The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-25
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
4 DECIDED LULU IN THE CHRISTI
 MAS MAIL YESTERDAY.
Services i'm the Churches To-day-Fu- neral of Lawrence Corcoran Held
 Yesterday - Christmas Entertain

There was Hull in receiving Christ mas mail at station A yesterday at l0:3o a. m., nearly all the special ship ments having been received. The mail ing began Saturday noon and has con- tinued uninterruptedly, Sunday except ed. The carriers were loaded down With Christmas mail all day yesterday
 This morning two of the carriers will take out their packages in teams and four carriers will each have helper to assist.
 The employees at station A yesterday received box of cigars from J. T. Hill house, the druggist, for Christmas gift
 There was Christmas tree at the office of the s. c. Burwell company on Front. street yesterday morning, and the fourteen oyster openers received gifts. The gift distribution was follow ed by spread and it was an enjoyable occasion for all.
 Christmas services will be held this morning at Grace and St. James P. F. curches. At Grace church the Christ mas festival will be held in the church on Thursday evening, to be followed by distribution of gifts in the parish house.
 The Sunday school of the East Pearl street M. E.. church will enjoy its an- nual Christmas festival this evening at o'clock. The preparations are such as to warrant very pleasant time for young and old. An immense ladder will contain hundreds of gifts and an inter- esting programme will also be given.
 The Christmas entertainment at the Grand avenue Baptist church will be given on Thursday evening at 730 o'clock. There will be a Santa Claus, who will distribute the gifts and. in stead of the usual Christmas tree there will be something entirely different, which is being kept as a surprise for the children. The programme will be of a miscellaneous character and in cluding drill and selections from the cantata "Johne Doubter." <
 At St. James church the Christmas festival will be held next Sunday even- ing.
 Mrs. Watson F. Wright of Newark, N. J., is spending a few days with her parents MT and Mrs Miles F. Futile of 110 Front street.
 Monday evening next is the time at which the Sunday school of the Grand avenue Congregational church will hold its annual Christmas exercises.
 At St. Francis church to-day there will be solemn high mass at 10:30 a. m. with special programme by the choir, assisted by an orchestra. The quartet consists of Mrs. G. Wohlmaker, sopra- no: Miss Marie Ward, alto; w. Stod- ldard, tenor, and J. Blatchley, bass. w. J. Rohan is the director and Miss T. Rohan the organist The instrumental music will be by Doolttle's orchestra. Ira E.. Fonda of the east side has been | elected one of the camp council of Ma | than Hale camp, Sons of Veterans. He is also a member of the committee of | arrangements for the ball to be given | February 19.
 The funeral of Laurence Corcoran, son l of James and Mary Corcoran of 256 At water street, was held from St. Fran | cis' church yesterday morning. The de- | ceased who had been i'll for about six months was twenty nine years of age. | The interment was in St. Bernard's l cemetery.
 The Kennedy will case which was re- gently given a brief hearing in Hart ford court is notable case in which | Judge L. P. Deming of Fair Haven is one of the attorneys. Judge Deming was not present at the hearing, having just left for a business trip to New Mexico.
 Wallace H. Humiston held recep- ton at his home, 336 Quinnipiac avenue, Saturday afternoon from to 5 o'clock in honor of his eighteenth birth anni- versary Those who assisted in receiv- ing were Mrs Charles Palmer, Mrs. E. J. Halton, Mrs. William H. Bishop, Mrs. Gerrie Dunbar and Miss Belle Wipper. MT. Humiston received many beautiful gifts in remembrance of the day.
 Mrs. William W. Kennedy and daugh- ter, Miss Eleanor Kennedy, left yester- day for New York. for visit of one week with relatives.
 Fred Adams of Wolcott street has gone to his home in Utica, N. Y, for Inc holidays.