The Newtown bee., 1904-12-30

which all the younger part of the audience enjoyed. The students left for their respective homes on the fol- lowing afternoon.
 On Saturday evening, the Gunnery held the family Christmas tree cele- bration and all in the household were generously remembered with gifts.
 The Swedish Congregational church held an interesting service on Christ mas day at 5 o'clock in the morning, which was attended by large num- Der. In the evening at ! o'clock Christmas exercises were held by the Sunday school and the beaptiful tree was as usual an attractive feature of program. Boxes of candy were dis tributed to the Sunday school child ren, which were the annual gifts from Mrs E. Fl. Van Ingen.
 William Zumpf gave his boys a Christmas present of a piano.
 Senator O. H. Platt and wife are spending the holidays at their resi- dence here.
 Mir and Mrs Joseph I. Wetterau spent Christmas with MT and Mrs Fowler.
 Miss Clark, teacher in upper grade of Calhoun street school, is spending her Christmas vacation at her home in Hartford.
 Miss Burr, primary teacher of Cal houn street school has gone to her home in Guilford for the holidays.
 MT and Mrs Lyman Frisbie of Brookfield are spending this week at Henry Frisbie's.
 MT and Mrs Robert Thomas of Rox- bury spent Christmas at c. Rylander's.
 Miss Edna Lake, bookkeeper for Watts & Cogswell, spent Christmas with her parents in Bethlehem.
 MT and Mrs Courtland D. Cole of Bridgeport spent Christmas with their daughter, Mrs B. A. Hull.
 Mrs k. E. Carter and children spent Christmas in Bridgeport.
 The Church Hill school celebrated it's closing day with Christmas tree and program in the afternoon. After the program was finished the teacher, Miss Buell., distributed from the tree, bags of candy and oranges and gifts for each of her pupils. The program was as follows: Opening address, Laura Anderson. , The Boys Complaint, Arthur Zumpf.
 Christmas Eve in the Cabin, Henry Chapin.
 Speech for Little Girl, Laura An. derson.
 A Christmas Song, Carl Swanson.
 Just before Christmas, Clifford Zumpf.
 Sketch from the Hearth, Ellen Zumpf.
 The Bells Across the Snow, Agnes Johnson.
 Ring the Christmas Bells, Johr McConaghle.
 Christmas, Sarah McConaghie.
 Christmas Eve, Louis Randall.
 Little Joe, Flora Seabury.
 A Boy, Harry Anderson.
 Christmas Time, Jennie Johnson. I Give us Little Boys Chance, Valde mar Swanson, Vincent Randall. ;. For Little Girl, Ellen Zumpf.
 A pleasant family gathering of IS en
 joyed the distribution of gifts from
 handsome Christmas tree on Satu1 day evening at the home of MT an
 Mrs Louis A. Mason.
 On Wednesday evening of last week
 the Grange entertained the teacher
 and pupils of the Calhoun stree
 school and others in Grange hall. Tn . children provided a very interestin program of recitations and song ] Miss Knowles, the local secretary ( '. the Audubon society gave delightfl I, talk on "B1rdS," containing muC
 practical information about them ar
 thoroughly interested her audienc y After the program was conclude y apples and candy were distribute
 The children passed a pleasant ho, y playing games. e Rev Percy Robinson of St John e church preached his farewell sermt D on last Sunday. .s Dr and Mrs Wersebe went to Ne Y. Jersey on Monday to attend the fune >e al of the doctors father. ;e The Junior Auxiliary of the d Johns church at a recent sale a t. supper at the White Inn, cleared & g, After supper, in the evening, t