The Newtown bee., 1892-04-08
BRIDGEPORT.

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 The pleasant home of Edgar Dean on North Main street has received coat of paint; it appears attractive in it's new dress.
 c. W. Tator has improved the grounds in front. of his home on North Main street by setting out shade trees.
 l. c. Peck has been awarded the car penter contract on Casey Bros.' block on Thompson street. It will cost about $500.
 Wheeler & Howes contemplate large brick building where now stands their old grain house and main office at the east end center bridge. Henry A. Lam- bert will do the architecting.
 John B. Clark has removed his carpen- ter shop from John street to Harrall av- enue.
 The union men employed by Bowling < Bottomley on block of brick houses building on Myrtle avenue for J. Haw- ley struck work. Friday morning, as the bosses employed non-union men. They remained firm until Saturday morning, when the firm thought it better to hire all union men.
 The contract for hotel on Kossuth street, near Howe, for McMahon & Wren, has been awarded to P. Garvey.
 The F. T. Barnum Institute at the corner of Main and Gilbert streets is now covered in and the work on the in- side is about to begin.
 Longstaff &5 Hurd have secured the street, near Main, for Drouve Bros. It will have fine copper front executed by the owners.
 Steward Stevenson of the Waterbury has had plans made for a two-family house on Gregory street. T. Ballou has the carpenter work and the house will cost about $3000
 The builders are beginning to com plain at the high price they have to pay for lath. In some cases, they cannot get them at all.
 Services at Olivet church, last Sunday morning, were made interesting by song selections rendered by William Hooper, who also preached an excellent sermon. In the evening, the pastor, Rev E. K. Holden, took for his subject no license and handled the question from the moral 1yar i,1to iro hat ly one of our city papers emphatically endorsed license. His views" aroused more or less controversy.
 This warm spell has not deterred John ing trip to the Bermudas, where they expect to spend several days recuperat- ing.
 Election day was a beautiful June day, at least in temperature and gave the ag- ed and indisposed desire to exercise once more their right of suffrage. Among the number were noticed two of Bridge ports oldest citizens going together to the fourth ward polling place, Hon Ste phen Nichols and Anson T. Hawley, Esq; both of them are SS years of age. They were relating to a number of interested listeners that they had voted for 67 years and had cast a Republican ballot so long as the party had been in existence.
 Alexander Bell, one of O1ivet church's staunch supporters, whom the BEE read CTS will remember as having been so ser- iously ll,Was out for few minutes, elect ion day.
 W. E. Parker, who was seriously injur- ed by falling 10 feet down an excavation for sewer, is now on the way to con- plete recovery. He had been nominated on the Republican ticket for alderman,so that he felt like caged lion during his illness, as he is known in politics as a hustler.
 Saturday, matinee and evenings at Bun nelps, "Money Mad,'' Steele Mackeye's masterpiece, should call out a large au- dience. The scenery carried by this com pany fills three cars. It will take 20 men on the stage to run the vast amount. A grand performance is assured.
 Tuesday evening, IS Bells,'' Primrose < Vests new comedy, will be seen in Bunnell's for the first time. This is comedy which will delight ladies and children.
 Thursday evening, April IA, ssThe Lost Paradise will be presented by Charles Frohman's Boston stock company and Saturday matinee and evening, April 16, sBeacon Lights" will appear with fine company.
 Probably none but very few of Bridgeport's oldest residents know that Porter street, running between North Main street and North avenue, was part of the old original highway running be- tween Newtown and Bridgeport and was in existence before the Newtown turn pike, but was abandoned as the main highway to give place to the short cut running from Wheeler street to Bulls Head, so called. Porter street, for the first time in it's history, is to be honored