The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1892-01-01
BRIDGEPORT.
Dennis Broderick dropped dead on Wa
ter street, last week Thursday.

BRIDGEPORT.
Dennis Broderick dropped dead on Wa
ter street, last week Thursday.
Grip Frustrated Organist S. S. Sanford
and st. Johns had no Christmas music.
Manager Bunnell was given a Christ
mas pair of gold eye glasses by the at
taches of his theater.
The polo attaches gave Manager Har-
ris a gold watch and chair.
Antoinette George and Henrietta Sim
monds, colored sisters so and rs years
old, were both buried, Saturday, from
the Fairfield avenue M. E. church.
Eugene Botsford has sold his house on
Linwood avenue to William J. Smith and
is building new house on Grove street.
Miss Josie Shannon has finished her
time at dressmaking at the Misses Nellie
and Maggie Lemons establishment on
Main street and will start dressmaking
at her parents home in Newtown, and
will cut by the 5. L. Taylor system. We
hope she will succeed Catholic.
Miss Laura S. Meeker of Mobile, Ala
bama, is spending the holidays with Mrs
A. S. Middlebrook.
Benjamin Fish of the Greatest Show on
Earth and Mrs Fish have been confined
to the house with a severe attack of grip.
Street Commissioner Pierce has COM
menced to make clean sweep of all the
main streets about the city. He has a
large force of men on each with a new
broom, which always sweeps clean. We
hope our wide awake commissioner will
kee p on with his good deeds.
d. w. Thompson of New York has
been in the city for several days on bus
mess.
The Bridgeport Forge Co. have the Or
der to put new shaft in the Rosedale,
after which she will again be put on the
route.
The board of trade has taken up the
street car service and expect to change
the state of affairs, but it is very doubt
full if this body can move a permanent
corporation from its old rut. The old
bob tails have been in use for so long
that it will be hard work to give them
up.
Edward Porter, for many years popu-
lar clerk in Tomlinson's grocery on the
corner of Cannon and Broad streets, has
accepted a position with the we'll known
firm of Smith & Wedge, commission mer
chants on Water street.
The Wheeler building on State street
extension is now being improved by the
addition of new front, which brings it
to the street line, making two fine large
stores.
w. w. Harral's residence on Clinton
avenue is being treated to new coat of
paint.
The Courland, the new brick livery
stable being rapidly pushed to complet-
ion on Cannon street, will soon be ready
for w. III. Raymond, after which the old
rickety building on Court street now &C.
cupied by him will be pulled down at
once to make room for the addition to
the new building ON the corner of Court
and State streets now being erected. The
corner will be occupied by the well
known firm of James Staples & Co. as a
bank and for insurance and real estate
business.
Editor Waldo of the Standard has been
in the throes of grip.
Bishop Mcmahon was at st. Angus
tine, Sunday, to confirm class of $50
boys and girls and Bishop Williams at st.
Johns to dedicate the new baptistry and
brass pulpit.
Ormel A. Hall, son of Alanson Hall of
Trumbull, died on Sunday of paralysis,
&C years old. Mr. Hall learned the print
er's trade in the Standard office and his
son, o. Howard Hall, continues the bus
mess. Mr. Hall married Miss Rebecca
Hatch in 1S4S. She survives with five
children: Mrs Elliott P. Curtis, Jr, o.
FL. Hall, Teller Melville E. Hall of the
City national bank, Teller Fred w. Hall
of the Pequonnock national bank and
Bookkeeper D. Clifford Hall with F. E.
Lally & Co. Funeral from St. Johns on
Tuesday.
William Warehouse is to build $4,000
two-tenement house on North Washing
ton avenue for Martin Sykes.
Mrs Margaret M. Burr is building two
$4,000 seven-room cottages and Mrs Isa-
bella Hubbell an $3.50 seven-room house
on WHY'S place.