The Newtown bee., 1907-06-28
West Cornwall.
WHAT'S GOING ON IN TOWN.

WHAT'S GOING ON IN TOWN.
 Miss Ethel L. Oliver accompanied her father, Representative Oliver, to Hartford. this week. They also made side trips to Bridgeport and New Ha- ven.
 Mrs H. J. Page has be en spending the week with her daughter, Mrs R. F. Smith, Jr.
 Mrs A. V. Coons is again in Els worth, this week.
 Mrs Rose Hartle is at the home of Mrs Memmott~
 Mrs H. I. Arms of Bristol is visiting her brother, John R. Harrison.
 Miss Ethel Maude McCready attend ed the commencement exercises of the Newtown High school, last week, she the graduating class.
 Dr E. c. Baldwin of Urbans, Ill.,, visited her parents, MT and Mrs Chaun- cey B. Baldwin, last week, joining his wife and daughter in New Haven. Mon day.
 Miss Ruth A. Salewski is home from Winsted.
 Mrs R. w. Dean has one of her small brothers from Kent with her.
 B. s. Bierce and family spent Sun day with his parents on the home farm.
 Mrs Elizabeth Wilson has been in New Jersey during the past week.
 James Clark, the new blacksmith, has moved his family into the Oliver house, and is now installed in the shop, ready for business Those satisfied customers who have so much regretted MT Divers necessity for giving up his work. will be pleased to know that MT Clark has had much the same line of experience and is ready to take up the work where MT Oliver lays it down.
 s. R. Scoville has been unloading, this week, a carload of furniture for l.. O. Hedden's summer house.
 At joint meeting of the selectmen and school board, held the 18th, the ap- propriation for this district was cut down, to such an extent as to limit the school this year to one teacher instead of two. It was thought best to close one room for this year, and have one Normal teacher, the number of chill dren attending at present not being as large as usual.
 Among other improvements which are being made at the house of Theo Sturges is the laying of all the floors in quartered oak.
 Dr and Mrs Joseph Robinson have taken possession of their new house, this week, the interior work and deco ration being practically finished, and the exterior work progressing rapidly.
 c. R. Smith opened his ice cream parlors. last Saturday evening, for the first time this season and was all sold out by o'clock.
 The Y. P. s. c. B. gave an ice cream and cake sale on the chapel lawn, We'd Tlesday evening.
 The afternoon express now makes a regular.stop at this station, while for two years past it has only been flag stop, although by actual count, only 13 out of 312 days during the year was the flag used.
 It being review lesson at the Sunday school, last Sunday, the entire school was taught by the superintendent, Will liam Oliver, making a pleasant diver sion.
 The small boys of the, town seem to know where to go to get their names in the paper, and no less than nine of them had good deal to say last Saturday about their game of ball which they won from Cornwall Bridge by a score of to 6.
 Union Communion services will be held at North Cornwall, next Sunday morning.
 It became necessary. last week, to chloroform '3Old Jim", the white horse which has belonged to Huston Coch- rane for over 20 years and the pity of it was that it was not old age which made the necessity, for 'Old Jim" had only that morning faithfully performed his duties over the milk route. But la ter in the day while in the pasture, he fell into a hole, so wrenching anC straining him internally as to make ii a mercy to put him out of his misery Not only the family but many of tht villagers were greatly attached to thu old horse and regret his untimely end vanced age, and ''Old Jim'' shoul' have had in his condition many usefu days in front of him.
 On Wednesday. June 19. daughter Marion Louise, was born to MT ant Mrs John Rogers Harrison.