speeding
Their steppers.
Rev. DR.. Trotter, president of Arcadia
college, Nova Scotia, recently visited
Rev. c. w. Jackson, Of Montowese. Mr..
Jackson Is a graduate of Arcadia col
lege.
The members of Fort Hale lodge No.
225, N. E. @. p, will celebrate the sew
enth anniversary at Harmonic hall on
Monday evening, February IL, with an
and dance. Several of |
the members will present two short |
farces, full Of genuine humor, one enti-
tied Or. Bakers Great Invention or
Youth Restored by Electricity" the !
other, Don't Judge by Appearances. I
The committee are working hard to |
make the affair a success and promise
all who attend an evening of solid en-
joyment. The tickets are only twenty
five cents, and large attendance is ex-
pected.
Under the auspices of the Ladies'
union a dramatic and musical enter
will be presented this evening
at 5 o'clock at the Grand avenue Con-
church. The admission is
twenty-five cents. The programme,
which is an interesting one will in
,lude instrumental selections by George
F. Birks, readings by Miss Edith May
Root, representations by Willard d.
Howe and vocal solos by Miss Frances
Heath. Of Miss Root Charles w. Kid
Ter, of the faculty Of Emerson College
If Oratory, says: II am happy to rec
,mmend Miss Edith May Root very
highly TO any one wishing the services
# teacher of oratory and physical Gull
ure, or of a public reader. Miss Root
rings to her public work a str sngth,
,ividness, clearness of Interpretation. {
nd directness which is sure Of winning
Ter success, while her careful study of I
he great underlying principles Of ex- {
ression makes her well fitted to teach $
theirs the art" c