The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-04-22
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
EXCEPTION LAST EVENING AT EAST PEARL ST. CHURCH.

Warm Greetings to Rev. NIT. streeter-
 Pleasant Exercises-RoIlcaII of Mem
 bers-Reported Attempted Suicide of
 an old Man-AnnuaI Dinner at St.
 James Church-PersonaI
 Last evening a pleasant church re-
 ception was held at the East Pearl
 street M. E. church. It was a greeting
 of the church and congregation to the
 family. pr. Streeter has just been ap-
 pointed by the conference to this church
 for another year and the demonstra
 tion was in honor of this event. There
 was large attendance The opening
 exercises consisted of the singing of an
 appropriate hymn by the assembly and
 this was followed with prayer by Rev.
 MT. Abbott. Frank J. Mansfield, super
 intendent of the Sunday school, gave an
 interesting address, expressive of the
 pleasure of the church upon Dr. Street.
 CTS return and with the hope that his
 ministry might continue useful and
 profitable to the church, as he had no
 doubt it would. He pledged the co-op-
 eration of the church and congregation
 with the work of the pastor. pr.
 Streeter responded in appropriate
 words, thanking the speaker for the
 kind wishes and all his friends for their
 reception. There were solos by Miss
 Edith B. Jones' contralto. The roll
 of ,,Int1 ,,ol, al~Nrr t,oTn
 esting feature. It was the first roll
 call in the history of the church. There are about $50 members and as the names of those present were called they answered to the, same A number of friends of absent members answered for them and stating why they were absent. The roll was called by H. w, Crawford, one of the oldest and most influential members of the church. Then additional subscription for Sun day collections for the year ensuing were made. At the close the ladies of the church served refreshments to the company. This was very pleasant social hour. The reception throughout was very successful and must have been pleasing to Dr. Streeter and fam fly. This large church starts off upon another years work under very auspi- l cious conditions.
 A report of an attempt at suicide was circulated upon upper North Front | street Sunday afternoon An old man | whose name could not be learned was | seen in the water near the foot of Lom- bard street and was fished out by John Maybry. The man said he was sitting tha Jyhar If cyr,OIxi,,o bIc nj pH | into the water; but others say that he was acting queerly and had attempted to make way with himself. Anyway he would soon have drowned if assistance had not come, as he seemed to be quite feeble.
 An event which is of interest to those in church circles takes place in the par lors of St. James church on Thursday evening of this week. At that time the men of the parish will give their annual dinner which this year will be known as 'Erastus' Poultry Party" In addition to an extensive menu of fowl served in varied style, a score of the younger men will impersonate colored walters and in this disguise will attend upon the wants of all who sit down to the ta bles. Music will be furnished during the time of the dinner The proceeds will go toward the completion of the fund to cancel the parish's indebted ness,
 A complimentary entertainment to the wives and the lady friends of mem- bers of Columbia castle, K. G. E., will be given this evening in their hall 25 Grand avenue. The entertainment pro- gramme was not completed last even- ing, but there will be selections by the Riverside quartette, violin solos and , other music, recitations and possibly a e, sketch by four Yale students. It will f be an enjoyable entertainment and the nall will be crowded. This castle has I one hundred members and is one of the pest in the state. The committee in f charge of the entertainment consists of f Charles Crook, chairman; F. R. Burn ' nam, J. F. Thompson, R. T. Buckley md N E. Schmidt. ! Christian Gutbrod of Lombard street f vho has been very i'll with typhoid :, ever, has been convalescing for several T weeks and is now in good health He . las been visiting in Pennsylvania for everal days and returned home Satur- ', lay. z John Mclaughlin of Poplar street, n Jerk at Station A, has been i'll for two r IT three days and his place is now r aken by Substitute Clerk Louis T. Ready. MT. McLoughln's many friends lope to see him at his post soon.
 John Pagan of Blatchley avenue, em- loyed by Robert Bradley X Co.,, met N with an accident Saturday and an oper- f, ton was necessary. It was performed d y Drs Verdi, Moore and Sullivan. It :, til be a number of days before he fully :. fl Dap1aped by tha Storpo -Ctra n eror--