The Newtown bee., 1899-06-30
$500
Litchfield County.
WASHINGTON.

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH NOTES.
Rev Mr. Carter gave an eminently prac
tical discourse, last Sunday, on the tex
"If thou hast run with the footmen, ant
they have wearied thee, then how cans
thou contend with horses?" Jer. IL:
Lesson : Dissipate not, nor dispense you
forces and powers, but conserve and con
centrate for noble purposes and higt
aims in accord with the truth. "That
man is the greatest thing in the universe
and the greatest thing within man is his
SOUL" The broadness of practical de.
tail was such that every hearer was
sharply hit, and no one could give it all
away to his neighbor, however generous
he might be in such matters.
The Gunnery school closed, last week.
The closing exercises we're we'll attended
by the public. Rev Mr. Turner, chaplai in
of Hampton Institute, gave most excel
lent advice to the young men in the COM
mencement address, Tuesday afternoon,
upon high aim in life and fxedness
of character and purpose. Prof Gregg
Clark takes party of boys to the Maine
woods as usual for vacation.
Rev Mr. jacobson of Bridgeport, who
has rented place in New Preston,
preached in the Lutheran church on
Monday evening and will hold services
there occasionally through the summer.
R. W. Bacon is building over the tres
sci at s. F. Seeley's lumber yard.
Several people from here attended the
Wild West show in Waterbury on Tues
day.
F. J. Kilbourn and e. G. Clark went
to Wallingford to the Veteran Masons'
celebration on Thursday of last week.
Mrs Mary Kinney has been quite i'll
for some time but is improving.
The Episcopal Sunday school in the
Lutheran church began services, last
Sunday. 1t will be held at O'Clock p.
A Home department has been organ
lied by the Congregational church for
Sunday school work.
Messrs North and Russell Clark have
gone into the cattle business. They left
Boston with load for Liverpool on the
18th, and expect to "bike" it through
for q short tour.
On the evening of June 26, the furni-
ture was shaken in some of the houses
about here, followed by noise like dis.
tant thunder. 1t is supposed to have
been another earthquake shock.
The Children's Willing Hands society
at Romford recently elected these offic-
ers; Annie McIlravey, treasurer; Clar-
ice Gillette, secretary. Miss Agnes Raw
enscroft, their teacher, is the president.
They voted to apply the cash on hand
toward the purchase of some new seats
for the schoolhouse. They now have
about $13. Better seats are needed for
the comfort and convenience of the
school and for the Sunday school also.
G. B. Hawley of Hartford is visiting
at T. D. lannon's at Romford. He will
soon pitch his tent on the shore of Ban
tam lake.
Horse stables and clothes lines are hav-
ing long needed rest.
Mrs Jane Clark Of New Milford is stay
ing awhile at her daughters, Mrs g. T.
Woodruff's.
Leslie Randall had delicate operation
performed on an eye, from which the
specialist, DR. Prout, extracted minute
seed which had been imbedded there for
some time. The relief makes him feel
like new man.
With all THE BEES correspondents the
writer joins in Thanksgiving for the life-
giving showers, that have blessed the
drying crops and thirsty soil, and pray
for more.
Mrs Hattie Franklin of Bethlehem, Pa,
with her two sons, lis boarding at Edwin
Whitehead's.
The farmers are getting into their
meadows to gather the little grass there
to be found. Some pieces are hardly
worth their moving.
A new pest, a slate colored, long wing
ed, agile bug, some three quarters of an
inch in length, is making havoc with the
potatoe vines. Does any one versed in
the knowledge of insects know what
name to give It?