The Newtown bee., 1901-06-07

court, on June l, and he appointed B. L. Staples prosecuting attorney, and J. TOmlinSOn Us assistant prosecuting attorney. l.. V. B. Hubbard is the deputy judge.
 A mad dog was shot in the Coram district, last Tuesday. It belonged to Otto Jacoby.
 Shelton division, $. of T., initiated three new members last Monday even- ing. The division is growing rapidly. They expect to give an entertainment in the Town hall soon. Miss Waldron of the Connecticut Sunday School association gave an ad- dress on the home department of the work, at the Congregational church, last Sunday morning, and at the Bap- l tist church in the evening. The veterans went over to the Gen. ter, last Sunday afternoon, attended service at the Congregational church and decorated the graves of the sol diers in the cemeteries there Mrs Roxanna Buckingham, formerly of Seymour, died last week at her daughters home, aged 75 years. The funeral took place last Sunday after noon and the burial was in Pine Grove cemetery, Ansonia.
 Ole Nelson sailed, last Saturday, for Copenhagen, his native land. He expects to visit there for about two months.
 Herbert Billings has received an or der direct from Paris for some stamps and dies in the manufacture of which he is quite proficient.
 Next Sunday morning will be the Children's day exercises in the Con- gregational church.
 There was an exhibition of the drawings by the scholars in the public school on Friday last which was visited by large number, all of whom con- mended the work very highly. Miss Grace Osborne is the teacher. The places of business were gener- ally closed Memorial day, except the saloons.
 Riverside cemetery looked very fine on last Thursday. Many having friends buried there decorated their graves with flowers. In the afternoon car load of the Grand Army members vis- ited the cemetery and decorated the graves of their deceased comrades, there being eleven buried there. There were three deaths in the town in May, one being a child. J. c. Hausman has commenced the erection of house at Edsom Downs in the Coram district.
 | c. B. Lewis writes from the sanitar- ium in New York, where he went a few weeks, ago that he is improving quite rapidly.
 Henry B. Rose, who is at Saranac Lake, writes that his health which was quite poorly when he left here is much improved, and he hopes to be sound and we'll before long.
 Chief Robbins has been appointed sanitary inspector for the borough.
 The trolley line to Bridgeport had a large traffic Decoration day; in one in- stance the car and the platform were crowded and some were on the roof. l While William Burns was fishing on the pond near the outlet of Indian Mill brook, last Tuesday, he discover ed. the body of man floating in the water. The medical examiner, Dr G. A. Shelton, was called and found by papers upon him that it was the body of Myron Jennings and that he be. longed in Kent. The cause of death was given as suffocation by drowning. It is thought that he was drowned up the river and that the body had floated down the stream. Relatives were notified and came down and had the body removed Wednesday afternoon.
 On Tuesday morning about 2.3C o'clock, fire was discovered by the night watchman in the factory of the Whitlock Printing Press Company, which was soon extinguished by the automatic sprinklers and the chemi- cal extinguishers, without turning the hose pipe on. The fire was in the draughting room and the damage by fire and water is estimated at about $500.
 John Lennihan has commenced the erection of a dwelling house on Myrtle street on his newly purchased lot.
 One man was arrested last Week fol registering female dog as male. l was more expensive to him than if h' had done right in the first place.
 Mrs William Hadley has gone t' Hopewell, Mass, where her husband i: employed.
 The Christian Endeavor Union meet
 ing was held in the Methodist churc] on Monday evening and Rev w. G
 Lathrop gave the address.
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