The Newtown bee., 1893-02-03

held from St RHsn nii Sunday afternoon, January 22. 1t 80 and WAS largely at tended. The sermon was preached by Father HiHmtl of New York. The con- ductor. engineer and .brakemen of the train that Mir Lynch worked on were all present at the funeral and acted as pail bearers. There were many handsome floral tributes. MT Lynch was popular with his fellows and will be badly missed.
 One night, this week, the chimney of William Baldwin's house at Hawleyville, took fire and blazed up quite brightly. MT Baldwin aroused one or two of his neighbors, but their assistance was not needed as the fire died out of itself, without causing damage.
 Howard G. Hubbell, the Bridgeport oil merchant, has issued stunning calander for 1893. MT Hubbell never does any thing by halves.
 William H. Beers of Hopewell filled his ice house, last week, with 9-inch ice cut from Theron E. Platt's ice pond. This is the second crop harvested from MT Platt's pond, this year.
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 Miss Nora Lake of Jamestown. N. r., is visiting at her uncle's, L. B. Lakes. Way River spent Sunday with William Sherman at New Haven.
 Miss Nellie TyrrelI passed Sunday at her home at Roxbury Fall.
 Mrs Robert Clark of Hawleyvile is ill with pneumonia.
 Thomas Lillis, who has been sick with a bad sore throat and cold, was on duty at the Rubber factory, Monday.
 A party of the young people expect to take in the hop at South Britain tonight.
 The Sandy Hook dramatic club will give an enterta nmenC in GlOVer's hall, on Wednesday evening, February &. The program will consist of the popular farce entitled, "Tne Little Rebel" and of music, vocal and instrumental, solos, duets and quartets. Prof and Mrs Platt will assist and St Johns orchestra will be in attendance. The tickets will be D cents. It will begin at 7.45 o'clock. If stormy, it will be given on Thursday.
 The subject of the next lecture at St Johns church is ''Family jars, or house. hold education.''
 The ladies prayer meeting will be held next Tuesday at , o'clock with Mrs ii. l.. Wheeler.
 Mrs Susan Hall has been spending a week or two in Sandy Hook with her son, Ezra Hall. She left for Bridgeport on Thursday.
 The next quarterly convention of Good Templars wlli be held with Peguonnock lodge, Bridgeport, to-day, February s | commencing at 10.30 a. n. Delegates | from Granite lodge, Sandy Hook, navt l been elected and the place of meeting being so convenient, delegates vii l attend to-day.
 l w. w. Perkins has closed his house il l Mamaroneck since the death of Mrs Per l kins and is now pleasantly situated witt the family of his son, George, in Brook lyn. The younger son, Frank, with hi family, are living very near them il Downing street, Brooklyn. Their man. friends in Sandy Hook will be glad t' learn that both sons are pleasantly stu ated and that Nil Perkins in his loneli ness and sore bereavement has so mucl to comfort him in the families of his sons
 Mrs Diclzey, at the Methodist parsor
 age at the Hook. has been quite out 0
 health for the past few weeks, but iS nov
 improving rapidly.
 The ladies prayer meeting are full C
 interest, l6 being present at the last mee
 ing.
 Rev William Brown will preach, neA Sunday morning, at Southville, and Z
 Sandy Hook, in the evening at 7. Tier f will be prayer meeting, commencing | 6.30.
 Charles Howard Husband, who ha t been quite ill in New York with typhoi fever, is improving. Mrs Warner hs
 been with her sister nearly two Weel : caring for the sick one. Mir and Mrs Charles Dubois of Brool : lyn made their friends in Sandy Hook !. l surprise visit, this week, on Tuesda.
 spending the day and returning home
 the evening.
 ', Rev James Taylor made flying wis !, to Sandy Hook on Monday, returnir 5 home in the evening. !: Fairfield County News