The Newtown bee., 1905-08-25

dyspepsia, Sick-headache. Sold
raised. Now you have fund of about
Sc, 500 which is great help towards
sustaining the parish. Seemingly all |
parishes should aim to secure as large |
a fund as possible. In June, 1911, the
church on this site was burned through |
a gun being fired to shoot dove in
the belfrey and the wad setting the
woodwork on fire, and the present edi-
flee was then built. In 1S4l the par
sonage was erected on the glebe lot of
the parish.
Daniel Shelton, who was SO conSpic-
uously identified with this parish,
moved from Stratford to the Long
Hill district in Huntington in 1907 or
17oS, where he died in the year 1928.
| have briefly passed over period
Of one hundred and sixty years of the
history of this parish where so much
faithful work has been done to enroll
the hearts and minds of those who
have gone to their eternal rest by
teaching them their duty to God and
to their neighbors. In closing may
ask you to uphold the hands of your
faithful rector, the more difficult the
1uties to be performed, the more
strength he needs from above and
from his fellowmen as encouragement
in the accomplishing Of them. We
should deeply contemplate as we note
this serious side of life, the rapid
flight of years, in its retrospection,
that zone generation paSseth away
and another generation cometh." One
can find
SERMONS ON STONES IN THE NEARBY
CHURCHYARDs
and be shown the path of duty, which
let us hope, will finally bring us rest
in our heavenly home.
GREETINGS FROM rllNOTT
BEARDSLEY.
OF LOS ANGELES, CAL, FORMERLY OF
ROXBURY.
No. POPS West Oath street,
Los Angeles, Cal.
August 5, 1905.
Rev f. A. Holden,
Dear Sir: Your kind letter was duly
received extending to me kind invi-
ia ton to be present at the exercises
during Old Home week in Hunting
ton, Conn. The distance lover 5000
miles, coupled with my advanced age,
Is years, will debar me from attempt
ing the journey.
AS for me I am only a grandchild;
having been born among the hills of
Litchfeld county. My father was
born in the old red house on the east
side of the street in Isinglass and his
ancestors for at least two generations
were natives of Ripton. A feeling Of
love for my old grandmother town
was instilled into my mind by my
grandfather who never lost his affec-
ton for old Huntington. When the
NEwTowN BEE comes fitting across
the continent and alighus on the
''Shore of the Western sea" all bust
ness is suspended until the news from
the mother and grandmother town S
has been read. 1t has often been re-
marked that 'peopIe born and reared
among high hills have strong local at
tachmentS," and for some reason old
Huntington has retained more of her
early family names than most of the
other towns in Connecticut. At all
seasons she is clothed in beauty wheth-
er in her pure white garb during the
winter. months or in the emerald green
Of summer she has beauty all her
own. 1t has been my fortune to see
many of the large rivers of this coun-
try and the silvery Housatonic will
not suffer by comparison with any
of them.
Huntington has history of which
she may we'll be proud. Men eminent
in theology, naval hero, prominent
physicians and, above all, a class of
sturdy, honest farmers have contrib
uted to the glory Of the grand old
town.
Thanking you for the invitation so
kindly extended to me, l remain sim
cerely and truly yours,
MinOtt L. Bea rdSley.
Grandmother II arlington. to thee
Thy children now return
With hearts imbued with loyalty.
With lamps of love that burn.
halo Of celestial light
Encircles thy fair brow.
All radiant in colonial night.
| beams with glory now.
When lovingly thou doSt invite
Beneath thine old roof tree,
Thy children claim their own birthright
And gladly come to thee.
0, tender mem Dries. Do moan.
AS the past regard,
or lovd ones round the old hearthstone,
Now gone to their reward