The Newtown bee., 1880-12-08
Bethel.

The bTiuSO HI liVitS ol o' VI .N Co. 's hat factory has been repaired.
 Hating still hangs dre-except at those shops where the mapped hats are made. James Nicholson Is looking rather used up by a three weeks wrestle with malS- ria.
 c. ". Bolles finished and placed at the grave of E. Silliman Judd a fine head stone.
 Don't be bashrul. Send us your suh- scription for & year-only S1.50. ill ad- vance.
 Messrs. Geo. H. Cole, Herman Taylor and Edward Stone are up at Bantam Lake fishing.
 Mir. H. NJ. Burns has one of Jobs com- forters OH the back of his neck and would trade it of cheap.
 Mrs. Annis Smith of Elmwood, mother of Orrin and Henry Smith. is quito ill with consumption.
 Geo. ". Wheeler has the contract for paiiting the houses recently erected on Chestnut street by c. H. Hoyt, Esq.
 MT E. L. Pillow has somo fine sleighs for sal- He purchased them Inst week of Flynn & Doyle, of Bantam Falls.
 Miss Maggie LShch returned from Il pleasant vi-it 10 Eewtowu. She was the guest Of Daniel Keane. Esq, Sandy Hook.
 Miss Minnie Lawrence has returned to her nome in Brooklyn. During her stay she mads many friends, who regret her departure.
 Mir. George k. Starr. Jr., and wife, were coasting down Eoyt's hill. last Thursday evening, when Mr Starr accidentally ran into bad place ans cut his head.
 The Ladies' Aid Society, of the Metho- dist church, will L eet this (Wedneaday3 afternoon and evening, at the residence of Mrs. Jerome Morgan, in Elmwood.
 The new stone arched bridge ill Grassy
 Plain, neal MT. Hugh Reids, is about fiG-
 ished Russell White. of Danbury, had , me COliifACls 1k sOA1i EAS'C cA "o' HA
 The Ruightsof Pythias, Putnam Lodge.
 will furnish convey aHce for ladies reeid- ing in the borough, should New-Year's
 Eve prove stormy. The ball will he n
 iirst-class one, so don't forget 1t. l Alert Fire Co.'S social last Friiay evening was we'll attended, and Il social time enjoyed by all. Music WAS furnished : by Basnett and Ridge. Another social : will be given one week from next Friday
 Willie Fox and George Mansfield went to 2 Bridgeport to attend the marriage festiv- = , ities of Miss Hattie Scarritt, who was U united in marriage to Mr. Edward Cor
 gus. Miss Scarritt is step-sister of Will
 lie Johnson.
 Mrs. Watson Fox, Mir. and Mrs. Frede
 rick Cole visit Bantam Lake to-day, to re = main day or two at the Island Hotel where Mir. Watson Fox and Mr Olive . Sloan have been stopping during tn week, endeavoring to add to their laurel ', as fishermen.
 B. Frederick Gardner, formerly clerk il |, B. Sporks store in this town, was injure' n at the drug store of l.. E. Curtis, Bridge e port, about ten days ago. Mir. Gardne Is went into the basement to get lantern .e and as 1t WIS dark he lii Il match. whe x instantly an explosion followed, causin IS damage of about s. 900 to the store an | r1na ic t.roth h.ar- ;, e. law of Dr. O. R. Hart.
 Y Monday of last week MT. Watson Fo '. went to Bantam Lak. to nsh. and whe | he returned Thursday night hs had fin
 lot of perch ana pike-more than enoug '. for his own use, and the rest he sold an made a handsome sum for his three day
 trip. Mr. Fox was the guest of Landlor .A George Bradley of the Island Hotel, an
 says that MT. Bradley is whole-soule
 fellow. Mr. Bradley keeps salt and fires 'e water bait for those who desire to ifs ' there.
 as Last Wednesday night Willie Glover it Grassy Plain left home to attend a mea ,d ing of the Young Mems Social Club, NJ Id l. of Bethel. and when he returns sd he found the parlors were crowded Id and sweet music sinote his ear. On q e- tering the house he found Andrews o in chestro and about twenty couples of h II, T, young gentlemen and lady friend Ie Dancing. and general good social tim
 |was tho order for the evening. Supper