The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-04
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
STRONG FOOTBALL TEAM GETTING IN GOOD SHAPE.
day from Saginaw, Mich. Funeral of Miss Menns--A Q. U. w. May Change Tfa Aaea mt

Its Assessment Plan.
 The Strong football team is practic-
 ing frequently this week, in prepara-
 tion for the game they will play with
 the Eaton school team on the Barker
 lot near East Rock park, next Satur-
 day. Last Saturday the Strong team
 beat the Lowell team to 0. Yesterday
 the team turned in about S4, which they had collected to be used in purchasing a new football. The team is determin- ed to give a good account of itself this season It is made up as follows: John Maloney captain and full back; Martin Gesler, left tackle; Henry Rudolph, right tackle; Philip Bolton, left guard; Hugh Crow, right half back; Martin Clark, left half back; Stanley Clapp, center; David Hogan, left end Carl Turner right end; Walter Hicks, quar- ter back: Arthur Durant, left guard
 The ladies' aid society of the East ~Fearl street M. E. church gave their first supper of the season last evening There was a large attendance and it was pleasant social affair.
 Rev. Andrew Burns Chalmers, the new pastor of the Grand avenue Con- grega ational church. and wife, arrived yesterday from Saginaw Mich. where he has been pastor of large Congre gational church several years. They are stopping for the present at Judge Deming's on Quinnipiac avenue.
 i The funeral of Miss Amelia Mems, who died in Fair Haven on Monday, was held from the residence of her brother Hendrick Mems on Blake street, Westvllle. Wednesday after noon. The deceased had been i'll with consumption about two years but only took to her bed two weeks ago.
 The marriage of Miss Margaret May Stevenson daughter of Mrs. Mary Johnson of Farren avenue, to George Herbert Hills of the McLagon Foundry company, is announced to take place at st. Andrews M F. church October 16 at D. m.
 Letters are advertised at station A for Miss Ethel Ballard and Saleno Mar co.
 Only twelve persons have applied to Principal Graves at Strong school to at- tend an evening school, if one should open in that building. It Is not likely that for so small a number of pupils school would be established. Super intendent Beede said yesterday that the school authorities wished to do perfectly right in the matter, but he doubted if the board of education would establish a school for only twelve pupils, especially as the number usual ly falls off after the opening. These applicants can attend evening schools in the city if they wish so to do.
 The funeral of Walter Hhrd. the re- port of whose suicide was announced in yesterdays papers, was held from D. m., Rev. D. J. Clark officiating. The suicide was committed in New York. It is supposed to have been case of tenn insanity, although the particu- lars are not at hand. The deceased lived in Fair Haven until six or seven years ago, when he removed to New York His mother was the late Mrs. Hahhan Hurd. A brother resides in New York. The deceased was about fifty years of age.
 There is a large number of mem- bers of the A. O. U. w. in Fair Haven, and they are interested in the question of changing the assessments from the level to the classified plan. An import 1 ant meeting of the grand lodge is now being held in Boston to consider the matter.
 There was much interest to hear de- J tails of the Columbia a-Shamrock race