The Newtown bee., 1906-08-24

so many of you here. Sentiment is what makes us all better and enables us with Gods help to make better men and women of ourselves. Senti- ment is what makes this, dear old town SO dear to us and it is that which helps us fill out our lives and fill out a complete manhood and womanhood. We often wonder whether the world is growing better or worse and it seems to me that this world of ours is grow ing better. We could perhaps better answer the-question by going back to the old people of 50 years ago and see how they lived and what liberty they had in action and in service of the Heavenly Father. Do not we have greater liberty and opportunities for service? Does it not prove to us, in spite of the many things that make us feel that the world is growing worse, that we are as nation, as people, on the upward road? This one grand idea of liberty should be great in- spiration to all of us to improve the liberty that is given us, to make our own lives better and then the people and nation will be better and more noble as the years roll on.
 WHY ARE ALL EYES ON THE UNITED
 STATES
 to-day? Is it not the freedom of li- berty God has given us here? Why are we all distressed at the trouble across the sea in Russia? Is not it the lash of this liberty? Let us cherish this liberty and use it to make us strong, noble men and women that the world in years to come may be blessed by noble lives. Some one has said it took 5O,OOO years to make a Mckinley and it has taken thousands of years to make our lives. Are we living so that the blessings we have received maybe passed on to those who thousands of years hence will be our descendants, that they may live good andxnoble lives because of the lives we are now living? Let us cher ish this liberty, this sentiment, that with Gods help we may round out full and complete lives. In closing he said: There is only one better place than Huntington-that is Minneapolis, Minn.
 E. J. Buckingham read an interest ing letter from Edward H. Gilbert of New York, also one from Mrs Abbie Brownson Nlff of Baltimore, Md. .The hat was then passed that all might have chance to help pay the expenses of the day. Rev F. A. Holden brought up the matter whether the Old Home gathering should be held l every year or once in two, three or five years and it was voted to hold it every year: This closed the program. The rain having stopped the people all went out on the green again where for an hour or more most delightful so' cial time was enjoyed, renewing old acquaintances and talking over the scenes and happenings of years gone by. All felt the day had been a very enjoyable one and one long to be re- mbered. There were a number o1 very old people who were present tC enjoy the day. Among them were George Washington Hyde of New Ha ven, who was 92 years old and was born and brought up in the Dr James Shelton place now owned by Mrs T. Booth; Shelton Miles of Seymour, % years old; Mrs Susan Hawley of Shel ton, S5 years; Mrs E. M. Beardsley O Monroe, 8l years; Mrs Mary E. Buck ingham, 82 years: David Wheeler, r years; B. r. Upaon, S8 years; and man. others who had lived out three SCOT years and ten.
 AMONG THOSE FROM OUT OF TOWN
 were MT and Mrs J. K. Bronson 0 Holyoke, Mass Rev Henry B. Bear of Minneapolis, Minn.; Mr and Mrs N s. Lacey of Bridgeport; Dr Gould Shc] ton of Shelton: D. s. Brinsmode ar' family of Derby; Mrs H. T. Phillips
 Mrs James Jordan, Mrs Chariot:
 Phillips, Miss Francis Stremmell, c
 Newark, N. J.; Mrs May St John Wi
 COX of Fair Haven, Mass; Dr T. \ Glover of Rutherford, N. Y.; Hon I
 N. Morgan, MT and Mrs William
 Morgan, of Bridgeport; Mrs Arthu Burr of Trumbull; Prof Ross Jewe