The Newtown bee., 1907-04-26

we the SuDSCTlDerS OO DeIeOy SSV- orally agree and promise to pay to Eben Beach, Treasurer of the First Ecclesiastical Society in Newtown, the sums annexed to our names respective ly, for the purpose of repairing the Congregational church in said New town. Newtown, August Second, 1S45 This subscription to be paid the first of December, 1845:
 Abel BOtSford, $50 % George BotSford, 25 co Abigail Marshall, 10 co Oliver Peck, 5 % Elliott M. Peck, 500 Wooster Peck, 10 % Hezakiah B. Fairchild, 5 co John B. Wheeler, 500 Ezra H. Johnson, 15.OO Charles Johnson, 2O.OO Henry Fairchild, 15.OO William Fairchild, Is % Hiram Parmalee, 2O.OO Samuel o. Blackman, 1000 Rufus SomerS, 1000 Eben Beach, 1000 Lewis s. Briscoe, TOO Robert N. Hawley, 500 Philo J. Marsh, 500 Clara TouSey. % Abner Beers, 500 Isaac N. Hawley, 300 Charles H. Beers, 300 Sallu F. Barnum, 10 % Lemuel Beers, 800 Alexander Hall, 200 Isaac Nichols, 2 % Walter Isbell, 400 George A. Townsend. 2O.OO Lyman Beers, 500 Reuben Beach, 500 Baldwin & Beers. 20.OO D. H. Belden, 1000 Theophilus Nichols, 400 Charlotte Glover, 200 Henry B. Glover, 1000 Henry Baldwin, 500 Abigail Walker, 5. co George Scott, 200 Joseph Wheeler, 300 Ambrose Stillson, 200 John B. Nichols, 200 Isaac Marshall, 1000 Abel T. Peck, LOO Levi Peck, 200 Phebe Booth, 300 Naomi Booth, 500 William Blakeslee, 500 mos C.. Peck, 3 % Amos s. Treat, 300 James P. Keeler, 300 Charles Fairman, 300 HepSa A. Foot, 200 Lucius M. Hard, 200 Jabez B. Peck, 300 Joseph Blackman, 200 Simeon B. Peck, 200 Eli Bennett, 300 Daniel Skidmore, LOO Isaac Foot, LOO May Tomlinson, 500 Ann R. Peck, 500 While there is no expectation that this paper will interest many of THE BEES readers, yet it would be very strange if goodly number may not be found who will pause long enough to connect and contrast the past with the present.. The church building of to-day is, in sense, the rebuilt, re- modelled building of now nearly two the old timbers are still portion of the framework: the old bell, cracked | though it is, still peals forth the call | to s'come and worship" the spacious eight generations, are good for thous- and years yet to come, while the weather vane, Old Chanticleer, upon whom thousands have turned their eyes, still silently tells each passer-by bear Ine old of Is she apz vondsr %5d that the writer should have many | pleasant memories connected with thy past history? Five generations of his ancestors had their church home within thy hallowed walls.
 With no whistle-ef the locomotive, no "hello'' of the telephone, no rhonk, honk, honk," of the automobile to dis turb the stiffness of our village street, how quiet and restful must have been the New England Sabbath of one hun- dred years ago.
 With varied emotions many genera tions have, with willing feet, crossed thy threshold, and still the tide of hu- man life flows on. The march of events and the reStlessness of the age in which we live, may, ere long, lay the destructive hand upon thy old
 time exterior to make way for some
 thing more in architectural keeping with the present time, but the coming of the new can never be any dearer oI any more hallowed than those same
 walls have been to the generations
 that will then have passed away.
 B. L. Johnson.
 April, 1907.