The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1901-02-15
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AFFAIRS ABOUT TOWN
STORM WITHOUT, SUNSHINE WITH.
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THE VALENTINES SOLD LIKE HO
CAKES, THE ICE CREAM WAS FATE
AISLE IT WE'RE THE FOURTH OF JUN
AND WHEN THE DISHES WERE CLEAR
ED AWAY, NOTHING WAS LEFT BUT
SOME LARGE RECEIPTs.
The above heading simply means
that the valentine sale and Supper
held, last Saturday afternoon, in the
lower room Of the Congregational
church was splendid success. The
anticipations of the children had been
raised to so high a pitch, their pennies
that were to be spent for the love mis-
Sives had been counted over so many
times, the visions Of doughnuts and
homemade candy-with, perhaps, on
the part of anxious mothers the ex-
pectation of some i'll results inward
ly-had been held in the mind SO much
that do you suppose a little furry of
snow, or even good many furries of
snow, with medium sized blizzard
thrown in, could have stopped the
children coming? Well l guess not.
The order that has been sent in to
John Wanamaker for valentines has
beeu increased with each year; but
either John does not keep enough val
entines or the committee in charge
does not know enough to order the
right quantity; anyway, things some
how don't come out even and the sup
ply.does not equal the demand. Mrs
Wesley F. Hayes, the good friend OF
everybody, who is always spying out
some corner into which she can tuck
away an act of kindness, sent on Sat-
urday morning good supply of dainty
valentines up from Bridgeport to helr
the cause along, as the part OF
her children, George, Loretta, and
Fred, who are summer members of the
Congregational Christian Endeavol
society. Miss Mary Bacon showed hel
skill and her generous spirit, too, by
painting some real sweet-heartS, heart.
shaped valentines del1cately perform
ed. Miss Mabel E. Norris presided at
the valentine table and Miss Jessie
Taylor dispensed the sweets to the
sweet. The young misses, members OF
Mrs Barker's Sunday school class
served as mattresses; and they gave con
siderable animation Ito the scene a!
they hustled about like Ganymede O.
old, with bright stars fixed in theil
hair. Paper lanterns had been strung
across the room; and though they were
not lighted, when the lamps were light
ed to the rear and to the side of then
they added to the beauty of the pic
ture. Some little girls had SO made
up their~minds to come that the.
trudged good three miles through
the snow; and when they at last stoot
before the valentine table with it's dis
play Of temRting love tokens the.
simply lookedand looked and took i
all in. One little girl came with 4:
cents, and after she had managed t.
spend AZ cents, involving nearly all be;
| capital, she anxiously inquired what
she could get for her remaining three
cents. 1t all had to be spent, yor
know; or the days transactions would
not have been complete. Something
was found to match the three cents
One boys capital was limited to five
cents. He slyly put in a question az
to whether there were any live cent
plates of ice cream. A five cent plate
was produced, holding quite little
more than the usual amount given fol
ten cents, the lady serving it try
ing to equal the boys ice cream appe
tite and the size of his eyes, A piece
of cake was thrown in too. We're 20,
never boy? The supper was served
from 2 to O'Clock; and after the bot
tom Of the ice cream freeZers had beer
scraped for the third time, some more
people came in and still they did not
have to go empty away. The faithful
Congregational people who had it al
in charge, after it was over, wondered
how it was done; but it was done, anC
the good workers deserve hearty con
graduation. The total receipts were
$39. SO, and the net receipts S3427
At the meeting of the Christian En-
deavor society on Sunday evening il
was voted to expend this money in sup
plying new books for the Sunday
school library.