The Newtown bee., 1893-12-15

MISS hOUlnSOn or COrnWaiI Brl00G Is visiting Mrs Sarah Smith.
 Mrs Brown is arranging a grand con- cert, the proceeds from which are to be devoted to charitable work.
 Contractors Stagg and Beardsley are building new barn for John Peck Wheeler.
 The action of the town III eeting, in vot- ing to accept of the work done on Skid more hill, is exciting some unfavorable comment. It is claimed by some that the work was not dcne in accordance with the specifications or contract.
 Capt George Richardson is reported as decidedly better and his entire recovery is looked for.
 Some 50 of the friends of B. H. Mer- rick gathered at his residence on Main street one evening last week, to assist him in warming up his newly remodeled house. Dancing, games and bountiful lunch, made the occasion one long to be remembered.
 Mrs A. B. Davis is visiting her daugh- ter at Melville, Mass.
 The boys are enjoying the fine skating on all the ponds.
 Rev MT Cornwall of Christ church and Rev J. s. Ives of the Congregational church are suffering from severe attacks of the grip.
 Rev Dr Clark of Bridgeport officiated in Christ church, last Sunday.
 There was freshet in the river, last week, and the platforms and staging erected for work on the Washington n bridge, were carried away by the ice coming down the river. This will delay the work some; still it is expected the new bridge will be up February l.
 Constable Stagg war seriously injured, last week. by his horse slipping on the ice and falling on top of him. No bones were broken but he was badly bruised and confined to the house for several days,
 The Chautauqua circle met this week with Mrs Thomas on Main street.
 Charles Wells has gone to Florida for the winter.
 Mutual Hook and Ladder Co.,, held it's regular meeting last week and after bus mess partook of clam chowder and coffee.
 The sociable given by Pequonnock council, in the Town hall, last week. was a success, although the weather probab- ly prevented many from being present. They will be given regularly through the winter, each alternate Tuesday evening.
 The heirs of Roswell Curtis were awarded $l325 for land taken by the railroad company.
 Miss Helen Birdseye Cur tis is home from her school in Massachusetts, to spend the holidays.
 Charles Stagg expects to move into his new house on East Broadway, this week.
 Oscar Bigelow has an addition to his family, young son.
 At meeting of agricultural societies, farmers cluus and granges of Fairfield county, held here this week, F. E. Blake man was reelected a member of the state board of agriculture.
 It is estimated that it will cost some one from $4000 to S5000 to fill in the western approach to the new Washing ton bridge. The contractors say the town must do it and the town fathers think differently.
 Edward Wood, the real estate agent, has exchanged his Bridgeport house for one of the Osborne cottages on Kings Highway.
 Bedell Benjamin and family go to New York, for the winter, next week.
 Mrs John R. Latin, who fell on the ice, last week, was more seriously injured than first reported, she having broken her hip. She is now as comfortable as can be expected after so serious an acci- dent.
 There seems to be a great necessity for the locating of lamps under the railroad crossings. They are so dark at night that one can scarcely find their way through without mishap.
 Rev Joel s. Ives preached to a large congregation, Sunday evening, on the Mountain of blessing 7
 A good sized audience listened to very interesting lecture in the Methodist church, last Friday evening, on the Worlds fair.
 Mrs Birdseye Booth, aged 75. years, suffered stroke of-paralysis, last We'd nesday. At her advanced age her entire recovery seems doubtful.
 Our people arc far from pleased at the accommodations offered by the tramway company, under the new management. They miss the work of the old manager