The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1898-09-30
WOODBURY..
HoTCHKIssvILLE AND VICINITY.


A. W. Chapman OF Naueatuck called
on friends, last week.
The FOresters are preparing to give
bail at the Town hall on September 30
A la ger crowd and much better time i
pxDec ed than ever befo e.
Hob Morris has recently purchae d
New Model English gun, brct CHI load
ing. a. of fl e grade.
E. M. Towne attended tn" repnb ic n
con cen zion at New Haven. W. b. Gro.
taking charge of the flee during his
absence.
Charles D4kin ard wife of Sharon viz
tied his >u~in, William Dakin. last week
Mrs Horace A Crane and sor Of Savan
nab, Ca, visited her cousin, Mrs G. M.
Allen, last week.
E. l.. Carpenter ia hustling the WI RI
on the house which he is building or
Percy hill.
w. q. Buckingham attended the great
4uctiC of horses at New Yo'k City, las
week.
The stock of ammunition for the hunt
log aeason is complete at the Cash store.
The popular rlst, G S. Allen, and
Henry Booth made Al o t visit with rel.
atives at S ratford, last week
G. F. Morris and family aud William
Dakin and vile returned, last week. from
a two weeks outing at Burns Point,
Milford.
l. R. Teeple, who has been confined to
his house for some little time, was seen
at the Cash store, last Monday.
wO0DBURY's FIRE EXCITEMENT.
Quite sensation on our Main street,
SATURDAY. evening, last when the cries of
Fire Fire !" rang out and DR. Rodgers
house was found in flames. A lamp
stove had been upset in the bath room
and but for timely work the Rouse would
have been burned. As it was about $40
will cover the damages. The Down
Town hose company were out and had
the pipe half laid when told the fire was
out. Quick work; and they deserve
praise for being 80 prompt. The Up
Town company had difficulty in getting
into their hose houee and did not appear
upon the scene until the other hose cart
hsd been put up and the ''laddies' re-
turned from the he sc house.
LET THE GRUMBLERs HAVE SENSE.
Our fire department Ia a great institu-
ton and our property more valuable on
account Of it, yet your correspondent
hears folks grumbling once In while on
account of the fire district tax. Such
grumbling appears unreasonable!
The Reporter Office has been rushing
out town statements fo' Bethlehem,
Wo odbury and Southbury.
Prof Boyd was recently in Massachu-
setts and gave an address to the pupils
of Gushing academy.
Miss Olivia 81. Curtiss la making visit
among the Connecticut Valley cities of
Massachusetts.
A. w. Chapman and wife were in 10 Tn
a few days last week. They now live in
Naugatuck.
Miss Katherine Woodruff has returned
from her visit to Hartford.
Mi Mary A. Martin is critically Ill.
Mr. andaMrs Tabor are the guests of G.
P. Allen. @
Sealed proposals for the new school
building are to be opened Saturday, Oc-
tober l, at l O'Clock. Local bids are
expe cted and some from neighboring
citv contractors. -
w. Fl. Rowell has rented the j. Fl.
Linsley tenement, north of the cabinet
shop.
oliver Cowles has marketed fine lot
of extra peaches this season. One peach
measured nearly u inches around.
Ben Ga1pin and Lester Harvey have
entere d the Storrs Agricultural college.
Howard Hitchcock, the well known
blacksmith and carriage man, has been
at Bridgeport and Newtown, this week,
at the latter place taking in the New
town fair.