The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-10-05
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
 ACROSS THE RIVER


 Mr' and Mrs. George StrattOn Home Alter Two MOnths' Tour-PrincipaI
 Graves of Strong School and Practi-
 cal Physics--AgitatiOn Over the Rise
 In Price of Milk--Many Local Hunters
 out--PersOnaI Notes.
 MT. and Mrs. George S.. stratton of ll5 Ferry street are home after a tour or two months in the west. After they attended the festivities of the national G' A. R. encampmen at Minneapolis, they visited at Sterling, IL, where Mrs straton has brother whom she had not seen in forty years. They stopped over three days in Chicago. At Minne- apolls MT. Straton also attended the na- tlonal camp of the Union Veterans un- lon' going as a delegate from the New Haven camp. He is also member of Admlral Foote post, GA. R, MT. otratton went out in the Civil war in the First Connecticut cavalry.
 samuel R, Bishop of New York, for merry of Fair Haven, will preside at ,1L ehe organ at Davenport church, next Sunday evening.
 The beard of warden and burgesses U r ar Haven East will hold d spe- el1l meeting Monday evening to trans- acI unfinished business.
 ir7.r Tfort TI11n JNI fT1 O' r., will observe children's night with a programme of special exercises and ielresnments will be served.
 Al Sl' Francis church tomorrow at 8 q, m. Bishop Tierney will administer confirmation to 300 children.
 Prlnclpal Graves of the Strong school pelIeVes In the teaching of practical physlcs whenever he has an opportuni- ". During the present term he has had pupils pick up waste paper from the brick pavement in Grand avenue near the school Yesterday the students gathered bushel basketful, and did not eonfine their search right in front of the Strong school house, but up and doWn the avenue beyond the confines of the school property. Principal Graves says that citizens can aid greatly by Keeping the street free from waste pa- per Tn the vicinity of their property, and in being careful as possible about having the avenue littred, He intends to keep the roadway in the vicinity of strong school entirely clear of waste paper and may extend the survillance to other school buildings in the district. MT. Graves says this also gives pupils instructions in general neatness.
 Mostof the people at Station A have completed their vacations. Letter Car riers Francis Carroll and William ] . Flynn returned yesterday and James l.. Mclaughlin went away yesterday. Clerk Charles J. Mallo is back from his vacation.
 Miss Clare Callahan of 16t Blatchley avenue, who has been visiting her sis ter Mrs. M. j. Cavanaugh of New York, has returned.
 Local consumers are not little con- cerned about the rise in the price of milk, which is seven cents per quart, with a possibility of it's going to eight cents. Not only is most of this district supplied in towns on the east and north, but a large quantity of milk goes through here for consumption in other city wards, The people are willing to pay seven cents for milk in fall and winter, but the further increase talked of to eight cents quart will not be received so complacently.
 Quite a number of local hunters have been out in the woods this week but they report the foliage too heavy for successful hunting. It will require q good heavy frost 10 remove the leaves before hunting sRN be prosecuted under | favorable conditions
 Miss Alice Brady of Orchard street. and James Shelby of 161 Clay street win be married at St, Marys church next 1 Wednesday,
 George c. Kirkham has returned from Montana to his home in East Haven. Mir and Mrs. John Mahoney, 24i Pop lar street, have a little son born this | week.
 R.C Russell, an old soldier Of the Civil war residing at 31S Front street, is now quite feeble, and is suffering much from rheumatism, although he is abl to get out on crutches. MT. Rus selland his wife are each seventy eight years of age, and they celebrated their golden wedding in 1901 MT. Russell is not only an old soldier, but was in the navy during the civil war, having sery- ed on the Minnesota, the Agawam and | the Roanoke He was also a member of Company F, Seventh Connecticut volunteers. He receives a pension of | s30 per month, having secured an in- 1 crease at the session of the last con gress through the efforts of Senator | Bulkeley.
 The two story frame house which Bert Leonard is building at ll EXchangt street, will be ready for occupancy in about two months. MT. Leonard and 1 family will occupy the house.
 Strong School Alumni association has elected officers as follows: Miss Maudt Kelley. president; Lewis Harrison, vice president; Miss Augusta White, secre- 1 tary and treasurer.
 l.. A. T. Blake tax. collector in the borough, is now receiving the annua taxes.