The Newtown bee., 1908-03-20
JOHN TURNKEY.

ington were brought here for burial on Monday afternoon. MT Turney was born in, this town, son of the late Will lis Turney, who for many years was a prominent manufacturer at Stepney Depot. Two sisters of the deceased, Mrs Eastwood and Miss Henrietta Tur- ney. reside in this place. Rev MT Everett of Orange attended the funeral and burial. Homer Clarke, Stiles Clarke, c. E. Osborne and George Lyon were pail bearers.
 Mrs Hinckley has enter tained her brother and wife from Bridgeport over Sunday. r.
 The infant child of Mir and Mrs Brill was buried in the Stepney cemetery, last Sunday afternoon.
 @ Daniel Edwards was elected at the special meeting of the Methodist church to act as delegate to the annual session of the New York East Confer ence, held at Brooklyn, April 1, when delegates to the General Conference to be held at Baltimore will be chosen. Without doubt, we shall soon see the Methodist parsonage once again occu- pied by a conference preacher. For the past year its doors have been closed and no cheerful lights beaming from its windows during all this time. An {noccupied house is ever undesir- able in village but church or church home with doors closed is hardly short of being calamity.
 Samuel Farrar at Hawley's crossing is driving a new horse purchased of MT Johnson of Bridgeport. MT Farrar had the misfortune to lose a horse, last week.
 The Upper Stpeney Stove club mem- bers have received a very interesting letter from M. B. Hawley, one of its members, who is now spending a few weeks in Florida, which will be printed in full in next weeks Bee.
 Emil Mattegat, who has been i'll and under Dr Wales care, is now gaining.
 Craft & Lyons, the painters, say that they have not had as much work in years as they have contracts for, thls spring. This is very encouraging con- sidering the bad times.
 Levi Preston Hubbell, who has been quite busy with carpenter work, this winter, mas also done considerable trapping and has been very successful and now has at Hunter Rest over Henry Pettit's blacksmith shop fine showing of many different kinds of skins and he has also sold quite number besides. c. L. Smalley is very busy at his shop now in spite of the hard times. He is building a one-horse lumber wagon and one-horse sled for A. M. Read of Bedding, an OK cart for D. Ii. Ward of Trumbull, covered express wagon for John Mahoney of Long Hill and has the contract for building covered express wagon for Henry Sher- man of Cutler Farms besides other contracts. t~
 Mrs w. B. Craft is in Trumbull car ing for the sick.
 The friends of Stephen French will be glad to know he is now gaining nice ly and able to be about his home.
 Ralph L. Smith, the horse sheer, at c. L. Smalley's shop thoroughly under stands the shoeing of horses and if any one has any trouble with their horses feet or with lameness he is especially good in helping them and in many cases can cure them altogether.
 It will soon be time to begin plant ing and you will need seed. We have just received our stock for 1908 and they are all new seed.-[S Stephen French at the Depot.
 The Bridgeport Construction Co.,, have closed the cement block plant at Hawley's crossing for the present.