The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-12
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
YESTERDAY 4 GENUINE WIE-
 TER,S DAT.

Serious Accident of Mrs. McGregOr-'
 First Regular Meeting of the Brother
 hood League-churehes Being Trim
 med for christmas-Live Oak coun-.
 ell to Attend Reception to the su-
 preme Regent at Harmonic Hall.
 Yesterday was genuine winter day, marked by the lowest temperature or the season-5 above in the early morn ing. and rising to 20 degrees at noon. The bright sunshine redeemed some what the otherwise cheerless weather of the day. Attendance upon public worship was decreased in the morning by reason of the weather, but larger congregations gathered in the churches in the evening.
 News comes from Hartford of a seri- ous accident which has befallen Mrs John MeGregor, formel well-known' resident of Fair Haven. Mrs. McGreg5 or. in consequence of severe fall, re- ceiyed a bad fracture of an arm near the shoulder, and splintered one of the bones of the knee. She is not yet able to sit up. Her many friends here will be very sorry to learn of this accident.
 The first regular meeting of the Brotherhood league will be held in the parlors of the Grand Avenue Baptist church Wednesday evening. The topic for discussion win be Why Men Do Mat A4+a,d CthJIYs1h ,s5st 7N
 At several of the churches work is progressing in weaving evergreens for the Christmas decorations. At the Grand Avenue Baptist church a few wreaths and evergreen festoons have already been hung.
 The services at St. Andrews church yesterday included an address on The Chinese at Home delivered last even ing by Rev U. Q. Porter, of Yale Divin-l ity school.
 Philip King, of 2O4 Wolcott street, whose leg was crushed by a train on which he was fireman at Saybrook, is doing as well as could be expected at Grace hospital. It was necessary to amputate the injured leg.
 The members of Live Oak council Mo- 1927, Royal Arcanum, received invita- tions on Saturday to attend the recep- ! tion to be rendered Supreme Regent A. S. Robinson, of St Louis, at Harmonic hall next Thursday evening at o'clock l The invitations were sent out from the l office of the grand secretary, Carleton E. Hoadley, and Live Oak council is represented on the committee on invita- 1 tion. There will also be present at the reception Hon. Jere Halddeman, of St. Louis, and Hon. H. c. WigEin, of Rome, I N. Y. the supreme vice-regent, the vis- itors to make addresses. The addresses l will be accompanied by a musical pro- gramme. Live Oak council is likely to be largely represented at the reception. As its name implies, it is a live council and purposes to do good work for the l order this winter. In a few years it has grown to be a strong council in numbers and influential in the state council.
 Members of the choir of St. Francis church and the musical director, Pro- lessor William J. Rohan, who has been i in charge of the organization for so many years, took part in the concert given for the benefit of St. Mary's church, of Branford, at the Hyperion l theater last evening. Several hundred people from this portion of the city also attended
 The Farther Lights society connected with the Grand Avenue Baptist church will meet this evening for it's annual session at the home of Mrs. FEW. Stone, \ 190 Grand avenue.
 l The funeral of Thomas Palmer, for merly of North Branford, was held in l the Bare Plains chapel yesterday aft I ernoon. MT. Palmer died in sHaddam. 1 The deceased was the father of Charles I Palmer, of Quinnipiac avenue, and was about seventy-seven years old. Under taker Crawford, of this place, was in charge of the funeral arrangements. I A big auto, with three men, became ] disabled on Houston street yesterday noon. For an hour and a quarter an attempt was made to remedy the defect and finally the machine moved off un- der Its own power
 A schooner loaded with oysters from the vicinity of Cape Cod has arrived and is consigned to- Charles Thompson, sherman Chipman and Miles Futile. \ Very seldom is there an arrival here o1 4 oysters from the Massachusetts coast
 Thomas F. Hoeys of Ferry street, is l ill with typhoid fever. X s
 The Girls Aid society of the Grand Avenue Congregational church at its last meeting voted to take charge of the entertainments given every two
 weeks after the Wednesday supper ot I the Ladies Aid society. These enter tainments will be under the direction 1 of Miss Edith Greot and Mrs. I. w. 4 Sheath. As N