The Newtown bee., 1878-09-12
Bethel.

Mir. Eli W. Gilbert has been appointed Notary Public.
 Mir. Wm. McWatters has dahlia bush which stands seven feet high. MT. Wm. McNaw has had q new barn
 built CD. Gilbert Bros. did the work. The concert Sunday evening by the scholars of the Methodist church was a very fine one.
 The first and finest celery of the season we saw hanging on a hook at the store of H. M. Cole. Mir. E. M. Benedict raised it in his garden.
 A family from North Salem drove into town Friday for the purpose of attending the parade which they supposed would be postponed to that day. Mir. Orrin B. Smith has sold his hoxse and farm to MT. George Crane of New York State. MT. Smith will probably move into Bethel.
 In the yard of MT. D. T. Hubbell may be seen snow-balls, a flower which makes the-second blooming this year. This is something unusual.
 Mir. George Hannon, who has been out to the West, Topeka, Ks., some fourteen weeks returned last Monday looking re-
 markedly we'll.
 Rev. Arthur J. Benedict sailed from Glasgow Scotland, in the Anchorite sev- eral days ago and is daily expected to be in Bethel. A gentleman had "hard trials and great tribulations" with Danbury mud the day of the parade. He wore rubbers and he kept slipping around so that he had to pull them off. The next parade will find those rubbers corked.
 The hat finishers society met last Sat urday to elect delegates to the convention now in session in Orange, N. J. Messrs. Vim. H. Judson, Nathaniel Raymond and Charles o. Morgan were elected, and on Monday the gentlemen left town to fulfill / their duties.
 Wheeler Cables went down into Mir.
 Fred. Ferry's lot to help get a load of hay, and while on the load fell off and struck upon his head, which caused a dis location of one of his ancles. Wheeler heard the snap while his heels were ele- vated, and of course thought that his head was cracked but found on attempt ing to rise that he could hardly walk. Wheeler rejoices that the concussion did not knock off both feet.
 A call was made for citizens meeting last Monday night to take measures for the relief of the suffering fever-stricken | inhabitants of that section of the South where yellow fever is raging with una bated fury. The response to the call was very good, and after the meeting had made choice of MT. Geo. A. Hickok as chairman, Rev. Geo. F. Waters read an appeal for aid, from gentlemen who were acquainted with the state of affairs. Rev. A. P. Chapman spoke briefly, and was followed by Rev. E. c. Pattison, who made motion to appoint committee of five to receive subscriptions. Rev. | Mir. Waters suggested to add two more l with power to receive and solicit, which l was accepted and the following gentle | men chosen as committee Rev. Geo. F. | Waters, Rev. A. P. Chapman, Rev. E. c. | Pattison, Oscar H. Hubbard, Sam1 Kyle, | Hugh Reid and D. F. Taylor. A sub | scription was taken up from those pres | ent, which yielded $50. Mr. Geo. G. Du- rant headed the list with S25 MT. Fred | erick Judd was appointed treasurer of the | fund.
 The same evening subscription list | was started in the lodge room of the | Knights of Pythias. Wm. Green, Eugene Conklin and T. W. Fox were appointed committee to collect.
 A proposition to vote s100 from the hat fnishers fund is being discussed, but whether such disposition of the money caf be or will be made we are unable to say.
 We believe collection will be taken in bll the churches next Sunday for the Southern sufferers.
 An alarm of fire about eight o'clock Tuesday morning brought out both fire companies, but fortunately their services were not needed. The cause of the alarm was the igniting of can of oil in the
 finishing shop of Geo. A. Hickok & Son.
 lyman Smith poured the oil into singe-
 ng pot and it is supposed that the wick
 n it was on fire, at anyrate the can of bil blazed up and singed Mr. Smith and De dropped the can upon the floor, and
 or few moments it looked as if the
 hop would burn. The workmen in the
 oom fought the flames and subdued
 hem before any damage was done. Mr.
 1eo. H. Hickok got slightly burned about
 is clothing. The Grassy Plain fire com
 any got, as far as the railroad crossing,
 Then they heard that their services were
 ot needed. The Alerts were quick but
 he5 too were not needed. 4 fire cannot