The Newtown bee., 1879-02-11
Bethel.

| with thirty-two dollars and fifty cents. The sum was raised by subscription. Mir. Charles Mansfield replied to MT. Oakley, in behalf of the Band, and thank him for the unexpected gift.
 Mir. Rufus l.. Couch and Ernest Os- borne had q surprise party to call upon them last Thursday evening at their res idence in Plumtrees.
 Mir. Abram Hoyt and wife went to Dan bury last Wednesday evening, and at the house of their son-in-law, MT. Theodore Losee, celebrated their golden wedding.
 Mir. George w. Taylor has had very brisk time in tho tobacco factory this Winter, but business is stacking up and he is reducing the number of his hands.
 Sliding down School-house hill last Fri day night in Plumtrces, was delightful sport not only to the young, but also 10 the older people. The ladies were very pa,ak l-- --l .,5sE.sH .p ArdII' was LIit scene of one of the happiest occasions that we ever witnessed. It was a genuine masqurado sociable given by tho Grassy Plaln Bremen, and was the last of the series. It Is utterly impossible to give In detail, all that was seen calculated to make 1t the very enjoyable evening that It was. The costumes of many were ridl- adous and amusing. Others were neat lselyShowy. A very few disguised them I coonisSsQ little that they were easily re- | acr,,tin,, but many others defied all mack tbarod when the time came to un- sIe was hv Sre lots of surprises. Mu- MT Jan,os fnngews X Bradley's band. were fin th, hond and MT. A. Decker tants ,rh f'.o u.' - a'N make good assis- and lIttv present aIl Ie of tGast % one hundred refreshments. The numbti ,in.,sant oo tonlshed the flremen who ha. no idee that thore would be so many. Mr Ira Squires had the management of thtionc. ing, and attended to 1t in Il business iIo manner.
 Mrs. c A. Stebbins Is visiting friends In Hattertown.
 Mir. and Mrs. Bennett Blackman, of Newtown, have been visiting friends here. l At the masqurade Friday night, Mr. | Watson Fox imagined that he knew d cer- tain lady in white and stepping up to have little fun, remarked in his sweet est tones: "Will the lady in white meet me by moonlight tonight alone." There was no response, but whom the tlme came to unmask, Wat found, to his horror that the lady was stranger, and then the old Fox was in something of hurry to crawl into his hole.
 The Flremen's fair commences the 17th and continues several evenings ill Fishers Hall. This will be about the grandest fair ever attempted by the people of Bethel, and we sincerely hope thatit will be successful and that there will be am- pie funds raised for the coming parade We see that the Press suggests that the grounds near the new reservoir would be q good place to celebrate the introduce tion of water into Bethel We think diff ferently. The grove of the Misses Sec ley's Is far more convenient, and If the day should be warm one people whould not care to go so far out.
 We have but recently got hold of a good one on friend who Is passionately fond of chicken legs. It occurred at the tin wedding of Mir. Alvord. A gentleman told u frleud that he was going to take chicken. 's Well. said the other, q Re- member me. I want n chicken leg" At the house chicken went around and the knowing ones watched Russ peal the skin off of cont clay pipo. and spin out with his teeth the snow white cotton. The gentleman glanced up and down the table but no ono laughed then, so he laid the fraudulent leg beside his plate. wiped his mouth and sighed to be alone for few moments, whore he could say d--n it.
 Mr. Charles Leppert has been to Bridge port to receive medical attention from Dr.JgD. s. Smith of IF State street.
 We learn that man named John Fen neil cut his arm with an ax severely. Dr. 4 Hart attended him.
 Beers Bros have just received a large cargo of corn and oats at thcir grain ele- vator.
 We are pained to record the dcath Of Mrs. Della Wheeler. wife of Mr. Wash ington Wheeler. she was sick only few days with pneumonia and died Thursday night, aged 8 years. She leaves htis- band and one daughter, beside many friends and relatives to mourn her loss The funeral took place Sunday.
 Mir. John Wood. who has been sick for some time, died at o'clock p.m., Friday and buried Sunday. MT. Wood formerly lived in Danbury. He was a hat finisher but was unable to work ut his trade He was a0ed H years and 4 months. < Tonight n benefit will be given to Mr. {, md Mrs. John Cunningham in Fishers HalL Mir. and Mrs. Cunningham will giva somo of thc cir best character sketches, and as they have repeatedly appeared up- on the stage all d arc good song md dancc actors. the entcrtninmciit promises to be a good one.
 Monday night, Fob. 3, the Citizen Band of Grassy Plain, cailed at tho residence Of