The Newtown bee., 1888-06-08

train is wholly or partially made up of New York, New Haven and Hartford rolling stock and the inevitable conclus- ion of the average passenger would be that it was train for the main line, not for the Naugatuck division. Why not suspend a sign conspicuously from each train, as ill New Haven, giving the des- tination of that particular train?-EDer- by Transcript A good idea.
 Editor May is making great preparat- ions for his Fourth of July Sun. It will appear on the morning of the Fourth and will be printed in red and blue on extra white paper. The pages will be striped with the national colors and will be full of Mays quaint sayings and illustrations. He has a number of good cuts and hopes to have an excellent original poem. There will be any quantity of programs, but none will be genuine, save his, though it is not official. He says that the others will have too much fact and not enough imagination. .. a.s
 Miss Nettie E. Judd of Kossuth street, East Bridgeport, has been sick with a cold.
 The Rambling Wheelmen went to Greens Farms instead of New Haven, Decoration day.
 George F. Hunt, formerly of the Shel- ton Advertiser, now with Crotty & Go. of New | ork, was in town, last week. association os St. Johns lodge, F. < A.. M., is in press. .s..-s q
 The family of H. c. Spalding of Laur- el avenue has suffered with Winter chol- era. Other families in that vicinity have had the same disease. The attacks are sudden and accompanied with violent cramps. ....
 The Eagle Stereopticon Co. is to give lecture on '.Picturesque America" in the NJ. E. church, Long Hill, Wednesday evening, 18th. X number from this city expect to attend.
 ''Business is rushing," said Vice Pres ident w. H. Stevenson to a reporter. "We're going to open Parlor Rock, this month and we've got lots of dates engag- ed. Parties are coming from the Naug- atuck valley and all over. We've spent pile of money at Parlor Rock and now the grounds are better than ever before. The Derby extension? We'll have trains running by the first of August. How do the people like the way trains are run up the road? Satisfied? That's good; we al- ways try to accommodate people. More trains are running now than few years ago and people appreciate it, don't they: Yes, 1 suppose good many people are moving a few miles into the country and committing. They will have the same facilities right through the year. And they can't find a prettier country than right here around Bridgeport. Talk about going to California to see wild and romantic scenery. I tell them that they ought to go from Bridgeport to New Ha- ven over the Housatonic and Derby roads. There's scenery for your'
 The F. Swords Lumber Co. receiv- ed S00,000 feet of lumber by one vessel, last week.
 The opening of the public library was postponed a week.
 Lawyer Joseph A. Joyce will start on a western trip in few days.
 Rev Lewis k. Streeter of the Fairfield Avenue NJ. E. church preached a stirring sermon, Sunday evening, on 's,rhe Liquor Traffic in Bridgeport" He sharply crit icised drug stores which were virtually saloons.
 Griffin to Cook, hair workers, will be represented in the July parade by float carrying the workers and their work.
 The refreshment pavilion at Long
 Beach is under the care of Charles H Hall.
 The Post intends to uniform it's news boys and place them in the July parade The Newtown BEE has many depart ments, but that devoted to personals o1 | Bridgeporters is interesting and attracts the attention of a rapidly increasing pat
 ronage in this city.-[Sun.
 The New York Evening World arrives | here at I 30 every evening and has : 1 large sale. Julian H. Sterling, tht Worlds versatile correspondent, is : member of the July committee and k I booming the celebration at great rate l The World contains q short article on tho
 details of the jubilee.
 The opening concert at Seaside park Saturday, was attended by between 200( and 5000 people and hundreds of stylisf equipages. The lawns were fresh anC
 green, the driveways smooth and hart and the Sound filled with sails. The mu l sic was excellent. Leader Streit's man
 ner and gestures resembled those ol Theodore Thomas.
 Fanny Crosby, the blind poetess, wht | spent Sunday at J B. Wilson's, pleasant ly addressed the Sunday school of ths
 Stratfeld Baptist church, Sunday after
 noon.
 A new sign was placed in front of th'
 Sterling pharmacy, Monday.