The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-29
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
zTEMS OF INTEREST FROM
 ACROSS THE RIVER.

Ous Churches--Christmas Festivities
 at Grace r. E. Church--AH the Lodge,
 Social and Personal Notes. Just now many Fair Haven dogs are
 being taken off the streets and sent to & pr. Kelley's hospital, where they meet
 a painless death, if the owners do not come to their rescue. On Wednesday Officer DeIoughey captured bulldog B on Poplar street, and, seeing another one unmuzzled and uncollared, he gave R chase, but the canine was too fleet of E foot and escaped, Dwight Tyrrill, son . of D. s. Tyrrill of Woolsey street, had
 8 frightening experience with a dog on T Thursday evening as he was proceed
 ing down Blatchley avenue. The dog gave chase, and, believing that the ami
 mal was made, young Tyrrill proceeded
 to climb a tree double quick. The dog 4 remained around awhile, but, not being
 ale to climb, he gave up the pursuit. A Afterwards a policeman arrived and he
 shot the dog. It was thought the dog 8 might have been mad. Fair Haven
 had the prospect of escaping some of
 the encounters with mad dogs for a
 time, but it now seems as if this dis
 trict was getting it's full share in this
 line.
 Dr. Sheath will preach tomorrow
 morning in the Grand Avenue Congre-
 gational church upon the theme "A \ Spiritual Frontage" and in the even
 ing upon the subject "One More Day"
 At Grace P. E. church to-morroW
 morning there will be morning prayer
 and sermon by the rector, Rev. George ' A. Alcott, at 1O:3O, and at the evening
 service at 7:30 the vested choir will ren- ' der the cantata ''The Adoraton." & Rev. Charles G. Smith, pastor of the Grand Avenue Baptist church, will
 preach tomorrow morning at 1O:30 on ; the topic "The Abiding Christi" and at the evening service at 7:30 the subject
 of his sermon will be "The Unchanging
 Christ"
 Last evening Rev Charles G. Smith
 went to South Norwalk to attend ban- quet of the Decker club and gave an 8 address.
 At the East Pearl Street M. F. church
 tomorrow morning the vested choir 1 will render the anthem Festival Te
 Deum," by Dudley Buck. The process Il sional will be Brightest and Best,"
 and the recessional "How Beauteous
 the Marks, Divine" At the evening & service the music includes T'The Day is
 Gently Sinking to a Close" ! The Christmas music which was so N wei rendered by the double quartette
 at the Grand Avenue Baptist church x last Sunday under the direction of the \ leader, Mrs. Ellie Johnson Barnes, will
 be repeated tomorrow
 Il Mr. and Mrs. A. s. Pearsall, who have
 been visiting Dr. c. L. Kilbourn and T family, of Blatchley avenue, over the I Christmas holiday, have returned to k Torrington.
 \ l.. P. Converse, of Ferry street, has T been very i'll with grip, but is now \ much better.
 The Woodbridge Ice company had 190 men at work cutting nine-inch ice in N Westville yesterday-the first 1t has harvested
 T. H. Linnahan, of Ferry street, had 2 a narrow escape when driving onto the East Chapel street bridge on Thursday. The horse got onto the draw just as it M swung open to let barge go out, but Il the carriage, or most of 1t, was left be- hind and spectators expected to see the outfit and the driver dragged into the 4 river. The carriage was considerably
 broken.
 At Polar Star hall Thursday evening
 was held the first of a series of weekly
 dances given by Poole's orchestra, and
 about fifty couples attended. There
 were eighteen dances and the affair x was much enjoyed. It is expected to
 have several masquerades in this series N of dances.
 The regular meeting of Columbia
 temple No. 2, Ladies of the Golden
 Eagle, was held last evening.
 The Christmas festivities of the Sun
 day school of Grace P. F. church are
 always a, great success, and this year Twas no exception to the rule. The fes- tivities were under the direction of Thomas Rogerson, the superintendent
 of many years, and the audience filled the church. There was an interesting programme of carols Christmas hymns, recitations etc, and then the recess sional, when the audience filed into the parish house, where there was more of the bright cheer of Christmas time. The distribution of gifts was an event of no little interest for the children, and some of the older people were not forgotten. Each pupil received a gift, and so did the younger members of the vested choir of the church, besides an exchange of gifts between teachers and pupils. The rector, Rev. George A. All colt, received purse of money from lhis class and Mrs. Alcott received fine
 gift The infant department, under the
 direction of the teachers, Miss May Al
 colt and Miss May Nettleton, had in-
 teresting exercises.
 Live Oak council, Royal Arcanum, at
 its regular meeting Thursday evening,
 received one application for member
 ship. After the meeting there was an
 interesting season devoted to carpet
 bowling. One team was composed of visitors from Davenport and Hillhouse councils, and they won one game from a mixed team of Live Oak and then lost one game. At the next meeting of the council the Live Oak members will have two good teams to contest with each other. The members are evincing great interest in these games, which promise to prove an important line of