The Newtown bee., 1900-08-31

mill is at present located on land of Amos Marsh.
 Edward Seeley, ,one of Roxbury's most successful young farmers, was at Board man, last Saturday, the guest of Super. intendent A. l.. Pierce of the Grifang lime kiln.
 Mrs Arthur Benton is visiting in Bridgeport.
 Miss Stella HoughtalinS of Boardman is passing the vacation season with her grandfather, Daniel Vaughan, at San ford.
 Homer Landis left, Saturday, for 8 short stay at his home in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
 T. Soule & Co.,, who have secured the contract for the erection of a shirt fac tory on the Landon property, are busy building the same. The size of the build ing will be 24x50 feet, and two stories high. They expect to have the factory finished in six or eight weeks time.
 Mrs Wesley Anthony is entertaining a friend from Baltimore, Md.
 A sale was made by the Schoverling- Kinney Co.,, recently, amounting to over $9O,OO
 Rev and Mrs F. A. Johnson have re- turned home.
 H. g.. Smith was very much amused oyer the report concerning him in a re- cent issue of THE BEE. They say he cheerfully acknowledges "the corn, ''|but will try again.
 Band concert tonight (Friday).
 MT Robertson, principal of the Center school ,and wife have moved here into the Pixley residence on South Main street.
 MT and Mrs c. F. Schoverling left, Tuesday, for Block Island, for tAree weeks stay.
 Frank Lake of New York, who has nut been enjoying very good health of late, has come here for short stay in hopes that the change will do him good.
 MT Hayes, of the New Milford Fish Co.,, has moved his family here and start ed housekeeping.
 Mir and Mrs Le Roy Case are entertain ing friends from New Haven.
 MT and Mrs Clarence Logan are enjoy- ing the sea breeZes at Walnut Beach.
 Mrs Levy of New York, who for the past three weeks has been visiting her daughter, Mrs J. A. Levy, Jr., has re- turned home.
 Mrs Alanson N. Canfield passed away Thursday morning of last week. The deceased attained the age of 94 years. The funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at her late home, Rev MT Johnson officiating. A quartet, consist ing of Mrs H. c. Ives, Mrs Mygatt, c. w. Starr and W. Jennings rendered selec- tions. W. F. Bennett was the undertaken in charge.
 Mrs W. D. Black has returned from a sojourn of several weeks at "Lazy Lodge," Lake Warsmaug. Her nephew, D. c. Sanford of Bridgeport, will now occupy "Lazy Lodge" for few weeks.
 B. A. Hubbell says he expects to en- gage in the trucking business and will have man and team at the depot to meet trains after September 5.
 A curious looking wagon has been on exhibition at Hubbell's shop. It is IA feet long, six feet wide and six feet high. It has canvas covering and is hand somely decorated on the outside. Wal lace Rowe and several assistants expect to start out in the wagon for a tour of Connecticut and New York, going South as cold weather comes on. They will do all kinds of furniture and fancy carriage upholstering and will distribute adver- Using matter. It is expected they will return with lot of experience and pos- siblY with snug amount of money. Their friends are predicting success for the enterprise.
 I. s. Weeks, who engages extensively in the market gardening business, is for tunate in having large peach orchard which is just beginning to bear. Among the varieties he is raising are the Ebert, Mountain Rose, Nixon, and Stump of the World. He will probably have 200 bushels this year. MT Weeks sends hie team to the village every other day with vegetables and has built up good bust. ness. Despite the dry weather hts gsr. de1 crops have done very well. M. H. Hill, whose fame az bicycle tourist is we'll known, and whose diet is principally peanuts and crackers when on long tours, is now quietly located or shore near New Haven enjoying the cool breezes and watermelon patches of that vicinity.
 Mrs Kilborn and son, Hiram, of Bristol, are visiting at Garry Potser's on West street.
 MT and Mrs Vincent B, Sterling return. ed, last Thursday, from a pleasant so- journ at Walnut Beach. Miss Hattie Bassett, one of W. G. Bar tons popular clerks, is away for vaca' tion of two weeks. Thomas D. Lynch of Newtown hae been visiting his brother, Patrick Lynch on Grove street.
 Miss Carrie Foote, for long time the