The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-31
11TH AND 12IH WARD NEWS
AND OTHER NEVIS FROM FAIR
 HAVEN AND VICINITY.

Funeral Of NIT. WhIttaker--The N ew
 station A.
 Home council No. 3, Brotherhood ot
 Relief, met at the office of Charles o
 Francis on Grand avenue Wednesday
 evening and elected officers as follows
 President, Charles o. Francis; vice president, Peter Jacobson; secretary and treasurer, William s. Rowe; sick
 visiting committee, J. H. Gould. This
 council has been called upon to pay
 only few sick benefits the past six
 months, The list of membership is full
 thirty in all. It pays benefits of $5 per week.
 Jesse Bauer, son of Sigmund Bauer, ] of 55 Perkins street, is home after a
 visit to the exposition at Charleston, s. 1 c. He speaks highly of the exposition
 and his trip in the south. MT. Bauer is
 purser of the steamer Chester W. Cha pin of the Providence line, and will join 1 the steamer in few days.
 The funeral of Eugene Whitaker was
 held yesterday, brief services having i been held at his late home, 56 Chapel street, in the morning, and then the re- mains were taken to Pittsfield, his for mer home, for burial Funeral services I were held in Pittsfeld, and Rev. D. W. Stone, who accompanied the funeral party, officiated, The deceased leaves a | t1yi1p o1,I tNvn o1,i q 1d hna11 1 ill for several months with consump- tion. MT. Whittakes was about forty /! years of age.
 The narrows between the two bridges was frozen over yesterday morning and only the steamers were able to go out on the oyster beds. Dredging oysters yesterday was pretty cold work. l Workmen were putting on the finish l ing touches to the new station A yester- day, and Superintendent Mulvey in- tends moving in and taking possession this evening. Early tomorrow morn- ing business will be inaugurated at the new station. Postmaster Howarth in spected the station yesterday and pro- nounced it all right. The lock boxes are set and they make a fine appear ance. The building is well appointed, and will give Fir Haven people a fine station.
 Supper was served last evening by the ladies of St. James church.
 Mr and Mrs w $. Neale, of 19 Atwa- ter street, have gone for few weeks visit to Washington, Norfolk, Charles ton and Florida.
 John Pachl has bought of Charles A. Warren five feet of land on Farren avenue.
 Mrs Charles Booth is visiting her daughter Mrs. H. l. Barnes, IA Ex- change street, having just returned from a two months visit at Atlantic Highlands, N. J,
 The funeral of Mrs. Margery Reed. widow of Robert Reed, was solemnizad yesterday afternoon at her late home, 116 Wocott street. The services were conducted by Rev Dr. Phillips, of St. James, church. Relatives of the family acted as the bearers and burial was in Evergreen cemetery.
 The annual fair of Polar Star lodge, I. o. o. F., will begin at Polar Star hall this evening and will continue for ten nights There will be an entertain ment and dancing each evening. Sea son tickets are being sold and each ticket holder will have a chance to draw one of the money prizes. The first prize is $50, and there are thirty-six prizes ranging from s1 to BIO.
 County Treasurer Hiram Jacobs, of Foxon, is confined to his home by a cold.
 An agent of New York house was at the engine house on East Grand ave- nue last evening to take the measure of members of Quinnipiac Hose and Hook and Ladder company for the new uniforms.
 A sociable and dance was held in the engine house by the Quinnipiac compa- ny Wednesday evening. Over 100 were present,
 The funeral of William Geary, who in Mill river this week, was held from St. Francis church yester- day morning. There were many floral and large wreath from the union The bearers were Lawrence R. Coffey, Michael Flannery, | Thomas Sullivan, John McDermond, | Daniel Buckley and John Daley.
 There were over 300 present in the Sunday school of the Grand avenue Congregational church last Sunday and number of additions to the Young Mems Bible association, under the lead- ership of F. H. Hemingway, and the business mems class, under the guid- .nce of Charles H. Blakeslee, were re- ,eived, The business mems class has ,ut out the list of subjects on a neat older, with class officers and subjects IS follows:
 January 19-Christian Citizenship.
 January 26--Is the Workingman Of To- day Benefited by the March of Prog ess?
 February 2--Purpose; Life as a Race instead of a. Drift.
 February 9--The Business Mans Re- possibility as Christian.
 February 16-Are Social Changes likely to Affect Christianity?
 February 23-Should America's Immi- ration Laws be Changed?
 March 2-Is Character Hereditary? March 9-T'he Losing Side of Life. March 16--Are the Trusts Beneficial? March 23-Business vs. Preachers. 4 March 30-True Greatness.
 The officers are as follows:
 President--D. R, Pollock,