The Newtown bee., 1894-11-30
SHELTON.

The selectmen have offered reward o1 $20O for the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who get the barn of o G. Beard on fire. A short time previous to the fire neighbor heard wagon pass land recognized the voice of one of the oc. cupants of the wagon as that of one o1 the recent saloon keepers of this village
 But whether the two have any connection has not yet been determined. The same team was afterward seen standing by the roadside at reasonable distance from the fire, while those in the wagon were looking at the fire.
 The Adams block has been an eyesore to the village for some years, occupying as it does prominent position and hay I ing been the rendezvous of the lowest classes and furnished more than it's quota of town paupers. MT Adams has now employed man to go through it weekly and see that all objectionable tenants are sent out of it.
 Burgess Bierce has an attack of ty- phoid fever. .' Postmaster Wheeler has received word from Washington that allowance has been made him by the department at Washington for the stamps which were stolen from him by burglars who burst open his safe, last spring.
 Mrs William Neis died quite suddenly, last Monday afternoon, and was buried Wednesday afternoon in the Riverside cemetery. This is a very sad case as on- ly little more than week before her husband, who went away in the morning in his usual health, was brought home dead, and she was taken i'll immediately ohoCi oLC 1uucidls anu ib Is tuoukub Gudt grief for his loss caused her i'll ness and death. They leave family of five, the eldest being about 20 years of age. Rev l.. M. Keneston and J. Tomlinson represented the Congregational church at the conference of churches at South Norwalk, last Wednesday. E. L. Staples was also a delegate from the Birming- ham church. Wilkinson Bros. 6 Co. and the Bed stead company are building additions to their respective factories.
 The bell for the Congregational church edifice will be furnished by the young people of the church and has been order ed.
 The Lyceum club had good attend ance, last Wednesday evening, at the Town hall, in the first of their series of entertainments. Miss Grace M. Bronson l'of Bridgeport gave readings very ac- ceptably and the Young Mems orchestra 1 furnished music.
 Mrs D. s. Brinsmade gave pink tea, ! last Wednesday afternoon, which was largely attended and very successful. A new departure has been made in the lower rooms of the public school by in troducing the Dollard system of reading which is claimed to be superior to any other method. It has taken long time to find it out.
 l James A. Bradley had g fall of % fee from scaffolding which he was erecting on house he was building, by the stag ing giving way, and what is surprising he was not seriously injured, although b, struck on his head and shoulders. On next Tuesday, the 4th, the associa
 tion of Fairfield county meets with Re, l.. M. Keneston. The ladies will se tables in the Town hall for dinner.
 The Derby c. E. Union met with thu
 Baptist church, last Friday evening, ant
 were addressed by William s. Beard O
 the Divinity school, New Haven, on mis
 sion work.
 I Last Friday evening the Junior c. B
 society gave an entertainment in th'
 Town hall and realized $15, which the,
 devote towards memorial window in tn
 new church edifice.
 The ceiling for the new Congregations l church is to be of steel and has been de l livlfed at the edifice. The company fur l nishing it also put it on. It is of varse, S. patterns and will be much superior to tn ordinary ceiling.
 BRooKFIELD.
 Mrs Hubbard of New Haven, who ha i viaik5sd l1ear aiaff4r Mra H. Ix.s Jamea. a