The Newtown bee., 1908-04-10
The NeWtOWn Bee.
 Newtown, Friday April To- 1908.
Washington.
EAST STREET HISTORY, CONTIN-
 JED FROM PAGE FIVE.


 of skill but good pen knife. Boys and girls attended district school il winter till they were grown up. Or one occasion grown up boy who must have had ideas of his own, was re. quired to speak piece. The teacher was small and peculiar man, doubtless troubled to make the scholars respect his authority. When he called up the big boy 10 give his recitation the boy insisted in standing before the teacher and this is what he recited:
 "You-- you forward puppy. If you were not so old l would knock you down."
 Near the school is little lake known as the "old pond" which has been the play grounds for generations of child ren. The old people remember when they slid or skated there and got a wetting much as the children of the present time do. At one time there was boy who was always in the way. When they started from on9 side to slide across from the other to their great vexation. but it was afterWard found that he was near sighted. Many of our best people have been teachers in these school houses, whose influence has been felt down through the years.
 The house at present occupied by Mrs Charles Hollister and son, Burr, was built about 1865, by Simeon H. Calhoun after his return from the Civil war. Charles Hollister bought the place when the Calhoun family were about to move away to Oregon and his widow and son still make it their home.
 On the road leading from East street to South street, commonly called the '.back road" there is an old house where Andrew Hine 1 once lived. He had two sons, Andrew II, who married Marilla Hollister and lived in house just west of the Newton place, now used as tobacco barn. Herman lived at the place now occupied by Mrs Clara Fond. He married first Clark and there were two children-Clark and Clara. Clara married William Gilbert and went to Winsted to live William Gilbert founded the famous Gilbert Home where so many otherwise unfortunate children are sent and made comfortable. Herman married second Rebecca Pond, sister of the Pond broth CTS, who are mentioned later. Their daughter. Marilla, married Henry Sackett and Mrs Pond, the present owner, was one of their daug hters. Ii was to this place when the house was much smaller that Andrew Hine l whe lived on the "back road" was moved when he and his wife became too ole and infrm to live alone. It is saio that he had heavy chest of money when he moved, the key to which he held in his hand when dying for feal the most avaricious son would get hold of it. Captain Herman Hine and Daniel Nettleton built horse shed or the Green which stood first in front ot John Whittlesey's but was moved aft erward to the fork of roads just below the Gunnery.
 There was once house standing in Mrs Clara Ponds garden and family by the name of Meeker lived there. It was also the home Of Mrs Lewis Net tleton before her marriage and theil removal to Medina. Ohio. seventy or eighty years ago.
 The next building place as you go west was known as the old Pond place. It is not known who built the house but Elnathan Judson Pond, who mar ried Sarah Hnllister, sister of the twir deacons. lived there when their large family of sons and daughters were young. Samuel and Gideon, the mis sionaries to the Dakota Indians in Min nesota, were among them. These young men left this home in 1883 to givC their lives to helping the Indians Their experiences would fill paper b! itself. but we can find out all abou them by reading the book. 1.-Two Vol unteer, Missionaries" written by Sam uel Pond, Jr. It must have cost thei mothers many a tear to part with thes' two sons, knowing that danger ant hardship would be theIr lot, but sh' lived to know that their labors Wer' crowned with success. .,
 After Elnathan Judson Ponds deatl a daughter. Ruth, who married Amo