The Newtown bee., 1888-08-17
TRUMBULL.

TRUMBULL.
 M. H. Mansfield, q foreman in the en- ploy of the Gould Bros. of Black Rock, assists c. A. Warrington in his work at $. c. Beach's. MT Mansfield has been with the same firm for many years and, no doubt, h the hands of two such eX- perts the job will soon be pushed to com pletion.
 George Weller has taken W. o. Beach's milk route.
 The many friends of Samuel Halsey will regret to learn of the death of his father, which occurred Wednesday, Sth.
 At the Republican caucus, last Friday evening, Ormel Hall and E. T. Nichols were elected delegates to the State con- vention.
 c. w. Beach is under the care of Dr Beardsley.
 F. W. Perry of Boston was in town for a short time, Monday.
 D. H. Ward has repaired the mill road.
 The Nameless club will give, as their last sociable of the season, q grand rally at the Congregational parsonage in hon. or of the new barn, on the afternoon and evening of Wednesday, August p. A musical and literary program will be giv- en on the lawn at , and repeated at 8 i n-a al la will I,a a gallery of fine arts, auction sale of pound packages, etc. The public are cor dially invited. If stormy, the first suit able day. The ladies of the sewing soci- ety have fine rag carpet just complet- ed, which will be for sale that day.
 Mrs Seymour Plumb and son visit in town.
 Miss Florence Merwin is guest of Mrs George Sturges of Weston.
 The Trumbull correspondent of the Standard and Farmer has an erroneous impression that the management of the Housatonic system is directly respon- sible for the Sunday picnic at Parlor Rock. On the contrary, Col Stevenson refused to run an excursion train on that day, although requested to do so by the .l Concordias. Nothing was sold on the grounds. While not defending the Con- cordias in their Sunday barbecue and beer, we do not think that the attempt to lay the whole blame on Col Stevenson's shoulders is just.
 One of the Housatonic Ice Cos horses becoming frightened, ran upon the rail road at Rockdale, Saturday morning anG 1. was struck and killed by the 6 o'elocI train.
 Ephraim DeF. Wooster of Huntington } visited his sister, Mrs T. A. Mallette, Fri day.
 9 E. $. Sterling's latest addition to hi group of buildings is a we'll appointed pig pen.
 Peter Winter is building new house 3 k. c. Mallette, Bridgeport correspond 0 ent of the Newtown BEE, is spending hi Summer on the home farm.-[ Standard [. Mrs Charlotte Bulkley is with friend l. in Scranton, Penn., for two weeks. :. Besides his fine stock of groceries an < kindred articles, s. J. Parks keeps hal ;. monicas for sale. His stock of goods . fresh and good and everyone knows tha :, the prices are as low as possible. Ca and see.
 Arthur E. Sherwood of New York cit will spend Friday, Saturday and Sunda
 with his brother in Daniels Farm an : would be pleased to see old friends an
 acquaintanees.
 Rev c. N. Nichols, recently of Cha ham, Mass, has accepted call to Jh !. Baptist church at Chesterfield, Conn.
 One would judge from the articles appea tain persons in Long Hill district felt terribl Y aggrieved on account of the way the Board l. school Visitors and Selectmen estimated Il z | cost of keeping the different schools in tow r, tor the coming year. The amounts for il if several districts were estimated in the usu; ' way, so far as the funds aside from that deril
 ed by town tax went. The amount to be o
 tained by town tax was estimated accordin ,- to the appropriation made by the town at i last annual meeting, which would give abol n $1O0 more than was used by the schools, la / year. Whether this amount will be su IT. tained at the next annual meeting remains
 be seen. The extra appropriation of $l00 ws
 intended to be used for school apparatu
 books of reference, etc, if needed. If Lon
 Hill feels so badly because they receive Onl
 their just appropriation according to the
 last enumeration of scholars, how must tl
 smaller districts feel, based on the san
 ratio, but with $l00 less money to handle.
 the Long Hill committee will take the troub , to look up the school law in the new revisio ,. of the statutes, he will find that the return
 as made to the several districts, are merel
 an estimate of the amounts necessary to I'll ,s the schools the coming year and are subje N to alterations when the final apportionmel
 of the money is made in October. It is not Il
 intention ofthe joint board to so apportio d the money that any district will have ju - cause to find fault. When the estimate WI l. made, it was thought best not to alter the SC retary's figures until we know how much 5,
 the towns money we had to divide.-GOne
 the Board.
 HALF WAY RIVER. T. Mrs Lewis Hawkins visits William 10 !, dan.