The Newtown bee., 1890-09-05

Nathan Wilcox and other Stratford
friends.
Oystermen are happy on account of
the oyster set, which is said to be the
largest and most satisfactory in Years.
| An extra service will be held at the
Congregational church, next Sunday at
p m, ut which communion will be adj
ninistered and three members will be re-
ceived by letter. The preparatory LEG
ture was given on Wednesday evening,
instead Of Friday afternoon.
Rev j. S. Ives preached at the Congre-
gational church In Milford, last Sunday.
Benjamin Holmes is shingling w. B.
Nash's barn.
Mrs X. B. Hard is spending the week
in Hawleyville.
Frank Benjamin and party started,
Saturday, for a cruise down East in Je-
rome Mays yacht.
Stone ballast is being applied to the
lower road to Bridgeport, in accordance
with the vote of the last, special town
meeting. The offer of Mr. Hughes of the
granite works to give the town all the
granite chips In his yard for the carriage
has been accepted and many loads of
the chips drawn to the road. TO provide
stone for the rest of the road, a quarry
has been opened near Perry Beardsley's,
where stone is being quarried and crush
ed by the towns machinery. This stone
is said to be of satisfactory hardness,
though not trap rock. The crushed stone
is spread ii feet wide on the roadbed and
spread seven inches deep, to be rolled
down to six, possibly less. As regards
the gravel already put on the road, it
was thought by some that it might be
covered with loan and rolled down; but
a reporter was told that it would proba-
bly, be left, that II fair trial might be Civ
en- it.
j. w. Thompson is receiving orders
from as far as st Louis and Louisville
for his "Uncle Johns asthma cure
Mrs Rebecca Palmer died suddenly in
Russell, Mass, while visiting her daugh-
ter, Mrs Grinnell. She was &C years old
and died on September %, of heart dis
ease. She was wife of James ID. Palmer
, who lives on White street and is an oys-
terman. The remains were brought
here for burial in Union cemetery, last
week. She leaves, besides her daughter,
Mrs Grinnell of Massachusetts, another
! a In
New Haven.
John w. Thompson is recovering from
an acute attack of bronchitis and asth-
ma, complicated with malaria.
Mrs Falken, widow of DIR Eugene Fal-
ken, who was killed by Housatonic
train in Bridgeport, short time ago, has
rented and moved into Mrs Seeley's
house, about which improvements have
been made, including stone tagging for
walks.
NJ. L. j. Willard of New York has
rented the Wetmore place and will prob
ably move in about the middle of the
month.
Constable c. L. Stage, who has about
200 building lots for sale, has put up
signs on the property to be sold. He
says that he has transferred more prop
erty and executed more deeds, within
the past two or three years, than any
other man in town. His lots include
those on Sutton avenue and Warwick av-
enue, the latter IA street he opened him
self, short time ago. He has lots, he
says, from $500 or $3.50 to $1,000, COM
prising some of the best locations in
town. Part of the land from which these
lots are to be sold is owned by Messrs
Scott, the wealthy bankers of New Y ork.
John Dayton of New York has visited
here.
Ten or dozen boys, who have been
committing petty depredations, princi-
pally fruit stealing, devastated Mr. Benja-
minis melons, the other night, causing
a damage of nearly 800 by the melons
they took and the injury they did to the
unripe fruit and the vines. Warrants
for the arrest of the leaders were placed
in the hands of Constable Stagg, Mon
day.
Mrs n. N. Curtis, daughter and grand
son of Columbia, S. c., are with Consta-
BILE Stagg; Mr. Curtis is expected to join
them.
Edgar Osborne, Mrs Osborne, Miss An
ME Osborne, who have spent some time
in hox
port an enjoyable time, with plenty of
hot weather and no rain. Crops were
suffering greatly and many will be al
most failure. Wheat is doing well, but
is steadily advancing in price. Potatoes,
usually worth 20 to 25c, had risen to SOC,
ton.
! Bass are biting well and catches weigh
ing from one to five pounds are reported.
The veteran association of Company X
will hold its third annual reunion at Saw
in Rock on Wednesday, September IL.
There are few of the original 40 char
is hoped that all these and later members
will attend.
Charles Curtis, who died recently at
Sumter, N. c., was brother of Orville
Curtis of Stratford.
The reduction of the church debt was
the laudable object for the proceeds of
the illustrated lecture on 'sGlimpses of
California, announced for Thursday ev-
ening, 4th, at the Congregational church.
f. C. Beach was the stereopticon operat-
or and the views, the work of amateur
photographers, included native inhabit-