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The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

Frederick Young of Merryall district, New Milford, takes possession, this week, of his new home in Taunton district, the Ell Barnum place.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

You can buy wall paper as cheap at my store as any place in the country and find as good an assort nent 4, 5, 6, 8 and l0c roil. All new goods.-TE. F. Hawley.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02
BLOOMFIELD.

Died, in Brookfield, March 2s, Ellen Y. Gustafson, aged one year and seven months. The funeral was held on We'd nesdsy at p. m.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

Charles Hastings has moved from the Sanford place, and it Is reported that Patrick Gorham is to soon occupy 1t.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

Louise Cannon won the prize given the scholars of St Patrick's school, by Father Fox, for the best composition on ''The Passion Play" given by Prof Drake of Boston, St Patrick's night, at St Roses Catholic church.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

We understand the Morgan place in Newtown Street is rented. Although diligent inquiry has been made by the members of the reportorial staff, we are unable to learn the name of the party who is to occupy it CD.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

IfOR SALE-A large dairy farm in NewtoEn. two miles west of the village It is well watered, well fenced, carries now 2S COWS. be sides oxen, horses and young stock. Moving can all be done with machine and the soil VII bear all kinds cf crops that can be raised in this climate Market tor milk is convenient and reliable. A large house in good condi- ton and two large barnss with running water at the house and barn. Plenty of fruit. The owner mas spent years on Il snd feels una bse to work Ii any longer, Is his reason for offering it tor sale Address WILLIAM FAlRCHILD. Newtown, Conn
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

Ernest Sanford of Redding passed Sun day as a guest of Louis I. Briscoe at sandy Hook. They drove oyer south ford way to explore the country.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02
RESTRICT OF NEwTowN, ss Probate courr

' FIISIhICI UT NE " IUVF N, 5s TUDGIB NUuT I1 IL March 3l, 1897. Estate o1 MARTHA STTLLSON, late of New town, III said district, deceased. Upon application of Aaron Sanford pray ing that letters of administration may be granted on said estate as per application on file more fully appears, it is
 ORDERED-That said application be heard
 and determined at he Probate Office Tn New town, in said District, on the 7tn day of April, A. b 1897, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon; and that no ice be given of the pendency of said application and the time and place ofhearing some newspaper having 8 circulation in said District. and by posting copy thereof on the public sign post in the town 0t NeWtown in said district.
 MI BRADLEY, Judge.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

You have heard of certain things SCOT ing ''local hit." It is going to be & ''local hit"-that which is going to take place at the Town hall on the evening of Friday, May 2. The local hitters will be out in force, and the audience will come to get hit, and the harder they are hit the more they'll enjoy it. Watch this space,
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

You can still buy genuine White Loaf four fully warranted, $4.75 barrel. Christians $4EO, at E F. Hawley's.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

People who wish to go to New York by boat can now do so as the early morn ing train south connects with the steam CT Rosedale at Bridgeport. The leaving Eime for the steamer, this season, will be 2 45 out of Bridgeport,
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

New spring goods of all kinds at E. F. Hawley's. Steel hoes and rakes, 25c. All kinds of choicest garden seeds, seed potatoes, onion sets. Yellow Globe on- ion seed, etc.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

Miss Annie Osborn kept Miss Marcia Taylor company over Sunday, in the ab- sence of the teacher, Miss Elsie Bots. ford.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

If you want the best and cheapest paint, fully warranted, use Masury's paste paint, 85c gallon all ready for use, white and all colors, at E. F. Hawley's.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

Henry Beers has just begun reapinR the harvest from a new hennery that he built last fall; 22 dozen of hens eggs was one weeks product.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

Mrs Daniel G Beers returned last Sat- urday from Saranac Lake, N. r., where she and her daughter, Miss Bessie, have been for several months for the health of the latter. Miss Beers friends will be glad to know that she has improved rap idly curing her short stay in the Adj rondacks. She has recently entered sanitarium there.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

W. c. Gilbert's home has been i'm proved by new front fence, the work being done by Thomas Perkins.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02
nIsTRIGT OF SEwTowN, ss Probate Coul

nIsTRIGT OF NEWToWN, ss Probate Court, u March 31. 1s97.
 Estate of ELLA M. LATIN, late of New town, in said District,
 Upon the application of Horafio N. Latin, praying for an order to sell the real estate of said deceased, as per application on file more fully appears, ii is
 ORDER ED--That said application be heard and determined st the Probate office in said o'clock in the forenoon and that notice of the pen ing of said application and the time and place of hearing thereon be given by publish ing the same once in some newspaper having q circulation in said district at least 5 days before the lime assigned for said haarinf M.J BRADLEY, Judge.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

