The Newtown bee., 1890-07-18

 one, being 10 or F feet deep, with no protection for the unwary pedestrian1 and | number have fallen into it. As thel public is supposed to have no business on the track, except to cross as quickly as possible, there is no room for action against the road.
 Howard Leroy, the infant son of Rev and Mrs Miller, who died Sunday, was buried Tuesday at 3, the funeral being attended from the residence of the par ents.
 special town meeting will be held at the Town hall, Saturday afternoon, to consider the purchase of steam road roller.
 Distinguished visitors at the George include Gov Leon Abbett of New Jersey.
 Ladies of the Black Rock Congrega- tional church had an ice cream festival, Thursday.
 My attention having been called to the arti- cles in your late issues containing the report of the State Board of Health on Southport, my first decision was to give it no notice, but be ing advised by other parties concerned and higher authorities, and in consideration of the indignation and excitement being aroused by it (according to your correspondents) and wish to set your more intelligent and less excitable readers right on the matter In the first place, the annual report of the State Board ot Health is not published for the sake of booming and falsely puffing the various towns of Fairfield county, nor yet for the State at large. It is the authority for the statement Of the actual sanitary condition ot the State and, as such. the reports of the various towns | are received from representative physicians Of those towns and of reputable standing and | having the credit of being above falsitying. The slur of your correspondents, that leniency was shown in all the other towns, unwittingly revealed; his character and what he might have done if he only had the chance to report l for Southport. As matter of fact, the report was first submitted to the resident physician l in Southport and sent in only after due con- l sultation with him. As to the real status of | the whole question, you and your interested readers referred to the report of the writ | CT, as clerk of the Board of Health, to the nual town meeting, and printed in theirreport | of the local Board ot Health to the petitioners de Southport creek and the Black property | after consultation with the State authorities | I would add, tor. the comfort of your cores
 pond ent, that this latter report was framed by
 a committee of two, of which the Southport
 resident physician was one.
 In conclusions it is pleasure to say that the intelligent people, including the physician oi that lovely village, are alive to the real sani tary condition and are ready to do something for it's improvement, wide the draining of the
 main streeD. If all such as your correspond ent would go in with them and help, more
 would be accomplished and the reputation O. Southport redeemed. In this statemen have endeavored to avoid details, they are no called tor here. As to the piggery, while tar dy in being accomplished, nevertheless it has
 at last been put in 8 condition evidently satis factory to the health officer The foregoing has not been penned from personal motives otherwise it would have been differently
 worded, but to protest against such uncalled