The Newtown bee., 1907-01-18
TOWN TOPICS GRANGE BULLETIN.

PANCAKE SUPPER.
 At the meeting of Pootatuck Grange, next Tuesday night, pancake supper | will be served. James B. Nichols, a popular member, has generously offer ed to furnish the necessary ingredients, while the sisters will attend to the compOunding and serving of the same. Rev George T. Linsley of Hartford has been appointed editor of the new paper, The Connecticut Churchman, to he issued quarterly, and to be the Of ficial organ of the bishop and the Epis- copal church in this diocese. In his editorial announcement MT L1nsley says: It is with feelings of some diff fidence that the writer responds to the urgent request of the Bishop of the Diocese and undertakes the editorship of this new Diocesan paper. There seems to be real mission for such a paper to fulfill and undoubtedly the Bishop is right in believing that it can be made an effectual means of. promot- ing the highest interests of our Dice esan life. The possibility of such re- suit, so much to be desired, at once impreSSeS us with the great reSpOnSi- bility laid upon the editorial manage ment. The only motive prompting to the undertaking of such task by one already busily engaged in active paro- chial life is the desire to perform a labor of love for the Church's sake in the hope of furthering her cause in this historic Diocese of Connecticut No Diocese in our land has traditions so interesting as those of Connec ticut. It's deferred but romantic beginnings, it's early struggles and persevering pa tience, it's preservation of essentials in faith and order when others would have been content with weak if not fatal cOmpromiSe-all this lends a ok intn fo the Church history of Connecticut. The strength of the Diocese to-day in mum bers and influence, it's coloniZing work in reproducing its staunch ChurchmanShip in other parts of the Church, like the similar part played by the State in our national develop ment, also tend to make this Diocese one of the foremost in the American Church to-day. It will be part of our work to bring some of the leading features of this historical side of our Diocesan life to the attention of our readers from time to time. It will al- so be ours to lay before our constit- uency the many evidences of the pres ent activity of the Church in Connec- ticut as indeed that of living Church. In doing this we shall endeavor to keep our eyes and ears open to note all events of Diocesan interest as they oc- cur. Ours will be broad outlook to include every part of the whole Dio- cese. Although our editorial work at present is done in Hartford, the see city, our attention will not be confined to Church life in the State capital but we shall always endeavor te represent faithfully all portions of the State and to reflect accurately the interests of rural hamletS as well as those of busy cities. The Diocese to us will have no sections, no corners" no remote places, but it will be pre-eminently the one Diocese and the whole Dio- cese. To promote this spirit of Dio- ceSan unity will be one of the first Ob- jects of The Connecticut Churchman. The editor brings to this work an ex- perience which may in some ways be helpful in accom- plishing this object. Born in New Haven, and educated there in school and college, attending Berkeley Divinity School in Middlesex Archdeaconry, beginning his ministry in the extreme southwestern part Of the state in Fairfield ArchdeacOnrY, officiating occasionally in the south eastern part and elsewhere within the limits of New London Archdeaconry and in Litchfield Archdeaconry, with 12 years experience in rural parish and now identified with the church life of one of our largest cities in Hartford Archdeaconry-this he ven lures to hope will help to maintain that broad view of our Diocesan affairs which will seek to keep things in due perspective and find an equal interest in all subjects and all work which bear of the various parishes and missions in particular.
 Mrs Smith, wife of Rev o. H. Smith of Barre, Mass, has been passing a few days in town, the guest of MT and Mrs Arthur J. Smith.
 Miss s. J. Scudder is visiting at Can andaigua, N. Y.
 Robert N. Latin of New Haven has l installed bath room and enamel sink in the residence of Clark Page in Berk- shire.
 1 Austin Botsford of New Haven passed Sunday with his parents, MI and Mrs E. M. Botsford, in Palestine.
 John W. Behn of Dodgingtown has | just had his buildings improved by
 being newly painted. w. B. Davis & Go. of Stepney had the contract.
 Howard Behn of Bridgeport spent Sunday with his parents, MT and Mrs
 John W. Behn, in Dodgingtown.
 Miss Elsie .Botsford of Palestine is
 at Dr Wright's sanitarium in Bridge port for treatment.
 Mrs John F. Sammis, ST., of Bots ford, spent the holidays with friends
 in Nerwalk and Bridgeport.
 Attorney Charles G. Morris of New
 Haven spent a day, last week, at his
 place in ZOar.
 MT and Mrs James O'Brien spent