The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-06
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEVIS
POSTMASTER H0WARTH TO GIVE ATTENTION TO PETITION.


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 ing in the CatsI1ilis--Other Items.
 Miss Georgia stringham, of Battle Creek Mich, is visiting Miss Margaret Horan of East Pearl street.
 L. R. Hemingway, of Montowese, Icontemplates the erection of residence for himself and ten cottages in a choice section of Montowese next fall. It is stated that thhe plans have been drawn, but the contracts have not been given out.
 The last two of the shipment of open double truck cars for the Consolidated railway. have arrived and are in use on the road. Twenty double truck cars are expected within few days for winter use.
 Grand Warden Hill visited Fort Hale Lodge, N. E. o. F., on Friday evening. A plan was adopted which will have a tendency to increase the attendance at 
 tance' to every member of the lodge. A committee was appointed to arrange for the celebration of the three hun dredth meeting of the organization, Which will take place next month, and the affair will be on a par with events heretofore held by Fort Hale lodge. The fourth drawing was held, Miss Helen G. Casey being the lucky one. Miss Casey, by the drawing, will have her dues paid by the lodge for the next quarter, and this idea is one of the in ducements of the lodge to demonstrate that it is wide awake and pushing ahead continually.
 Grand avenue merchants between Franklin street and the Belle dock rail- road tracks Saturday sent a committee to Postmaster HoWarth, calling atten- tion to the exasperating condition of af- fairs in their morning delivery of mail. These merchants complain that their first morning mail does not reach them until in the neighborhood of eleven o'clock, which hour they point out seri- ously interferes with conducting their business on modern lines. Louis Roth child and E. M. Walsh constituted the committee hearing petition for bet ter mail service, which they left with the postmaster. Their complaints were recited in detail In the petition, which was signed by about forty business men. Postmaster Howarth assured the committee he would give the matter his immediate attention.
 Miss Edith Page, daughter of MT. and Mrs Franklin Page, of 49 Houston street, died yesterday morning after a short illness. She was twenty-one years of age and her many friends will be sorry to learn of her death. She leaves besides her parents two brothers, Harry and Frank, and one sister, Jes- sic. The funeral will be held Tuesday afternoon.
 Mrs. Frank Burnham and son Rus sell of SS East Pearl street, will join MT. and Mrs. E. A. Howarth to-day for a weeks stay at Pine Grove, Mantle, Conn.
 An old fashioned spelling bee will be held in w. c. T. U. hall, IT Grand ave- nue, this evening under the auspices of the senior Loyal Temperance Legion.
 Rev J. Lee Mitchell preached before a large congregation at the Grand ave- nue Congregational church yesterday morning. He took his text from Isaiah 59, and dweft on the contents of the whole chapter. His theme was the "Unspeakable Gift" After the service he renewed the acquaintance of many of his former parishioners.
 Mrs. Samuel HollGday of Philadel- phia, Pa. Is visiting Mir. and Mrs. Louis Hartman of S8 East Pearl street.
 Mark Hare of Lloyd street is sick with stomach troubles.
 Miss Ethel Kittell, who has been wis., iting her aunt on Pine street, returns to her home in Kinder Hook, N. Y, to- day. Miss Ruth Latta, of 79 Pine street will accompany her and remain away three weeks,
 Edwin Korber, of Exchange street, succeeded in catching a string of thir- teen bullheads on a recent fishing trip. He also caught a mud-turtle which weighed fifteen and one-half pounds. MT. Korber is to be congratulated upon his excellent luck as a fisherman.
 John H. Sullivan presided at the or gan in the Grand avenue Congrega- tional church yesterday, substituting for Charles P. Stormont who is away on his months vacation.
 Rev. John sheehan, who is assigned to St. Francis church, has taken up the work. He succeeds Father Derwin, who has been assigned to Waterbury.
 The old fish boat which has lain be- side the bridge just west of the Electric Light plant in Grand avenue, has col lapsed and is partly filled with water. This boat was formerly used as a fish market by Captain Ducross, which he abandoned about four years ago. No doubt the boat will now be removed.
 A two-masted schooner is unloading cargo of stone from Maine quarries on the east side for Tucker Bros.
 Miss Eva and Anthony De Matty are in Boston enjoying a ten days vaea- tion.
 Quinnipiac Conclave, No. 313, Im- proved Order of Hestasophs, meet this evening at 25 Grand avenue. Several applications will be presented and re- treatments served. Members will find plenty of fun if the weather Is warm. A party of friends known as the "seaweeds" held their weekly outing at the home of MT. and Mrs. A. o. Van Sickle in East Haven on Saturday af- ternoon. Just before the thunder show CT broke upon them tables were set and