The Newtown bee., 1891-07-17

Peter Burns and wife of Rockford, ILL.,.
have visited William II. Haggerty, st.
Mary's organist. John Harrington and
wife of Brooklyn have visited his BROTH
err, Jerry, the East Main street baker
Court Waldemere, 69S3, A. o. F. of A. J.,
has membership of $40 and over $1,000
in its treasury.
Bridgeport has 81 Roman Catholic
teachers in its schools, says the Catholic.
Mrs John Smith is with friends at Car
low, the Irish town where Parnells can
didate was defeated.
III. M. Knapp is en- route to Scotland.
Miss Lillian, daughter of S. B. Jones,
is in Denver.
Died, 9th, Ira L. Ager, %; Margaret
M, wife of John Hamburger, So; 10th,
Anna NJ, wife of l.. D. Putnam; Clara
Louise, infant daughter of Wolcott Par
telo.
The charity workers and clergy of the
city are invited to a basket picnic at the
old Bassick homestead, Fairfield avenue
and Organ street, on Thursday, 23d.
Robert Stephens of 100 Hancock ave-
nue. was horribly burned at the West End
mills of Wilmot e Hobbs, where he slip
ped and ran both arms into pot of mol
ten metal.
A pleasant musicale was given by
Misses Perkins and Blakeslee, last week,
at 209 Warren street.
The will of the late Miss Catherine
Hunt has been admitted to probate and
Major w. B. Hincks qualified as admins
TRAITOR. Mrs Hannah M. Adams intends
to contest the will.
Thomas Cook Wordin has been grant
ed permit to build frame house on
State street, on land obtained from his
fathers estate.
Mrs. Tom Thumb, although bordering
upon 60, still finds it profitable to be a
freak. She not only gets $500 in cash
tso bAiS Si2 OL SFSlJ SSSCi puU SliC
has her railroad transportation paid
from her home in Bridgeport to points
of exhibit, as well as a carriage from
her hotel to the museum or theater.
Besides all this, the sale of photographs
and Tom Thumbs life continue to bring
in a good income for the little woman.-
American.
The building commissioners have Or
dered the stone house, corner of Main
street and Mulloy's lane, torn down Or
strengthened; likewise the building at
204 Water street.
Rev DR. Ray Palmer and daughter
Edith arrived in Europe, last week Thurs
day. Rev G. FL. Peck of Bennington,
VT, preached in the North church, Sun
day.
The Waddell-Entz Electric Co., recent.
ly located in the old Hotchkiss factory
is employing about % men in making
electrical machinery. The firm has a
system of storage batteries for use in
street cars that it is trying to develop.
William Smith, clerk for the New
England Tea Co., lis on trip to Virginia.
The new shop of the Holmes q Ed
wards silver company at East End will
be 35x135 and will be the fourth build
ing put up since the company located
here. An immense business is now be-
Jn,a Of ho CHI fha
gained by the removal of the trimming
department to the new shop will be at
once used for other branches of the bust
ness. The new structure is to be of
brick, two stories high. Work is already
at the foundations and the contractors
have orders to finish as rapidly as pos
sible.
One Of the horse cars is to be taken off
the main line by the Bridgeport horse
railroad company and several changes
made in the turnouts. There will then
be left two cars for every turnout on the
road. On the East Main street branch,
ten-minute Roadway will be substituted
for the present ffve-minute Roadway.
Though his brain has been affected
slightly by the shock of the fall, w. F.
Swords is better than at any time since
his runaway accident in Fairfield and
DR. Bowers says that there is hope of en-
tire recovery.
Page &c Held are building two houses
for Greenwood &c Arnold on Wood ave-
nue., four-tenement house for E. Green
stein and store and tenement on Harral
avenue for Mrs Delaney.
Health Officer Fitzgibbons carried the
seeds of scarlet fever from the Whipple
family, when Flora WhippIe died, to his
nephew Arthur, who was visiting him
and the little fellow has since died at
his home in New York.
Ayers hair vigor has long held the first
place, as d hair dressing, in the estimation of
the public. Ladies find that this preparation
gives 4 beautiful gloss TO tho hair and gentle
men ase it to prevent badness and cure hui
nors III the scalp.