The Newtown bee., 1892-08-26
HUNTINGTON.

HUNTINGTON.
 Mrs Harriet Cole had the misfortune to lose both of her cows soon after calving, during the hot weather of the present season, presumably from milk fever. She has received the present of another, yielding Is quarts of milk day.
 St. Paul's Episcopal church was burnt in June, 1Sl1. Free Masons assisted in laying the corner stone of that now standing, July, 1872. Dimensions of edi- flee 40x56.
 The writer does not know which is the oldest house in Walnut Tree Hill district. The Nathaniel Wheeler place, where Will liam H. Thompson lives, may be the old est on the main street. The back kitchen at the old David Wheeler place may be older; it is quite ancient. J. H. Bater- man, living with Mrs Harriet Cole, un- earthed on the premises, the present season, a British copper coin bearing the inscriptions: "Georgius II. Rex.-Brit tania 1747." This was about the time David's son Nathaniel was born. The Beach Edwards place, where Mary Wells, widow of George Hinman, now lives, if built for MT Edwards about the time of his marriage, may be a little over 100 years old. The Eli Blackman place, oc- cupied by bis daughters Sarah and Mary Ann with their respective husbands, Hen- ry Betts and James Edward Paige, was built by Eli Blackman, ST, father of Eli and grandfather of Mrs Betts and Mrs Paige, about the year 1906. Part of the Laborie house is said to have been built in 1900. The Waters place, a mile fur ther north, not known whether very an- cient, has been remodeled by Philip J. Jones, occupied once by Truman Black man. The house near ''Saw Mlll City," occupied by Henry Pitts (colored) son of Peter Pitts, was once the residence of his mothers parents, Noah and Phillis Cam. The Capt Cyrus Lewis place, occupied for the last 30 years by David S.Clark, is quite ancient and believed to have been the residence of Birdsy, father of Capt Cyrus. The old Fairchild houses, three quarters of d mile west of the writer's residence, are ancient dwellings. The Nathan Fairchild place, occupied by Lewis B. Gray for the last 40 years, and the Joseph Fairchild place opposite where Roswell Hurd and his family lived many years. Another old house once stood close by, in which Capt George Beard once lived, on the spot where Sherman l.. Burritt's house was afterward built. John Fairchild resided in this vicinity in 1761, when petition for a new parish was made (New Stratford.) John Fair child, grandfather of Nathan, died in Ripton in 17s0, aged @. He was son of Joseph and grandson of Thomas, first in Stratford. John Fairchild, father of Nathan, married Beula Sherman, widow of Ephraim Thompson of North Strat- ford, October 12, l749. Children: Sher- man, Ruth, Curtiss, Abijah, Sarah, Beu- lah, Nathan, Mary, Ruth, John. John, grandfather of Nathan, married Joanna Phippeny. Children: James, John, Jo- anna, Joseph. He had brother Tim othy, who had son Daniel, whose son Timothy and grandson Eli lived on Isin- glass hill, afterward the Silas Hubbell place. The last Timothy had brother Lewis, whose sons Reuben and EDen, residents of Nichols, Trumbull, were saddletree makers, who, with their broth CT Lewis, started the mill in Trumbull known as Fairchilds' paper mill. The Fairchild name has disappeared from Walnut Tree Hill, but descendants still reside in the old neighborhood.-[James Beardsley Wheeler, Huntington, August 15, 1892.
 The roads about Huntington would be pretty good, were it not for the many small cobble stones scattered about. We can get along with the uneven places, but we cannot endure these small stone. In working the roads in the Spring, many small stone are scraped on in the mater ial that is used, are gradually working to the surface and, as rule, lay there to be stumbled and rattled over until the road workers happen along some time during the Fali. We have never had as satis- factory roads since the time when there was supervisor and worker of roads for each school district who would keep the water courses open and small stones thrown out all through the year, for they were near by and could see to it. These supervisors were under the direction of the selectmen, whose duty it was not to personally blow and scrape, as at pres- ent, but to drive over, inspect and direct the several supervisors. One can readily see that, by this system, the work was divided among many, while now it is done by g few. The old sa ying that many hands make light work would apply here.