The Newtown bee., 1904-07-29
THE LITTLE 0IRLS' SALE Al
 HAYESELhURST.

HAYESELhURST.
 ITS SUCCESS SURPRISES THE FONDEsT
 EXPECTATIONS OF ITS WELL-WIsH-
 FRS AND BRINGS JOY TO ALL
 HEARTS.
 Fifty dollars was put down as the outside limit which the little girls would reach in their attempt to do something for the Gospel wagons of the Congregational church; but this was a case in which realization went ahead of expectation, and when the returns, many times revised, at last put the figure at clear S8O net, it can be imagined that everybody concerned felt very happy. From the start it was called little girls sale; but prob ably on the Bible principle that no man (or woman or girD lives to him. self, before the affair was over boys and older people too were joined in the good work of "lending hand. J It was, no doubt, the good object to which the proceeds of the sale were to be given which made it the success it was. When guests in town inquired what the Gospel wagon idea was any Sunday morning, what wonderful
 
 ing up the Congregational church, their zeal was aroused and soon be- came quite infectious. Our thanks are thus especially due to many not of the usual church working force who made dainty articles for the sale and gave 1t their generous support.
 Miss Loretta Hayes, Miss Katherine Plumb and Miss Helen Plumb were the three GraceS who started the ball rolling and kept their nimble fingers moving till the last chapter was reached; but Masters Fred Hayes, Paul Walker, Phillips Morris, Nelson Allen and Richard Brown and Miss Helen Brown and others acted as aide de camps, lieutenants and subalterns to the chiefs. MT and Mrs Wesley F. Hayes, also, who gave the use of their pleasant grounds and added much power from behind the throne, MT and Mrs H. c. Plumb, who very obediently did just what their little daughters asked them to, Miss Lum and Miss tant part of taking in the cash, and other older heads and hearts come in for their share of the full glory. A beverage, recommended to all as a de- liciOus summer drink and known by the Frenchy name of cafe frappe, was gracefully served by Miss Edna Smith. Miss Virginia Walker served lemonade as long as there was anyone to drink 1t, and that was about until the gath ering shadows came on. From 4 to 6 o'clock last Thursday asternoon, July 2l, were the hours when the grounds in the rear of the Hayes home were the scene of busy enterprise and de- lightful interchange. Flags guided the way down the road beside the house; but this was hardly necessary, for this was the way everybody was going. It is surprising how ordinary things in time acquire extraordinary uses. When the genial owner of the pleasant home that fronts NeWtOWn'S s large hostelry improvised shed to shield the hammockS of his children from the sun, he did not dream that it would make just the ideal place under which booths could be arranged for the sale of fancy articles and sours and sweets; but it played it's part in this sale of the children as we'll as if it's plan had been drawn by New York architect and it's pillars erected by the boss carpenter of the Union. With d hearty thank-you to all who not only lent one hand but two hands in accom- plishing the success that the "Busy Bee" sale of 1894 will always be reck- Oned, we draw this hit-and-miss de- Scription to close.