The Newtown bee., 1907-04-26

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, 1845 This subscription to be paid the first of December, 1845:
 Abel Botsford, $50 % George BOtSfOrd, 25 % Abigail Marshall, 1OO % Oliver Peck, 5 % Elliott M. Peck, co Wooster Peck, 10 % Hezakiah B. Fairchild, 5 % John B. Wheeler, 5 % Ezra H. Johnson, 15.OO Charles Johnson, 2OOO Henry Fairchild, 15OO William Fairchild, Is % Hiram Parmalee, 20 % Samuel O. Blackman, 1000 Rufus Somers, 1000 Eben Beach, 900 Lewis s. Briscoe 700 Robert N. Hawley, 500 Philo J. Marsh, 500 Clara TOuSey. 5 % Abner Beers, , % Isaac N. Hawley, 300 Charles H. Beers, 300 Sallu P. Barnum, 1000 Lemuel Beers, 500 Alexander Hall, 200 Isaac Nichols, 200 Walter Isbell, 400 George A. Townsend. 2O.OO Lyman Beers, 500 Reuben Beach, 500 Baldwin & Beers. POO D. H. Belden, 1000 Theophilus Nichols, 400 Charlotte Glover, 200 Henry B. Glover, 1000 Henry Baldwin, 500 Abigail Walker, 500 George Scott, '- 200 Joseph Wheeler, 300 Ambrose Stillson, 2 % John B. Nichols, 200 Isaac Marshall, 1000 bel T. Peck, LOO Levi Peck, 200 Phebe Booth, 300 Naomi Booth, 500 William Blakeslee, 500 Amos G. Peck, 3 % Amos S. Treat, 3 % James P. Keeler, 300 Charles Fairman, 300 Hepsa A. Foot, 200 Lucius M. Hard, 200 Jabez B. Peck, 3 % Joseph Blackman, 2 % Simeon B. Peck, 200 Eli Bennett, 300 Daniel Skidmore, 100 Isaac Foot. LOO May Tomlinson, 500 Ann R. Peck, 500 While there is no expectation that this paper will interest many of TIE 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- hundred years ago. A large portion of the old timbers are still a portion of the framework: the old bell, cracked though it is, still peals forth the call to ''come and worship" the spacious doorsteps that have been trodden by eight generations, are good for a 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 Dear old landmark Is it any wonder 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 of the locomotive no "hello" of the telephone, no "honk
 honk, honk,'' of the automobile to dis
 turb the stiffness of our village street
 how quiet and restful must have beer
 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 o
 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 O.
 any more hallowed t,sSan those sam'
 walls have been to tea generation
 that will then have paseNus away. Eesax Johnson.
 April, 1907: