The Newtown bee., 1891-05-01
BRIDGEPORT.


 Ritchel Go. to make toys at the corner of South avenue and Water street.
 Edward O'Leary, Wheeler & Wilson employe, died at the hospital, 22d, 2l years old.
 B. Nichols & Sons have sold a lot on Lafayette street, near Gregory, to W. c. Mead and E. s. Fairchild, five lots on Broome street, East End, to the enter prising and obliging State street firm of Platt & Ritch.
 Mrs c. Tracy Booth has visited her par ents at Southford.
 Plumb & Winton killed 22,S70 hogs be- tween November l, 1890 and April 2, 1891.
 Platt & Ritch have sold two of their East End lots to James W. Horton and another to Oliver T. Pratt, the tireless letter carrier. The other two have been sold to Mrs Catherine E. Scoville.
 Editor l.. c. Prindle of the Morning News has settled his $5000 suit against W W lSh, DAouS3 oi dSScohO oA OAiNih fracas in September, 1888.
 The late James Watson, ST, was a na- tive of Dundee, Scotland, and once of Lowe & Watson, boiler makers. He left son, James Watson, Jr, and daughter, wife of Alderman John c. Shelton.
 B. Nichols & Sons have bought of w. ~ I,s lon lots at the entrance of Beardsley park, on Noble avenue.
 Engineer Hull spends a day or two every week at Shelton, supervising, as State engineer, the new Housatonic dam. The work there is progressing rapidly.
 Mrs William B. Nichols of 17 Grand street died, April g, 62 years old. She leaves a husband and five children: FL mer, Frank, Minnie, Daisy, Irene; three, Lillie (wife of Seymour k. Hawley of TrumbulD, Annie, George, have died. Mrs Nichols will be greatly missed, par ticularly by the members of the North Main street Methodist church, where she has taught in the Sunday school for years.
 B. Nichols & Sons, the we'll known real estate agents, have sold the equally we'll known and enterprising crockery dealer, John T. Sterling, six lots on Broome street.
 Glover Sanford X Sons hat factory in East Bridgeport is to be closed, June and sold.
 Business Manager W. H. Parrott, in poor health for a long time, died of grip, last Friday, fl years old. The same day Ruth A. Hawley, wife of James Porter of 322 North avenue, died at the age of S2. She leaves one granddaughter, wife of Lawyer J. J. Rose.
 W. G. Lewis, the Broad street grocer, has bought of B. Nichols & Sons five lots on Broome street. This finishes the block of lots held by the firm on this street.
 Married, April 30, Miss Edna L., daughter of George $. Bissell to Stephen c. Osborne at the Presbyterian church :; at Olivet parsonage, May B, Charles A. Wills to Miss Jennie H. Corner.
 William H. Fitzgerald is building a house and stables at the corner of North and Wood avenues; George W. William son Broom house on Fairfield avenue :; H. D. Simons $5000 house on Norman street; the Lyon estate. will build a brick one-story block on Fairfield avenue near the NJ. E. church; Mrs Jane Weldon will build four-family house on Lafayette street; Smith Hubbell is building a three-store brick building on Cannon street, back of W. B. Hall & Co.'S.
 Nichols & Sons have bought p lots of Walter s. Wilmot at the corner of Strat- ford and Wilmot avenues, East End, and have sold five of these lots to John A. Birge & Co.,, six to Platt & Ritch, three to William F. Randall, three to W. S.. Hurlburt, three to John T. Sterling. All this transferring was done in three days.
 Died, 24th, Philip Davison of 192 Noble avenue, 2l; Willie T., infant son of Will liam c. Blackman of 45 Gilbert street.
 Engineer W. B. Palmer of Hull & Pal mer has been at East End surveying for the spur track from the main line of the Consolidated road to tidewater at Boards ley's dock. The road will run over land of Lawyer D. F. Hollister, Alonzo Beardsley and James Staples, who are to pay for the grading, etc., and ask the road to lay the ties and rails.
 B. Nichols & Sons have sold a lot on Barnum avenue to William H. Russell, who will build at once.
 L. D. Plumb is doing news, station cry and bookselling business at the old post office news room on Bank street. He has re-fitted the store and has circular counter in the center, with the various articles within easy reach.
 Mrs Frank Higgins and Mrs Fred Beach have visited in New York and New Jersey.
 The Yost Typewriter Go. has been or ganized with $200,0OO capital and E. A. Hawley, Morris W. Seymour and J. W. Knowlton of Bridgeport, A. J. and James T. White of New York as stockholders. Secretary and Treasurer W. H. Parrott