The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-16
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
PILGRIM CHURCH MEE'S CLEB
 MET LAST NIGHF.
An Address Given by Elmer >. Wade on Enthusiastically of Wilmington Oysters This Year-Other items.

The first meeting of the mems club of Pilgrim church was held last evening. President C. E. Steele presided and C. F. Bates was the clerk. The address of the evening was given by EImore s. Wade on Time" There were musical selections by Miss Augur and Mir Stone. Ii was hoped to have had an address by Congressman Sperry on har- bor improvements. but he could not be present. It is hoped that he will be able to give the address later with ster- eOpticon illustrations.
 One day last week it was found that there had been quite an escape of gas from the pipes in the chapel of Pilgrim church. In turning on the gas in the evening there was some neglect in ad justing the apparatus when the lights were extinguished and the gas escaped into the church from 10 p. m. to noon the next day. It is estimated that about 5000 feet of gas thus escaped. It is reported that the Wilmington, N. C., oysters are becoming scarcer this season than for several years past and l the beds are being thinned out. At 1 Perth Amboy also the yield is much ] lighter than usual and the quality of l oysters is poor The Mississippi, Louis ianna and Texas oystermen have been much retarded in their work of late, owing to stormy weather.
 ] This evening there will be a recep- ton for members of the parish and their friends at Grace P. E. church from 8 to 10 in the parish house.
 The coal that has been dredged out of the rivers and harbor of late is being sold at a good profit by those who re- covered the same. One boatman dredged up nearly fifty tons of this coal and dis poses of it at $7 on his wharf. It is soft and hard coal mixed and is said to burn very well. Some of the boatmen have made more this way than they would in dredging oysters.
 The members of Polar Star lodge, I. O. o. F., are planning for their annual fair to be held in Polar Star hall A committee has been appointed to make arrangements.
 The regular meeting of the w. c. T U. No. 2 will be held at it's hall on Grand avenue this afternoon at o'clock, when the delegates will give a report of the state convention held ir
 this city last week. Some plan fol heating the hall this winter will be talked up.
 The committee which is arranging
 for rummage sale for Columbia castle
 No 9, K G. E., has issued the follow
 ing: Tt has been voted by Columbis
 castle to hold rummage sale some
 time during the week beginning October 20. We earnestly ask the members tt
 look up such articles as they may have
 either in clothing, dishes and furniture and anything that is either good, bad o indifferent that we could dispose of Any articles can be left at the Bootl
 Meat Co.'S store, Grand avenue ant
 Front street, where we store goods unti the sale, or if word or postal card il sent to any of the committee tean
 will be sent to you or your friends ad dress. The committee, P. G. Buckley
 Charles Crook. John Dixon, Dr. c. L , Kilborn. M. J. Barnes, A. W. Dwyer
 Henry Gessler, E. Thompson, H. How . ard, F R. Burnham.
 At the meeting of the Connection
 Oyster Growers association held a
 Norwalk Tuesday, Henry c. Rowe wa | reelected president and Ernest E. Bal l was elected secretary. Messrs. Row and George E. Lancraft were electe members of the standing committee.