Miss Ethel Pattison with 6 gentleman friend from New Milford, was at Bots ford the first of the week.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

Mrs Ernest Wilson and daughter of New Haven are visiting at MT and Mrs A. W. Fairchild's in Taunton district.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

A fine line of mems chocolate vici kid shoes, in the latest spring styles, at W. c. Corbett's shoe store, Sandy Hook.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

Time for fi-hing once more. Fine as- sortment of rods, reels, swell lines etc., at K. Y. Haw1ey's.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

Wall papers and window shades in a large variety of pretty designs at War ner, Taylor & Curtis.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

RESTRICT or VIEWPOINT. ss, Probate U Court. March 31, 1897.
 Estate Of ELLA NJ. LATIN, late of New town, in said district, deceased.
 The Court ot Probate for the District of Newtown. hath limited and allowed months from the date hereot, for the creditors of said estate to present their claims tor settlement Those who neglect to present their acconnts, properly attested within said time, will be debarred recovery. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to
 HoRATIo ". L 1TTrN, Administrator.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

Mir and Mrs o scar Dikeman are busily engaged getting settled in their new home in the Street. They have been stopping for few days with MT and Mrs c. F. Beardsley.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

MT and Mrs l.. 0. Morris, Mrs J. B. Peck and Arthur T. Nettleton visited Bridgewater ou Wednesday,, calling on Arza Morris and other friends.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

ent tip, that W. 0. Corbett is selling at his Sandy Hook store are all right. Call and see them
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02
FOR SALE.

The best equipped Paint Shop in the state, Stages. Ropes, Ladders, Trus- sels, safe' High Desk, Roll Top Desk, Office Chairs, etc; also 8 Stock of Paints and Colors This is an oppor- tunity 10 continue an old established business, CT if not sold in lump will be scld in sections. To be sold at once and cheap
 THE COLE 6 ELLIS co, BOX 425,
 or
 c M COLE, 405 State St,
 Bridgeport. Conn.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

Straw mattiDga, nice line, ranging il price from 12 to BOG at Warner, Taylor { Curtis.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02
STEPNEY.

M. Honan has been fixing up his house, 6 new siding being one of the improve manta
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02
WATCHES & CLOCKS REPAIRED

By Swiss watch maker. Hereafter I may be found at the D. Davis House near Botsford depot, where I shall be pleased to wait on my old customers in a satisfactory manner. Charges moderate. HENRI BOURQUENEZ, Botsford, Conn.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

NOR SALE OR RENT-One houss and barn E with 10 acres of land; also one other house and two acres Of land, house nearly new. Plenty ot fruit, spring water. healthy and pleasant location, two minutes walk from ong Hill station on the Berb shire Division. viii be sold at 8 bargain Inquire ot Frank l.. Whee eeler, ear the premises, or of w. B. COAN, Shelton, Conn.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

Master Clarence Wheeler of Danbury is gaest of MT and Mrs George F. Dun- cOmhe
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

New line of spring hats, caps, and neckwear, at k. F. Hawley's.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

John l.. Hughes has rented his farm to MT O'Dell of Brookfleld.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

MONEY FOR YOU-Here Is list of the M stamps found on old photographs and red, 25c; Pc playing cards. blue, 5c; 2c playing cards, orange, 2Oc; % proprietary orange, 25ci : 20 certificate, blue or orange, Toe; Sc playing cards, green, $l; 4c playing cards, violet, sl 1; Sc proprietary orange, s. See what you can find and bring them to us on the photograph, and we will remove them without injury. Ii you have any kind not listed or old postage stamps send them Oe us for prices. ". L. DUNBAR & co, Room %, Conn., National Bank Building, Bridgeport, Conn.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

IfOR SALE Trap seating four pers ons, re- I versible seat, pole, shafts. top. etc Used one season. Address PERCY, 3i William St. Bridgeport, or call at Cooks Stables, Bridgeport.
 EsOR sALE-A ShonInger Reed Organ. Js | stops, of unusual excellence; also g good violin. threesquarter size. CHARLES s PLATTs Newtown. EOR SALE-0ne two year old bull. l.. E E SKIDMORE, Newtown.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

Mir and Mrs Edgar F. Hawley were In New Milford on Wednesday.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

E0R sALz l25 varieties of new and stand
 U ard seed potatoes at hard times prlces.
 send for free catalogue THERON E. PLATIs Bedding Ridge, Conn.,
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

NOR SALE-Three Farms, one l65 acres, one U l2S acres, one 100 acres. All fitted Tor the milk business near New Milford Nj. W HILL New Milford
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

Those msa's ksngaroo dssss shoes, ,pas-
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

NOR SALE A very fine road horse years V old. weighs over 100 lbs, dark brown color and a great roadster; sounu aud all right. #. s SBIE. Brookd deld Center Conn.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02
7Ae Hoa0lana Dyy c sod. Co,

Formerly the Rowland Stark Col
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02
H, o WARNER. Nav MiJford Couu.

