The Newtown bee., 1889-04-26
MONROE.

MONROE.
 Miss Minnie Edwards came home sick, last week, from her school at Chestnut Hill.
 Wilbur H. Clark has been sick with liver trouble.
 Harry and Sylvester Nichols and their good wives recently visited l.. 0. Osborne.
 Postmaster Beach and B. SHurd have been summoned for jury duty in the Su- perior court.
 Mrs Henrietta Burr has had a pleasant visit in New York with Murray Hill relatives and MT Beach has been getting her place into shape for the Summer tourists to whom she would like to rent it for the season.
 Miss Jane German, who came home from Waterbury to care for her sick sis ter, has herself been ill.,
 Mrs L. o. Osborne has Spring chick ems weighing two and quarter pounds. Her neighbor, Walter Beardsley, got but 13 chickens out of 600 eggs put into his incubator.
 Selectman w. R. Ferris sold his fine Devons to Mir Staples of Easton and bought another pair of James Burr. Paul Belot is building a wagon house | 16x26 feet at his Walkers Farm home ". B. Craft has painted for s. B. | Wales.
 Miss Rose Sinclair has visited Miss Jes- sic Lewis. Misses Minnie Lewis, Elma Stevens and Mary Beardsley sampled Bridgeport's Easter.
 George w. Clark caught trout, last Friday, that weighed two and halt pounds, but friends here think that the big piekerel W. H. Hoy is said to have caught must have been bullheads.
 Paul Zimmer received wedding pres ent of 90 marks, from friend in Ger many.
 Eli Curtis has bought for his son Ed ward Eli, the homestead of the late Sally Beach. This, including the balance O the farm, which has been in MT Cnrtis' possession for some years, will make { good farm. Now for the bird!
 At meeting of directors of the Mon roe Creamery Co.,, 23d, it was voted t : call in the remaining (uncalled) 20 pc cent. of stock.
 The creamery building is being pushed the frame will soon be up l Mrs J. c. Johnson has visited her so 7 s. J. Johnson, at West Cornwall.
 H. D. Burr has received an increase o pension from $2 to $10 per month. F. W. Hawley is improving Aide Seeley's place by building new fron and garden fence. ; Louis B. Beardsley spent Easter i , Danbury.
 We hear many comments made regard , ing the beautiful costumes seen in Bridge
 port on Easter Sunday. This was n f doubt owing to the presence of so man
 of Monroe's fair ladies.
 Friday, April 26, has been proclaime
 as Arbor day and, as the Grange has a f ways lead in this work, Harmony Grane l. took a vote at it's last meeting that eae . member was to do what he or she coul
 in the line of Arbor day work and eae
 one make a report as to the days wor
 at the Grange meeting held that evenin:
 They also ask the cooperation of the = neighbors in giving their time aI e thought, this day, to trees and plants ft
 home and roadside adornment. It proposed by the members and the friends to tear down the old barn back ( r. the Congregational church, to clear u s the rubbish and plant tulip tree in frol
 of the Episcopal church and to trim u Il the trees in the park. They would als d request the park commissioners to Ina, e the posts strengthened up and the pos
 and railing painted. s- The Creamery Association expects h raise it's building, next week. The directors of the Union Agricultu e al Society met at their office on the fa n grounds on Monday and revised the pr + mium list.
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