The Newtown bee., 1888-07-27

Mrs Jane Peck of Newtown is keeping house for William Beardsley in Jockey Hollow.
 Columbus Hawley has visited his moth- CT, Mrs James U. Hawley.
 Mrs Frye and bright little son of Bridgeport visit her father, l.. $. Patter- son. Miss Mary Banning, nurse in the New Haven hospital and Edward H. Patterson, now hating at New Milford, were there, Sunday.
 Mrs Harry Nichols of Bridgeport re- cently visited l.. O. Osborn in Pepper Street.
 Mir and Mrs Charles Botsford have been sick; also Mrs w. Terrill of Walk CTS Farm.
 c. s. Booth has sold the Prosper Hurd place in Elm street to M. J. Mallett, who will take immediate possession.
 Mrs Flora Sherwood, who has been quite ill, has nearly regained her health.
 Miss Minnie Edwards has visited her uncle, J. c. Johnson of Elm street.
 Miss Lottie Huntingdon of Hartford is visiting her cousin, Miss Lottie Boards ley of Elm street.
 George Nj. Robertson has helped out Henry D. Burr and Albert Wheeler at having and has finished his own.
 John Lake is poorly and has consulted Dr Lyons of Bridgeport.
 l.. B. Sterling is pushing his having with his own muscle and enjoys it. ing and have secured a good crop, in fine order.
 c. N. Curtis, who has been poorly, is better and working for Eli B. Seeley.
 Frederick Sherman and son are clear ing the rocks from his fields in fine shape. A good example; hope others may fol- low. There is room.
 John Beach of Jockey Hollow found a hornets nest which measured four feet eight inches by fl inches.
 H. E. Hurd has new Yankee horse rake.
 E.. A. Hurd began picking raspberries, Monday; he has an acre and half of Greggs. James Burr and James c. John son, who raise the Doolittle, an earlier berry, began picking, last week.
 Apples are scarce and there is little prospect that native fruit will go beg ging, this year, at $l barrel. The Strawberry crop, though short, brought good prices.
 w. B. Lanphear has II acres of ensi- lage corn, E. B. Seeley four acres of sow ed corn and c. M. Robertson and H. W. Edwards several acres of ensilage corn.
 Mrs H. D. Burr has been paying re- spect to the dead and setting good ex- ample by having F. W. Warren of Bridge port reset and clean the headstones ill her lot at the Center cemetery and put a headstone at her sisters grave.
 James c. Johnson has one of the finest gardens in town, where rich soil and careful culture combine to produce lux uriant growth.
 The mother of Dr Cole of Bridgeport, whose home is in Chicago, has been guest at E. A. Dailey's.
 Archie Fisher and c. H. Gordon of Bridgeport has been at E. P. Fishers.
 Miss Eva Noe visits New Haven friends, taking Edith Curtis with her.
 F. W. Hawley is at work repairing the Cutters Farm school house. An addit- ion of 6xl2 feet is to be made on the east end, new floor and seats put in and the whole to be put in in good shape.
 Homer F.. Clarke takes his milk to Huntington Center to Charles R. Quick, who has bought his milk route.
 Miss Nellie E. Quick killed wood chuck with "a pitchfork. A party of young people, including Nil and Mrs E. J. Buckingham, Misses Jes- sic and Kate Judson, Miss Cartwright Miss Minnie Paige, D. J. Shelton, Stiles Nichols and c. R. Quick, made merry al Milford Point, Saturday. Miss Jennie Clark has visited the oid home.
 Postmaster J. D. Beach has had to give up work on the Derby extension for [ time, owing to sickness.
 The school money, $19OO, will be di vided evenly among the seven districts
 John Bee, the grocer and liquor dealer of the Fourth ward, died, last Friday, Al years old.
 The central pier of the new bridge wal got into place, last week and consists O 300 pile timbers. on which rests GOO tom of stone.
 Peter F. West will build handsom, residence on Clinton avenue on the $500t lot bought of James F. Warn9r. Mir Andrew Nash will also build at the cor ner of Clinton and Elmwood in colonia style.
 | Father John O'Neil of Middletown vii succeed Father J. J. Smith as curate a St. Augustine's church.
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