The Newtown bee., 1907-03-29
FAIRFIELD COUNTY.
BROOKFIELD,

F. s. CURTIS PLANS IMPROVEMENTS. F. S. Curtis is to make, this spring, a number of changes and improve | ments about his school building. The new road he built north of his school
 Is all completed and will soon be open l for travel. He is now having neat | wire fence built on both sides of the
 road. The barn just north of the
 school is to be moved from it's present
 location to the little hill just south of
 his tenement house. A new gymnasi-
 um is to be erected on the site of the
 one burned, last fall. The stone walls | north of the school rooms are to be re-
 moved and when the old road which
 runs between his buildings is closed
 the grounds about his building on all
 sides will be laid out in a nice park | When the work is all complet ed it will | make beautiful place and add much to the appearance of Brooktield Gen. l ter.
 | REV MIR BURTON's RESIGNATION AC | GIFTED.
 | At meeting of Congregational accept the resignation of their beloved pastor, Rev M. s. Burton, the foll w. | ing vote was unanimously passed: We | as a church accept the resignation of
 our pastor, the Rev Marion l.. Burton,
 with the deepest and most sincere re- |
 do so only by the knowledge that he is
 called to larger field of usefulness
 and opportunity. We record with this
 acceptance our sense of personal loss, of the church and those associated
 with us in worship, as well as by the
 entire community. In his first pastor
 ate he has endeared himself to the people, shown himself very able preacher, and done much to influence, I frnr 1or 1v,if nd hU
 ample, the life and sound Sentiment of l the community. We recognize and | acknowledge the earnest and effective l participation of his wife in everything
 that has contributed to these results, and can but feel sorrow at Severing the | bond which has held us together. Their names will have permanent and I loving association with the history of | this church.
 Miss Olive Bennison of Stockbridge, Mass, is spending few weeks with
 Mrs William Lee on Long Meadow. Hill.
 Frank Drapeau is having new stills l put under his house on Long Meadow | Hill and is to have wide veranda | built accross the front and make oth-
 CT improvements on the house. When
 the work is all com mpleted, MT Dra-
 on the new bridge road to his place on
 Long Meadow Hill. Stanley Terril is
 doing the work for MT Drapeau. MT and Mrs John Lee of Danbury
 spent few days, last week, with MT
 Hill.
 A. s. Bowdy, who has lived in H. D. l Hawley's tenement house for two or
 three years, will move, April l, to Seth Keeler's tenement house on the
 works in Danbury, will move into the house vacated bV Mir BOWdV
 Mrs Henry Griffin spent Sunday in Bridgeport with friends.
 Mrs William Hait is having extens-
 i've alterations made on the interior of
 is doing the work.
 Mrs William Lee, who has been i'll
 for two weeks at her home on Long
 Meadow Hill, is able to be out again.
 The Dempsey & hRrrett Go. of New
 Jersey, who have leased F. B. Crosby s
 building stone quarry and his building
 sand, expect to begin work here by
 April l. The Railroad Go. are to put in siding right in front of MT Cros-
 by's house for the company and ex-
 pect before the summer is over to !, have over 100 men at work there. , Miss Katherine Gavaghan, in com l pany with her cousin, Miss May
 Welch of Danbury, spent Sunday in Norwalk, the guests of their aunt, Mrs } Master Claude Henry Wildman is
 spending few weeks in Roxbury with 7 his aunt, Mrs Frank Pierce. : Mrs Martha Wildman of West street , was the guest, last week, of her son. Ray o. Wildman, at the Junction. Clifford Hillyer, who has been bag ; gage master at the Junction for a number of years, has taken position 5 as fireman on the road for the compa- ny. Ray O. Wildman takes MT Hill l yer's place as baggage master at the Junction. MT Hillyer moved his fam 3 fly from the Junction to the Iror Works, last week.
 Edson H. Roswell has sold his farm T in the southeast part of the town tt S will take possession about April l - The farm is better known as the Nal a lett farm. MT Roswell has been nego - tiating for some land near his place a t purchased any.
 s Miss Hodge of Bridgeport was '- guest, last week, of her sister, MT Q Henry Griffin, at the Center. = Miss Davenport of Washington, D r O., has been a guest at the rectOry o q Rev and Mrs 0. s. Mullekin. Il Mrs Neil Swanson has moved from n the Gable place into Mrs HOlbrOOk'
 house near the railroad crossing at tn
 Iron Works.
 l. Henry Waters, who has been Twin g in Fred Greens house, is moving, thi e week, into the Ryan place, opposit 1T the Catholic church.
 7i Dr Clark of Brooklyn, who purchas of ed the Gallagher place in the sout IS part of the town, is having it newl e painted. Walter Smith is doing tn k, work.
 1t R. W. Green left last Saturday IS March 23, for the west, where he wi n spend about 10 days. He expects e. return to Brooktield, the first of nez st week, with another car of A No. d horses, which will include some niC
 drivers, workers and several finel
 matched pairs. The car he brougt le in about a month ago are nearly di la posed of and have given good sati v. faction to those who purchased then IS Onda Ocif of Long Meadow Hill is, to have erected, this spring, jul. N. north of his house, large new stoc
 barn. It will be Az 26 feet, with
 foot posts, and large eight foot bas .s' ment for keeping his stock in. Sta ,e- ley Terrill has the contract for bull r's ing the barn.
 ri- John Gerip has a nice new pair