The Newtown bee., 1889-04-19

The inside and back of the cover and half the pages are to be filled with ad- vertisements, while interesting reading matter, interspersed with large iilustra- tions, fills the rest of the paper. Ten thousand copies will be issued and dis tributed throughout Fairfield county, each month, free. Editor Haven, who has been assistant secretary of the Y. M. c. A. and junior editor of the Observer. is confident of the success of this new venture, which will be published at 425 Broad street by the Fairfield County In- dustrial Gazette Go. The first number, April, now in the hands of the Marigold Printing Co.'S men, will be ready for distribution in few days.
 Members of the Bridgeport Wheel club will ride for record, this season. Those covering 1900 miles or more will be in the first class and all between 1000 and l500 in the second class. Appropri- ate prizes will be awarded at the end of the contest, which lasts from May to No vember. w. Richardson, W. H. Horr, H. B. Morris are committee. Bridgeport's new common council, which will act for the consolidated town and city, held it's first meeting, Monday night. W. B. Bostwick was made presi- dent of the board of aldermen and May or DeForest read his message, which af- firmed that city finances were unsound and that expenditures must not exceed appropriations, nor the latter call for more money than the city's receipts would show. Standing committees and members of various boards were ap- pointed. D. N. Morgan and s. ".
 Baldwin are sinking fund commissioners for two years and W. D. Bishop and R. B. Lacey for four years.
 Needed repairs have been made to the , horse railroad tracks at Yellow Mill + bridge. ! The factory which the Compressed Pa
 per Co. is erecting on Thompson street
 will be 90 feet front and I5O feet deep.
 Ever since the invention of ssPigs in ,, Cloyer," the market has been flooded with puzzles of the same principle. None,
 however, can equal ''greased pigs
 which has just made it's appearance. }. Properly speaking, these are not puzzles, e as they require nimble fingers rather l. than quick and studious brain. But > the great American public demands isomething of the kind for pastime and
 they are sold by hundreds of thousands. n Superintendent C.L.Burgess of the Boys
 club has invented and applied for pat
 ent on what he calls ssSix BlinG Mice.'
 An open cage is at either end of a box ts partly filled with upright strips of card
 board and the task is to roll three mice into each cage. =..-
 Hobart Brinsmade is on a business trit rs West; he has bought fine black roadeI h. of Col Tallman.
 A German boy, Charles Blaesch, hal
 been at the hospital for some time, sui ts fering with hip disease. Tuesday, Dr.
 Rice, Wright and Lauder removed tn,
 diseased bone, from the hip half way tt
 the knee.
 The granolithie floor has been laid a
 Eckart Bros.
 Karl Ochsner of North Main street ha
 set row of young trees in front of hi house.
 Patrick Coughlin improves property O
 Lindley street extension by placing of beautiful row of shade trees at the from z" H. w. Parrott has built new barn a
 the corner of North avenue and Lindl ho street.
 Peter Wenz is inelosing part of hi yard with stone wall.
 Conductor A. s. Beers of the Naugs
 tuck road, who resides on Black Roc
 avenue, was attacked by a serious hem y orrhage, last week. He was obliged t
 remain at Naugatuek for some time.
 A. J. Wilkins and others are agitatin
 the erection of a hall, which, provide ti- with grand organ and other musics US accessories, might be used as a musi m- hall.
 rs \ new wharf will be erected at the fo6 ,s of the Swords Lumber Co.'S wharf. ho Capt William Seltsam of the Ramblin le Wheelmen has purchased a new Safet ne wheel.
 p
 te Superintendent Harrington has alread m found over 250 cases of violation of Ia, ,l- forbidding the employment Of childre ,y under 13.
 he Frank Slason succeeds Philo P. Have ,es as assistant secretary of the Y. NJ. c. {. .er It is stated that North Main street, flo .d merly Newtown turnpike, is to be wider as ed to 60 feet from North avenue to Trun n- bull line, three miles above. As the ol oh turnpike was but 50 feet from fence { rs- fence, this motion will probably not pr ok vail. Of all the principal approaches t
 the city, however, this is the only or
 not modernized and improvements woul " be in order at once. E. F. Strong equa 'c1 ized grades considerably, when he wa to first selectman of Bridgeport, but ther
 is room for much more of the same c H. similar work.
 rs. John Willis has purchased 12 acres ed land at OK Hill from G. O. Keeler. .n Dr G. c. Eighme, who devotes his lei oe ure hours to equestrian exercises, h,
 purchased a new saddle horse. he Sidney W. Capers, formerly organii tn at the North church, is in Columbia, { err O., for his health.