The Newtown bee., 1893-04-14
NICHOLS.
WHATS THE MATTER WITH NICHOLS?

Less than mile and half from the limits of big, beautiful and enterpris- ing city like Bridgeport, and only four and half miles from it's center. We let other places of inferior and more distant situation excel us in thousand respects. Do we lack patriotism? Do we fail in courage? Are the inconveniepces of back country life preferred to the facili- ties and accommodations that modern invention has provided so Iavishly with in sound of our quiet life? Is the life of recluse pleasanter than society, and the hum of delights and activities which are inseparably attached to it's train? Nichols of the future is to be much more beautiful, convenient and stirring place than the present Nichols, and if we don't accelerate the speed of trans formation now scarcely seen, we shall soon be termed "slow," "blind,'' or dead to the possibilities of the situation, and this by individuals whom opportunity or our own necessity will develop. It has been said that in great crisis, (like the present for instance), a leader suited to the emergency is sure to arise. Will it be necessary for some outsider, at present a stranger here, to take up the work-pos- sibly some crafty and tyrannical com bine? Nichols offers field for fortune that will not long escape the eagle eye of lucre's devotees. Drop the patriotic view and notice the possibilities from a pecuniary standpoint. Not man in the town who has the proper business quail fications could reasonably expect to make a better ''spec'' in anything at which he is working, or could take up, than in developing Nichols for resi- dence community. For healthfulness, quiet, sobriety, responsibility, scenery and situation Nichols has no equal so near the city. Already we are less than three miles from street cars and one of the finest parks that this portion of the state will contain. What more natural features could be demanded unless it be unparalleled sites for building? In these Nichols is magnate. Why don't we wake up and get up! Why not build that long deferred stone road. the only connecting link at present needed be- tween our attractions and the many pleasure seekers who would drive this way to enjoy them if they could do so speedily and without too much of a shaking? It is not expense that retards the consummation of this much needed improvement. We would have to build less than two miles of such road, and the people of Nichols are not poor by any means. Besides this the town prom ises to help shoulder the expense. Bridgeport city has signified her willing ness to meet our efforts in any such en- terprise at the town line. Then why our first step in this grand march of progress?
 Dr F. c. Starkweather has set out so peach trees and over 100 grape vines. Later he intends planting an orchard of Japenese plums.
 Miss Susie Hawley has been spending short time in Trumbull Center.
 No service was held in the Methodist church, last Sunday, except the prayer meeting of the Y. P. s. 0. E. This was led by Miss Elsie Nichols. A large num- Der attended.
 Mrs Hollister Sage has been entertain ing her mother, Mrs Brown of Croton Falls, N. Y. during the past week.
 The stage now arrives here about o'clock, the time having changed April.
 A number from this place attended the entertainment in Trumbull, last Tuesday evening.
 Miss Jessie Cook visited few days in Bridgeport, last week.
 The many friends of George F. Am Dler,a former resident, are sorry to learn of his serious illness of typhoid pneumo- mia at his home in Sehenectadv, N. Y.
 Mrs George E. Peet, accompanied by her daughter, Miss Evanna, have gone to visit her son in Virginia.
 Mrs Whitney entertained her mother and sister, conference week.
 Miss Grace Nichols is visiting in Shell ton.
 again after slight attack of pleurisy.
 Miss May Nichols returns to her school in South Manchester on Saturday, after a vacation Of two weeks.