The Newtown bee., 1880-10-13
Local and Otherwise.


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 Send us In all the news items that you may think proper to have published. Tho Bcard of Education met last Sat urday. Several teachers were examined. Mir. Edward N. Shepard. of New Haven, Is In town visiting Hon Geo. W. Bradley. DrEp.-In Brooklyn, l.. l.. October l2, 1880, Hon. Geo. D. Beers, of Ithaca, N. Y. THE BEE will remain neutral All re- ports to the contrary arc without founda- ton.
 Taxpayers should bear in mind that their tax lists must be sent in by Novem- ber ist.
 Mir. Chester Hnrd, who was in town visiting. retarT+,d last week to his home In the Vest
 Ecwtown street presented fiHe sight Tuesday wher the wind blew the leaves from the trees.
 When you write to your friends do not forget 10 mention the fact that THE BEE Is buzKing again.
 Subscribe for the BEE, and ask your out of town friends to do the same. Price S1.5o In advance.
 Mrs. Hoyt, wife of Rev. J. P. Hoyt is we are glad to learn, rapidly recovering her usual health.
 Mrs. IT. T. Proctor, of Cincinnati. ar rived last Saturday, and Is the guest of her father, Sheriff Sanford.
 Mir. Joseph Ncwtown. of New York, ar ri~ed this Wednesday for his annual hunt. He Is tho guest of Dicks Hotel.
 Mrs. Ettie Lum and son who have been visiting her father. Glover Hawley. Esq, has returned to her home in Kentucky. Mfr. Frank Kane, of Sandy Hook. com mencod work this week on the new depot in Hanover, for the N Y. and N. E. R. R. Mir. Henry Fairchild, of Taunton, has repaired his house thoroughly; in fact the external appearance Is that of q new houso.
 A new paper called the M'ddlesex Republic0n, edited by H. c. Newton at Essex, Conn.,, made is appearance Octo- bcr lst.
 MT. c. W. Northrop, son of Norman Northrop Esq, left town last week for the Fur West, ana will probably settle in Nebraska.
 Several new cider mills have been built recently in the vicinity of Newtown. One of them belongs to Mir. Wheeler Drew, of Taunton.
 Miss Jennie F. Morris returned to hor homo at Hartford last Friday, after spending several weeks visiting her rcla- tives and friends in town.
 Mir. G. F.. Dunning and wife, of Stepney, were the guests of Philo Nichols, Esq, last Sunday, and on Monday were the guests of Mir. Horace Northrop.
 Mrs. Walter B. Lake, and her daughter. Carrie, of Bridgeport, were the guests of Mrs. Cyrenus Northrop for the past two weeks, returning home last Tuesday.
 The Derby Transcript, always a welcome visitor to this office, appeared recently in q new dress and form, and is as hand some and readable as ever. Success to it. Our friends will confer favor on us by presenting their distant friends with q copy of THE BEE as n sample of your home paper, and request them to sub scribe.
 Mir. and Mrs. wm. H. Beers, and Mir. and Mrs. J. H. Beers, of Chicago. are in town. having been suddenly called here by the death of their mother, Mrs. Her man Beers.
 1t Is said that there is serious talk of building a walk between Ncwtown street and the depot. We sincerely hope that the talk will amount to something more than serious.
 Roy. Mir. Rider, of Stamford.' will oc- cupy the pulpit of Trinity church, on Sunday, the l7th inst. and each succeed ing Sunday until the Society secures a permanent rector.
 Conductor w. D. Watson, who for a number of years was in the employ oi the Housatonic railroad company, has resigned. Mir. Wm. Crofut is supplying his place for the present.
 We had the pleasure of meeing with Dr. Andrew Egan, assistant superintcnd ent of the Insane Asylum, Wards Islang N. Y.. who was home for several days visiting his father. Andrew Egan, Esq.
 Mfr. Samuel W. Banks, of South Peubla Colorado, Is in town visiting his brother and sister, Mir. and Mrs. Charles North rop. Mir. Banks desires to settle in town and will do so If he can find suitable place for sale.
 We trust that our friends will excuse ms this week for appearing so late, but the delay was unavoidable. We sinai aim to ba out promptly every Wednes day. Friends will bear this in mini an6 send in communications before Tuesday noon.
 Mir. Andrew McNurney has just finish ed building the piers for the water tanl In Hawleyvilie. for the use of the N. Y and N. E. railroad. MT. McNurney has the contract for plastering the new house to be occupied by Rev. Father McCarten This house is receiving its first coat o paint; Mir. John Fitzpatrick, of Nev Haven. has the contract for painting it.
 Mir. wm. H. Banks. who for the pas five years has been in the employ of Geo