The Newtown bee., 1895-10-11
THE NEWTOWN BEE.
FRIDAY. OCT IL, 1895.
CIRCULATION:
JANUARY I. 1882, $40
LAST WEEK, 3i50
Fairfield County Chat.
EAsTON.
AT LEES CHAPEL

AT LEES CHAPEL
The sociable on the third, though ne
largely attended as some, was yer
much enjoyed by those present. AS
part of the entertainment, Pastor Wal
riner undertook to relate in rhyme no,
he managed to get acquainted with a.
the members on coming to Lees chape
There are the lines:
In eighteen hundred and ninety four
The Bishop thought the matter DER,
And sent tribe of foreigners,
Who call themselves the Mariners
To take their station on Sport Hill,
| Near the great city of Plattsville.
Famed for its store and cider mill,
To carry on a pastors work
In place of Dominic Dunkerke.
The parson put himself about
| New names and faces to find out,
For should the preacher fail to know
Right quickly Mr. So and So;
Why, Mr. So and So would call
The dominic "no good at ALI"
The preacher IS everybody's man,
And he must learn as best he can
To know each person by his face
And speak each name with ease and grace
So the preacher sets about
Trying quickly to find out
Who is who, and which is which,
calling on poor as well as rich.
Finding dozens and dozens
OF uncies and cousins.
Each of whom he is expected to know.
And hearing folks say,
Almost every day,
OF course, Mr. Preacher vOu,ve mot Co a,a c.
He tries hard to match the right name to the
face,
On Sundays and week days, in every place.
II the head be arrayed in a beautiful bonnet,
Or without either hat or frizzes on it.
He asks where the members each NAV be
found,
Then goes travelling round and round
Here and there
And everywhere
On Hoyden's Hill.
Near Wilson's mill,
Along the shore
OF the reservoir,
Der field and bog,
In rain aud fog,
In snow and sleet,
In summers heat,
And meeting people in their homes,
Familiar with their names becomes.
To better know the members at the very
start,
He wrote their names on paper, and then
upon his heart.
He placed at the head of the list it appears,
Two members named Booth and four mem
bers named B GERS;
Two Buck1eys, two Beardsleys, six Benefits,
one Clark
(All aiming, no doubt, to reach the high
mark;
Four Disbrows, and then, (the Lords cause to
entrench)
one r err1s, one Ferry, one Fisher one French.
Two Galloways lead the list of the Gs;
one member named Godfrey comes next, it
you please;
Two Goulds and one Grammar are next on
the roster;
The Gregorys four that's all he can muster;
Hills four, Jackson one and Jennings sixteen;
Two members named Kent and two members
named Kuehn;
The Marshes are twelve and the Middlebrooks
one;
fhe Millers are father and m other and son:
)ne Nichols, three Reynolds, one Screeder by
name;
The seeleys are four and the sherwoods the
same;
rwo Smiths and three st4ples-not one shall
be missed;
NO Turneys, one Taylor he adds to his list;
IAN Worts there are two, and Wakemans the |
same;
The record has three of the Warmer name;
)ne Wade and one Wilson appear on the roll ;
The Wheelers are seven, completing the |
whole.
All these the pastor could perfectly remem-
Der,
md would have undertaken it with ten times |
the number.
At the recent election the following |
we're chosen trustees: e. G. Jennings, |
George Gregory, E lis Wheeler.
An interesting and profitable cottage |
prayer meeting was held, last week, at |
NJ Beardsley's.