The Newtown bee., 1888-07-20

c. E. Lewis spent Sunday in Bridge port.
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 Mir and Mrs R. $. Woodruff and daugh- ter Edith and Mrs Miller and daughter Lulu of Waterbury visited William Goth ren.
 Charles Mallett is recovering.
 Steps are taken to form young Re- publican club.
 Wrong doings going on upon the Mid dlebury Lane road that doubtless will receive the attention of the grand juror, if they are repeated. The parties do not take the hint yet.
 Lightning struck Charles Curtis's barn in Cat Swamp district. Will Bacon has been at his mothers. The i'll luck of Irving Atwood contin- ues. He lost a horse, last week, the sev- enth within few months.
 Prof J. W. Gaffey and wife are at the Parker House for the Summer.
 William N. shelton is seriously i'll with cancer in the neck. His physician tells him that death Is only question of time. This Is sad news to his many friends. The parties who lately bought the wooden mill property have arrived from Massachusetts and work will be revived there. Rev A. F. Powelson is preaching at Salem, Oregon.
 Mrs Theodore w. Walker is slowly re- covering from severe indisposition.
 Mrs Mary Huxley and Mrs IT, Benham were guests of Mrs Enos Benham, last week.
 Miss Fox of Chicago has visited at c. J. Minors.
 Experts with the spear are taking lots of fish and eels out of the Naugatuck and Pomperaug river. It requires skill in the use of the spear and there is many a miss before the novice wins his fish.
 Messrs Evans & Co.,, who bought the factory of the Union Woolen Co. of Hotchkissville, are busy making repairs on the dam and factory. The machinery Is in good working order, but the bulk head and wheel will need looking after before all is in shape for making cassi- mere. The property was sold for $2500, which shows the depreciation all along the line of wooden manufactures and wooden goods as well.
 James Boyce has removed his livery horses to the barn on the D. c. Bacon estate, where he has found good accom- modation for both horses and carriages. White lilies are plenty on the Bacon pond and look inviting from the shore There is no boat on the pond and the lil- ies can only be had by wading. The mud and water snakes make this an un- pleasant job and there are few who vii go in after them.
 Bullheads are biting at Quassapaue better than bass; the best place to catcf them is said to be in Tyler cove. Int steam launch will not scare them, as it il said to be the case with bass, but fisher men disagree in this matter, as well as il politics.
 Devoe brought the last of his crop O strawberries to market, Saturday; they were the finest of the lot, but not tn, largest.
 F. T. Strong has an early cabbag, about ready for market; his celery i Der. This kind of truck pays better thal raising crops of grain and takes less Ian, and better culture to make it pay.
 The dry weather has been again tn complaint. Corn and potatoes have sui fered for want of rain and the earth Ina been nearly as dry as in the three week in June.
 The Woodburys played club iron New Preston, Saturday, with score o s to 3 in favor of the home club. Tn boys will play ball, or do somethin; WoIsc- oiNC uo eiic DUH III PiSAtiShee
 Edwin D. Richards and wife visite Woodbury, last week and went to Quas sayaug lake on their return to Terryville A steamboat runs on the lake now.
 Benjamin Fabrique still remains fee ble. He is confined to his bed and obliged to have constant attendant old age and Il complication of disease are the cause.
 J. and N. R. Burton are home fror Pennsylvania.
 Truman, son of A. N. Judson, brok his arm while playing ball.
 Middle quarter furnishes the first ney potatoes, grown on land of Henry $ Benedict.
 The milk firm of Curtiss X Watsonha been dissolved. Curtiss continues tn business. They recently carried l7I quarts of milk to Waterbury in one day
 The NJ. K. church is to hold a temper ance meeting, each fourth Sunday even ing. , Bert Wyckoff has been admitted member of the freshman class at Yale
 George c. Gordon visited relative here, Inst week.
 MT and Mrs A. Abernethy visit hi mother.