The Newtown bee., 1892-12-23

IMPROVEMENTS AT TRINITY CHAPEL.
 The chapel of Trinity church has been thoroughly re-frescoed. The side walls are a cream color, with a handsome frieze with border with Scripture quo tations. The wall between the two back rooms has been removed, thus making a fine ante room. A new carpet has been put down and the seats have been var nished It is now great addition to the church. The chapel was used for the first time, since it was renovated, last Sunday. The Sunday school will now hold it's sessions there, as will also the Kings Daughters and the Brotherhood of St Andrew.
 The Methodist church will have its Christmas festival on Tuesday evening. Extensive decorations are in order.
 The Kings Daughters met on Monday afternoon with Mrs l.. H. Jennings to prepare Christmas presents for the Five Points institution in New ork and the flower mission.
 Rev Mir Gilman will deliver an appro- priate Christmas sermon at the Metho- dist church on Sunday morning.
 The large granite pillar, given by C.. NJ. Taintor, has been placed at the en- trance of Oak Lawn cemetery.
 The White Rock, the Jennings boat, went out with heavy load of produce on Monday night.
 The children's Christmas festival at the Congregational church will be held on the 18th.
 Rev MT Holman will preach sermon appropriate to the Christwas season at the Congregational church on Sunday morning.
 The gas generator for the new Pequot library has arrived.
 There was excellent singing at the Congregational church. last Sunday night.
 k. l.. Shepherd, the correspondent of the Union, who has been on the sick list, is again hustling about the village.
 The Christmas festival for the Sunday school children of Trinity parish, will be held in the church on Wednesday even- ing, December 2S, at 7.30 o'clock. There is to be good old-fashioned' tree, with few modern improvements.
 Among the school boys who have come home for vacation, are George Per
 Mir and Mrs H. Gould and son are spending the holidays with MT and Mrs John B. Pell at Princeton, N. J.
 Mrs Edmund Guilbert and children arr rived in town yesterday. MT Moss and the Misses storm are guests at the rec tory.
 Decorations at the Congregational church will be unusually elaborate. Christmas workers meet in the evenings at o'clock. On Sunday, at 3 p. m., the Sunday school children, with their par ents and friends, will carry to the chap el, gifts to be forwarded to the Brooklyn Howard colored orphan asylum.
 Tracey Buckingham is spending his vacation with MT and Mrs H. N. Wake | man.
 Wednesday being St Thomas day, ser vices were held at Trinity at 10 a. m. Later the ladies met to arrange for the | Christmas decorations.
 Miss Clara Beers, the gifted daughter | of Ebenezer Beers of Greens Farms, played this week, at concert in Chick ering hall, N. Y., from Bach's Ave Ma ria."
 John H. Wood of Southport is presd- ing at the organ in the Congregational church during the sickness of Miss Ophe- lio c. Taylor, the organist.
 Judge John H. Perry began his course of lectures in the Yale law school, with a lecture to the junior class, last Monday 
 The body of Mrs Samuel Rowland of of South Norwalk, sister of Rev MT Pen- nell, was brought here for burial on Sum- day, Rev Mir Holman officiating. Rev H. N. Dunning conducted the funeral at South Norwalk.
 Attorney E. Livingston Wells attend ed the dinner given at the Atlantic hotel, to the officers-elect of Con- necticut, by the democratic association of Bridgeport, Tuesday night.
 The hearing in the case of Mrs M. J. Bulkley versus the estate of Joseph Betts, deceased, was tried before com- missioners Sherwood and Kemper at the Town hall, Monday. Mrs Bulkley was by Attorney E. Livingston Wells and the estate by J. B. Hurlbut of Norwalk. It began at 10 o'clock and was finished at 4.30 p. m. The commis- sioners reserved their decision.
 MT and Mrs Aubin B. Branch of Rich nond, Va, rejoice in the birth of a son. Mir Branch was a former resident of 
 The public schools close this afternoon For the Christmas vacation.
 Joseph German and Miss Maggie Lee of Bridgeport are to be married in Janu ary.
 c. A. Wheeler has secured the contract for timing the Simon Banks new house.
 Miss Mary Mitchell, who has been very III with pneumonia, is improving rapid