The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-19
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
AND OTHER NEVIS FROM FATR
 HAVEN AND VICINITY.

Officers Elected by the Fidelity SewiD E
 Cirele-East Haven Fire Department
 Hns Purchased Graham Hook and
 Ladder company-Other Notes.
 Fidelity sewing circle, connected with Myrtle chapter. o. D. S, has elected these officers: President, Mrs. Jennie Moran; vice president. Mrs. Adam Sat- tig; secretary, Mrs. Gertrude Halliday; treasurer, Mrs. l.. Finch.
 Mrs. Gertrude Halliday of Myrtle chapter No. G. o. F. S.. secured the names for the charter list of the new council Fidelity of New London, and had charge of the institution of the council. last week. Several members of Myrtle chapter attended the institu- tion exercises.
 Ed. Futile Of Quinnipiac avenue the we'll known milk dealer, has sold out his route to the New England Dairy company. For ten years he never missed a trip, no matter what the weather was. It was necessary for him to start out at o'clock every morn ing.
 It is expected that there will be held q meeting of the alumni of Strong school next Wednesday evening, in Granniss hall, for the purpose of form ing an organization. There have been five classes graduated from this school and there are about 450 members of the alumni. It will be a commendable ob ject the formation of an alumni asso- ciation, which can hold occasional re- unions and be of assistance to the school in many mays.
 The Jefferson company are painting the Crawford building on Grand ave- nue, head of East Pearl street; also the Thrall house on AtWater street. the Van Name house on East Pearl street and are repainting the wooden portions of the buildings of the Quinnipiac Brewing company.
 The Narragansett Bay Oyster com- pany. composed principally of Fair Haven stockholders, is building an other steamer this spring. This boat is larger than the craft launched at Fair Haven two years ago. The boat is on the stocks at Kennebunkport, Me, The hull is nearly completed and is ready to receive the engines and machinery. The w. A. Warner Bro. Co. of this place is
 
 hardware for the new vessel.
 The East Haven fire department has purchased the apparatus of the Graham Hook and Ladder company of West Haven, as previously mentioned and the latter company will give an exhbi- ton on the East Haven green this evening. The apparatus consists of Q ladder truck and two thirty-five gallon To A Jn boo hca ed o..-Ae green and it will be set on fire and the Grahams with the chem icals will extinguish the fire in short order-at least this is the programme A big crowd will no doubt be present to witness the exhibition This evening at the meeting of Polar Star lodge, I. o. o. F., three prominent | candidates will take the third degree. Business of importance is also to be | considered. At the meeting following | there will be work in the initiatory de- gree.
 The Lutheran church at MiddIetown, | dedicated last Sunday, was decorated | by Charles Westermann of Main street, l Fair Haven.
 The four master Van Name & King, l from Charleston for New York, was l spoken NlOHdag, OH Long Branch IN. | Y., by the British steamer Susquehan l na, from Cape Town, which arrived i the same day at New York.
 Deputy Sheriff w. E. Beach of Mon towese went to Poquonnock, near Hartford, yesterday, to see his nephew, Harry Griswold, who is suffering with pneumonia and is considered to be very ill.
 Reports from the Hudson river state that the stream is becoming clear of ice. Navigation will be resumed and cargoes of building matreial from that section will soon arrive here, it is ex- pected.
 Oystermen who work in the Maurice rive cove, N. J., say the March storms were the most destructive in eight ctaI-n hac