HARM FOR SALE Situated less than two Y mites from Newtown Village and over looking the same, Containing 47 acres of land, house and other out buildings, located on high and healthy ground, never failing spr1 gs of water, fruit in abundance, elegant scenery Very suitable for summer resi- dence. For further particulars apply at our office in the Arcade Bridgeport, Conn.
 TOOMEY & LYNCH, Attorneys at Law. Rridgeneri Conn March 25 lS96.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

HAY FOR SALE-Two tons of good hay in
 H the barn on estate of c. 0. Warner. J. H. WARNER, Sandy Hook.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

DURE APPLE CIDER--Eor sale. few casks I of late made cider This cider is not hard but of mild 1ality. Has been raeked of and Is clear. Price right. WILLIAM c. JOHN SON, Newtown.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

NX7ANTED I'M IMMEDIATELY-Oae or q pair
 " of heavy horses suitable for farm work. ". 0. BEACH, Trumbulls Conn.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

EOR sALE-Five tons of good hay. JOHN I H. GHAUTEMS. one mile norta of Bots. ford Station. Newtown. Conn.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

MOTfGE-The dog, owners of the Town of N Trumbull are hereby notified and request re- st l day of May, Isa7, as required by the General Statute Of 1895 of the State of Connecticut. ORMEL HALL, B. NICHOLS, B 8. BEACH,
 1 SeIectmen of the Town of Trumbull. Trumbull, Conn, March 80, 1897.
The Newtown bee., 1897-04-02

zAe HozOlamd D1>y GooaS CO.
 RrzAe1bo~t Cossn.
The Van Buren press., 1897-08-21
WIT AND WISDOM.

--"What is dolce far niente?'"
"Well-in its finest phrase, it is sitting
perfectly still and watching some
body else work. Detroit Free Press.
At Oats.-Mrs. Watts-"You must
find this ont-of-door life rather pleas
ant?" Weary Watkins oh, the out
of-door part of it is all right; it is the
out-o'-grub end of it | don't like. In
dianapolis journal.
-Sproeket understand thatuncle
has taken to riding the wheel" Handle
Bafrs-"Yes, and he is wonderfully eN-
pert. Every time he is out he discoy-
ers two or three entirely new ways of
dismonnfing. Boston Transcript.
-"You speak of YOU: colleague as
having a mercurial temperament y
said one statesman. YES" replied the
other, as he wiped his perspiring brow,
"the great trouble about him is that
you can't keep him down. Washing
ton Star.
First Lady-"There goes young
Mrs. Pedigree. | suppose she bores
people to death telling the bright
things her little boy says2' Second
Lady--"Oh, no; fortunately he says
such dreadful things she can't repeat
them. "-Tit-Bits.
--"Why," said the patriot "the
United States would have picnic with
Japan if she objected to our anneXa-
ton of the Hawaiian islands" "Of
course" echoed Joe Cose, "and the
islands would furnish the sandwiches
PHILADELPHIA North American.
The Van Buren press., 1897-08-21
The Question of Free Silver.

Amt it plum marvelsome what a
whole tremendous big lot some people
don't know in regards to the question
of free silver? Now as for me, don't
try to make out like l know anything
about it. and | have now come to the
conclusion that the common run of peo-
pie know as much about it as do, and
we all know as much about it as Andy
Lucas and Blev Scroggins know about
the Lords prayer: Blev and Andy got
into q little red hot private disputation
on that pint oncst upon time.
"You don't even know the Lord 8
prayer, Bley," says Andy,
"Who, me?" says Blew. "Of course |
know it. | learnt that at my mothers
knee when | was nothin but kid
BET you a dollar you can't say it Off
hand" says Andy.
81 will take that bet and win on a
dead certainty" says Blew, and they
put the money up.
"Now go ahead, Blew, and let me hear
you say it," says Andy.
Then Blev he stared off with that
beautiful little trundle-bed racket:
''Now lay me down to sleep,
pray Thee, Lord, my soul to keep.
If should die before wake"
Hold ON right there, Blev," says
Andy. 81 give it up. The money is
yours and you can take it, but by gat-
Inns l had no idea you lInowed it."
RUFUS SANDERS.
The Van Buren press., 1897-08-21
With Uia CGIOrA On.

