The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-10
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
BISHOP BREWSTER 1T GRACE
 CHURCH.

About Twenty Candidates Confirmed
 Last Evening-Rev. R. F. True of
 Lowell at Grand Avenue Baptist
 Large Membership of Fort Hale
 Lodge, N. F. O. P.-Other Items.
 Rt. Rev. Bishop Brewster was pres ent at Grace church last evening and preached the sermon. There was a large attendance as usual at the ser vices of confirmation and the visit by the bishop of the diocese. There was evening prayer, followed by the confir- nation of about twenty candidates by Bishop Brewster, who also preached an excellent sermon. The vested choir sang appropriate hymns and anthems.
 At the Grand avenue Baptist church yesterday the pulpit was supplied by Rev. R. F. True of Lowell, Mass, who preached two excellent sermons. Mir. True also administered the commun- ion, which had been postponed last 1 Sunday. The Brotherhood league of this church will meet on Tuesday even ing in the chapel. On. Wednesday at 6 o'clock the ladies' aid society will serve on Eastetr supper in the chapel. These suppers, which are annual affairs, are always much enjoyed as very pleasant social occasions.
 The regular meeting of Live Oak council will be held Thursday evening. The committee on entertainments is ar ranging a fine programme for this 1 meeting.
 N. D. Webber of Springfield preached at the church Of the Second Advent morning and evening yesterday. 4 .
 Fair Haven lodge, Degree of Honor, will meet this evening at A. O. U. w. hall, and after the meeting an Easter sale of fancy articles will take place. The special Lenten services at St, James church on Friday next will in- clude a sermon by Rev. W. P. Downes of this city. -.As+. ..- .-., John H. Scranton of F Woolsey street is critically i'll and little hopes are entertained for his recovery. He ! NetS lcthSlI Mllll UIOllGHlIlS duUuI IOuT weeks ago, and pneumonia set in later. Pleurisy has now developed and the complications are too severe, it is fear ed, for him, to withstand. MT. Scranton l is employed at Winchesters. As the pastor, Rev. F. c. Tullar, is attending conference at Waterbury, the pulpit of the East Pearl street M. F. i church was supplied yesterday. It, is expected MT. Tullar will be home and of1ciate in his church next Sunday. His parishioners are hoping that the | conference will return him to his pres ent charge for the coming year. On l Wednesday evening MT. Tullar will give his postponed lecture entitled "In and About Jerusalem"
 The Fair Haven schools will reopen l to-day after the spring vacation. The many local students attending at the 1 high school also resume their studies l to-day.
 I Plans are made by Paul Trapp of Lombard street for the erection of a three-story brick building at the cor ner of Ferry and Exchange streets. It will be arranged for stores and tene- l ments. ...-. Another of the Sunday evening union evangelical services was held at Pill grim church last evening The service next Sunday will be held at the Grand
 avenue Congregational church. s Miss Grace Hurltley of Pierpont
 street has returned after a stay of sev- I eral weeks in Newark, N. J..
 Papers were signed Saturday trans l ferring the property known as 256
 B1atchley avenue to William Hartley.
 The property was formerly owned by
 Miss Mary Maleney. The lot is 50x100
 feet in size and. contains a two-family l frame house. The price paid was about
 $4,0O0. 75:l.
 l There will be g months mind requiem
 mass at St, Francis church this morn
 ing at 8 o'clock fer the repose of the i soul of the late Dr. James A. Moore. The membership of Fort Hale lodge,
 No. 225, N. E. O.. F., is 572, a gain in
 membership of nine during the past year. There are only two lodges of the
 order in this city with a larger mem-
 bership--Mozart and Elm Tree lodges. l Beacon lodge, which was started in l Fair Haven several years ago, while I not having so large a membership as l Fort Haven, has 339 members and is
 now fourth in membership. The lodge
 now meets over in the center of the city. SaltonstalI lodge. No. 25S, of East
 Haven, has a membership of S7, a gain I of 23. Most of the Fair Haven mem bers belong either to Beacon of Fort
 Hale, both excellent lodges, which are 1 doing a most excellent work. The order
 in this city has thirteen lodges with A. l 102 members.
 l The Little Workers of the Grand ave-
 nue Congregational church will give an
 entertainment at Polar Star hall We'd
 nesday evening, April 19. There will l be illustrated recitations with stereop- ticon views to include portrayals of
 Scottish, German, Swedish, and other characters. There will be vocal solos
 and some pretty fancy dances. There
 are about twenty children in this socie- | ty.