The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-24
t1TH AND 12TH WARD NEWS
OYSTER SCHOONER EMMA JANE SUNK TN NARRAGAESETT BAY.

SUNK FN N4RRAGANSETT BAY. WH Probably be Raised This Week. Y.P.s. c. K. Washington Service at
 Grand Avenue Baptist Charch This Evening.
 The weather, the past week. has been very unpropitious for oyster catching and many of the smaller steamers and motor boats have been tied up; and the sail craft have not dredged for weeks. Some of the larger steamers have been l seriously impeded in the river and | about the wharves by the ice and in some cases well nigh embargoed. The wear and tear on the oyster steamers just now is considerable. Oysters are scarcer in consequence of the limited quantity caught and have advanced fully twenty cents by the bushel. | It is expected that the schooner Ems ma Jane, loaded with 800 bushels oy- sters for c. l.. Ludington & Son of Fair Haven, will be raised this week. The schooner is sunk near Prudence island, Narragansett bay, and lies in eighteen l feet of water. One of Scott's wrecking boats of New London, which has just raised the schooner Fred Snow, was to be sent at once to the Emma Jane This little schooner is New Haven vessel and has capacity of about 1000 bushels | of oysters She is owned and com- manded by Captain Wright of Fair Haven. The vessel was purchased a few months ago at a port in Long Isle and and was repaired and put in excel- lent condition.
 Several men were engaged yesterday in shoveling out the crosswalks. With several inches of slush and many sides walks not cleaned, the walking on Sat- lurday and Sunday was about as bad as could be imagined. Fair Haven could afford employment for scores of men cleaning sidewalks, crosswalks and gut~ ters.
 | Services commemorative of Washing ton were held last evening at Grace lP. F. church and the Second Congrega- tional church.
 Rev. Gardner s. Eldridge of the First I'M. F. church preached yesterday lt.orn- ing in exchange with Rev. Dr. Streeter of the East Pearl street M. E. church.
 A Washington service will be given by the Y. P. s. C. F. in the chapel of the Grand avenue Baptist church this evening. There will be short enter- tainment of musical and literary na- ture; and novel, "Hatchet Contest, is down on the programme. The cons mittee of arrangements says: No sur- geons will be needful, but good knowl- edge of the history of Washington will be very essential to success Other en- tertaining features are on the pro- gramne and ice cream and candy will be on sale. The admission is free.
 The Young Ladies' league of the Grand avenue Congregational church. will hold "a Washington hatchet" in lthe Sunday school room this evening" commencing at o'clock.
 A very pleasant surprise party was rendered Charles J. B. Priest at the residence of his parents, MT. and Mrs.
 
 lnue. on Friday evening: Among those present were: The Misses Mae Free- man. Lottie M. Turner, Jessie M.
 Thomas. Mae Alice Halldeman, Anna Louise Huband, Daisy Maude Huband, lJosie A. DeLong, Ray l.. Resell, Flor- ence M. Hollenbeck, Louise Graham Hudson Anna M. Hoegh, Mae E. Haw-
 kins, Nellie Stevenson, Messrs. Frank
 Smith, Henry Higgins, Morris Higgins.
 John Williams, But Rompf, James Me-
 Cough. John w. Perrie, John J. Free-
 man. l.. Rhett Parker, E. G. Meyers,
 o. A. Grenon, William Hyndman, Cliff ford Thomas and MT. and Mrs. Edwin
 w. Priest, MT and Mrs. W. G. Bates, MT. and Mrs. John w. Preist and Mrs. James Turner.
 private letter received from Rev. F. D. Luddington, formerly of Fair Ha- ; ven. gives interesting details of his stlc-
 cessful work in his new field of labor, as pastor of the Baptist church in
 Derby, Vt. MT. Luddington says: You
 may be interested to know that God has . been blessing us here. I preach three times each Sunday, and for two weeks in January preached every night in
 union services-one week in the Meth~ odist church and one in ours. Fffty-six
 came out. I mean by that, that they
 came forward and. some of them en- gagged in prayer, and all think gave testimony We have endeavored to as- certain their denominational prefer l ences and have gone systematically at work to get them into the church. 7 baptised three last Sunday and have more for next Sunday Many of the converts are students in Derby acad- , emy a school that ranks with Suffield, = I think have young disciples class at the parsonage each Tuesday evening, l and find them deeply interested in : studying the gospels. My plan is to 5 find out what Jesus says about His Kingdom, His Father, heaven, bap- 3 tism, our life here, our life hereafter, ? etc One topic each night. Then we l sing and engage in prayer, much as we do in the church prayer meettng; and last week everyone of the young
 disciplestook part in the prayer meets
 ing. The weather here is frfghtfuliy
 cold Mrs, Luddington does not enjoy