The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-13
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
MANY ITEMS OF SOCIAL AND 2 PERSONAL INTEREST.

Degree Of Honor Will Meet This Even-
 ing-seliou Iilness of Mrs. Lennghan Dredging of nIIII River Progrsssing
 Rapidly.
 Miss Carrie N. Chapman, the we'll
 known Kindergarten teacher, recently
 returned from weeks stay in Clinton- vile. She spent the Sabbath with friends in Milford. - z, ...vs .::: sgse. 3
 Miss Florence L. Barnes of Exchange
 street is making a visit with her aunt, Mrs. Walter Lerois of Hartford.
 The funeral of Russell Earl, little son os Earle Brown. was attended on Sat-
 urday at p. m. . .a ,s~..s.sz z Benjamin Sturges of Kansas City is visiting his brother, George I. Sturges of Grand avenue- at the, latter's summer cottage at Hotchkiss Grove. MT. Stur-
 ges is successful business man of
 Kansas City, being interested in the iron trade and mercantile business. The
 brothers have just returned from Troy,
 where they attended their mothers l funeral. .,2sSs < Mrs. Isabelle Jaques of Lloyd street has been summoned to Clintonville in the Adirondacks by the serious condi- | tion of her mother, Mrs. Lenaghan, who sustained probably fatal injuries oeca- stoned by a fall. She was accompanied
 by her sister, Mrs. Meeker Beardsley, and brothers. James and William Len aghen. Mrs. Lenaghen is about eigh- ty-five years of age, with faculties we'll
 preserved and had taken lively inter- est in lie. Much sympathy will be felt for her relatives in this trouble.
 The next meeting of Fair Haven lodge
 No. 2, Degree of Honor. will be held this l Monday evening and all members are urged to be present. At its last meet ing the lodge entertained its deputy Mrs. Emma c. Runge of Meriden. and the drill team exempl.fied the work in its usual fine manner. Mrs. Runge was presented with handsome bouquet by the lodge. After the meeting all pres- ent adjourned to the banduet room where fine supper awaited them.
 The dredging of Mill river is going on expeditiously, two dredgers now being in use and the work has progressed we'll up towards the Chapel street bridge. The diggers are fast operating machines and the work of hoisting and dumping the mud into the scoWs is watched all day long with much interest by many spectators. A third digger has begun work at the junction of NH and Quinnipiac rivers, and a channel 200 feet wide and twelve feet deep at low water will be cut up to Quinnipiac draw bridge and ultimately the channel will be deepened above the bridge. This l work will aid Fair Haven commercially and will facilitate the use of deep draft craft for bringing eargoes. To-day portion of the works of the National Wire corporation shut down several days for repairs. will resume business. Operations began recently in the wire rope plant. On Saturday 9 schooner arrived from Sparrow Point, Md, with LOGO tons of steel billets for the wire mill. Over 900 hands are now employed in the different departments. Mrs. Thomas H. Walker and son, George F. Walker of Chatham street, are visiting relatives in achusetts. FIR. Street and family are stopping l in tfet- cottage at Morris Cove.
 O.. c. Afnes and family of Clinton avenue have arrived at their cottage at HotchlSiss grove. sa - Elsi s .
 It is exaected that the new sliacaa- am pavement from the Fort Hale road l to point just below the Peauot house will be completed in August. This work I is a continuation of the work performed 1 last year, when Townsend avenue was hardened from the Four Corners to Fort Hale road. When this work5is complet- ed Townsend avenue will be one of the finest driveways in the vicinity of this city.
 Owing to the heat the churches were rather thinly attended yesterday. At l the Grand avenue Congregational church the Rev. Frederick l.. Bullard. former pastor of the First Presbyterian church, Circleville. O., preached morn l ing and evening. " <; At the Grand avenue Baptist church last evening the pastor, the Rev. F. w. Stone, gave an interesting sermon on 'The Stone and the Glass in the series os one hour vesper services For Eyes and Ears" $$sE The trifiing decrease in temperature and the fresh breezes of yesterday were greatly appreciated by the people of this vicinity who had endured the terrible trying'hot weather of last week. |