The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-06
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
GRAND AVENUE CONGREGATIONAL
 CHURCH RECEPTION

l Postponed Until Tonight on Account
 on the storm-Schooner Annie K. Carl 1 Oyerdue-U. V. U. Officers to Runquet-- | New York Oyster Trade Continues 1 Good.
 The reception to the 100 new members l to have been held at Grand avenue l Congreaational church last evening was postponed until tonight on ac- l count of the storm.
 l Yesterdays fierce storm almost sus-
 Haven road The tracks were slippery | and trolley cars had a hard time mak l ing trips in the late afternoon and ev- l ening Some of the steam railroad | trains were delayed and locomotion | was carried on with difficulty. The storm interferred with many enter | tainments and social gatherings. It ! was a good evening to remain in doors and the majority of residents did so. Fred P. Brown said last evening that his schooner, the Annie R. Carl, had not arrived from Narragansett bay and 1 he does not know where she is. The vessel belongs in Gayville, L. l., and is small two-master. She is loaded with oysters and her arrival will come in good time, as the market is pretty poorly supplied with stock Several sohooners are on the way here from Narragansett bay Dealers are opening native oysters largely to supply the trade Mir Brown says he guesses the Carl will arrive all right after this storm has subsided.
 The oyster steamer Cleo of Fair Ha- ven, bound to Providence river tied up on Monday night at one of the Stonington wharves. The steamer will be used in dredging oysters In Narra- gansett bay.
 Miss Bessie DeLacey of New York, has been visiting several days with her parents. MT. and Mrs. P. DeLacey of Exchange street,
 The staff officers and friends of the Union Veterans union wiz have a ban quet at Gillern X Quinn's hotel, Morris Cove, Wednesday evening. March 12. Saturday evening, March 15 the Green T club of twenty-five couples will have banquet at the same place A. B. Barnes who was bitten in the
 face by a bull dog, at the Wallingford
 Masonic home recently, is in rather
 boI
 hemorrbages and is in danger of hav-
 ing another, which might prove fatal.
 It is intended to send him to the Ma
 sonic home, where he will receive good care IfE
 Chief R. H Efeachen of the Annex fire department has received the sum of s10 from Frank Hugo, whose barn was burned week ago The cash is accompanied with a letter of thanks to the department for their good work at the time of the fire
 MT. and Mrs. Edward C. Fenton of Blatchfey avenue Mhl return from the the south in a few days. They have visited Washington, Savannah and the Charleston exposition.
 It is proposed to establish a new fire alarm box at the cornersof Grand ave- nue and East Pearl street This is an important place and there is consider able valuable property in. that section The fire commission will take action of the petition probably at their next meeting
 One of the Scott Wrecking company barges of New London has arrived here with the two masts and anchors from 4tu T Faulkner's Island. She also has on board several hundred bushels of oys- ters taken from the schooner and be- longing to II. C. Rowe & Co, It is be- lieved the schooner will be a total wreck
 The New York trade in oysters is re- ported as continuing active, even through the recent wild weather. The ice on the beds has been breaking up and soon the fishers will resume catch Ing oysters. The New York oysters were rather weak last week, but will be in good condition,
 Friends of E P. Bacon of Perkins street, conductor of a passenger train between this city and Springfield, has been off duty over week owing to Illness having been threatened with pneumonia, his many friends hope will soon recover. He has been in the em- ploy of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company over forty | eight years, and has never had an ac- | cident to any of his trains
 Mrs. Forbes, organist of the East Ha- | ven Congregational church, has written l a pretty lullaby for quartet of ladies' | Mrs Forbes is now taking a post grad ! uate course in the department of music | at Yale
 A dance was held Tuesday evening | in the store belonging to A. H Gran miss, 203 Front street There were a | goodly number present and Noble Brothers orchestra furnished music There was vocal and instrumental mu- sic, and refreshments were served
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