The Newtown bee., 1902-04-04

Conservation meeting) find us further than to-day (the last Conservation meeting)."
 GREAT MOTTO AND GREAT WORK.
 Life in a quiet country village like Newtown is somewhat like quiet estuary of the sea. ness until some surging pillows from the tenn l pest-tossed deep find their way in at the the estuary into ifoam. So our fife, here is most of the while still. The surges of the life are undisturbed by them. Now and then some pillow from the heaying world beyond clashes adH Ss s l too much is:it true'that we are in the world and yet not of it. A great convention took place est convention of it's kind ever known. A passing notice in the papers is all that we Brown, a Yale student, come to us last Sunday | and told in the Congregational church what a great convention it was. He impressed every | one who heard him as an earnest, Spirit-flled young man who is bound to make place for himself in the world and leave his mark upon wish we could do more than throw together of them from the United States. They repre-. came from Harvard. about the same number from Yale You might think of them as ia, ths %s a more clear-headed. wideawake we'll bal anced set of young men l never saw. There thusiasm about the convention. When some magnificent address would stir us so that we e the presidi6g officer. would paise his finger te IS rsed evaRngelizat}on sR M of the worl d in this genera tion; but it was done without much stir o tn coege sbribed s25 to this fund.-[*+*
 The collection which was taken j1 y the church Sunday morning, March 30 through the Easter letters that hat [, been sent out and through the regu'a to the good sum of $l5O. We knov : that our friends who are with us par }. of the year and who eagerly scan tn : columns of THE BEE to see how we ar faring, will heartily rejoice, as we dc n in this splendid showing.
 Rev and Mrs c. w. Francis of Brook !. field Center, together with Rev an , Mrs H. De Witt Williams of Sout Britain, met with Rev MT Barker a o the parsonage on Wednesday after noon, and made plans for fellowshi
 meeting to be held in the Newtow
 Congregational church on Tuesda! 5 April 29.
 Morris Ward and John Leavy (
 Waterbury were guests over Eastt
 Sunday of Morris Leavy.
 Willie Bradley, only son of Micha
 F. Bradley of Wards Island, Ne
 York, dled Sunday morning, March 2
 He was buried on Tuesday followir / in Calvary cemetery. He was brigl little fellow and spent his summe
 with his grandparents, Selectman ar
 Mrs Thomas J. Bradley,in Sandy Hoo
 His age was about five years.
 Anna Teresa Bakey, daughter
 James E. Bakey of Hawleyville, di' - in Oakville, Wednesday, March : A Miss Bakey was highly esteem
 young lady, of a lovable dispositiC
 and leaves besides her father, two s
 ters and two brothers, and large c
 cle of friends who will sincerely mou
 her loss. The funeral was held Thu g. day, March 27, from the home of
 and Mrs Frank Frederick. Fatf
 Broderick of Waterbury conducted t
 services and spoke highly of the (
 ceased. The interment was in Calva
 cemetery, Waterbury: A requiem hi i'i in church Thursday, April 3, for the hip ceased.
 nd George Mcguire and Miss Eliza !
 guire were called to YonkerS, N.
 Monday, to attend the funeral of tn
 cousin, Miss Jennie Burke, aged les; years. Their uncle has also just di ], Re- Patrick Gibbons, at Tuckahoe, N. rse- 1rs;s Selectman Morris has presented - Hiram lodge, F. & A. M., some in1 Ct esting Masonic papers, of great g Co., which have been neatly framed d.. hung in the lodge room. One