The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-12
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
BIG VOTE POLLED WITH ONLY
 ONE TICKET IN FIELD.

There Was Much scFatching-Those
 Elected to Omce-FuneraIs of Mrs. 1 Brown aud Mrs Thompson-CoIumbIa bIa
 CasGIe-The Drouth-steamer Inc
 spectors, Etc.
 The annual election of the borough of Fair Haven East occurred yesterday. Probably at no previous election in the borough, with but one ticket in the field, was so heavy a vote thrown as yesterday. Up to Il a. m. there was | talk of second ticket, and in conse- quence the early vote was very heavy. At 7:SO the vote boiled was 15O and the total was 23S. Friends of the citizens | ticket left no loop open for the success i of second ticket should it be launched
 late in the contest. Ira E. Fonda was
 moderator of the meeting, William Woodin was checker and Linus Bradley i and c. K. Wedmore had charge of the booths Many of the tickets were
 scratched once or twice and the most
 scratches on any one ballot was four,
 so the ticket elected received practical
 ly unanimous vote. The new board
 of officers for the ensuing year is as follows:
 Warden-George K. Clark.
 Burgesses-Arthur B. Brown, Charles
 E. Huntley, Walter D. Crockett, Ed
 ward H. Barren, Asa L. Chamberlain
 and Berne Russell.
 Clerk-Charles F. Bray.
 Treasurer-Orton A. Rose.
 Assessors-Charles W. Hemingway,
 Frederick H. Hemingway and Henry
 l.. Ellenberger.
 1 Collector-Lewis A. T. Blake. 1 Bailiff-Charles N. Mack.
 | The funeral of Mrs. Grace. M., wife. of
 Earl T. Brown, was held, yesterday af-
 pont street. The services were conduct
 ed by Rev; pr. Streeter, of the East
 Pearl Street M. E. church. Many beau | tiful floral offerings from relatives and
 friends testified to$the great esteem in
 which the deceased was held. The in-
 terment was in Evergreen. cemetery 1 Many relatives and friends assembled yesterday afternoon at the home of the | late Mrs, Ruth P. Thompson to pay 1 their last tribute of respect to her mem ory. Mrs. Thompson, who died on Sat-
 urday last, was one of the oldest resi-
 dents of her immediate neighborhood, and most of her busy life had been passed there. a She was the widow of
 Edward B. Thompson. The funeral
 was at the residence of Robert J.. Mo
 CIeve. Rev. D. U, Clark, of East Ha- ven, off1ciated. For the convenience of relatives and immediate friends they l were conveyed to the place of burial for l the deceased in the East Haven ceme- tery by special trolley car. This was
 one of the first instances where a troll l ley car has been used in this vicinity
 for funeral purposes, although on sev- l feral occasions this means of convey ance has been utilized in the city of | New Haven. |3..,%
 Z Mrs. Bessie A., Allyn. of 15S Fairmont
 avenue. who has been employed in the
 millinery department of the Gamble
 Desmond company, has been obliged sto
 give up her position owing to ill-health. 1 She has gone to the ,Branford shore for i this week, and, next week she will re- sume the millinery business at her l home. Ea ,&E '..~as.ff ..'',... 1 Columbia castle; K. G. E., meets to- night and will act upon the applications of fifteen candidates. A similar num- tber were acted upon favorably at the | last meeting. This castle is now enjoy | ing unusual prosperity and growth. a l The ladies of the Montowese Baptist church cleared for the treasury the sum
 of SITS at the annual May festival last | week. 7 jl &", < ff."-. sa. .. l The drouth is becoming serious problem to the farmers and gardeners of this section. B. S. Bradley, of the well-known firm of Bradley Brothers,
 and former extensive proprietor of | truck gardens, has watched the seasons | for series of years and is unusually well informed on this subject He pre-
 dicted the present drouth, passing his
 opinion on the fact that there had been
 two wet springs the past two years.
 He says the, hay crop is likely to prove
 a failure. On some fields the drouth came before the grass had a chance to 1 SL9rE anu lL IS pIdClICctllS hiliSd Loi lillS
 season. June grass is already matur- ing. A spinach field near here, which
 usually supplies 150 barrels of spinach for the Bradley Brothers, will this sea- son yield only two barrels. Andrew l Ire, of North Haven, has field which
 usually raises 800 barrels of spinach, and this season none will be raised. The outlook for vegetables is very poor and
 MT. Bradley says the early varieties
 will be high-priced. | United States Inspectors Wright and Dennis yesterday inspected the oyster steamer Isaac E. Brown. This boat ! was built by and named for the late ex-Seectman Isaac E. Brown and was sold on Saturday by his estate to Frank Miller, of Bridgeport. The inspectors yesterday also inspected the steamer Ruel Rowe, one of the largest steamers | in the oyster fleet. On Sunday they in- spected the steamer Allen Joy at
 Bridgeport. This ship, by the sale of
 the Bridgeport Steamboat company, is the property of the Consolidated road. The ship was inspected on Sunday, that being the only day the craft is not in | commission on the line. 
 Doolittle-Cuba must be lively place. I1At IL, 4,s~