The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1890-04-18


but had not worked for years. His fu-
neral was attended ON Monday from the
Warren street residence of his son, Bust
ness Manager w. III. Parrott of the
Standard.
A handsome $1,000 house will be built
on Laurel avenue, West End, by Mr.
Stowe of Milford, a former Bridgeporter.
4 The building at the corner of Main and
Union streets is to be renovated and sew
eral stores put in.
f. G.. Durham and son have been in
Oh City, Penn.
Robert Montell, the new light in the
theatrical world, will appear at Proc
tors, Saturday afternoon and evening,
in "Monbars.n
Bray Bros. have built the foundations
for house on Arctic street 3Sx35, which
| Anthony Bros. will build and do the ma
son work for the house, 47x27, which
Platt q Rtch will build on Park avenue.
w. II. Hurley, formerly with j. b.
Barnaby & Co., is now clerlling for Jones,
Keane & Co.
Jones, Keane q Co., the wide awake
clothiers, have supplied the wheel club
of the Park avenue institute of S. b..
Jones with neat gray uniform trimmed
with black, with caps to match trimmed
with gold and lettered p. A. l. w. G..
Fred Swindon and wife spent Sunday
in Wallingford.
| The Waterbury Sunday Herald, whose
enterprise we admire, but whose smut
and brag would make a horse gag, has
Bridgeport annex, whose chief aim
| seems to be to also convert itself into a
sewer pipe. A paper that panders to the
saloon and brothel ought not to live long.
After several Intellectual attempts, an
incendiary has at last succeeded in de-
stroying the large frame school house in
Newfield district, East End. 1t was to-
tally destroyed, Sunday morning, caus-
| ing a loss of about $4,000; insured for
$4,000. Over 400 pupils attended daily
and the enumeration was nearly 700; but
the building was overcrowded. Some of
! the children have been sent to other
schools and temporary quarters will be
! provided for the rest. East End seems
to have mania for burning school
houses, for, besides the previous attempts
at Newtield, it is not long since Summer
field school was destroyed.
Workmen at Beardsley park, quarrel
ing over trivial matter, nearly melted a
row and one, Philip McKeOn, was struck
and severely hurt by stone.
Two new cars and several more horses
have been purchased by the East End
horse railroad.
Frederick G. Mullins, the new city
clerk, was presented, on taking the oath
of office, with gold headed cane from
, unknown friends. On the head was the
single word s'Constant.''
Jack Robertson of New Milford wor
the prize of gold half eagle offered by
the Post for the best original advertise
Of 10n xunpl5 lapnrtptiyo Of
McCord's carpets.
Seaside park concerts will be given by
the Philharmonic band, this season.
A badly decomposed body was founc
; floating in the harbor, Sunday afternoon
1t had been in the water for some time
Judge ID. b. Lockwood is entertaining
his son, Attorney Lester Lockwood Of
Wyoming.
The town has been kindly granted per
mission by the building commission tC
put up brick addition to the almshouse
1t will cost $500 and will be 30X75 feet
a $1,000 house is to be built on Clinton
avenue by w. F. Hobbs. 1t will be 3SX4t
feet and handsomely finished and fur.
; nished.
Carpenter II. Ii. Nettleton and Mason
John rutherford are at work in the Rail
IOdu VI DuIUSs CllNtE
Co., where a large addition is building
1t will cost about $500.
II Builder III. IL. Nettleton is to put III
five cottages on Park and Wood avenues
for Charles s. Cole. They will be about
l1Xl7 feet and the estimated cost is $4,000
p. w. Wren is back from Florida and
} Cuba.
c. d. Miller takes 05 shares in the new
Stnr II lnnfpi A
Capital stock $4,000, divided into 20C
shares.
Rev Beverley +. Warner is to go tc
Europe with his father and Prof Sylves
ter Clarke will occupy the pulpit at Christ
church.
Horace Merwin, 70, who died at the
home of his son-in-law, ID. +. NJ lrsh, was
buried at New Milford.
! Alert as ever, Griffin & McElroy are tt
, put up brick building on Gold street TO
machinery to make ice and cold storage
near their meat warehouse, where per
: ishable goods can be safely kept withou
ice.
, Julia Il. Robinson, II, died, Saturday
of typhoid pneumonia and her father
: Thomas r. Robinson of 4Si Pembroke
D street, died on Sunday.
: The North Congregational church re
, fused Nathaniel s. Wordin's bequest o
} $4,000, which was to be tied up until i
REACHED $4,000.
Notwithstanding the formidable signs
''No admission" conspicuously postet
. on the high board fence surrounding tn
= new government building at the eorne
of Broad and Cannon streets, Il BEE re
porter passed unchallenged through ths
portals and was allowed, for a few min
utes, to gaze upon the pile of brown
stone and brick, the future home o
Bridgeport's post office. A workman APP
preached and said, ''That little door ther,
, Is the way you want to go out" and thu
scribe speedily found himself on Cannon
street. There are about 20 men at worl
on the building, which is of Portland
brown stone, brick and iron, fire proof
some 10Sx65 feet. Work was commenc
ed on the building proper, last Fall, bu
little was done. The side walls have nov
nearly reached the second story and tn,
wood and iron work of the floor is sooi
to be put in place. The stone work viii
not be finished for three or four months
yet, for, besides the main structure, thu
towers rising 70 feet from the grount
will be of stone, surmounted with othe