The Newtown bee., 1889-11-01
MONROE.

| Tn Pepper street, another year Cnarles ! Lord of Bridgeport has moved to Miss Curtis's tenant house and expects to rent Miss Lucinda Johnson's place.
 Building small house near the old homestead, Minott Booth will remain in Monroe.
 Martin Castle has moved into the house of Mrs James French, whose household effects were sold at auction. The real estate is to be sold privately.
 Monroe people have long wished for a station on the Derby extension, one near CT than Stevenson. Now, through the efforts of s. W. Smith and Edward L. Smith of Ansonia, station is likely to be established in the near future. E. l.. Smith has purchased Minott Booths place and will at once cut off the timber. To enable him to ship it readily, a ''stub" or single switch sidetrack some 300 feet long will be put in at once, near Sher- man Botsford's saw mill. The rails will probably be laid in q few weeks and, probably in the Spring, q station will be built. It will be a small but pretty and suitable building, costing $200 to $500. The name of the station is not yet an- nounced. This will be great conven- fence to Monroe people, for it is not only much nearer than Stevenson, but the roads are better and there are fewer hills. Coal, especially, can be taken to either the Center or East Village better from the new station than from any other point. The officers of the road will de- serve not only the thanks of Monroe's s people, but liberal patronage from them. The station at Stevenson, the BEE is assured, is among the coming certaintes and will be built this Fall, if nothing flinders. It will be q pretty, cOttage-like structure, capaciOus and well arranged and will cost some $700. The double header side track, GOO feet long, was laid, last week, ready for the con nections. It is now possible to receive and ship freight and there will doubtless be a satisfactory business done, particu- larly by Oxford people. The passenger traffic is already large, but will greatly increase when suitable facilities are pro vided. The matter of road above or below grade is still unsettled and is to be decided by three men, appointed by the Superior court, whose decision, it is said, will be final, overruIing the rail road commissioners. These three men have not yet been appointed. In the meantime, travellers use the road laid out by the railroad and do not greatly com plain.
 Coan & Curtiss killed five beeves for their wagons, the first two weeks; q pretty good start.
 w. 5. Lanphear expects to open his silo, which is about two-thirds full, early in November. He put no ensilage in the smaller of his two silos and will, after laying drain, convert it, for the present, at least, into an ice house.
 Mir and Mrs F. D. Hollister have visit ed Mrs Hollister's sister in Morris, re- turning, Saturday, by way of Bridgewa- ter.
 A blue stone has been set up on the stone wall north of John s. Joyce's, on which a red line shows the town line be- tween Monroe and Trumbull. On the north is the letter M; on the south, T.
 Mrs D. A. Nichols and son have visit ed her aunt, Mrs William c. Sharpe of Seymour.
 Frances B. Hubbell has made great inn provements at his property in the Gen. ter by repairing the entrance to the store, which is also furnished with new windows and shutters and has been part ly roofed. A new veranda has also been added to the house and the we'll curb has been raised. New beams have been placed in the platform of the scales, Fred Hawley doing the joiner work. A block of stone, ,quarried by MT Hubbell himself from the quarry on $. $. Hurd's land, has been placed at the entrance to the store aud another in front of the house. Tagging stones, also obtained from this quarry, have been laid in front of Mir Hubbell's property and shining exam pie is set for others in the Center to fol- | low
 l D. A. Nichols, the Monroe member of the firm of Seeley & Nichols, has exhib- ited his fine poultry and pigeons at near ly all the fairs in this part of the State and has also made successful invasion of Long Island. At Meriden, at Bristol, at Danbury, at Huntington, he made large exhibits of poultry and pigeons and at Huntington and Mineola, l.. l., exhib- I tied poultry alone. At each fair, the stock outranked that of any competitor and the number of first and second pre- miums awarded was something surpris- ing to the few who had not heard their fame. Mir Nichols has good reason to be proud of the poultry in which he takes so much delight.
 Henry Bolles of Huntington is laying substantial stone wall for k. A. Hurd and has an extensive contract.
 I Work has been resumed at the quarry on $. s. Hurd's land and Oscar W. Hub bell, with small force of men, is getting out curb and sidewalk stone for use in Shelton. The stone from this quarry l possesses peculiar qualities of hardness and durability, which would make it in demand were it near railroad Frances B. Hubbell, who mined stone here years ago for the floor of the gun room at Fort Sumter, says that, although he has trav- eled over the United States, he has found nothing like it. It is composed largely of gneiss, with mixture of other miner als and the ledge is said to extend for a