The Newtown bee., 1902-08-15

Noble Bennitt has had erected in the Center cemetery handsome mon- ument of hammered Barre granite. Walter Peck, Livingston Peck, Ray mond Osborne and Carl NOrthrop are enjoying camp life at Calf Pasture Beach, South Norwalk. The infant son of MT and Mrs Rob- ert Burr of Brooklyn was brought to New Milford for burial in the Center cemetery on Tuesday. The boy was summer home at Lake Waramaug. Paul BeardSley, employed at the store of c. M. Beach, is away on a weeks vacation, passed at New Haven and other points.
 A special sale of secondhand and new watches is now in progress at C. B. Riddiford'S. MT RiddifOrd has some great values in watcheS taken in trade, which he would like to close out before moving to the new store. The prices range from $2 to $1O, according to the grade. He invites you to call at his store and look them over. His watch repairer, MT Parker, P !r ( is giving good sat; sat iSfactiOn. He is also an Optfcian and will give special attention to this work in the new store.
 | The new firm of Duncan & Garfield expect to begin business in the cloth ing and boot and shoe line in one of l Noble Bennitt'S stores about October l. Charles Duncan was for seven years with McMahon, and Sherman Garfield is son of Daniel Cantield. Frederick Van Wyck, of the law firm of Van Wyck & Mygatt, of New York, Sunday.
 Jarvis Somers and son, Homer, of North Woodbury, have been guests of Dr R. s. Todd.
 Mrs H. D. Hine is in New Haven, the guest of her sister, Mrs w. A. Watts.
 Miss Minnie Shaffer, one of the affa- ble clerks at w. G. BartOn's establish ment, is passing her vacation at Pitts
 Miss Helen Ives, who has held po- sition for some time with the New Milford Hat Co.,, has left to take a position in an office in Bethel. Her many local friends sincerely regret her departure.
 Mrs Brown and her grandson, Willie Pickett, are passing the week in Wash ington, guests at William Pickett's.
 Mir and Mrs A. w. Coon of East Orange, N. J., and Maj B: Wheeler and wife of Wing Station, N. Y., are cXpcCUCU, UlllS Wcck, du UCOIkC w. Squires' in Merryall.
 Bennett Peck of Bridgewater has been appointed administrator on the estates of John B. Peck and Esther Peck by Judge A. G. Todd in the local Probate court.
 T. F. and William Trowbridge o1 New York passed Sunday in town guests of M. w. Hill. A. J. Partridge has secured fine block horse for his express wagon O1 Pliney Squires, the local horse expert } John Anderson of Grove street ha! , secured nice bay mare of Pliney ] SQuireS.
 c. A. Hayes, the fish man, is holding . the ribbons over bay horse, bough of Pliney Squires.
 Howard Reede is driving a new ba, horse, bought of Pliney Squires.
 George Warner, 1St, went to tn
 New Haven hospital, Saturday, fO
 treatment.
 John s. Irwin of Greenwich passe' Sunday>in town.
 is being energetically pushed by Davi' Soule. The roof is now on. At tn
 front end of one of the roof timber 6 some one tackled an American flag r He expects to begin business in tn
 new hotel by October 15.
 William Hamlln has taken position
 with Henry Griffin.
 Miss Mary F. Warehouse is visiting
 in Bridgeport, the guest of her broth CT, Andrew Warehouse. Il MT and Mrs Henry Griffin have re r. turned from a vacation passed in Troy
 Albany and Poughkeepsie, N. Y. F !. L., Warehouse took MT Gritf1nS plac V in the blacksmith shop during his al :" Sence.
 David Leach of Church street