Col. Sandy Wiekenton runs the post
office over on Huekleberry Ridge. But
he took a few days off last week and
went over in Tennessee to see the big
show which the newspapers are tellin
about.
1t come to pass that l met up with
Sandy over at the station that day when
he took the cars for Tennessee. From
his general appearments it would seem
like he had been maxim special prcpara-
tions for the trip. He was considera-
bly, off considerable before he ever got
off on the trip, you understand. lie
was talkin mighty loud with his mouth
and spittin cotton right and left. lie
had United States flags and blue bun
tin and red streamers on till you
couldn't see his coat, and his face
looked like a Fourth o July torch
light procession. On his back he
wore a piece of pasteboard as big as a
saddle blanket. with these words
printed there:
"If it don't get to Nashville inside of
three days please send it back to Huck-
leberry Ridge"
The Van Buren press., 1897-08-21
wbo Ia "Disput,n of It."

Hot weather and hard times. That's
about the onlyest news you can here
in this pleasant strip of country now
adays. The people talk some about the
crops and the weather, the big msetins
and religious outpourins, but mostly
about the sweltry hot weather and
felonious hard times. Which that puts
me in mind of a story
Did you ever hear tell OF the time
when Jake Ballentine got struck ana
killed by lightnin? That was years and
wears ago down there in the Panther
creek settlement. One day Jake was
plowin down in his new ground. "A
thunderin big storm come up, ana ne
LET loose and run under u tree to keep
ont of the rain. About that time
streak of lightnin struck the tree and
run down to the ground. l never did
hear anybody say whether it was blue
streak or q greasy streak. But any
how. when the dust settled and the
smoke cleared away Jal+e Ballentine had
tbrowed his hand TO the pack and went
the way of all human flesh. The news
spread fast and furious and the neigh
bors come pilin in to see the sad ana
awful sight.
Now il come to pass in the nam Tune
t,at old man Hiram Lucas was about
The first man on the grounds lie was
on his return back home from town. ana
"tanked up" you understand, to about
Is cents in the dollar. lie stood there
be the shattered remains OF Jake Bal
lentine. and saw the neighbors come
and 60.
One man would come up with a long.
sad face and solemncholy voice, and
say:
Poor Jake! Hes dead"
Then another would come along and
raze at the dead body, and then bresh
away the tears and pay
The Van Buren press., 1897-08-21
The Little New Ernyn.

They tell me there is now a little
new grave at the old Liberty church
graveyard down there in the Flat
Woods, where they had soft singin and
slow walllin one day last week for Dick
Hanson's boy Tobe. What was ailin
Tobe, you reckon? He didn't have the
fever, nor the breakin out, nor the
usual summer complaint. He didn't
have any reglar human disease. He had
jest simply bit in and dug his own little
grave with his own teeth, as it were.
On Sunday-which was likewise the
Fourth of July-Dick Hanson come up
from the Flat Woods to see me and
brung his boy Tobe along with him.
The women folks put in they did and
fixed up a most salubrious good dinner
Man, sir, there was kitchen physic on
the dinner table that day the very ap-
pearments of which would put razor
edge on your teeth and make the salt
water back up in your mouth And
there was a gracious plenty of it. Me
and Dick and the rest of us-exceptin
Tobe-all ct hearty and quit and felt a
whole passel better. But my me my!
1t was a sight and a show to see that
boy wade in and clinch up around few
sections of plain American grub. He
was more than welcome to everything
in sight, but yet still l wondered in
my soul how he would ever manage to
take it home with him.
Now presently after dinner the boy
Tobe curled UP on the floor and went
to rollin and gruntin considerable And
by this time it was plain as daylight to
me that the onlyest way to move all
that grub to the Flat Woods would be
for Dick to put it in his one-horse
wagon and haul it down there. They
had come up to pass the day and night
with us, but under the general cir
conference of the calamity | lowed it
would suit me a whole lot better if
Dick would bolt the convention and
take the boy and the grub and go Cd
back TO the Flat Woods and hold eau
Gus with the family doctor.
GU huOW L NOulull Z IL Al
didn't think it, Dick, but your boy is
gone goslin," says l. "He never can
come across with his load. The dinner
which he got on the outside of to-day
would kill any livin human in the Gre
ated world. If you was to take the
grub which that boy ct and put it in
croker sack l have some rale serious
doubts if he could pick it up and put it
on his back and tote it. He is tired now
and sleepy too. l amt no doctor, and
we are too scandalous busy with the
crops right now TO have any funeral
professions from our house. You bet
ter put that grub in your wagon, Dick,
and haul it down to the Flat Woods.
The boy is bound to die"
So consequentially Dick took Tobe
and the grub in his wagon and returned
back home. And then the next news we
got they had built little pile of fresh
dirt over there at old Liberty grave
vsrd and sung a song:
"Safe from the worlds temptations,
Safe from all doubts and tears
The Van Buren press., 1897-08-21

