The Newtown bee., 1889-06-14

 contract and Justice c. $. Garfield, be- fore whom the case was tried, decided in favor of the publishers.
 Glines & Holmes are turning out an improved agonjack, just patented by J. Merritt Smith of Stamford.
 William Gorham, who is somewhat noted IS a bee hunter, captured large swarm after long chase, last week.
 Children's day will be observed in the Universalist church, 10th. Music for the occasion was rehearsed, last Sunday and a treat for the children may be ex- pected.
 Good music was furnished by the Philharmonic band at the first Saturday evening concert at Seaside park, last week.
 Bridgeport has large and fashion able club which, however, does not re- quire great amount of newspaper pub licity. It is the Seaside club and it's rooms are on Main street, nearly oppo- site the public library. The annual cleo ton has just taken place, but no change was made in the officers. Although the club has membership of 350 and prop erty worth $16,00o, it has no building of l it's own.
 | Seventeen young people were con 1 firmed at the German Reformed church, Sunday morning.
 Bridgeport should be proud of it's pub- | lie library. Few cities of it's size have so we'll appointed, so we'll conducted or so justly popular a library. It has been established but a few years, but already it has 16,2 ,2S7 books, 1,55S of which were purchased during the year just ended. Of the membership of 10,731, one-tenth, 1,0S4, were admitted within year. So closely were receipts and expenditures calculated that, May l, there was bal ance on hand of $1.90. Since the new rooms in the Burroughs building, which, through the generosity of the deceased owner, have become the property of the library, were occupied, the interest in the library has increased.
 - There is talk of building a reservoir on the upper part of Bruce's Cor Knees and-Paws) brook, East End, from which a new ice company could get it's supplies.
 At the West End church, Children's day exercises were unusually interesting. MT and Mrs Camp supervised the floral decorations, which were beautiful. The services, which consisted of singing, rec itations and readings, were held at , o'clock for the benefit of the little ones,
 who enjoyed the occasion. 5 Architect Briggs says that the exterior = of the new Y. NJ. c. A. building will be } completed before Winter and that work . on it's foundations will be at once begun r Contracts for the building, which have l already been let, bring the total to $63, t was awarded the contract. John Ruth erford took the mason and iron work g Savage S Smith Building Go. do the = wood work.
 ' Some of the circus goers said it rained as hard inside the tent as it did outside = Charles Russell, formerly of this place l who has patent on a machine for mall l ing small nails, rivets and screws, has : purchased land on Shelton street, be
 tween William and Joseph and or
 Wednesday of this week broke ground Co fS. tIaf, ,e, ' Russell and wife have been travelling il , California for couple of years, having :, passed much time in Birmingham, Ala He comes to Bridgeport thinking tt
 make it his home and believing that h. will be fully satisfied with his location t. One hundred and forty teachers in th e public schools were appointed, Monda, | evening, at the meeting of the Board o e Education.
 Officers of the Hydraulic Co. are reti
 cent regarding the new storage reser
 voir which, rumor says, will be built ol Canoe Brook, Tashua, but field sur 7 vey has been made and people in tn
 vicinity think that it will be built T, They say that the dam will probably b ' near the mouth of the brook, whicl > empties into the Mill River reservoi s and that large area will be flooded, fo |. the water will flood the lower part o l.. N. Mallett's saw-mill and render
 useless. If all this is done, it will D s necessary to raise both the Chestnu . Hill and Canoe Brook road, or the bacl : water will cover them. Civil engineer 'i who have surveyed the locality are als {. reticent; only rough field survey ha '' yet been made. Very likely the dar Z, will not be butt for year or two, if a ~ all.