The Newtown bee., 1888-06-01
BRIDGEPORT.

lle beacHGES OI TdlIIlGlu COullUy WILL hold their 12th annual at the High School building, beginning to-day (lst) at a m and continuing till Saturdaynoon. J. J. Jennings win handle the legal rights of parents, pupils and teachers at 10 a m,
 Principal Mary l.. F. Shattuck of the
 Bridgeport training school will discuss school work, Miss Augusta l.. Brewer of
 New Y York will deal with district schools,
 Mrs N. R. Baldwin of Philadelphia will discuss object lessons, Rev Edward An dersOn will draw lessons from the war,
 Friday and E. C. Metcalf of Boston will
 handle language in the different grades,
 Saturday forenoon.
 The government has renewed the lease
 of the post office building for five years
 and will spend S3000 in the next 90 days
 improving it.. An addition 12 feet wide
 and 60 feet long will be built on the west
 side of the post office. The government
 pays a yearly rent of $3,087 Howard J. Curtis of Wheeler tt Curtis is to wed Miss Ella V. Talbot of Strat- ford, June ,.
 Harry Nichols won $40 at the shoot of
 the Norwich gun club, last week.
 ". II. Beardsley, the newsdealer, can
 see better than he can hear and scored S3
 out of q possible 100 at the shoot of the Bridgeport rifle club. He owns q $100 rifle.
 William II. Marigold of the Marigold Printing Co.,, 90 Middle street, is young man who has had wide experience ill the
 art topographic. He learned the trade in the office of the Waterbury American and y,-sc aY1J,l 0y-nJ t1apo ,y-I1a1,- E'Jitor
 of the BEE was editing the American. Thence MT 1Iari9old went to New Haven and worked for c. J. Moffatt. He then came to Bridgeport and entered the Farm CT office as pressman, remaining there five years. In 1886, he bought out the job printing establishment of Charles IT. Libby, SS Middle street. Here he remain
 cd until June, 1887, when a joint stock company was formed under the name of the Narigold Printing Co. William II. Conley is president and W. II. Marigold secretary and treasurer. July l, they bought out George Scltsam, successor to Peabody &5 Seltsam and at once occupied the whole of No. 90, where Seltsam had been located. The Marigold Co. now employ l2 mon and keep six presses running most of the time. Mr MarigOld has added men and material as business demanded and has now one of the finest
 and best equipped printing offices in the city. He does deal of work for rail- roads, manufactOries and societies. Past Grand of PeQuOnnOcIl lodge, l. Q. 0. F. and district~deputy for the encampment branch, he has secured much society
 work and feels grateful to friends in the lodge and elsewhere. His work will com pare favorably with any in the State or 1 elsewhere. X 14-cOlOr manifesto for the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine is a sample of his color work. Samuel C. Jones. l7 years ill the Farmer office and long the 1 Farmers foreman, is foreman here. G. F. LeaVenworth, for many years city edi- tor of the Farmer, is here at his old bus
 mess of compOsitor. Oscar Mohr, for merly foreman of the Morning News job l department, considered one of the best | job c0mpositors in the city, is also here. George 5eltsam, who has worked at job printing for years on Middle street, is among the number. Joseph Ferris, one of Libby's men, is the cylinder pressman.
 All the other men are adopts ill their line.
 Henry Harris, the energetic proprietor ! of the Oak Hall clothing house, 360Main street, will pay your fare to the city on s purchase and will give a ticket to Forepaugh's show with every suit sold. Here . d CIldIlCc uO cIOUllb tue Idkcd ana take in a free show on the same eNcur- sion.
 The troubles of the Citizens water company are not yet over, as Cole & Gill lette, the contractors, have sued to re- cover $40,00 claimed to be due for work r and for damages.
 Albert Walleman has put new picket fanpa 41.oIInd bic b0nCn 1ataIyr arnatad on l Housat0nic avenue.
 William Davis has the foundation near ly ready for new house on the corner
 of I1indley street and North avenue.
 c. w Tator went to New Y ork recent ly and brought home q pair of fine saarses.s w. B.-Gea1T of Long Hill has turned out two new carts for Dundon Bros, the
 West End coal dealers.
 Charlie Simmons has returned from a visit on Long Island
 Lyon < Hindley put up one of their New Deering giant mowers, last week { and it worked to perfection. Call and 4 see them.
 Two members of the Rambling Wheel men have already completed the first ! 1000 miles of the record race. The Park City Cyclists made q first class showing at their first run, last
 week. They are drilling twice a week and will form ! prominent feature of the July parade.
 1 The Philharmonic band, successors to l the old Howe band, are coming rapidly ! fF fl, X-alI