The Newtown bee., 1879-07-23
LOCAL JOTTINGS.

Prof. Shepard of Sing Sing, N. Y, Is the guest of MT. Charles D. Bradley, of Zoar.
 The place to buy pure Candies and Fancy Crackers, Is at Sanford & Hawley's. Fresh every week.
 Mir. David o. Twitchell and family of New Haven, have been the guests of MT. A. Blackman, Jr.
 -Bertie Sherman, of Wallingford, is spending his vacation with his Sandy Hook friends. He Is always welcome.
 The first of the series of sermons by Rev. J. P. Hoyt, relating to his recent visit West. was very interesting.
 A fine. assortment of Archers, Bows and Arrows, Croquet, Childrens Wagons and Carts, at Sanford < Hawley's.
 The little folks are picking up good many pennies by picking blackberries and peddling them from door to door, MT. Oscar Beardsley. of Bridgeport, was made the happy father of bouncing boy. weighing ten pounds, last Saturday morning.
 MT. and Mrs N. w. Perkins and family. and Mrs. C. B. Peck, of New Ha- ven, are the guests of Mrs. Granville Glover
 FIFTY PER CENT. SAVED by using Hig- gins German Laundry Soap, because it is pure. Ask your grocer for it and give it trial.
 The potatoe crop bids fair to be u heavy one, and as prices go downward, we begin to have hopes of living once more.
 Now that the having season is over we hope the roads will receive a little attention. The heavy showers have wash ed them badly.
 Mrs. Eliza Todd and daughter, of Fair Haven are the guests ef Miss Mary Johnson, of Tinkerfield. MT. Frank Clark, of New Haven. spent Sunday with them. pr. w. c. Vile has ona of the most beautiful yards in Sandy Hook, and much credit Is due his young gardener, MT. Willie Clarke, for its neat and tasty ap- pearance.
 If you wish to see the greatest TOW you ever saw for a little money, just buy an old hen with a small brood of chick. ems, and let her get on your neighbor 5 side of the fence a few times. Cackalate you won't do all the growing.
 Mrs. Laura Fairchild has had sixteeI large fowls stolen in few monthS--nint In the first week of July. The thieves, | they found her barn locked, would tart of the boards. One of the fowls was found dead a quarter of a mile south il the road.
 Mir. A. A. Banks, wife and daughter of Chicago, H., arrived in town the frs of the week, and are the guests of Chas Northrop, Esq. MT. Banks and famil, called upon their friends In Reddinl Ridge, and will visit Greenfield before returning to Chicago.
 A coon which had played sad havoc with hens and chickens was caught b, Mir. Wm. A. Sherman in his barn las week. Mir. Sherman had lost over fort, hens and chickens. Mrs. I. H. Well. lost about sixty and MT. Stanton Mulle' lost large number.
 Sidney L. Clark, Esq, of Hartford, i, the guest of Mir. F. $. Bartram, at Hano yer. Mir. Clark was, for more than tel years, the secretary and business mana ger of the Weed Sewing Machine Co.,, bu Is now manager of R. G. Dun & Co., Commercial Agency. with headquarters at New Haven.
 Rev. J. P. Hoyt will meet the Clas in Cesar. and all desiring to pursue thei studies, Gin the month of August), at tn Academy. on Friday August 1st, at 9 a. m The lesson in Caesar will be the 10th sec tion. or so much of it as can be prepared Other lessons will be assigned Friday.
 The Bridgeport Mutual Life Insuranc Association now numbers 325 members making the amount of the benefit paid O. death over $G00. The addition of r more members will increase the benef to just Sl ,000, and make the frst-clas complete. Call at this office and get copy of the bylaws and blank applicatio for membership.
 A Connecticut Temperance Cam Meeting will be held. during this week In Fenwick Grove, at the mouth ot tn Connecticut River commencing July 22d Miss Mary F. Peck, of this town, Stat Superin' endent of the Juvenile Temple will be present and conduct the Juvenil services. Interesting speakers - Re, Otis J. Range, Rev. Alpheus Winter, an others-will q eliver addresses.
 Mir. Philo Clarke had great numbe of visitors to call and see the Nigf