The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-16
FAIR HAVEN.

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 Much sickness is reported in this part of the city. due very largely to the grip conditions of the weather of late One undertaken, H. w Crawford, is preparing for six funerals which he has on hand. Not all these cases are traceable to the bad weather, but a number are.
 D. William Fowler one of the old and well known residents of Foxon. died at his farm house in that place yesterday. He was about 70 years of age. MT. Fowler was a son of the late Mir and Mrs Sullivan Fowler He was a bachelor and with two brothers who survive him, John H. and James B. Fowler, he has made his home on this farm for many years. This farm was known as one of the model farms of New Haven county Mir, Fowler also leaves another brother, Attorney Chas{ Holt Fowler, of this city. 4 sister was the late Mrs. Joel A. Sperry, of this city Arrangements for the funeral had not been made yesterday. Mrs. Harriet Downes died at her home, Al Forbes avenue, yesterday at the age of S2 years She was widow. Her funeral will be held at her late { home tomorrow at p. m. and inter ment will be in East Haven.
 Mrs. Louisa Schmidt died at the home of her daughter Mrs. Frederick Fischer, yesterday, in the 18th year of her age. She was widow and a na- tive of Germany She died at S57 Grand avenue and the funeral services will be attended on Monday at p, m. at the Memorial chapel in Fair Haven cemetery. Rev George A. Alcott will oficiate and six grandsons will act as 8 bearers.
 The funeral of Mrs Sophia A. Martin was attended yesterday afternoon at her late residence, 15S Lombard street, and interment was in Evergreen eeme. tery, Mrs. Martin wls the widow oT Richard Martin.
 The funeral of George W. Jacobs was conducted at his late home i'll Grafton street Saturday afternoon, Rev. Dr. Sheath officiating.
 At the Grand Avenue Congregational church yesterday the services were preparatory to the Chapman campaign which begins in this city January Q. Rev. pr Sheath in the morning preached on the subject The Kings Business and in the evening he preached on, "Neglect.' In the morn ing Dr. Sheath told about who Dr. Chapman is and of his methods of work in Philadelphia, where 1lUO peo. pie were brought into the churches, and spoke also of how he had reorgan- ized and built up into strong working church one of the New York parishes. < He then referred to the work in the Y Grand Avenue Congregational church where the Fair Haven churches are to unite in services each evening during the campaign. The services in this church are to be in charge of Dr. Os- {. trom, who is spoken of as q very sue cessful evangelist, There will also be singing evangelist to assist There \ are also to be two saloon evangelists, .g and Jim Berwick is in charge of the railroad mems work. Dr. Sheath stat ed that he had great deal of hope fulness from the coming evangelistical campaign. Dr. Sheath stated that Il was necessary to raise money to carry on the meetings in this church and the part of this church was % raise s250 Pledges were taken for liberal amount. In the other churches pledges were also taken to assist in this work in the Fair Haven field, At the Sunday school session yesterday noon, Mir I Jones of the Y. M q. A. gave a shor' talk to the boys. During the services yesterday some of the revival hymn: were sung One aged member of this church stated yesterday that she re- membered a revival of many years ago when thirty-seven sea captains were added to the membership of this church.
 At the East Pearl Street M. E. yes- terday morning the pastor, Rev E. C. ' Tullar, preached in exchange with Rev, J. A. Marsland, of Derby. The December meeting of the Mems club will be held in the Grand Avenue Congregational church this evening at o'clock. It was expected that Col N. c. osborn, editor of the Journal and Courier, would be the speaker, but late last evening he informed Dr % Sheath that he would be unable to be present owing to a severe cold. Ali the meeting this evening there will be music provided.
 Rev R. E. Brown, of Pilgrim church preached last evening at the Taylor church, which has just been reopenet for services after extensive repairs MT. Brown preached on "The Building < of the Walls of Jerusalem by Nehe. miah,'
 |1 The Connecticut board of railroad ! commissioners has just approved the < removal of the Cedar Hill station, ir order ttGt Humphrey street may be extended, but it is not known just when the work of removal win begin / There will be no haste in making tht :. renewal. because the building does moi Mt present interfere with the extension
 f Humphrey street. It is believed by Fair Haveners, who had planned tC make a protest against the discontin.
 lance of the present depot, that tho