The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1891-11-13
LONG HILL.
ADOPTION TO c.E.RApcI1FFE.s sHop


ADDITION TO C.E.RADCLIFFE's SHOP.
Heavy orders at G. E. Radcliffe'sr have
made more room necessity and he has
built 22x30 addition to the shop, with
three floors, in which will be placed two
new double head knitting machines and
other machinery to be removed from the
overcrowded rooms now in use. Clarence
j. Radcliffe, younger brother of the pro-
prietor, is soon to be taken into partner
ship and it is expected to nearly double
the output of the mill when the improve
ments are completed. Besides the new
man who began work, Monday, three
additional girls will be required, making
about dozen hands employed. Fleeced
glove lining is the cloth made now, cot
ton and wool goods finished with heavy
fleece on one side, about 400 yards being
finished in day, the prodhct varying
with the quality of goods produced. Not
all the yarn required by the firm is made
here. One set of cards and a 240-spindle
jack are kept at work converting raw
wool into yarn. Much of the cotton yarn
is bought. One end of the addition
rests on three strong piers, which are
built almost in the bed of the Pequon-
mock. 1t is strongly built, J.J. Radcliffe
doing the work. The roof of tin was
water in the mill pond has necessitated
blasting in the raceway, which is
through solid rock for some distance and
but little more than the water needed
for securing goods is furnished by the
stream at present. An engine and boiler
in basement furnish power when wa
ter is lacking and steam from the boiler
warns the building. We are glad to
note such evidences of prosperity. this
being the second addition to the shop.
We hope to see the new firm outgrow
more ample facilities to be afforded by
the improvements now nearly completed.
E. Booth will soon, by request of sew
eral young people, open singing school
in Coanville, if suitable room can be
procured. Beating time and singing by
note at sight will be thoroughly taught
Applicants will leave their names at S.
B. Beardsley's store or with E. Booth.
Number of pupils limited to 10 or u.
Toucey's shop is to begin work, Mon
day, 10th.
B. A. Lyon had the job of digging and
stoning the we'll for use at the hall. A
good flow of water was struck seven
feet below the surface.
Mr. and Mrs d. S.French spent Sunday
in Bridgeport, guests of Edwin Blakes-
lee of State street.
Edward Wohltman, who is something
of an electrician and woodworker for
w. B. Coan, is spending his spare mo-
ments rigging a clock to wind by cleo
tricity. The works connect, when part
ly run down, with little No. motor,
which winds it up again in a jitfy, per-
forming the operation once in II hours.
The battery, it is expected, will furnish
power for a couple of years.
r. C. Tousey has been on the sick list.
Miss Lizzie Dingley has visited her sis
ter, Miss Alice.
Mrs Sears of Jersey City has visited
Miss Emogene Sears.
Miss Clara Hall has visited friends in
Ansonia and Shelton.
Mr. and Mrs l.. nj. Wakeiy and Mrs n.
Hall have visited Mrs G. S. Thompson of
Glen Brook.
Violins and banjos given away to boys
and girls by the New England Tea Co.
See ad.
In the list of friends who subscribed to
the handsome present of 500 in gold and
81 in bills at the golden wedding, the
names of Mr. and Mrs Nathaniel Hall
were inadvertently omitted. The names
of Mr. and Mrs F. S. Shelton were insert
ed twice by mistake.