The Newtown bee., 1900-07-27
BETHEL,
CHURCH NOTES.

Rev DR. B. M. Adams is conducting
Bible readings at the Plainvile Camp
meeting, this week, and will preach
there on Sunday next.
The Sunday ate" meeting was
held at Brookside Park, Rev DR. B. M.
Adams of this place conducting the SER
vices.
The SUNDAY school of St. Thomas
Episcopal church held their annual pic
mic at Lake Kenosia, Wednesday,.
The Epworth League of the Methodist
church held regular business meeting,
Wednesday evening, followed by an in
teresting program of music and recita-
tiOns. The program was carried out as
follows: Vocal selection, Glover leaf
trio; recitation, Miss Olivia Burr; vocal
solo, Miss Edna Andrews; piano solo ,
Mrs Robert Harmon; recitation, Miss
Dixie Burke; vocal solo, Harry Mead ;
recitation, Miss Olivia Burr; vocal solo,
Miss. Lucy Smith.
Farmers have commenced the oat har-
vest, this week. The crop is unusually
large, this season.
The bathing places on the Plumtrees
brooks are favorite resort for the viii
lage boys during the hot weather.
Lake Kenosia on Monday afternoon and
witnessed the recovery of the body of
William Mentz, who was drowned on
Sunday while bathing in the lake.
DR. and Mrs A. E. Barber left town on
Saturday, enroute for Chautauqua, where
they will spend the warm weather for a
few weeks.
Mr. and Mrs Howard Judd took trip,
last Saturday, to the Houeatonic river
and brought home few fine black bass.
Master Frank Warner spent several
DAYS with his Grandmother Warner at
Hull's Hill. He ia very much elated over
. half pound bass that he caught in the
Housatonic river.
The drouth begins to be felt. The hot
sun scorches the new mown meadows
and rolls the corn In the middle of the
day.
Mr. and Mrs Chauncy Donalds and Mr.
and Mrs 81. G. Judd were callers at the
home of Mr. and Mrs Arthur Judd on
Chestnut Ridge, last Sunday afternoon.
Frank Agnew, Jr., of Orange, N. j., is
home on short vacation.
The hat factories are running short
time and filing few early orders for
hats.
There has been lively demand, the
past week, for ice. The employees work.
ing in the factories use for drinking pur-
poses the public water cooled with ice.
Formerly they used we'll water.
Patrick Dolan, the contractor, is build
ing new stone arch bridge on Seeley
street. The water course through the
Seeley property has been Strengthened
and made wider which necessitated the
change in the old highway bridge. This
change will probably keep the Chestnut
Ridge brook in its proper channel and
save washouts on the Ferry property be-
low.
There has been great complaint all
summer about the washout on Maple
street at the foot of Benjamin's hill. A
covered sluce in front of the Hickok prop
erty has become clogged, turning all the
water across the street.
A daughter was born on Monday to Mr.
and Mrs Percy Ferry on Center street.
Home grown .cucumbers and green corn
will be in good supply at the local mar
ket, this week.
Miss Mary Crofut has returned from a
several weeks visit with friends in
Bridgeport and Springfield.
Peter Crowa of Danbury and Miss Lucy
Hoyt of Wolf Pits we're married We'd
nesday, July IS, by Rev Mr. Morrell at
the home of Mrs Fannie Leroy in
Bethel.
G. w. Bolles has recently erected in
the Bethel cemetery Ia Quincy granite
monument for Eliza Benedict.
Mr. and Mrs VIM. Patten of New
York city are stopping for few weeks
with Mr. and Mrs Joseph Seeber. Mr.
Patten is clerk for the Commissioner OF
Jurors.
Mr. Maynard and family of New
Rochelle are spending a few weeks at
the Grassy Ridge house.
Joseph Buzzer has opened the black
smith shop opposite Shorts hat factory
and ia prepared to do all kinds of black
smithing and wagon repairing at bottom
prices.
G. W. Bolles 10 to erect a fine Barre
granite monument in the Catholic ceme-
terv in DanburY for John Barry.
Mr.: and Mrs S. B. Knowles Of Water.
bury were guests, last week, of their
son, J. Howard Knowles.
81. E. Hoyt of Wolf Pits has a peach
orchard of $50 trees which he set out
four years ago. 1t ia as fine looking
orchard as one would wish to see.