The Newtown bee., 1907-12-06
The Newtown Bee
 New,own. Friday. December (. 1907,
LITCHFIELD COUNTY.
New Preston.
THE LOCAL NEWs BUDGET.

Samuel Beard has located himself at the farmhou e In Lake district for the winter. which was lately occupied by Mrs Anderson and her sons. but sold To Frank Straight, who employs MT Beard 10 remain and attend to such live stock as MT Straight sees proper to put there during the cold weather. To many living alone in T house so far from neighbors would be most undesirable but Mir Beard having become more ac- customed to that manner of living. ac- cepts this position much more easily in the spirit of St Paul who had "learned in whatsoever state am. herewith to be content. "
 Mrs William 0hmen is in serious i'll health at her home in Lake district.
 Miss Edith Shillito of New Haven passed Thanksgiving and the last days of the week in this vicinity.
 Mir and Mrs H. c. Hopkins invited their nearest relatives to enjoy Thanks giving dinner with them.
 Work at O. E. Beeman's cider mill closed for the season on Wednesday of last week.
 B. J. Haynes is completing the out side steps to the new school building here. The ground in the furnace room has been prepared and cemented for the reception of the furnace. The exte- rior of the building has been finished by the painters and besides the furnace, all the building seems to lack are the desks. teachers and scholars, to make it schoolhouse indeed.
 Justus Smith has the past two weeks been more feeble in health at H. McCan's.
 R. A. Marcy. M. D., returned from Philadelphia on last Thursday evening to Hon H. 0. Averill's, where he has remained each night since and where it is hoped MT Averill will recover in time from the typhoid attack from which he has suffered for seven weeks.
 Mir and Mrs Charles Carlson and John Anderson took their Thanksgiving din ner with relatives in Brookfeld.
 Mrs Mary Carter closes her cottage, this week, and goes to her sister in Buffalo, there to remain for few weeks before going to her son, John, in Cleveland, Ohio.
 MT and Mrs Edward Hull passed Thanksgiving in Bethel. Mrs Hull re- mained there over last Sunday.
 MT and Mrs William Shea passed Thanksgiving with Mrs Shea's parents near Hotchkissville.
 J. Milton Stillson was home from college over Thanksgiving and last Sunday.
 Mrs A. G. Caskey went to New York City, last Saturday, to say Good bye" to her son, Midshipman Gardner L. Caskey, before he starts on his trip around the world. Midshipman Cas- key has been appointed navigator of the Yankton, dispatch ship of the Alt lantic fleet. Midshipman Caskey was married, November 12, to Miss Jean nette nydrlck of Orangeburg, s. C., sister of Midshipman Hydrick, U. s. Navy, and grandniece of the late Jeffer- son Davis, Ex-president of the South ern Confederacy.
 c. E. Anderson, his wife and two of his children are as comfortable as the attack of typhoid will permit them to be, but it is considered as sick house, deserving of all the charity kind neigh bors and friends can bestow.
 
 Miss Hi and Messrs Edward and Kenneth Hoffman of New Britain passed Thanksgiving here with their parents, Mir and Mrs Herman Hoffman, and remained till Sunday evening, when they felt compelled by business duty to return to their city home.
 Hopkins G. Beardsley returned to his home at Phelps, N. r., this week, feeling much benefited by his trip here.
 Miss Kate Bronson passed part of last week in New Haven.
 E. D. Douglass concluded his service with F. J. Hosford on Wednesday of last week.