The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1891-06-19

SenteT uiSGrlCC, Slineon EeaSe COninltIee
and collector.
A brother of John Kealy sailed for
America on the Amsterdam and expects
to come to Greenfield Hill.
Ezra Thorpe had a bad fall, last week,
from the stone wall near Sherman Adj
ams's. He was seriously bruised and
somewhat cut. Mr. Thorpe is advancing
in years, but his friends hope that he will
soon be out again.
The \. Z. S. c. K. prayer meeting at
the Congregational church was led, Fri
day night, by Mrs Royal Whitaker.
Next weeks meeting will be led by Mrs
John III. Hull.
William Meeker's horse was badly in
jured by getting cast in the stable, last
week.
William DAZZLING has sold fine colt to
Edwin Sherwood.
William DAZZLING has sold a number of
his sheep to parties in New Jersey.
Fred Buxton, who has been helping B.
B. Banks, has left and Eddie Heffernan
has been in his place.
Repairs have been made at the house
of Mrs John Baker.
Besides his work for Mr. Bronson, Will
liam VanNess has been able, by working
overtime, to do considerable painting for
prtf To ho1 sr,Eo @INo
and fences of Thomas Perry and has done
work in the interior of Mr. Perry's house
he has also been working for Mrs Will
liam Bradley and Col Nichols.
Mr. Bronson and family are now fully
settled in their Summer quarters at Yer
ma mansion.
Joseph Parkhurst has moved into Mrs
Wakeman's house.
The stone crusher at Verna mill began
running, Friday, to crush stone for the
walks about the mansion. The stone is
brought from the quarry opened on Mr.
Bronsons land before the new house was
begun.
J.. N. Sherwood finished the carnaton
season, last week, shipping about 2000,
Saturday. He has number of houses
devoted to roses, which are doing we'll.
He expects ito have fewer flowers, next
year, and devote more space to early veg
etables, etc. His experiments in that
line, this year, were successful and he
had good crop of radish and lettuce.
Cucumbers are now coming on rapidly
and he is picking from 1900 to 2OO0, this
week. Several houses are devoted to Gu
cumbers, which are sold mostly in
Bridgeport, though the local demand is
supplied. Mr. Sherwood has no mush-
rooms, this season, but expects to devote
considerable space to them when the
season for planting them arrives. All
this, of course, is under glass: but, out
side, are 500 or 700 tall and healthy look
ing tomato plants, on some of which are
tomatoes larger than eggs. Mr. Sher-
wood intends to market tomatoes Just a
little sooner than any other local grower,
for, as he says, the first picking is worth
the rest of the crop. Mr. Sherwood is an
experienced gardener and makes success
a certainty by adopting or originating
the most approved methods of cultiva-
ton.
William Van Ness has taken the con-
tract to finish painting the buildings at
Verna farm and has four men, including
Arthur Whitney of Redding. Mr. Briggs,
A., Nj = O
has been working on the interior of the
mansion. Mr. Van Ness has finished
painting the house formerly occupied by
Miles How ell and has been working at
the shops and the dairy buildings.
The new barn of Dwight NJ. Banks is
nearly finished.
/. N. Sherwood has taken down one
of his smaller greenhouses and will, by
re-modelling another and building anew,
make one large house, about 35x110. He
is to paint the houses, using lead and oil,
along the edge of the glass. The paint
is mixed rather stiff and is applied by
forcing it through the spout of an ordi-
nary oil can. This work, which must be
done every two years, is necessary in Or
der to keep the glass from becoming
loose in the frames.
1t is feared that two tall trees which
add to the beauty of Lloyd Sherwood's
place will be killed by the lightning
which recently struck them. During the
same storm, lightning struck in half
dozen places about the hill