The Newtown bee., 1880-12-08
Local and Otherwise

The boys had fine time coasting last week.
 No bones broken only "coffee pot smashed.
 Lamps have been placed at each end of the new depot.
 The merry jingle of the sleighbells was hoard last week.
 Slippery time last week, and great were the falls of many.
 The frame of the new .depat In the Glen was raised last week.
 The iec-h ouse at the milk factory. in Hawleyville. is being enlarged and r"- paired.
 Mir. and Mrs. E. F. Hawley went to New York, last Wednesday, and returned this week,
 ar. Simon Corey, teamster of the Rub Der Co.,, Is off duty, home sick with the suseasles.
 Mrs. Laura Wheeler of Monroe is spending few weeks a, Ter sisters, at Appledors.
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 Mir. Austin Wheeler. engineer on the shepaug road, resigned his position, and has entered the service of the N. '. 6 N. F.. Railroad Company.
 John NJ. Hawloy, Esq, of the firm of sammis {. .Hawley, Bridgeport. was mar- ried to Miss Estella Way, at Waterbury, Thursday afternoon.
 Oracle Camp, while coasting last Sat u.day. was pushed from her sled by playmate, which caused Oracle to receive severe bruises on her face.
 Mir. George Robinson. who worked for Mir K. A. Clark the past Summer. has gone to live with. MT. Glover Hawley, and will have charge of the farm.
 Mrs. Marcia Glover. of Hanover, re- turned. psSt week. from Monroe, where she has been for six weeks, on visit to her daughter. Mrs. Ezra E. Meeker.
 The Rubber Co. shipped off. durirg the past week, the large elevator order of tbelts, which they made and had stored n. the factory for the BrooklyL Elevator. Miss Eliza Curtis, of Zoar, aged 73 years, died suddenly of heart disease, last Thursday evening. The d~eessed lady was sister of Benjamin B. Curtis, Esq.
 Miss Mary F. Peck is sick at her resi- d.nee In New York City. with malaria She Is. however, improving, and will pur' sue her studies at the Academy of Dc sisn.
 SIeighins was good in and around this t4yn last Friday and Saturday, and those who could do so availed themselves o the opportunity to have H jolly sleigh ride. The rain appeared Sunday anc destJ oyed the sport until another fall o' snow.
 The timetable of the Shepnug rail .oac was changed last week. Iher" arc ohil two trains daily, from and to Litchiielo The first morning train for Litchfel' lsayes HawleySille about Il o'clock. W' shall endsavor to have d correct ume-ta blv in our next issue.
 Mr. Henry s. Hawley and wife removed from Hawleyville to Berkshire, and nov occupy the fine residence recently erected Dy Samuel Curtis. Esq. and presented S his daughter, Mrs. Hpwley. Mir. Haw!e will in future bc connected with Curtis Son in tho Button Factory.
 Tho Bridgepor Standard of Saturda says that there Ia some suspicion of 1ou play in the death ef the soung nun Frank Sears, who died so suddenly lsr Wednesday afternoon, at his mother residence, Walkers Farms, AOhrot Taers wisl be sn investigGtiop.
 Governor Redstone took n tumble a the depot, last "Wednesday, and In hi descent ripped up a stranger who Ina just got on of the train. The strahSe greeted tho Governor with "Hslloa! a he fell, and the Governor said, "Ha
 
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 Rev. Mir. Whittleeey conducted the se vices in Trinity church, last Sunda, The attendance was very small, and th collection wus postponed until nel Lord s-day, at which time collee,iu will be taken up for the purpose of pu chasing presents for the scholars of u Sunday y-school.
 Mir. J. H. Allen and Miss Lillian { Sanford. both of Woodbury, wero marie It Kent by Rev. J. II. Vorce, oi the Co gEegstioual church, Tuesday, Nov. 3ot We met Joe at Brookiield Junction th very day, and he could not keep straig face; so we gently giided to the fact wh' we saw his baggage and fair bride. Jo we forgive you. Go in peace.
 Mr. John Halli saa had the misfortu to fall from the roof of the Sandy Ho' depot, on the N. Y. X E. road, la Saturday, and break one of his legs, ne the ankle. M. Halllgan was taken Dr. wiles office, and his leg set. aft which he was taken home. This accide will seriously interfere with his work the depots which he has the contract f building.
 The schoolhouse in Taunton has be pat In order by the committee, Mess Botsford Fairchild, Eis c. Barnum a Andrew Nichols, who had the impro' ments committed to them. New o buildings and new fence have be built, Botsford Fairchild doing the vol