The Newtown bee., 1892-04-22
BRIDGEPORT.


 BRIDGEPORT.
 A smart scamp, pretending to repre- sent an English carpet house, wheedled Senator Read out of $75, last week.
 The old house has been removed and work has been begun on the newly ac- quired property of A. w. Burritt on the corner of Beach street and Barnum ave- nue.
 Mrs Patrick Kelly has had work begun on three-story frame building. A. Bown will do the carpenter work. It will cost about $5000.
 Architect Warren R. Briggs has been awarded the competition on the Con- necticut State building at the Worlds Fair. The building will cost $l0,000.
 c. Newman contemplates stone cot tage on North avenue.
 James W. Beardsley has sold two fine ly bred colts to Col Heft. He has also sold 16 colts from his Michigan farm to one party in New Jersey and II to an- other party. MT Beardsley expects to make another trip to Michigan soon.
 The w. F. Swords Lumber Go. recent ly put in saw mill with capacity for saving lumber 20 to 50 feet in length |; also dimension planer that will handle sticks from two inches thick to 24 inches square and from 10 to 50 feet long. These machines will be great convenience to the people of Bridgeport and vicinity and will be in charge of John R. Tomlinson, the veteran sawyer, who has moved from Newtown to East Bridgeport.
 The contract for carpenter work on MT Stevenson's two-family house on Gregory street has been awarded to Mir Osborn of Stratford.
 s. B. Squires & Son are preparing to make extensive alterations in the Stew art house on Cannon street, owned by Smith Hubbell. It is to be raised one story and two stores will be fitted up on the first floor. Bowling & Bottomley have the mason contract.-[ Record.
 The Cube, official organ of the N. P. U., contains picture of w. J. Gorsuch, formerly governor of the order in this State and now it's National secretary. MT Gorsuch has removed his family to New York. MT Gorsuch was formerly Connecticut manager for the Keystone watch company.
 A new street sweeper has been receiv- ed by Street Commissioner Pierce. It was made by the Chapman O'Niel Man ufacturing Co. of New York.
 Albert Martins, the Warren street grocer, is preparing to erect a new dwelling just north of his store.
 Robert Coughlin has left to enter the Norwegian hospital on 27th street, New York, at which hospital he has passed a very fine examination.
 A. Bown has the contract for carpen- ter work on the hotel for McMahon & Wren.
 Bowling & Bottomly have begun work at the old post office building, which is to be provided with three stores on State and three on Bank street.
 Mrs Merritt Merwin of South avenue is enjoying the balmy sunshine of the South for few weeks.
 Miss Lizzie Platt, who makes her home with W. E. Wills of Prospect street, is visiting friends in New York State.
 The Park street Congregational church has voted $500 to buy lot for a chapel on Old Mill Green.
 The Actors Fair is at an end. Miss Jennie O'Neill Potter, the monologe art ist, appeared in several selections and met with most hearty reception. The Either quartet also found great favor with the audience and their renditions were enthusiastically encored. Miss Maud Kapral and Miss Agnes Baylies both met with flattering ovations, while Mollie Killingbeck was rapturously re- ceived. The whistling solos of Miss Byrnes were very tunefully given and she was accorded several well deserved encores. On the 22d of this month, supplementary benefit will be held at Bunnell's theatre. The program to be presented then will embrace literary, musical and athletic specialties and will doubtless be great success. Manager G. B. Bunnell has expressed himself as greatly pleased with the success of the fair. The hustling manager said The bazar was an artistic success and was the best ever held in the State upon q short