The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-03-29
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
STRIKING SUCCEsS OF THE SHOE
 SOCIAL.
Held in the Grand Avenue Baptist Church Wednesday Evening-CIean- ing Up the Wire MilI Debris--Live Oak
Council Anniversary.

The shoe social held by the Ladies
 Aid society of the Grand avenue Bap-
 tist church, Wednesday evening, was a
 great success and was attended by an
 audience that filled the chapel. En- ( velopes bearing the picture of a shoe
 were furnished, in which was placed the admission fee; and these envelopes
 were collected at the door and placed in
 a big shoe resting on table, The prin-
 cipal feature of the programme was the < amusing sketch, "Parson Poor's Dona-
 tion Party There was also a 'Topsy
 Turyy Drill'' by eight children and
 music.
 {. large force of men are at work at
 the wire mill site, clearing up the
 ground and getting ready for the re-
 building. It is understood that the
 Manufacturers railroad will be con- nected with the wire mill, by using the tracks of the Fair Haven and Vest
 ville road across the Quinnipiac draw bridge. From the east side of the
 bridge a short piece of new track will
 be necessary to run into the mill yard
 The advantages which this railroad will afford will be much appreciated in making and receiving shipments, as it connects with the Consolidated road tracks at Cedar Hill.
 S D. Dudley, the liveryman, who was so badly injured in being kicked by horse, was able to be out yesterday for short time. It is believed he will en- tirely recover in a few days.
 The schooner Grace Bailey has been loaded with 4,0O0 bushels of oysters, I. NTrx, ,-o+t bay on the tract leased by the Narra- gansett Bay Oyster company, which is composed of Fair Haven oyster plant CTS.
 The steamers Isaac E. Brown and Emily Mansfield, which have been catching oysters in Narragansett bay the past season, have returned and will be used here in catching seed.
 A schooner has arrived from Virginia with about 5000 bushels of plants, which are being planted on the beach beds
 The Narragansett Bay Osyter com ipany is loading schooner in Bridge port with oysters to be planted in Mar ragansett bay.
 About twenty of the relatives and friends of H. w. Crawford gave him a surprise visit Wednesday evening on the occasion of his sixty-ninth birth anniversary Several gifts were pre- eented to MT. Crawford. The affair was very pleasant for all who partici- pated.
 The republican caucus in the Elev- entf ward will be held at Polar Star hall Wednesday evening, April B. It | is not expected there will be much of a contest over the city delegation, ex cept over the general registrar. Alder man w. s. Moyle will head the dalega- tion of the faction opposed to the re- election of General Registrar Frank $. Hamilton It is understood that | Ward Registrar E. A. Johnson will sup | port MT. Hamilton and he may be candidate to head the delegation. MT, Hamilton was former resident of the Eleventh ward and represented the ward in the common council It is un- derstood the chief contest at the caucus will be over the general registrar It is said that John J. Willmott, who is a Hamilton man, will be a candidate for Who the candidate of the opposition will be is not known, but the names of James Nelson and Oliver Sparks were spoken of yesterday quite 1ayorabiy. MT. Sparks refused the once before. George Wal lace now member of the board of will probably be the renomi- mated by the democrats. Some of Ed gar A. Johnson's friends say that he would prove a popular candidate for the position of general registrar.
 The fourteenth anniversary of Live Oak council, Royal Arcanum, was held last evening. It was a roll call night and fifty-one out of total membership of ninety-siX responded to their names. It was the largest meeting of the coun- cil held in years and there was much manifested.