The Newtown bee., 1890-03-21
BRIDGEPORT.


 adjacent towns, has purchased several fine work horses; also harnesses and carts. Grandpa Pierce says Brad must do more business; expenses larger now
 Cole & Hinckley have just completed laying over 1000 feet of curb and gutter for P. T. Barnum, an unusual thing in Winter, as they always have stopped work Winters.
 The many friends of Mrs A. $. Midle- brook will be glad to learn that she is again able to enjoy her afternoon drives, having fully recovered from her late ill., ness.
 Ex-Councilman J. E. Jones, collector for the John Hancock life insurance company, lies very i'll at his home with bronchitis; his physician says that he will not be out for several weeks.
 l. H. Edginton, engineer at Long staff & Hurd's factory, who was taken suddenly ill at the factory with neural gia of the heart, is still confined to the house, but is slowly improving. Mrs Edward McGraw lies very sick at her home 259 Iranistan avenue. Homer Silvey has commenced the cree tion of fine four-tenement house on Black Rock avenue, which will be sup piled with modern conveneincies. f"s'. +. Barmore will do the mason work, r Van stone & Vanstone the carpenter work and Green &5 Logan the timing and plumbing; with such men, it means a first class job.
 | I. W. Smith of Barnum avenue still lies very low and it is thought that he can live but a short time.
 Mrs D. B. Pierce, Jr, now appears or our streets with handsome black horse new harness and low top phaeton, mak ing as fine turnout as there is in tht city.
 c. E. Brothwell is confined to tn house with peculiar disease of thu throat; his physician says there is onl. one other case on record.
 George E. Middlebrook of New HaVel is with his brother, A. $. Middlebrook The officers of the Springfield Elmer, Wheel Co.,, whose immense new bricl factory is fast approaching completion are much vexed to think that the major = ity of their nearly 200 hands will b. ; obliged to walk a mile or more, in orde to secure home, as nearly every vacan house has already been rented. It seem strange that these employees would no at once accept the liberal inducement of large real estate owners in the vicini ty and secure a home for themselves, in stead of having the heavy burden ol their shoulders of paying rent ever, month. It is very certain, after they have been here several years as tenants and land which can now be purchased a reasonable prices per lot advances t. more than double it's present value ol account of the steady growth in that 10 cality, they will see their mistake, a hundreds of mechanics here have, whel too late. If these employees would nov take the advice of one who has had tn same experience and act at once, the, would in several years hence, as the, sit in their own home, all paid for, thanl the present writcr-r M. Sign Writer Abercrombie, fornerl with Healy & Co.,, has joined the Wilbu opera company.
 The cOuncilmen have passed resolu tion raising the mayors salary fror 5000 to $1500.
 , Five thousand dollars has been apprC priated to fill i'll land west of Seasid park, using the dredger which has bee at work at West End.
 Secretary Ferguson of the |. NJ. C. A : nnited with the Presbyterian church Sunday.
 II. E. Bowser, manager of the Barnun gymnasium, is fast gaining popularity il his new enterprise and he may well fee proud of his success. To him largely d. the citizens of this city owe their thanks for his untiring push and energy in thu securing for them one of the finest gym nasiums in this country. It must prov financial success, judging by the larg' number of new members who may b, seen daily exercising in this handsome room, filled with nearly every known de vice to improve, not only muscle ant , strength, but bodily health. tfhe ladies class is constantly increasing.
 The weavers of the Elastic Web Co have struck because q man was employ ed in the shop who did not belong t. their trade union.
 { Plumb & Winton killed 1900 hogs, las i year, and have sold 40 tons of their su perior fertilizer to be used by owners O the old Lordship farm.
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