The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-01-09
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
FEATURES OF THE RELIGIOUS
 SERVICES YESTERDAY.

SERVICES YESTERDAY. Live Oak Council, R. A., to Have Big
 Time Next Thursday-TO Install Off, fcers-Mrs. Waiter B. Lake Burned | to Death-Miss Ethel Prince Given a
 Surprise Party--PersonaI Items.
 Live Oak council No. 1927. Royal Ar canum, is arranging for big time next Thursday evening at the annual install lation of officers. There is expected to 1 be a large attendance of the member 1 ship. The installation exercises will be ] conducted by J. S. Davenport, past grand regent, of Stamford. After the 1 installation there will be banquet and 1 speeches. @~%
 Mrs Walter E. Lake, formerly of Fair 1 Haven, met with painful death by 1 burning at her home in Bridgeport one day last week. Getting up at an early hour in the morning to get a drink of water, her outing flannel night dress caught fire fl cm kerosene lamp, and before'her relatives could reach her she was severely burned, and died in five hours. The deceased was sixty-two years old and leaves a husband and five ! daughters. Mrs. Lake was direct de- seendant of a Daughter of the Reyolu- i ton, her mother, who died about two l years ago, being one of the real Daugh- 1 ters of the Revolution. The pulpit of the Grand Avenue Bap- i tist church was supplied yesterday by 1 Rev. Nathan Hubbell, of this city, who 1 preached two excellent sermons. Mir. Hubbell, in introducing his morning sermon, said it might seem a little strange that a Baptist congregation was to listen to a Methodist preacher; but it was not the first time he had l preached to Baptist congregation. He said many of his best friends were Bap- lists, and in early life he came near be- ! ing a Baptist himself. Mr. Hubbell is a preacher of ability, good scholar, and has had the benefit of extensive l foreign travel. About a year ago he 1 purchased a summer home at Morris Cove and in a few days thereafter his l wife died and he decided to close active pastoral for a year, but expects to be 1 assigned to a church in the New York East conference in the spring. @ s Miss Ethel Prince, daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Frank W. Prince. was given a surprise at her home on Clinton ave- nue Friday evening. it being farewell, as she will start on Wednesday, for the l Philippine Islands to meet her fiance, James Louis Fisk, Yale 1901. Upon her arrival in Manila the couple will be married by an American clergyman. l Miss Prince received as a gift from her friends a handsome neck chain and 1 locket. Miss Prince has just resigned as teacher in the Woolsey school.
 Large quantities of ice swept down 1 Quinnipiac river yesterday, the thaw | having broken up the ice for quite a l distance. It was interesting to watch l the masses of ice sweep against the abutments of the bridges and break up ! in fragments.
 G. Albert Thompson, of Clinton ave- nue, the artist, is represented in the ex- hibition of the National Academy of | Design in New York with canvas en- titled "The Willows" a work that has been much commended,
 Mrs. James Nash and daughter Mar garet. of Montowese, have returned from visit with friends in New York and Philadelphia.
 Mrs. Charles Booth, mother of Mrs. | Henry I. Barnes, of Exchange street, while on visit with relatives at Atlan- l tic Highlands, accidentally fell in the | street and fractured her arm. Her ! many friends will be sorry to learn of her misfortune.
 Tomorrow evening there will be a joint installation of officers-eleet of General Lawton and Sylvan lodges, Star of Bethlehem, at Polar Star hall. Refreshments will be served by the la dies of General Lawton lodge.
 Hiram Camp division will be repre- scented at'the annual meeting of District Division No. 1, Sons of Temperance, held with Harmony division on sJanu- ary 26 t
 Elder A. H. Edgerly, of New Britain preached at the Church of the Second Advent yesterday.
 The vestry of Grace church will meet this evening.
 Fort Hale lodge will have q poverty social at Harmonic hall on the evening of January 25.
 Alice, daughter of Charles F. McNeil, is i'll with tonsilitis.
 J. J. Sullivan, of Lloyd street, has gone to Boston for a weeks stay. { Sand washed on to the railroad at Ferry street and Farren avenue Sat urday morning and several cars were delayed. 55.55e.&3s>,
 Beginning to-day the long Westville cars will be taken off Grand avenue
 and run to the Union station. In theil place the Shelton avenue cars will run to Fair Haven East. The management does this as it is unable to maintain the six-minute service owing to the de- lay caused by the heavy team travel or 1 Grand avenue. Probably this change will not be for a long time.
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