The Newtown bee., 1895-04-05
NEW PRESTON.
LONG LIVE BROTHER roMpKINs.

LONG LIVE BROTHER TOMPkINS. George Tompkins is the busiest man in this community. He is up among the very first here in the morning, attends u
 Dr Marcy's three horses and sees that his vehicles are in proper condition for the
 days drive and the harnesses in shape.
 Five men, he says, want him every work
 day to work for them all at one time ana
 the way his feet perambulate about this village many days is a caution and lesson to all siuggards and drones. His tongue is also by TO means the laziesG part ol
 him. From the time he sees man with in any reasonable distance to hear, to the time he is out of sight Georges ton que moves with arapidity and motion al most excelling the telephone, especially
 in reverberation, to say nothing of repe- tition. We wonder sometimes how that tongue is hung. There is no piece of
 mechanism invented by man which we
 have ever seen can equa lit and no matter
 how hard physically has been the day
 we have never met him from
 nightfall to midnight but his tongue was
 ready and active in speaking more words
 to the square minute than any other of
 our past or present acquaintances. Talk
 aDout the tension of rubber or Whitleath- CT! There is nothing can equal Georges tongue. It is said he even talks in his SiSepi Dub stTdHSt GO say LIS t4bTGut conversational ability does not in the least deter or mpede his ambition or de- sire to do all the work possible for every body who wants him. And he regrets often that he is not possessed of at least three bodies that he might be in as many different places at the same time. Saw ing wood, when obtaiuable seems to be his most gratifying industry, and he has been known to have on his hands at one time for dispatch as many as 30 cords. So anxious is he, it grieves him often, that he cannot saw it all. Cutting brush is another of his favorite avocations and with the moving of dooryards, and hoe ing gardens, and house cleaning, and keeping track of orders left for Dr Marcy, and informing all of the doctors rides, and who is sick and who is worse, and who he has seen, and where he has work ed, and how many want him, and how many spoke for him the night before. and where he is going the next day, and all summer, if he wants to, it makes and keeps George one of our busiest citizens. greatest takers and most consequential inhabitants. Long live George.
 Mrs |. M. Sperry arrived at her home here on Friday evening of last week from a lengthy visit with her daughter and AhhAAAy fL ANGW AAh SCAs
 Mrs Walter Burnham and Miss Laura Burnham visited in Bridgeport, the lat ter part of last week.
 The new addition to the Wilson hotel is nearly ready for the pIasterers.
 H. w. Bee4nan is at present confined to his home by Illness.
 Theodore Remington has moved back to Washington. Ernest Brown moves into. the house to be vacated by Silas Wright. John Castle moves into the house vacated by Ernest Brown. James McHan has moved into Dea Burnham's l house near Waramaug Mills. B. J. 1 Fla ynes moves intO the holse vacated by !. McArthur. Horace McCan and Uriah 1 Douglas move into the house vacated by Marvin, who moves back to his ! former home in Merryall.
 Silas Wright is busily engaged erect E Ing house near his father's at the foot | 3f the lake, which he intends to occupy when ready.
 David Kenney was obliged after Friday night to keep Indoors with n severe cold
 Daniel s. Beardsley suffered with