The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1902-01-10

To care for themselves, it makes one Distress
ed.
It's not a few cases, they are all over town,
The orchards grown with weeds, and fences
all down.
But the beautiful oaks that bordered each
square
Are very beautiful now nd full as fair.
With their fine green leaves all the winter
long,
Where the mocking bird pours fourth it's
witching song.
The people here are nice. among the best,
They came from the North, the East and the
Hospitable. too, they make you feel at ease,
And in their intercourse. they mean to please.
Some OF the houses here, that look so bad and
drear,
Bereft of paint for many long, long year,
Step into them, and you will surely see
They are as we'll adorned, as one could wish
them be.
OF the churches here, I'll not forget to tell;
The Congregational has cracked bell.
The house is white and very fair to look upon
The preaching very good. enhanced with song
On the same street the Methodists hold sway
They are SO very poor they cannot pay
Their pastor enough, to keep the wolf away
From the door of the house, in which they
stay.
But the pastor breaches on, some soul to save
And his dear little wife, so earnest and brave
Holds up bis hands, while with daughter and
Suffering from want, says, Goods will be
DONE"
The Episcopal church on Volusia street,
Is very pretty, also very neat,
Surrounded with palms of various kind,
We are charmed without, and within comfort
find.
But 80 few the members Of this holy band
You can almost count them on one hand.
The Dunkards have church, I'm told,
Where they meet each week, and service hold;
curious service too, that makes them meet,
To wash each other's-not face and hands
but-feet.
Two other c0lored churches here abide
With influence neither high, nor broad or
wide.
They are brown and uncouth looking it is
said
You'd sooner take them for a carriage house
or shed.
'~~AS
Supplied with such books that you would be
surprised;
As white" men conduct It, with women too,
The reading room is furnished we'll and well
comes you.
The people feel quite proud, and we'll they
may,
The place is 80 neat. that the light of day
Gan hardly show flaw, and when all is said
and DONE
The need of praise is due Miss Dickinson.
And sitting within in your easy chair,
You look across the street and near at hand,
Just beyondsthe palms, with their heads high
In air.
You see the Orange City grand band stand"
The city was mapped in symmetrical square
or ten acres each, so level and nice,
And when they were sold eer one was aware
They had doubled and thrilled on original
This region abounds in valuable springs,
Yielding all kinds OF mineral water.
And company was formed that brings
1t to each house, or rather, it had oughter.
The water is of the best and purest kind
The chemist Of the state says he surely cannot
find
A better water in the land, to Danish all our
ills;
The people here assert it too, for it "just fills
the bills"
huge artesian we'll was bored, down deep,
Until they struck it rich. through sand and
shell,
When the boring drill dropped down full
thirty feet,
And struck this healing, gushing, flowing well
A verita ble Ia ka tup HIM "A rod faat doom do,pn
So pure they use 1t freely in the town,
And ship it DER the state in bottles or in
casks,
Or In any other medium, that any person asks.
ought to tell you of-but you would fain re-
The beauty Of the pine-straw road to ENTER
PRISE
Or Of the hard shell road that leads to De
Land,
So fine, so straight, so level and SO grand,
But sleepy time has come. l think I'll close,
And lay down my pen, and myself to repose
have just thought of n curious thing to tell.
IT'S not Of groves or people. church or we'll.
But Mr. Leavitt-Rufus Is his name,
From Washington, Connecticut, he came.
As postmaster he tries US all to please.
Since the great freeze" bereft him OF his
orange trees,
Now quite a lot Of fancy fowls he's keeping,
And with very fine success is meeting.
He has them trained we'll, and they obey him
too,
Much quicker than parents children often do.
When the old white hen on his shoulder doth
fly,
The rest OF the flock around the barn doth
HE,
And coming back in rows doth stand
Waiting the order from him, to command
Them, twice again, around the barn to go,
And 20 they do, with naught about them slow.