The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-07
LATEST FAIR RAVEN NEWS
LARGE ATTENDANCE AT THE
 SCHOOLS YESTERDAY.

Strong Has 940 PupiIs-The Emily
 Mansfield Being 0verhauled-Pigeons
 Fail to Return---Accident on BIatch-
 lev Ayenue-PersonaI Notes-other
 Notes of Interest.
 There was large attendance yester- day morning upon the opening of the new school year in the Fair Haven schools. The total attendance in the Strong school building was 94O, the lar rest first day in the history of the school. There will be more scholars en- rolled, probably bringing the total up to 975. Two years ago the enrolment was 965. There were ninety-one pupils in the Kindergarten yesterday, the lar gest number Oh any previous first day Of the school year. Sherman I. Graves. principal of the Strong district, was kept busy yesterday in the many de- tails of the reopening of the schools. MT. Graves and family spent their va cation at MT. Graves former home in Maine.
 The steamer Emily Mansfield, one of the fleet of oyster steamers belonging to F. Mansfield & Sons, is being rebuilt and enlarged at Greenport, II. \, and will be ready for service in about six weeks. The carrying capacity will be increased from 1 100 to about 1,400 bush els of oysters. The cost of rebuilding will be about $2,000.
 A Swedish picnic was held Monday at John olsen's place, MontoWese, several hundred attending. EE>
 Several of the carrier pigeons releas- ed at New Brunswick. N. J., Monday did not return. It was expected they would be released Sunday, but there was delay in the transportation. and the extra confinement in cages is ascribed as the reason for some of the birds falling to find their way home. One of MT. Cooks birds returned with broken leg, believed to have been due to the rough handling of the cage. He believes he can save the bird, however. The one hundred miles were made in three hours and five minutes. Next Sunday the local birds will be flown from Philadelphia, a distance of ,150 miles.
 On upper Blatehley avenue, near the former crossing of the old Shore Line tracks, a horse attached to a peddler's { wagon was seized with blind staggers Monday morning. The horses reared and knocked down an Italian boy and the wagon wheels passed over his body, but, strange to say, he was not hurt. A horse belonging to q tea store dropped in the same spot two hours before and was earted away in a horse ambu- lance. a.2 ..5
 Mrs. G. A. Meiekle and granddaugh- ter, who have been visiting for four weeks with W N. Meickle and family, of 83 East Grand avenue, returned to their home in New Jersey yesterday.
 Thomas, son of William Goode, of 190 Poplar street, who was kicked by a horse a few days ago and believed to have been fatally injured, is now out of hanger and will soon be discharged from the New Haven hospital.
 Rev E. c. Tullar, pastor of the East Pearl Street M. E.. church, offered prayer at the opening of the annual meeting of the Connecticut Funeral Di- rectors' association in this city yester~ day. Mr. Tullar also delivered an ad- 87 dress OH #IIIG 0dCEeuHGSS OL tile nsu" neral Directors Calling"
 Ruel Andrews, of East Haven, who has been i'll with typhoid fever, is con- valescent.
 F. s. Dayton and family, of Orange, N. U, are guests of E, W. Alderman, of Quinnipiac avenue.
 Miss Katherine Fitzgerald and Miss Mary F. Hope have returned from Port Jervis, N J. *.
 MT and Mrs. George Hollein and niece, of Houston street, spent Sunday and Monday with relatives in Colches- ter. @ @ .'-