The Newtown bee., 1895-07-19
the Asahel Wakeman place for Sherwood
BEDDING.

BEDDING SHOULD HAVE MORE REPRE-
 sENTATIVEs ON THE BOARD.
 The appointment of three park con- missioners from Bethel and only one from Bedding causes some dissatisfaction here. As the park was the gift of Red- ding citizen and is situated almost wholly in this town it seems no more than fair that we should have at least two of the board, not that there is any personal ob- lection to the Bethel men who have been appointed. They are we'll qualified for the position and will do good service, but it does not seem right that we should not have an equal representation. The Legislature made an appropriation of $20O0 year which, if fjudiciously expend- ed Gas there is no doubt it will be), ought to go good ways in improving and beautifying the park. We understand the commissioners have hired Thomas Delany as custodian which is in the line of civil service reform as he has proved capable and faithful official and quite popular with all visitors.
 THE LATE MRS T. M. ABBOTT.
 The funeral of Mrs T. NJ. Abbott was
 attended from the Congregational church
 Tuesday, July 9, Rev Mir Jennings of
 Bristol, an old pastor, preaching the ser
 mon. For more than half a century Dea
 Abbott and his wife have lived in the
 house on the Green, and the sympathy
 of the whole community has gone out to
 him in the great loss that has come to his
 home. Mrs Abbott will be greatly miss ed, not only in her home, but in the church and the neighborhood and in the local life of the place in which she always took so deep an interest. THE INSPIRATION OF THE FLAG. Many bright new flags are floating over the town, the sight of which must bring a host of memories to the minds of
 the old soldiers. But these can never be to them the same as the old and tattered emblems, which were their inspiration in those dark hours of danger and carnage. "Notning but fiags-but simple flags, Tattered and torn and hanging in rags, And we walk beneath them with careless tread Nor think of the hosts of the mighty dead,
 That have marched beneath them in days gone
 With a burning Dfin check and a kindling eye,
 And have bathed their folds With their young lite's tide. And dying blessed them,
 And blessing died."
 A letter has been received from D. S. Sanford telling of his safe arrival at Liverpool after pleasant voyage. This is the third trip MT Sanford has made across the Atlantic.
 The Faithful Workers had very pleasant and successful lawn party on the grounds of W. M. Edmond. on Thurs day evening.
 The frequent rains are very diseourag- | ing to our farmers who are not yet l through having.
 Miss Ada J. Todd has had 8 relapse l and her friends are alarmed about her condition.
 l Mrs John Miller has been visiting I friends in Greenfield and Norwalk. Miss Margaret Miller of Fitchburg, | Mass, is visiting Miss J. H. Sanford. | Benjamin Bassett is engaged in paint I ing the new schoolhouse in Bethel. l There will be no service at the Congre- gational church till the first Sunday in ' August. MI and Mrs Luther have gone | to Ohio to spend the vacation. | Mrs Phebe St John, widow of John O | St John of Georgetown, died at the resi-. dence of her son-in-law, Arthur B. Hill at Norwalk, July 9. The funeral was at | tended from the house, Monday, July 15 at 2 o'clock. The burial was in the cemetery at Wilton Center. | -----------SsS----------