The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-07-26
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEVIS
OLD BLATCHLEY HOMESTEAD
 SOLD TO T J CANNON.

Suprise Party for Miss Loretta McAn-
 drews-NationaI Wire Corporations
 works Going Night and Daytime
 sarcophagus Monuments for Ceme-
 tery--AH the Personal Items of the
 Day.
 J. J. Cannon has purchased of s. R. Blatchley the well-known Blatchley homestead at Blachley, corner of Grand avenue, and also the lot at the Grand avenue side. This house is the original Blatchley house, and was built many years ago. It is a two-story structure of brick, and is now occupied by Mir. Cannon, who had a lunch car on the Grand avenue front for the last two years When the Blatchley house was built there was hardly house on that avenue south of Grand. The elder Blatchley owned many acres of land in Fair Haven, most of which is now built on.
 c. NJ. Miller has sold to T. F. Cro- nan property fronting fifty feet on Exchange street.
 A number of friends of Miss Loret- ta McAndrews paid a surprise visit to her home Tuesday evening, it being her seventeenth anniversary. With games and music, the evening was passed very pleasantly.
 In excavating the sight of the old conscript camp on Chapel street, near the Bigelow shops, recently several lcanteens, such as were used by Union soldiers during the Civil war, were dug l up. Several regiments of conscripts were quartered there awaiting to be sent to the front, during the war of the rebellion. Several buildings were erected for quarters, one or two of which are still standing and used for dwellings.
 There was large attendance yester- day at St. Francis church at the fun- eral of the late Mrs. Rose A., wife of Thomas F. Kendall of Ferry street. Last Sunday Mir and Mrs. Kendall buried an infant, and the mother sur- vived only a few hours later.
 Miss Mary Connolly has gone to New York and before her return will visit 1 Canada.
 MT. and Mrs, William De Mond of IBlatchley avenue are visiting relatives in Trenton.
 MT. and Mrs. Philip Brady of East Pearl street have removed to their for mer home in New York
 Mrs. John Morse and Miss Edith Morse of Ferry street are at Wood mont.
 1 Many of the ministers of the associ- ation recently formed for physical culture had an outing at the cottage Iof the Y. M. c. A. at Morris Cove Tuesday, and enjoyed a number of lout-door sports. The company included IRev. pr. Sheath and Rev. E. c. Tul- liar of Fair Haven,
 The wire departments of the Nation lal Wire corporation are now working full time night and day.
 | Mrs. Homer Potvin and children ot IGrand avenue have returned from Providence.
 Two fine sarcophagus manuments have just been set in Avenue B and
 Avenue D, Fair Haven cemetery. Botf are of Barre granite, finely polished and are about six feet in height. One
 lis for the lot of H. w. Crawford, ant
 the other on the lot of the late Lueiu'
 s. Ludington. Another monument O Iabout the same proportions as tht
 aboe-named, which will soon arrive, il
 for the Ellenberger lot, also in Ave
 nue D. These monuments will adt
 considerably to the fine appearance O
 that portion of the cemetery.
 Yesterday was the last day of thu
 Chautauqua assembly at the Plainvill
 camp grounds, where a number o Fair Haven people are stopping. To
 day is Grand Army day, and severa Fair Haven veterans are purposing t
 attend the special exercises. To-mor row is the beginning of the annua Methodist camp meeting. At thes
 grounds is the cottage of the Eas Pearl Street church, with accommoda tions for housing thirty people. A
 times this cottage is filled with tn : people from this church, When an, } rooms are not in use they may be le
 by the management to other attend
 ants at the camp meeting.
 Alfred Jones of 79 Exchange street
 assistant roller at the mill of the Ma
 tional Wire corporation, who has bee i'll for some eight weeks has gone t
 the New Haven hospital His friend are hopeful that he will rapidly i'm , prove in health He Is suffering fror a general breakdown in health. Live Oak council will meet this even a ing at the Arcanum headquarters, Grand avenue It is expected that tn membership committee will have re port ready, The committee are t , make plans for increasing the mem bership of the council, and putting
 back numerically to its status befor l the change in assessment went into e1 feet. Members are sure the order is , better condition as a safe investmer : for insurance than ever before, and ar , not afraid to recommend it to the ia
 vorable consideration of their friends
 Thirteen acres of land along Littl lriver, an estuary of the Quinnipiat property of John J Shea, has just bee
 acquired by the New Haven railroat and will be added to its holdings alon the meadows, Some day there will | ! some important railroad improvement