The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-21
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
SIGMA THETA PHI DANCE
 PROVES SOCIAL SUCCESS.

PROVES SOCIAL SUCCESS. Epworth League so Hold Important Business Mesting-Addision so Holt day Compeny's Plant Well Under Way.
 MT. and Mrs. A. B. Bradley of Provl- dence, R. l., formerly of this city, are the guests os MT. and Mrs. E. M. See- ley of 147 Blatchley avenue.
 The Sigma Theta Phi society gave an informal dance in Lenox hall on Tues day evening, which was attended by about thirty couples, many of whom re- side in Fair Haven. Music was fur nished by Lilley's orchestra and gen eral good time enjoyed. Some of those present were the Misses Crossley Watson, Manville, Johnston, Gates, Pesk, Cooke. McC1eave. and Messrs. Wing, Beardsley, Allen. Jones, Brad ley, Averill, Smith. Floyd, Keenan, Wicks, Dayton, Davis, Baldwin, Niles, Conway, Saunders, North, Cook.
 The ladies of the Rectors' Aid society of Grace P. E. church will serve SUD- per in the parish house this evening at 6:3O o'clock.
 The regular meeting of the Ladies Aid society of the East Pearl street M. E. church will be held this afternoon at the usual hour. Supper will be served at 6 o'clock in the church parlors
 Frank Wicks, formerly of Fair Ha- ven, now of New Milford, is spending a few days with his father, John Wicks of South Front street.
 The regular business meeting of the Epworth league of the East Pearl street church will be held this evening in the church parlors at s o'clock. An entertainment will be given by the lit erary and social committee. At this meeting the reports of the retiring of ffcers will be read and large gather ing is looked for A social time will be in order after the entertainment.
 The foundations for an addition to the A. E. Holiday Manufacturing company of Oxford street are completed and the superstructure will be rushel with all possible haste, Owing to rush of work the company wishes it's addition com pleted at once and expect to add a force of fifty men to the present list of em- ployes. The addition is smell one but will also extend another story over the entire plant, which will give much needed room.
 Miss Fannie Blakeslee of Quinnipiac avenue has been spending several days with her brother, Edward Long of South Norwalk
 DEATH OF MRS. SAMUEL E.
 GRAVES.
 Mrs. Betsey Ann Wright, widow of the late Samuel c. Graves, died at her home in Fair Haven yesterday in the eighty-fourth year of her age She leaves one son, William Graves, who conducts the Schoenberger market in Fair Haven, and one daughter, Mrs. Weld, mother of Frederick $. Weld, the we'll known singer at St. Paul's church from whose home, No. 25 Wooster Place, the funeral services will be held to-nor- row afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The de- ceased was a member of the East Pearl street M. E. church and was much es- teemed by all.
 Alexander Mcdonald, a carpenter re- siding at 53 Saltonstall avenue, was painfully injured by car at one o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Mcdonald, who is about fifty-eight years old, was cross ing the street at the corner of West Water and Portsea streets, and just as a car approached the corner he slipped ,X.S7 fat5 fn;noy ctr,,nIx hv tha onr anG carried on the fender for several feet ln the ambulance the man, who was bleeding freely from wounds about tht head and hands, was taken to the hos pital, where he is now under treatmen If no internal injuries are sustained his recovery is looked for.
 The !. J. Dayton Hook and Ladder company held it's annual meeting al Fireman's Hall, Forbes avenue Monday evening and elected the following off cers: o. s. Ryan, foreman; George " Boyer. first assistant; James Griffin second assistant; Walter J. Pearce, sec retary; Edward Lovesey, treasurer; Jesse Jarvis, steward After the annu- al reports Of the officers of dast year had been read and the business 'of the meeting transacted the Hreineh paftoot of a tasty buffet luncheon.
 John Fillmore. of Quinnipiac avenue who has been confined to his home fo nearly month by illness, is convales, cling.
 Fred s. Moody. of Poplar street, wht has been i'll with pneumonia, is able tt be about.
 Abolt eighty members of the Inn proved Order of Heptosophs, witnessed the installation of the officers of Quin- nipiac conclave on Monday evening District Deputy Supreme Archen P. F Davis, of Bridgeport, assisted by Ell more S Wade as supreme inspector iH stalled, and Walter R. Downs present ed to Sitting Past Archon William 4