The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1891-08-07
Miss Alice Mccain is in Yonkers Miss
Henrietta Main in Bridgeport.

Miss Alice Mccain is in Yonkers Miss
Henrietta Main in Bridgeport.
The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs
Henry S. Glover was baptized at the .
o'clock service at St. Paul's church, Sun
day, by Rev w. S. Jones. Mr. Glover
was godfather and his sister, Miss Lottie
Glover, was godmother. The child,
christened Charlotte Leroy Glover, was
baptized in a silver christening bowl, the
property of Mrs Glover, in which all of
her children have been christened. The
water was brought from the river Jor-
dan. A family gathering at Mr. Glover's
home, Saturday night, preceded the GER
emony.
About $50 tickets from Fairfield to
Bridgeport were sold, Saturday. The
sales have been increasing during the last
few months and the monthly average is
now nearly 1900.
Mrs d. I'll. Shaw has returned from
visit in New Haven, BranfOrd and else
where.
Unpleasant weather prevailed on three
of the four evenings on which the young
ladies held their festival at the Town
hall, last week, preventing large at
tendance; but on the fourth and last
evening, Friday, the hall was crowded to
the doors and dancing was kept up with
out cessation until Ill. Dancing was
the principal feature, on this as on the
previous evenings, music being furnish
ed by the orchestra of j. f. McDermott
of II Howe street, Bridgeport, while
prompting was by J. D. Bouton of 100
State street, Bridgeport. Refreshments
and temperance drinks were provided
and zest was added by a number of prizes
chances for which were sold by the fol-
lowing committee: Misses Rose McDon-
nell, Mamie Garrity, Mary Fitzgerald,
Nellie johnson, Minnie Sweeney, Josie
Moore, Mamie Farrell, Kittie Leahy. The
prizes were drawn on Friday and the
winners were as follows: Whip, George
Buckley; order for dozen cabinet photo
graphs, Thomas Lee; box OF cigars, Ar
thur Price; smoking set, Charles Flana-
gan; cake, John Mccarthy; silk umbrel-
la, Lizzie Whalen; cake, Sadie Clarity ;
cake, George Bonney. The thorough
ness with which the canvassers did their
work is shown by the amount OF money
received from the prizes. A large share
of it was obtained on Friday, when l72
admission tickets were sold at the door.
On Wednesday, members of Elias Howe,
Jr, band attended and on Thursday there
were instrumental selections on the gui-
tar and harmonica. Three hundred and
seventy two dollars were the receipts, a
substantial addition to the building fund
of Court Fairfield, A. O. F. of A. So
successful was it, indeed, that already
there is talk of a similar festival, next
October.
Miss Alice Conley of New York is
guest of Miss kittie Leahy.
Justice E. Livingstone Wells awarded
John Brady ,Jr, $12 65 and costs of $l4 40
in his suit against Redfield & Sons.
Next Monday, the selectmen are to
meet at Charles S. French's, Holland hill,
to inspect the road running west from
Mr. French's honse and across the track
to Painter Smiths.
Festival at Hope chapel. Fairfield
Woods, this week.
Father Coleman announced, Sunday,
that collection would be taken for the
new building of the parochial school,
Sunday, 10th. 1t is hoped that goodly
sum may be secured.
Bicyelists pay but little attention to
the conspicuous notices of the bylaw
prohibiting the riding of bicycles on the
sidewalks and pedestrians often narrow
ly escape injury. One man who was run
into, the other night, pushed all other
wheelmen off the sidewalk in revenge. A
few arrests would stop this practice,
which is particularly dangerous to ladies
and children.
No work was done on the retaining
wall through the old pond hole near the
post Office, for a few days, but it has
now been resumed and the wall, which
had reached a height of two or three
feet, torn down and built few feet near
Ell the office. The workmen had, in fol-
lowing the directions of the engineers,
built the wall outside the line of the por-
ton given by Frederick Sturges.
Manager Harral of the George hotel,
Black Rock, has inaugurated the annual
series of weekly hops at the hotel, hold
ing the first, last Saturday night. They
will be held on succeeding Saturdays
and will be brilliant and gay. Many
Bridgeport society people attend, be-
sides others from Black Rock and Fair
field
The Storm Petrol has been altered to
pleasure yacht and is IN charge Of
Charles Mills.
Picnic Of the Congregational Sunday
schools of Fairfield and Southport at
High Rock, Thursday, 2otf.