The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-24
FAIR HAVEN HAPPENINGS
"The New District SchooI"-The KennedyRyan Wedding
 Meeting of "CradIe RoII'-ChurCh Mems Club.
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day afternoon in the parlors of the church and Miss Griggs was in charge of the interesting exercises. There are 9S small children and babies on the roll, and r with their mothers were present yesterday. An address was made by Rev. E. c. Tullar on the re- sponsibility of mothers who have chill dren; there was a duet by Mrs. John s. Sanford and Miss Belle Slater and a solo by Miss Slater. The Sunday school teachers served refreshments. This was the first meeting and was very successful, proving interesting and entertaining for both the children and their mothers.
 At the meeting of the Quinnipiac Hose company Tuesday evening at the engine house report of the trip to Greenport by delegation from the company was made by the chairman of the committee, w A. Hadley. Quite a number were present, but it is said that about all the company who crossed the sound have severe colds and in consequence quite number were absent Tuesday night.
 After the meeting of Columbus cas- tie, Knights of the Golden Eagle, Tues day night, there was an interesting game of carpet bowls, in which team explained by Clifford Champlain downed the team explained by Charles Crook, in score of 9-1O Much of the time the teams were tied and the game was exciting.
 After the meeting of Live Oak coun- ell, Royal lArcanum, at their hail. 25 Grand avenue, this evening, the de- ferred game of carpet bowls will be played with a team from Pilgrims Harbor council of Meriden At the game played in Meriden the Fair Ha- ven team won, 13-9 The Live Oak team Is made up as follows: James J. Ear- ney, David R. Wilson, John P. Griffin, John W. Kessel skip, Charles W. Kel- sey After the game refreshments will be served by a committee on entertain nnent consisting of c. H, Bush, J. w. Kessel and F. G. Ronald.
 At the Grand Avenue Baptist church last evening, the Ladies' Aid society | served a supper which was largely at- tended and was very pleasant social ! occasion, After the supper there was an entertainment, which included an address bye Rev Dr. Oscar Haywood, pastor of the First Baptist church of Waterbury and several contralto solos l excellently rendered by Miss D. Ger trude Duell. Dr, Haywood's topic was "The Hat and It's Relation to Social Evolution Dr. Haywood said in part: If the necktie is the keystone in the ! temple of haberdashary the hat is the dome and 1t lends grace and symetery to the tailor's architectural creation. There is no other, article of attire tha, 1 is so sensitive to social changes, and the progress of modern civilization may l almost be traced in it's varying shapes and styles. It's brim widens with the growth of the democratic spirit, but 1 acts as the rights of the people are discorded or despied. It is the badge of loyalty fendalism, militarism, aris- | tocracy and a sign of real or pretended superiority, in learning and wisdom. The hat was not generally worn in Europe until during the reign of Charles the Twelfth of France who gave it the sanction of royalty by wear 1 ing one upon his entry of triumph into the city of Rouen. A firm of merchants of the city of Hartford have on exhl- | bition the first silk hat to be worn by | a private citizen in Europe, and when | he appeared upon the streets with 1t on ! his head it was necessary that the po- i lice protect him from mob violence.
 ''The beaver hat was first adopted as badge of royalty during the reign of Queen Elizabeth and it met stubborn resistance in the person of John Knox, 1 who wore a hat without crown made
 of rudely woven woolen cloth and by | his words and unbared head in the presence of royalty he seemed the ready armed man. John Fox one day in an interview with Charles the First stood with his hat on while the king
 was bareheaded. Put on your hat
 Charles" said Fox. Not so,' said the
 king, lit is usual for only one man tc
 be covered here," and thus a victory
 was scored for democracy"
 Dr. Haywood then proceeded to dis
 eNs the disposition of things, money
 books, insects, gunpowder and con.
 cluded on the race problem at the
 south, defended certain tenets of so.
 cialisfn and opposed war and capita
 punishment. It was a very interesting
 address novel in it's character, this
 having been the only lecture ever de livered in this country on the hat an(
 was listened to with much attention throughout This lecture is being de
 livered under the direction of tn, White Entertainment Bureau of Bos
 ton.
 On Monday evening a meeting of tn,
 men of Grace P. E. church was held 1T
 the parish house for the purpose O
 forming a mems club.
 The Rev George A. Alcott, who pre-
 sided briefly pointing out the object O
 the society that of gathering the men O the parish and the neighborhood to
 gether often during the winter for
 social time, when an entertainment
 of much merit will be provided. Af
 ter few remarks by others present the election of officers was held as fol