The Newtown bee., 1896-03-13

t0Sether it would seem t0 be the proper step for These two churches to make,
 Key pr Merwin and Mrs 5. J. Powell were invited guests at the home of Mr. Orvillc Booth of Hattcrtown on Thurs day of this week.
 Mr. Joseph E}1r from Bridgeport WAS d guest ar inc Methodist parsonage on Wrdor~dgy "f this week.
 BAPTIST CHURCH AFFAIEs.
 At the Bap-i.t church, last Sunday morning, R.. W. NJ. Weeks of EA~rou preached d >cuad, sensible, practical sermon ou Unity. His discourse teiug based On rhu.3:I&. One grand truth which hv pr"srntcd was chat church to be 1t wo.huz, &teNiDg, living church must be composed of Inembejs who are all united Ia giving, w,2king, sclf-sqcri- hctpg and paying at all times fir its success.
 Next sunday, the pulpit will be oyru- pied by R"v F. r. B7aman of Plaiu,ulr, who comes as a candidate.
 Blacksmith C. l.. Sualley has ncaa making cxtrn-lve repairs on milk vag- on for A. E. Hcinza of TrumbuII. When it makes it's first appeuaoce iu Bridgeport ia will attract attention il ir- new paint and f-ttAer,.'
 Mr. John Booedics passed Tuesday ct this week in Bridgeport, B guest at the home of ber son.
 Peter Agpew expects to move his 5am- fly here from E oxbury Station very 2on. to occupy the creamery building. Ne~ machinery is arriving and being put j.. posjtinu aod there is nov sou.e pra-pcc. tht the operation of butter mski4. m&y begin April l, or very 500. uf,or.
 Mrs Niles E,uwooa h4s secured . dc.irabIo rrut Il. N%ugstuek and expect ID move her household effects ther soon.
 Nc and Mrs B. uawJey spent suada. ia bridg port, guests af Mr and Mrs F J. IItwIey.
 Mr and Mrs Charles Bai.ks of B7il2, port were guests Of MT and Mrs 5oaley Perry over Sunday.
 Mrs Winton of Bridgeport spent Sun day with her sister, Mrs Charles 5 Wheeler,
 Rev Benjamin T. Hall of Mechanics vile, \. I,, was in town, this we k, at tending to the settling of his mothers estate of which he is the executor. While here he sold the place just below the Center to Edward Corning.
 Candee & Jennings have just received car load of good working and driving horses, most of them being in Bridge port at the Raymond stables on Cannon street. They are hustling the horses out lively just now, making some changes in horse flesh every day.
 Mrs Henry Sherman is visiting her friend, Mrs Clifford Banks, of Bridge. port.
 While Carlton Joyce was carting ties to the railroad crossing, Saturday, he left his horses a few minutes. They i ran a distance of one and one-half miles and finally coIlided with c. c. Sher- woods hitching post and were then stopped. They did no damage except breaking trace.
 Miss Elsie Joyce is suffering with an attack of the grip.
 Lewis Edwards has sold the hay ad vertised in THE BEE and thinks it a first rate paper to advertise in, as the GUS toners came nearly as thick as the bees around the hive on sunshiny day in the month of May.
 Mrs H. E. Garfield spent Sunday in Bridgeport. Mrs D. Davis, Misses Minnie and Bertha and Harry, spent Sunday with Robert Davis at Hopewell. F. M. Garfield is able to be about tome but is not very strong yet. Mrs William Lewis has been sick five weeks with complication of diseases. Edward Corning has bought the place belonging to the estate of Hannah M. Tall. V Mrs Susan Osborn has very hand ome white double Lady Washington 7 eranium in her chamber window. Arthur Hull, who ia principal of ' ,hool in Ware, Mass, has had another tack of appendicitis for the past three ' eeks and his school closed for the time.