The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1891-04-10

at the M. e. church, Sunday morning
Mrs Everly and Mrs Milton Jennings
visit their grandmother at Cross High
way.-Mr and Mrs w. L. Pennoyer spent
Sunday in town.
AS will be seen by reference to an ad-
vertisement elsewhere, Town Clerk and
Tax Collector Francis M. Pike is soon to
go ON the tax collecting war path again
and earnestly requests all to heed the
warning and pay promptly. All taxes
remaining unpaid after June | will be
subject to an addition of ga of l per cent
per month.
Mills & Allen have finished the new
house of Baggage Master James Smith,
ready for the masons and are at work on
Mr. Guyer's house.
& A 14foot addition is to be built at the
house of John II. Sherwood by Mills &
Allen.
Mills & Allen will build a two-story
addition, 12x19 feet, at the house of John
Conway.
The choir of the Congregational church
sang without leader, Sunday morning !;
in the evening, Superintendent Hotchkiss
of the Fairfield rubber factory acted as
leader.
Miss Alice Sherwood of Smith college,
Northampton, is spending a vacation of
a fortnight with her father, David H.
Sherwood.
Miss Emily Rodman of Waterbury Wis
it's Mrs II. L. Bulkley.-Mrs Francis d.
Perry has presented a brass preaching
desk to Trinity. 1t is supported by four
standards and is of exquisite workman
ship.-John Meeker is painting Mrs Lot
Bulkley's house.-Thc many friends of
Sidney Hawkins were pleased to see him
at church, Sunday, the first time that he
was able to be out since his recent sick
ness.-The Church Calendar Publishing
Co., in which Rev G. G. Adams, formerly
of Southport, but now of New York city
is Interested, met with misfortune. The
esta blishment was burned, a few days
ago. Large quantities of church calend-
ars and Sunday school leaflets were de-
stroyed. The company's office is at 2G
University Place, New YorY city.-The
Guild of Trinity sent two large boxes of
clothing, etc, to Mrs BuTord, for her
work among the colOred people of Nigin-
ia.-A fence has been erected on the
south side of the excavation for the Ell
wood crossing. Sunday night about l 2
m, Norwalk parties drove by the sign,
along the embankment, crossed the track
and, when they reached Mrs ElWood' s
house, where a tree had been felled, at
tempted to pass between the tree and
the fence with disastrous results to the
carriage. The men, who were somewhat
under the influence of liquor, were unin-
iured. There was no excuse for anyone
attempting to drive that way, as lights
were burning and it was a moonlight
night.
Miss Estella S. Curtis of Southport was
one of the nurses graduated from the
Bridgeport hospital, Tuesday.
The New York conference appointed
as pastor of the Methodist church, Rev
B. A. Gilman.-G. B. Bunnell, who has
been very i'll with grip, is improving
rapidly.-A meeting of the Trinity
vestry way held, Wednesday evening, tC
organize and appoint committees.-Capt
Furniss is confined TO his house by grip.
Hast week, the many friends of Miss
Ellen Sherwood heard with sorrow of
her sudden death in Brooklyn, N. Y.
AT the urgent request of her aged and
only sister, Mrs Gurdon Perry, her re-
mains were brought to her home for
services before interment. last Friday.
Worn out by grief and fatigue, Mrs Perry
at once showed SYMPTOMS of Illness.
Although all was done that affection and
care could accomplish, she sank rapidly
and died Wednesday afternoon. She
was 81 years old, and leaves several
children, among them Mrs Edwin Bulk
ley of Brooklyn, n. Y.-Northrop Bros.
are making extensive repairs on the
Buckley homestead north of Oliver Bulk
ley's residence.-A meeting of the school
board was held in the Town hall, Satur-
day at 2 80 p m, DR. Durham presiding,
Secretary Wells being absent, j. d.
Toomy,Jr, was elected secretary pro TEN.
Several reports were read and accepted
and the meeting adjourned to May at
2 30 p m.