The Newtown bee., 1896-02-14
DON'T LIKE THAT STATE INK.

Our town clerk is one of the many oi- iicias who bitterly complain f the poor quality of ink which the law requires them to use in making records.
 Rev MT Shackleton conducted the flu neral services over the remains of the late Mrs Homer Wakclce.
 The Chautauqua circle met this week at the residence of Charles F UubbelI
 Miss k NJ Burrtt has returned from trip to Washington, l.. C.
 C. E. Dufour has visited friends in Ok ford
 El;ev Mir Liudslcy, well known resi- lent of town in the early part of the cen cury, published map in 1s3f which shows seven houses on what is now known as King street. Descendants Of .he original builders are still living in four of these houses.
 There WIS quite large attendance from this place at the Christian Eudeuvos meeting at Milford, fast week.
 The orange grove supper At the Meth olist church, last week, was largely at t,ndcd.
 Rev N. k. Cornwall, of Christ church, went to New York and assisted in the funeral services at the home of the late Mrs Ezra Wheeler, and accompanied the family back to this place and ofliciAtcd at the cOmmiLtal service at the grave The terrible storm prevented large at tendance at the burial service.
 Edward Garry, who has been laid up with rheumatism, is again able to attend to his business.
 The spring promises to be busy time for the builders. A number of new houses are to be erected, as soon as the weather will permit operations.
 The W. C. T. U. held their regular monthly meeting, last Thursday, at the residence of Mrs Bartram on East Broad way.
 Mrs Freeman Curtis is visiting her daughter, Mrs Elmer Havens of Bridge port.
 Ex Sheriff Clarkson and family have returned from trip South. 3Ia
 The whist club met with Mrs Frank L. Curtis, last week.
 The will of the late Edmund Dikeman of King street bequeaths the use of his entire estate to his widow during her life time and it then reverts to hls daughter, Mrs Carrie Hawley of Bridgeport.
 Edward Bald win has moved into the old Isaac Lockwood house, which was moved from the site of the new one.
 The probate court has appointed an ad- ministratOr on the estate of the late Sam uel Curtis, who died many years ago, in order to pass a perfect title to land the heirs have sold to the Lordship Park as- sociation. Samuel Curtis of Main street and Mrs Miller are all the children now living, the late Mrs Ezra Wheeler having been one of them.
 The inventory of the estate of the late Stephen D. Skidmore, of Clapboard hill, shows $500 real estate and S595 person. al property
 The inventory of the estate of the late Edmund Dikeman of King street shows sl5OO real estate and $S64 personal prop. erty.
 President H. c. Rowe of the State Shell Fish Commission, was in town last week, in consultation with some of our prominent oyster growers.
 W. M. Peck, formerly principal of the graded school, now prominent attorney in Riverside, Cal, has been appointed counsel for the Southern Pacific railroad for that section
 Mrs James Hennigan, who made appli cation for conservator over her nus- band, has withdrawn the application, ,she having been guaranteed a yearly income of $200 from her husbands estate.
 The longshoremen captured large