The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-11-24
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Death of Mrs. PheBe A. WiIcOx--Inter-
esting Exercises at Strong School
Next NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. short of
Four Carriers Through Sickness
Services at the Churches.
This part of the city shared yester-
day in the excitement attending the
preceding day of the big Yale Harvard
football game. Hundreds from this
section will attend at Yale field this
afternoon and many others who want
to go have been disappointed in get
ting tickets. There have been few
bets on the outcome of the game, usual
ly in favor of Yale. Fair Haven has
the honor of having the Harvard team
in her territory, on Morris Cove terri
tory, the Pequot house being really
beyond the Fir Haven line. Quite a
number of autos with football parties
went through here yesterday afternoon
and evening, many of them from Bos-
ton, and others are expected to go
through this forenoon. The enthusiasm
about the college game has served to
enthuse the small football teams here
and many Fair Haven lads will play
the popular college game to-day.
Mrs. Phebe A Wilcox died yesterday
at the home of her daughter where she
has made her home for several years
Mrs. William Graves of PSI Grand ave-
nue. where the funeral will be held,
probably Sunday morning, although it
had not been definitely decided last
evening. Undertaken Crawford has
three funerals for tomorrow, two of
them for the afternoon. Mrs. Wilcox
was the widow of Aaron Wilcox and
was a native of this city. Her age was
70 years. The interment will be in the
family lot in Evergreen cemetery.
Principal sherman l. Graves of the
Strong school has lnaugurated very in
teresting exercises for room 49, on
Wednesday morning For this week,
the programme included two good dec
lamations by Leon Rose and Raymond
Foote; two piano solos by Miss Clara
Lehman, Strong O4, and talk lasting
about an hour, by Alfred Edmondson,
pupil at Strong school five years afo.
Young Edmondson has been sailor
since leaving school and has been
around the world. He left this country
in the United states collier which car
rled $500 tons Of coal to Manila, going
out via Suez canal He left the ship
at Manila and went on board mer-
chant vessel bound for San Francisco.
The ship then went to Alaska, thence
to Honolulu and back to the United
States, rounding Cape Horn and up the
Atlantic coast He is now first mate
of a coasting schooner It should be
stated that Edmondson's first sea duty
was two years service on United
States training ship He related hts ex-
periences in very graphic and inter-
esting manner.
/ Guiding Star lodge, No. Is, is arrang-
ing for very interesting penny social
to be held at w. G. T. u. hall, II
| Grand avenue, Tuesday afternoon and
evening. A feature Of the affair which
will doubtless prove quite amusing Is
the fortune telling department
Station A is short four of its regular
/ carriers, who are confined to their
homes either by illness or the effects of
accidents. Maurice j. Cain, who frac-
/ tured his knee several weeks ago, is
making a good recovery, but it will be
several weeks yet before he is able to
| be out Francis Carroll is i'll, as before
announced. Two carriers who are out
/ this week are James j. Halligan of
/ Grand avenue, whose place is taken by
| Substitute James r. Cox and William
/ NJ Hyde, ir., of Farren avenue, whose
/ work is being done by John It. Cohane
| Halligan, when about to alight from a
trolley car, caught one finger in the
controller and lost the finger nail DR.
| Sullivan is his physician. Hyde is con-
| fined to his home from the effects of
rheumatism,
1t will be a busy place at the trolley
car barn in Grand avenue this after
neon getting the 1870 extra cars started
for Union avenue, to take people to
Yale field There will be 26O extra troll
leymen to operate these cars.
IL. -
leased for two yeans the Hartford au-
ditorium for roller skating.
Services at the Grand avenue Con-
gregational church for Sunday include
public worship in the morning at 1890
when the pastor, DR.. Sheath, will
preach on National Reasons for Graf
itude to God" In the evening the Res
cue band from City Missions will have
charge of the services, it being the
worlds temperance Sunday.
lat the East Pearl street M. e. church
Sunday morning the presiding elder,
Rev. W. A. lRtchard, will preach, his
subject being The Salvation of the
City"
Men were engaged yesterday in plac-
ing a new trolley cable under Tomlin-
son bridge. The old cable had not given
the best service of late.
e. F. Mansfield has bought of W. r.
shaffer property in Wolcott street with
frontage of ITO feet.