The Newtown bee., 1892-05-27
BETHEL.


 Matthew Hall, wife and baby Ruth o Hoboken are guests of Mrs Emily V Benedict.
 Fred Gehrls has bought new bicycle of o w. Swift, Danbury, the Road King pneumatic.
 The new monument was shipped, Tues. day, 17th, and has been delayed on the road somewhat; the committee have been trying to find it that it may be ready for Memorial day.
 The Bethel Band of Hope held d straw berry and ice cream festival, last week Wednesday night, which proved suc- cess in every way and netted the society about $22.
 Howard Willard will handle all of MT Pearson's strawberries, this season.
 Rev J. T Langlois has invited Grand Army men to attend the M. k. church, Sunday evening, when he will preach d sermon appropriate to the day.
 Memorial exercises were held by schOl- ars of the High school, last Friday after noon. 1t was attended by the school board and was very interesting.
 Preparations are about complete for Memorial day exercises. The program for the day, as far as completed, con- sists of a parade, in which the fire com panies, Grand Army of Bethel and Dan bury and several other organizations of Bethel and Danbury will take part. The Danbury band and the drum corps will furnish music. A special train will be run to Danbury in the afternoon.
 Most of the town went to see the pa rade in Danbury, circus day.
 Reuben Johnson has sold his residence on Greenwood avenue to Dr A. k. May. Two Bethel men narrowly escaped death from the cars, Saturday, George Wheeler at this station and William Leigh at Danbury. At about I, d train was switching on the side track. 1t had back ed up to within few feet of car and was still backing when Mir Wheeler came up to the track on his way to his paint shop; being in q hurry, he started across. The conductor, seeing his danger, sig nailed the engineer to go ahead and, but for this, Mir Wheeler would have been killed. MT Wheeler was carried into the depot and doctors summoned. Dr Hart ordered him taken home. He was put on a stretcher and taken to his home on Elizabeth street, where he was examined by Drs Hart and Barber, who found no bones broken, but he was bruised up, es- pecially about the hip. At last reports, he is getting along comfortably. MT Leigh was trying to get on moving car when, through sudden lurch, he lost his balance and fell between the platform and the cars. He had presence of mind to throw himself as far from the car as possible; had he not done this, he would undoubtedly have been caught, as he was at the front end of the train.
 Greenwood avenue is being improved with stones and sand.
 The horse railroad will change hands in about month. Let us hope for the better.
 Hating still continues dull.
 Aaron s. Lacey is quite sick.
 MT and Mrs Edwin 5. Short started fol Astoria, Ore, Thursday.
 The entertainments given by local tai ent, last week Thursday and Friday nights, for the benefit of the monument fund was d success in every particular and netted about $50. The performance was one of the best given here and on' which the people of Bethel have cause tt be proud of. It would be hard to say which of the actors were the best and WI would congratulate the manager, T. c Mansfield, on his good taste in the SC lection of the cast and also in his inter pretation of Timothy Tapley, a Uniol man drafted into the Confectionery ana who appeared at the critical moment. H s. Gilbert, the spy, was the hero of thu play and the part was well taken. H. acted admirably at all times and espec ially as the Pennsylvania Dutchman Mabel Meredith, fiancee of the spy, need ed clever acting and it was handled a easily and gracefully as many of tn : stars could have done by Mrs O. H. Gil bert, who was heartily applauded. A J Hallock took the part of villain to per lection and T. A. Evans, the coon brought down the house, as he usual does.
 Benjamin Foster, the other afternoon was driving near the reservoir when hi horses made a sudden start, throwin him out of the wagon, bruising him u !, badly.
 Barber Leppert, who was injured baG ly in a runaway, last week, is out again
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