The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-07
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~s-sYr7eg.N Interesting Meeting of the Chautauqua CircIe--Scrapers Resorted to on Carr
 raiIs-The Proposed Mill River Draw bridge-COrnelius Conway Elected Vice President of Peoples Bank--Pe- titiOn for Another Sub Postoffice-- Reception by Fair Haven W. c. T. U. .-AlI the Lodge and Social News. One of the most interesting meetings of the Chautauqua circle of the season was held Monday evening at the home of Miss Etta Avery on East Pearl street. Mrs. Jennie Robinson, the pres- ident, presided and Ernest Cooper was the secretary. The topic for the even- Iing's study was China" and questions were answered by each member re- garding the customs, geography, habits and the government in that land. This was followed by quotations from Long, ASliuW ny Luo lllGlHUGlS, NA4Oa plONeu very interesting. Miss Grace Bristol gave a reading. After the meeting | light refreshments were served. The next meeting of the circle will be held in two weeks at the home of Mrs. George R, Stevenson on Exchange street.
 It is expected that there will be 8 1a at at 6a Y1oAafinpr nf tho Woman's Foreign Mission society of the East Pearl Street M. D. church this evening. Mrs. J. P. B. Ricketts, the president, will preside. A nickel col lection will be taken for missions.
 Another missionary meeting for to- day is the annual of the Woman's Mis- sionary society of the Grand Avenue Baptist church, to be held at the home of Mrs. George Sturges, 190 Grand ave- nue, at 2:45 p. m.
 It is seldom that snow scrapers are used on the Consolidated road save aft CT a heavy snow; but Saturday night it was necessary to use them on several cars in the vicinity of Mt. Carmel and IMontoWese, where the sand had washed down upon the rails. The send in places packed down as hard as cement, and even the scrapers would not remove it in some cases.
 Charles Desmond and family have re- moved from POI Ferry street to S61 Quinnipiac avenue.
 Edward Perkins has moved from 1Si | Wolcott street to Lexington avenue near Grand.
 While the people in some parts of the city are complaining about the roilly ! water caused by the recent heavy rain, over in this section, where the Salton- stall water is mostly drank, it has not
 been much affected in this way, It is | explained that the watershed of Lake Whitney and of West river is largely red sandstone which is not the case at Lake Saltonstall
 Mention was made in yesterdays pa- pers that Henry G Rogers the Stand ard Oil magnate, had succeeded by his personal efforts in carrying the town of Fair Haven for no license In this case it was Fair Haven, Mass, just op- posite New Bedford There are quite number of Fair Havens in the United States, and there is occasionally quite mix-up in consequence.
 A petition signed by 200 boat owners in favor of the proposed Mill river drawbridge was heard by the chamber of commerce Monday night, as stated in this paper yesterday. The chamber decided to take no action in the mat ter deciding that it would be rather farther than the members would care 1 to go in the matter. There are two sides to this question, and it is soon to come up for the consideration of the
 people of Fair Haven, and excitement | is likely to run high.
 Cornelius H. Conway, the Grand ave- nue druggist, was elected vice-president
 of the Peoples bank at the meeting
 held Monday.
 The death of Mary, little daughter of
 Joseph and Mary Cohane, of 90 Woolsey
 street, occurred at her home Monday.
 Her age was thirteen months.
 A petition has been lodged with the
 postoffice department for a sub-station
 at the store of Richard B. Healy, Ferry street.
 | Harry Leigh Is expected home from Florida to-day.
 Adelphi lodge, F. and A. M, held It's
 regular meeting last night
 w. K Wright and family are to move
 from g Shelter street to Shelton avenue.
 The reception given by the Fair Ha-
 ven w. c. T. U. at its hall was very
 successful It was given in honor of
 the president, Mrs. Martha E. Mcbride, of Howe street. The hall was finely
 decorated in white crepe paper and
 bells, and the floor was covered with
 rugs loaned for the occasion. During the evening short musical programme
 was rendered by four pupils of J. Ed
 ward Sehnautz, the wen-known vocal instructor. The choir of the union as
 sisted in the singing, with Miss Hattie I Waters accomnaniSt The Drogran1 me