The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-02
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
STEEL G WIRE CO., NEW PLANT
 NEARLY COMPLETED.
Nin Probably be in Operation by July Ist-Adjourned Annual Town Meeting to be Held This Evening Important Business to be Transacted.

to be Held This Evening ng-ImpOrtant
 Business to be Transacted.
 The new plant of the National Steel and Wire company will be in operation about July 1. This plant when fully completed, will have cost about $l,OOO,- 900. The company purchased about eraI large buildings. When in full op- eration it is expected that about one thousand hands will be employed. The old plant, much smaller in area, was destroyed by fire over a year ago. The new plant is located near the east end of the Quinnipiac bridge and near Fair mont avenue. The company will turn out several hundred tons of manufact- ured iPon daily
 The adjourned annual meeting of the borough of Fair Haven East will be held in the engine house, East Grand avenue, this evening. The question of moving the engine house from East Grand to a lot on Quinnipiac avenue will be considered. Several reports will be made, and the annual tax will be voted.
 Mrs. Willis Hemingway, who is stop ping this summer with her daughter, Mrs Joseph Cook, of Ticonderoga, N. Y, has been quite i'll from the effects of a severe cold, but she is now much better
 Miss Minnie Sheehan and Miss Mar garet Heenan visited in Hartford on .;o1 flo ha 0f Daley.
 Theron c. Fowler has purchased of D. Walter Leete fifty feet of land on Quln- nipiac avenue.
 Under the auspices of the Farther Lights society an entertainment will be given in the Grand avenue Baptist church next Thursday evening at 8 o'clock John w. Wetzel instructor in elocution at Yale university, will be as- sisted by Miss Gertrude Kapitze, so- prano; Miss Harriet M. Butler contral- to- and Miss Nellie E. Edmondson, &C., companist. A quartette of Yale uni versity students will also sing. The admission is free and a silver collection will be taken.
 The Ladies' guild of Christ church, East Haven, will hold a sale of home made bread and cake in the town hall next Wednesday afternoon from to 5, Ice cream will be served. There will be an entertainment in the evening at o'clock The farce entitled "The Sun Bonnets' is to be given by talent from West Haven It is said to be very amusing farce and should be heard by a large audience After the entertain l ment there will be informal dancing. 1 The admission is ten cents. Rev. John Knox Mclean, D. D., pres ident of the Pacific Theological semi | nary, Berkeley, Cal. preached in Pil- grim church yesterday morning. pr. | Mclean was pastor of the Third, or | Center, church at the time of it's exist ence in this part of the city.
 MT and Mrs Charles Butler and their grandson, Frederick Butler, of Atwater i street, visited in Chester last week.
 Willis Farren, of Providence, has been here for a few days, coming up to [ attend the funeral of lis cousin, Charles Monroe.
 Mrs. F. H. Hemingway, who has been | in Buffalo for several weeks will return | in a few days. She has been in poor health, but is now considerably inn proved.
 One item of Memorial day which it [ was forgotten to mention was the part | taken by the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic. This society was , formed since the last Memorial day ser vices and it is a growing and promising society. Mrs. James B. Moran, of Grand avenue is the national corresponding secretary. On the morning of Memorial day the local circle assembled at Polar Star hall received the flowers and ar ranged them in bouquets and clusters \ for decora ting the graves. They were assisted by several other ladies not i| members of the circle, who kindly help ed Afterwards they set the tables and II beuntiful collation. was served to about two hundred people who had talk en part in the decoration exercises at the cemetery. All appeared 10 enjoy the spred and voted this part of the ex- ercses of the day a success. Then three rousing cheers were given to Warren Thomas circle No. 5, Ladies of the c. A. R. This circle meets the first and third Tuesday of each month in the A. O. T.. w. hall, 25 Grand avenue, where very pleasant meetings are held. Their mission is to assist in the work of the G. A. R.