The Newtown bee., 1878-03-07

wide world. In any quarter of ths globe when you meet one who claims to come from Plumtrees you may know what portion of the earth he halls from. There is an individuality about it that belongs to no other place. Should one say, for instance, that he is from Bethel. ysu may properly ask which Bethel, for there are twenty six in this country. Or if a man says he halls from Washington you are in a mist for there are one hun dred and seventy Washingtons in this country and some in England, at the last count, and the name is still spreading, Of Jacksons there are one hundred and thirty, and new one every month. Plumtrees does not make itself 50 con- mon. Changes are taking place here as in all places, but never let the name of Plumtrces be changed. Let it stand alone in the world, distinguished in uame, as in characteristic features, from all other places on the globe.
 do not know why Plumtrees was SO called unless at some former time the Talley was distinguished for plum trees, which presume is the fact. The wri- ter remembers few eluslers of the com, mon plum trees which we used to call the brook plum, small, scrubby tree growing wild, which bore small red, dish colored fruit A few trees of the kind used 10 stand on the banks of the stream in the southwest corner of the lot now owned by Mir. Geo. Taylor. Quite cluster also stood in the field just east of the present resi- dence of Mrs. Geo. r. Starr, and few still finger lhere, just off from the old road called Aunt Nasmi's road" vi here the boys used to resort, on the sly, and, with one eye on the plums and the other on the lookout for Uncle Ascl," used 10 test the quality of the fruit.
 An itinerant stranger visited the place for the first time accompanied by his lit. lie boy, who, understanding things lit orally, and looking eagerly around with his inquiring eyes, asked, "Pa, where are the plum trees !" Any one can ask that question now. They have mostly passed away and left no successors, Like the good people of their day they are gone.
 Plumtrees is valley lying betwe cen Stony Hill on the north, why so called let any Stony Hitler teli, and Bethel on the south, whose name let us believe is no misnomer, and is fianked on the east by the hills of Taunton and Wildcat, which has gone back on its wild ami, mals and repudiated it's ancient christen- ing, (thereby setting dangerous exam pie for Wolfpits,) and on the west by Shelter Rock Hill which in the simple sunay days of boyhood used to tower up in Alpine majesty, but which have grown smaller in later years. From the top of this range looking east, is one of the charmingly picturesque views in which this section of Connecticut abounds, The green, prairie-like meadows in the foreground through which two silvery streams wind their course quietly along till they gently mingle into one, the un. ! dulating hills, and ribboE-like roads, and cosy cottages and orchards, and groves in ihe middle ground, backed up with Q hazy blue distance af beautiful hills make up picture which once seen is not soon. forgotten. From another pol3t on Walnut tree hill, in ''Dea Selhs lot, so called. looking south, is fHe Swiss like view embracing the whole valley with Bethel in the distance with its spires and white cottages looking like 6 Swiss village nestled in among the noun tains.
 A fine distant view of Plumtrees and its surrounding. is had from the Grassy Ridge road cast of Milwaukee on the way to Elmwood, as the Bethel reader has of. ten noticed. Let him take another look some fine day. Or better still let him go on Hoyt's Hin and take a look north. and let his eye sweep the semi-circis from left 10 right and tell us if his love of the beautiful is not stirred within
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