The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-02-20
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
THELATE HORACEA. DOOLITTLE,
FORMER RESIDENT.

SnPper-Ths P0stoniee--A RunEWay-
The snow shoveIIers-staiied In the
Snow Other JottinGs OF the storm.
On Wednesday evening a party of
friends of Frank ]. Mansfield paid him
a surprise visit at his home on Quinni-
piac avenue, the occasion being his
birth anniversary. The evening was
pleasantly sepent with games, sociabil
ity, etc, and refreshments were served.
The party upon leaving bestowed
hearty congratulations. The callers
were Rev. DR.. and Mrs. Streeter, Mr..
and Mrs. E. r. Slater, Miss Belle Stat
er, Theodore Nelson, Mr.. and Mrs.
John B. Hubbell, Mr.. and Mrs. Smith
Turner, Mr.. and Mrs John S. Sanford,
| I'd, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Fenton, Mr.. and
Mrs. Burtis Diver Mr.. and Mrs NJ. f.
Butterfield. Miss Susie Mansfield, Mr..
and Mrs. Henry l. Barnes, Miss Flor
ence Barnes and Charles Hamilton.
| At the funeral of Gurdon Bradley of
Branford, to be held at his late home at
Cherry Hill tomorrow afternoon at 2
O'Clock, Undertaken H. w. Crawford. of
this place, will be in charge of the ar
engagements, and the services will be
conducted by Rev. Mr. Jackson, of East
Haven.
| The late Horace A. Doolittle, of Short
Beach, whose funeral was soIemnized
| yesterday, resided on Atwater street
until about three years ago, when he
removed TO the shore for the benefit of
| his health. He is remembered here by
many friends. He was a veteran SOL
| der and a member of the Connecticut
Light battery. The remains were TAX
en- to Cheshire for tnterment. Mr..
Doolittle was son of Amasa Doolittle,
who was for many years leading
farmer in Cheshire, and at his death
left quite large estate. His sou, Hor-
ace A., suffered much from bronchitis
and went to Charlottesburg, Va, for
his health. intending to stay there per-
manently if the climate helped him, but
he received no benefit and returned to
Short Beach. He leaves wife and two
brothers. The brothers are Joseph r.
| and William H., the latter conducting
the old farm in Cheshire. He leaves
also a sister in New Britain. Amasa
! l.. Doolittle, a clerk for F. S. Plat, the
, we'll known florist Of this city, is
nephew of the deceased.
Letters uncalled for at Station A this
week are addressed to the following
persons: B. Corbin, Mrs. Mary Dowd,
care of Lucy Cameron; S, H Coy, Miss
Katherine L. Seward and Mrs. Nancy
Shoales.
The Washington supper held by the
Ladies' Aid society. of the Grand Ave-
nue. Congregational church on Wednes-
j day evening was a great success. An
unusually fine supper was served to
about sixty patrons,
Three church tsuppers were served
last evening, viz, at st, James and
Grace F. e. churches and at the East
Pearl Street NJ. e. church.
Attorney Harry W. Asher sent word
yesterday that he would be unable to
deliver the address at Strong school on
the occasion of the Washington cele-
bration to be held next Tuesday after
noon at o'clock in Granniss' hall, and
Principal Graves has secured the ser
vices of Principal J, G. Knowlton, of
| the Winchester district, who will deliv
err the address.
| Postmaster HoWarth has had new
cards Of directions placed on the front
side of the letter boxes in this vicinity,
which will be appreciated by patrons of
the mail service.
There was runaway on Grand ave
| which fnp q time
caused no little excitement. A horse
attached to a delivery sleigh owned by
II. r. Smith, frightened by a trolley
car, ran away and in front OF Fl. E.
loves the sleigh struck a stone post.
Two delivery clerks were thrown out,
but were not injured. The horse broke
away from the sleigh, but was soon
stopped. The damage caused was the
breaking of one of the runners to the
sleigh.
The gang Of snow shovelers with
teams removed a great amount of snow
from Grand avenue y esterday. AT
evening the surplus snow had been
cleared as far east as Ferry street.
The crew of a Montowese car blocked
near that place had to remain for two
udSS anu ilSulS Ill llie taI' lucy IT.
port that their friends in the vicinity
provided them with food and sent ban
kets for them to sleep in The crews of
two vestibule cars stalled at Branford
had to remain an equal length of time
and also report kind attentions from
| the Branford people.
| With a temperature of one degree be-
low zero the weather yesterday was
cold enough even for the ice man, The
weather warmed up little towards
noon and the day was not as uncom-
| Portable as Wednesday. But it was
pretty cold for all that. especially on
the shady side of the street and in the
wake of the west wind.
| The force of men sent out from the
car house in Fair Haven and Wednes-
| day accomplished considerable in the
way of digging out the blockaded car
| routes. The cars were running to East
| Haven during the day, and in the even
! ing the line was opened to Branford
green and the two big vestibule cars
were released and brought back to the
car house. The Branford cars were
running as usual yesterday and so were
! the Montowese cars. The company has
| had a pretty severe tussle with the
storm and it has cost it thousands Of
| dollars.
Charles Palmer has gone to Conga-
mond Lake to cut ice for the Consum-