The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-30
OUR NEWT0WK
 NEWS LETTER
fsnecia1 to The Farmer.l

Newtown, July 20.-Miss Ethel Mc- Eneany of Brewer, Maine, is the guest of the Misses Kean of HaWleyville.
 Miss Catherine Kean of Hawleyville, who has been i'll for the past month, is convaIescing.
 Augustus Winter of Haw1eyville, who lost greatly by the fire in the Hotel Winter a few weeks ago. has had his claims adjusted by the insur- ance companies carrying the risks on the property, and is again carrying on business in a temporary building erect ed by Contractor T. F. Brew.
 Frank wachtel and family have moved to Sandy Hook, in the double house near. the Mantle mills. He is employed by the Electrical Engineer ing and Storage Battery company. 1
 Albert; son of Lucien Pierron, starts Monday as apprentice to learn the machinist and too1making trade with the EL E. and s. B. Go.
 A T. fIad1ey, president of Yale Uni versity and director of the N. Y, N- H. & H. railroad, has returned to his summer home, Snake Rock Farm, :, in Zoar, after several weeks absence with his family visiting the two expo sitipns on the Pacific coast. In con- versation with a local stockho1der of the& railroad, today, Director Hadley said the outlook for resumption of dividend paying was bright for 1916, if the campaign of economy was not
  bor# market due to the cessation of European e111igratio ,sor strikes among it's employees for higher wages. He scored the legal and legislative inter ference in the matter of sale of it's electrical properties, assert ing if the officials of the road were permitted to dispose of same unhan- pered, the com mpany would have been on a dividend paying basis July 1st, as we'll as have sufficient funds to take care of all of it's financial require nents.
 The attractive comedy, "An Tangled Up,'' will be given at the town hall Wednesday evening, August A. for the bneeft of St. Roses church. The members of the St. Roses Dramatic are the Misses Nora Blake, Mary Kill bride, May Jordan and William Lougrhan, AIonzo Lang, Harry Brad ley Joseph Keane.= Dancing will fol- low the play, with music by Bent1ey,s orchestra Refreshments will be on sale.
 Mrs Julia Sanford Northrop,> one of Newtown's oldest and bert known res idents, died Thursday at the family home in Head of the Meadow district She was in her 89th year, and her hus- band, Norman Northrop, died several years ago. She was active doma,r all her life and attended to her house hold up to her last illness which was of a weeks duration. She is survived by descendants of three generations who reside in Newtown.
 The registrars of voters for the first election district, Charles G. Peck and Thomas. F. Bradley, give notice that they will be in session for the enroll ment of voters according to political preferences, at the Brick Building or August and August 13, from 12 m. to g D.. m. The registrars of the second voting district, L. Briscoe and Frank Kirby, will also meet for the same purpose on the same dates and hours, at Glover's hall, Sandy Hook.
 Dr. J. F. Mumford has purchased an automobile. pr. Nfumford, who as surnes the practice of Dr. w. c. Ken nedy, is located at the Brfnton resi- denee on Main street.
 >> Miss Francis Loretta Houlihan of Vernon, N. r., daughter of ex-Senator M. J. Houlfhan of this town, was unit ed in marriage to Burton Melville Tan, N. Y, July 20. The marriage was the continuation of a romance which had its inception at Syracuse University of which institution both bride and groom are graduates, and grew during seven years spent to-S gether in the work of teaching at the Vernon High school to which both ] came as members of it's faculty after graduation. Professor Chase will con tinue the work for another year in Vernon, where a pleasant home has been fitted up for them. Many; New town friends received marriage an- nouncements4 from the couple and have sent congratulations. The bride was a graduate of the Newtown High asain the community which she chose foys