The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-13
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 The last quartef4y meeting of the church year was f Nld Thursday even- ing at the East Pearl street M. E. church. The presiding elder, Rev. w. A. Richard, presided, and E. R. Slater was the secretary It was voted unani nously to extend call for another year to the pastor, Rev. E. c. Tullar A report was made by the treasurer William A. Eldriage, and by the chair man of the finance committee, concern ing the church finances. All the bills against the society had been paid ur to January 1, and there was balance in the treasury. Reports on education were made by E. R. Slater; the Sun day school, by F. J. Mansfield, and the ladies aid society by Mrs. Charles O. i Francis. There were reports of other church work which were quite satisfac- tory.
 Mrs, Isaac F. Mallory died at her home in Front street yesterday after noon He age was about seventy-tive years,
 At the Grand avenue Baptist church on Sunday the pastor, Rev. Charles G. Smith, will preach in the morning at 1o:S0 on Prayer" and in the evening at 7:SO his subject will be Good Call ing Yet"
 Konold & Co, are bringing in ice from their lake in Woodbridge to supply their trade, the supply at the ice houses having been practically exhausted. The ice is not thick enough on the lake to market, but by cutting strip of blocks the night before and pushing the cakes under the surface the blocks are frozen together and are of sufficient thickness the following day to market As soon as the ice is thick enough to house the dealers in this vicinity will rush the work of harvesting, as the time is get ting short in which to save a crop.
 The rooms in the Woolsey school building were fumigated yesterday un- der direction of the board of health. No new cases of diphtheria were re- ported yesterday and no cases have been reported in any other school in the district. It Is the intention now to reopen Woolsey school next Monday.
 F. L. Williams, janitor of Strong school, is i'll at his home on Grand ave- nue.
 At the installation of whitney con clave, Order of Heptasophs, Thursday evening, among the visitors were D. B. Cornell, Charles Warner. Joseph Ferry and R. E. Bradley of Quinnipiac con- clave, No. 31S.
 Nearly 100 couples were in attendance at the dance given by the Monarch Athletic club at Polar Star hall Thurs day evening.
 Miss M. Edith Groot of Fair Haven in writing from Atlanta, Ga, says she had quite an enjoyable voyage by steamer from New York to Charleston. The ship was in storm off Cape Hateras, and many of the passengers had to take to their staterooms, but she did not suffer seasickness. She topped over in Charleston several hours and on The trip up the harbor had a good view of Forts Sumter and Moul- trie, and to make 1t still more interest ing there were number of war ves- sels, monitors and torpedo boats, in the harbor. She was in Charleston on Christmas eve and she says 1t seemed strange to hear so many celebrating with fireworks and 1t seemed much like the Fourth of July. Miss Groot will re- main through the winter at Atlanta, and is anticipating an enjoyable stay. Registrar James J. Carr In his an- nual report of births, states that Dr. Edward K. Roberts of PA Grand ave- nue leads in the number of certificates turned in. He had 161 cases, Dr. J. J. Cohane of 24S Grand avenue and Dr. Charles H. Robbins of S26 Grand ave- nue, all neighbors, each had 7S cases The meetings in the week of prayer have been well attended this week at the East Pearl street church. There was an altar service Tuesday evening and several persons rose for prayer.
 About seventy people were present at the shredded wheat luncheon held in the parlors of the East Pearl street church Thursday afternoon.
 Only few sharpies are now em- ployed In the oyster business. Thirty years ago the river was dotted with these little flyers, and Johnny Powers, has been quoted as saying that his predecessor on Tomlinson bridge had counted as many as seventy sharpies, all hailing from Fair Haven. The oys- ter steamer and the small power boat have slowly but surely been supplant- ing the sailboat, which the latter is still supreme being on the natural beds in the sound.