came In and told them they might have
three wishes and he would grant them.
OF course they were happy beyond ex-
preston, and es the old man was hun
CRY he wished right away for plum
pudding. Immediately. it was set be-
fore him in silver platter, and this
foolish wish made the old woman so
mad that she exclaimed: Il wish that
1t was hung on your nose.' Presto!
quick the pudding jumped up and was
fastened to the old mans nose. They
had but one wish left, and the old man
had to use that in wishing the pudding
loose again. And so the good genius
left them as poor as they were before
he came. l suppose that fable was de-
signed to teach us that it is better to
trust the Lord and be content with our
lot. Nevertheless, most of us would
try the genius if he would come.
Once more let me write of John
Quincy Adams and his beautiful poem.
| have received 1t from just a score of
good friends, but only two of them have
the full poem of twenty stanzas of eight
lines each. Some of them have IA. some
12, and one only IL. One from Mrs.
Holloman, of Eatonton. has not the last
stanza, beginning:
"These are the wants of mortal man,
cannot need them long"
But has instead a stanza that / do not
find in any other copy Which is the
revised version l do not know. The
poem is remarkable not only for its
thought and felicity of expression, but
because its author, "the old man elo-
quent," was the only president who
ever wrote a poem, or even verse, so
far as we know.
As some of the lady correspondents
have suggested that Goldsmith was the
author of the lines:
MAN wants but little here below.
Nor wants that little long.
Let me say that Young preceded Gold
smith A years, and his expression is:
"Man wants but little, nor that little
long" Goldsmith only added word or
two to make the measure fit his ballad.
Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution.
The Van Buren press., 1897-08-21
Lige RunneIs and the Buzzards.


Down at fuckers mill on the Fourth
of July we mad shootin match for beef,
and along with the rest old man Lige
Runnels was there.
81 never could tell how it was that
some people put me in mind of lizard
till here last spring" says old man Lige
TO me, between drinks, as it were. But
| went to town one day and got drunk.
You will meet many a man in the coun-
try that wouldn't tell you plain, Hat
footed truth like that. But | raley did
git drunk, Rufe-most hellatously
drunk. And before | got home | fell
off my mule, and also fell asleep in
jam of the fence over there in Ruther-
ford's lane. From the way in which the
sun swung around and went down on
me durin recess, it would seem like |
slept there about three hours. And
when at last | woke up blamed old
buzzard was settin there on the fence
lookin at me powerful hongry and
familious like | pinehed myself to
find out for certain whether was dead
or not, and about that time the buzzard
Topped his wings and flew off to the
swamp.
jest a little too durn smart, says
to myself, but there are plenty of peo-
pie in the world as smart as that buz-
zard, if not some smarter"
The Van Buren press., 1897-08-21
Poor Jake! Hes dead"

And another one would come up and
heave long, deep sigh, and shake hia
head and say:
Poor Jake! Hes dead"
Well,things on about that way for
something like two hours, till finally at
last old man Hiram got sick and tired OF
hearin the same thing over and over
and over. By and by another man come
up sighin and sobbih and cryin like
as if his heart would break, and re,
marked in conclusion that poor Jake
was dead. And that was jest about one
too many for the old man.
"Of course pore Jake is Dead" says
old man Hiram. ANY blame fool
any native born idiot-could look at
him and see that. lie died a most tre-
mendious sad and orful death. He is
dead. lie is very dead. lie is jest az
dead as they ever make 'em. But who
in the h-ll is disputin of it?"
And that's what makes me tell you
what | do in regards to the hot weather
and hard times. We are more than
probable TO have hot weather about this
time of year, and we most in generally
always have some hot weather along in
the summer. But who in the thunder
is disputin of it?