The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1902-10-03
FAIRFIELD COUNTY
REDDING.

IN une heOQlng RluSe ScnOOl mousse on
the proposed license vote, October g.,
first meeting decided to write. 1t was
at Springfield, Mass, freshly graduated
from a theological seminary and you
fresh as a reporter for the Springfield
Homestead. l recall your shying into
my study, pad and pencil in hand, af-
ter church news. Now nearly 20
years ago; don't seem SO long, but it
now recalling lin a mood fell into
abOve), a temperance campaign we
humbly participated in in Springfield.
1t was in the SOS. My blood was hot
ter then than now. Our church, a
people along the River front. We
had great ambitions "to do work
We daily saw the awful evils of in
temperance and one of our weapons
then was strict and rigid prohibition
and no license for the sale of liquor.
We were inexperienced then, but have
never forgotten the part we took in a
no license campaign. When our i'm
petuous voice got outside of Turtel-
LOFTS hall, the meeting place of Cold
Spring lodge of Good Templars, to the
son and Baptist church, speaking
from the same platform with Judge
Elisha b. Maynard, mayor, and the
lights of the ministerial profession Of
the city.
The morning of the election, mount
ing on the drivers seat of large bus
with Nate Tinkham doing yeOmanS'
service all day in bringing employees
from the United States armOry to the
voting places, fighting, fighting spirits
rising with every hour. until late in
the evening in front of the Republican
Office in Main street, it was flashed out
on transparency, "Springfield votes
no license by 135 majority - Instant
ly our hat went high in the air and no
Methodist, lay or clerical ever shouted
louder. Weren't YOU there. nervouSly
trying to get down some reporters
notes on pad that would Stay down:
Well, the years have passed, cooled
our blood some; time then but only
cooled it, not thinned or changed. For
recently when am told in this quiet
and sequestered old town where in our
ministerial pilgrimage we sojourn for
while few of the baser sort have
had the temerity to actually ask that
license be granted them for the sale
of liquors, began to feel the same old
STRINGS.
A license to sell this damnable stuff,
among decent, quiet self-respecting
| folk of a country town? Not much ;!
But petition has been signed with
the necessary % names on it to bring
it to vote at the next Monday S
town meeting. Smith, l wish you
would extend the cOurtesieS of your
paper, and in the next issue set The
BEES all buzzing SO violently that
there won't be any general apathy
in old Redding, October 6. l don It
| ho1invo will no rThnCQ nann1n
are not that kind, but we want to be
awake and alert. l thought it was
cheaper coal or cheaper beefsteak
| they wanted in this factory village of
| Georgetown. But it isn't; it's licensed
saloons, and we are to VOTE them this.
Well, now, not on your life. We will
be at the old town house with guns ;
and you mustn't think we wouldn t
be. Good night. A long way to tell
you to tell that people, but I am sure
you will kindly do sO.-LG. A. Viets,
Redding.
Sunday evening, September %, 1902
DISTINGUISHED VISITORS IN TOWN.
The Ridge has been greatly favored
with the presence Of some distinguish
ed visitors. Mr. and Mrs Stanley
Brown have been the guests of Mrs
Hogson at the log cabin in the Hollow
Mrs Brown is we'll known as Mollie
Garfield, daughter of the late Presi
dent Garfield. Miss Vaka, a noble
Greek lady from Constantinople, is Wis
iting Miss J. H. Sanford. On Sunday
Miss Jennie Glider, editor of the Crit
ic and sister of Watson Glider of the
Century, visited at the same place
Miss Glider is the editor of bool
entitled the Autobiography of Ton
Boy" which depicts many scene:
that took place in Redding, where she
resided as the daughter of the MethO
dist minister. the late W. H. Glider
who afterwards became chaplain il
the Army during the Civil War an,
died at the post of duty.
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
At the republican caucus held OF
} Saturday night, w. e. HaZen and A
II. Dimon we're put in nomination a
selectmen, j. L. Sanford and Jane
,, Griffen as assessors and J. n. NicKel
son for judge OF probate.
MI and Mrs Dunnell have donated /;
fine street lamp for the benefit OF tn
Ridge. 1t is located on the four cor
!. ners opposite the house of Cha rles +
Bradley and sheds it's cheerful ray
for quite distance. This is not tn
: only evidence of Mr. Dunnell's intereS
y in the place. He and his accomplish
: ed wife are great acquisition to tn
neighborhood and we wish we had
+ few more like them.
A large furnace is being placed i
, the fine mansion of Mr. Dunnell.
The house of Mrs Henry Whitehead
o is well under way and will be CON
y ! n1ptp hafnra cold weather.
Robert Osborne has gone to Ne
Haven to enter the scientific school.
DR. Charles Merritt, the well-know
dentist, whose death took place recen
ly at the age~of 80 years, was born hel
l. at the house now owned by Fl. S. O
l. borne.
Our rural mail carrier had the mi
fortune, last week, to lose his key
J. Any one returning them will receive
IT suitab BILE reward and the gratitude {
If the owner.
d J. VanNortOn has leased the plat
l. of Mrs Emeline Gilbert. He cam
e from New Rochelle and has been el
1t gagged in religious work.
l. On Monday the case of Sullivan
II Price was tried before Justice J.
S. Blackman. 1t was an action to I
+. cover on a book debt. The case W;
adjourned for two weeks.
DR. and Mrs j. 5. LinSley, parents
Mrs. A. G. Mcconnell, have moved
+ Redding and will make their perma
y ent home with Mr. and Mrs McCOnne
D at their place on Couch's Hill. l
", ~ Linsley is a Homeopathic physicis
&c * and has practiced in New York ci
%, %, for the past 35 years.
&c
Re STEVENSON.
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ANOTHER OLD HOUSE IN Ruins.
H. Another old Salt Box House has go