The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-11
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
AND OTHER NEVIS FROM FAIR
 HAVEN AND VICINITY.
UnusuaI VI edding Ceremony PrOpound-
 ed by Rev. J, Lee Mitoholi-LadteS' Aid
 Society Supper-Other Nows.

| Society Supper-Other News. | Rev J. Lee Mitchell, recently pastor of the Grand avenue Congregational church and now pastor of the Second Congregational church, Attleboro, Mass, officiated few days ago at a | marriage ceremony where it was the groom's fourth marriage and the fifth of the bride. Both are sixty-three years of age, A press account of the affair says:
 Mark H. Wood, former town clerk of Burlington, R. l., and Mrs. Eliza beth Anson of Burlington Center, were married at Attleboro by Rev. J. Lee Mitchell of the Second Congregational church. The groom is travelling sales man for western house. He was town clerk for many years. In 1898 he was divorced from his third wife, She was from Minnesota. When the action for divorce was brought it caused an up- set and division in the church, and when this last marriage ceremony was performed both parties expressed the hope that they were united for life, and the minister voiced the same'
 The ladies aid society of the Grand avenue Congregational church will serve it's regular supper on Wednesday of this week, the Congregational club supper having been postponed until March 24. Next week. on the 10th, an entertainment will be given and all who have a curiosity to see March hares can have the opportunity on this occasion
 The people of East Haven will be glad when the almost interminable drawbridge matter is settled The ef fort to secure some mutual agreement in the matter last Saturday was with out result.
 The contractor who is putting in the foundation for the extension to the power house of the Fair Haven and Westvile Railroad company, on Grand avenue. is pushing the work rapidly. Heavy East Haven stone are being laid on a sub-foundation of several hundred piles, driven through the mud to hard pan The extension is to be brick, S0x 100 feet with steel trussed roof, covered with gravel
 There is one case Of scarlet fever in East Haven, a young child of MT. Van Hoaften, farmer, being i'll. Dr. Hol- brook is in attendance.
 The three masted schooner H. S Lanfair of Tuckerton, N. J., which has laid up near Gainesville bridge sev- eral weeks, has obtained a crew and sailed for Norfolk, Va, for cargo of coal, Captain Bragg was not very anxious to run his vessel during the rough weather of the past month. es- pecially as freights were so low. The schooner is of 402 tons, was built at Baltimore and although eighteen years old she does not look it. having been well tared for and kept in repair. The schooner brought lumber here
 The rocks around Faulkner's Island have brought up two vessels during the past ten days First, the schooner Wideawake, bound here with oysters, was wrecked near the island, and re- gently the schooner J. S. Terry of Patchogue, l.. T., badly damaged the keel by fetching up on the rocks. Sev- eral blanks were also broken, but the vessel was saved
 The funeral of Otis Y. Sperry was largely attended Sunday afternoon from the home of his parents, MT and Mrs. D. c. Sperry of Exchange street, Rev. D. J. Clark of East Haven off, ciated The burial was in Fair Haven cemetery. There were large number of beautiful floral pieces from relatives and intimate friends.
 The new mill of the rolling mill plant which has been idle for two weeks ow- ing to the scarcity of scrap iron, start ed up yesterday. The company has 1000 tons of scrap iron bought, but the wash outs on the railroads have delayed its arrival here. The plant uses about 100 tons of iron in a day.
 l.. w Moody and his wife, Dr. Mary B. Moody, of Fair Haven Heights, have started for Pasadena, Cal, and later will visit Los Angeles, where their son, Charles A. Moody, resides. Tile visit is necesaitated by the condition of MT Moody's health, which has been quite poor this winter. They will remain away several months, and until MT. Moody has recovered his health.
 An entertainment under the auspices of the ladies' aid society is being pre- paved to be given in the Grand avenue title of the Imaginable little sketch is Prof Baxters Great Invention, or Youth Restored by Electricity" All old maids and bachelors who attend will be made over according to order.