The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-29
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
PROGRAMME IFS FOR EASTER DAY
 SERVICES ATTHE CHURCHES.

Golden Wedding Anniversary of MT.
 and Mrs. Ransom c. Russell Finely
 Celebrated Cast Evening-Big Celebra-
 ton by Live Oak Council.
 The golden wedding anniversary of MT. and Mrs. Ransom c. Russell was pleasantly celebrated last evening at their home, S13 Front street. Twenty eight relatives and friends were pres elt to offer congratulations and assist in the festivities. The couple received a number of gifts as expressions of good will The evening was pleasantly passed with music, congratulations and pleasant conversation and late in the evening lunch was served, which in- cluded the cutting and distribution of a large wedding cake. The couple are each seventy-two years of age and both enjoy good health. They were married at the parsonage of the Whitneyville Congregational church by the late Rev Austin Putnam, who offlciated as pas tor of that church, for fifty years. Fifty years ago marriage licenses were not required, but the law necessitated pub fishing the names of those intending to marry, in the church, for three success sive Sundays AMr Russell said yester- day that th'e@ law was not much lived up to, one. publication, Being deemed sufficient In the case, of MT. and Mrs. Russell, they We're published in the morning and married in the evening. The pastor tins "calling4 the young peo- f ev,Ia +ba k,sol, ,oil q Marriage is intended between Ransom c. Russell of Hamden and Mary Jane Allen of New Haven The couple have resided in Fair Haven twenty seven years. MT Russell was formerly sailor and was on board the ship Star of the West between New York and Liverpool; late in the schooner Octorus, Captain Alfred Goodsell, sailing be- tween Fair Haven and Virginia. The captains he sailed with included the late Captains Wright, Hervey and Av- cry. Captain O. M. Ellis is the only one surviving with whom MT Russell sailed He enlisted in Company F, Sev- enth C.. ", and served nearly four years. The late Captain Theodore Ba con, brother of pr. Francis Bacon, was in command of the company. In 1S64-5 MT. Russell served as main- top-man in the navy and was on the Minnesota, Agawam and Roanoke. In recent years he has been employed as an oysterman. He was wounded below the knee by shell at Fort Wagner. Of late years he has suffered severely with rheuma- tism in the wounded limb. and his hip is drawn out of joint. With the excep- tion of lameness, he enjoys good health. The numerous friends of MT. and Mrs. Russell will wish for them many more years of happy welded life.
 One of the biggest celebrations in the history of Live Oak council, No. 1027 Royal Arcanum, was held Thursday evening. It was the fifteenth anniver- sary and the annual roll call and about sixty members were present. Past re- gents occupied chairs, as follows: Re gent, Senior Past Regent Frank E. 2 Hull; vice regent l.. l.. Bradley; ora tor Robert Macarthur; warden, George s. Adams collector, George Odershaw; guide Charles F. Hillhouse; chaplain, Past Regent Bush. Regent Bowen was presented with Royal Arcanum charm, offered for the member bringing tN be initiated into the lodge at the recent class initiation. Three more candidates are now on the application list. The council has over one hundred members and Is in a fine condition. Speeches were made by Grand Regent H. J. Mathewson and Past Grand Regent Carleton E. Hoadley. A group picture by flashlight was taken of the mem bers and guests by Photographer Charles Homan. Then the company adjourned to the banquet room where refreshments were served and speeches made, the company breaking up after midnight. Live Oak is as good coun- Gil as there is in the Connecticut juris- diction and it's fifteenth anniversary celebration was a grand affair.
 At the Grand avenue Congregational church the pastor, Rev. Andrew Burns Chalmers, will preach a special Easter sermon on Sunday morning on the sub feet, "The Experience of Immortality" Tn the evening at 7:30 the Sunday school will hold their Easter exercises in the church auditorium.
 Rev. F. w. Stone, pastor of the Grand avenue Baptist church, will pr6dCn Cuuudy lIlOlIlluS pl koOHlt EdS- ter Certainties." Tn the evening the choir and Sunday school will unite in an Easter musical service. The music for the day is as follows
 10:30 a. m.
 Prelude-Largo ......,....,..,.. Handel Anthem-Lift Your Glad Voices .....
 .......... ....... William Haesche Gloria in F .,..................B. E. Tours Anthem--As It Began to Dawn...,..
 ..,................. Miles B. Foster Prayer and response-Heart Be Still Offertory bass soo-Easter Dawn .,..
 ............,.G George Chadwick Stock Postlude-Bresto Op. 10, No. 3.....,..
 Praise Service'7.30.
 Prelude-Andante- Variations. Hayden Anthem-Christ Our Passover .........
 Fred Schlling Soprano solo-I Know That My Re-
 deemer Liveth-From the Redemp-
 ton.
 Exercise of Sunday schoo-Birthday
 of Hope.