The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-01
OUR NEWTOWk Z
 NEWSLETTER
Special to The Farmer-)


 Newtown, June f1--George Dayton, the popular clerk of Dayton & Hurzler of Bethel, was married yesterday to Miss Beatrice Chinn of Henry street. Bethel, by Rev MT. Macbeth After the wedding trip the newly marr1ed pair will reside in Bethel
 Miss Florence A. Lake, teacher an the public schools of Passaic, N J., spent the Memorial Day vacation with MT. and Mrs. w c. Johnson i MT. and Mrs. S. r. King of Union i vile are visiting MT. and Mrs. c. B. Johnson Mr King has sold out his long established milk business in that i town and is considering the accept ance of hattering business offer in West Hartford.
 dren and Mir. and Mrs. Will Nichols of Greenf1eId Hi1 motored to Newtown, Sunday. spending the day with friends i in South Center.
 Frank Johnson from Trinity college, Hartford, spent a. vacation of three days at home, ret urning to his studies last night.
 The Newtown A. c. baseball team defeated the Fairfield A. c. team of { Bridgeport by a score of 14 to g, yes terday afternoon. before good as- semblage of local fans. at the Mitchell diamond.
 MT and Mrs A. H. Patterson had a house party of Bridgeport friends over Memorial day.
 Mrs Herman Oppe pleasantly enter tained the Sandy Hook branch of the International Sunshine society, Fri day.
 ! David c. Peck. president of the New town Savings Bank, will be the host at the June meeting tonight of the Mems club at the Newtown Inn and H. N. Tiemann, sr.. will have charge of the literary feature.
 MT. and Mrs L. c. Morris had as guests over Memorial day, MT. and Mrs. Curtis P. Morris and son of Bridgeport, and George Couch of l A very pleasant whist and dance was enjoyed at St. Mary's hall last night given under the auspices of St. Roses Social Circle.
 Misses Maude and Loretta Northrop have returned from a risit to Dan bury.
 The joint reception by the senior and junior classes of the Hill school will be held Friday evening. June II.
 The banns Of marriage between Vim cent Egan and Miss Catharine Mayors was published Sunday in St. Roses church.
 The Misses Blla and Katharine Blake of Sandy Hook have returned from a pleasant visit with Hartford friends.
 Arthur Moore of Bridgeport is with his parents, MT. and Mrs. A c. Moore, I of Taunton, who have been sick.
 Arthur Donohue of Flushing, Long Island, is spending few days in town, the guest of Assistant Town Clerk Ed ward s. Pitzschler.
 Mrs. C. F. Bearos1ey attended the annual meeting of wooster Chapter, D. A. R., in Danbury, Friday. Judge James N. Arnold of Provi- dence, Rhode Island. has completed his work of research in the~town clerks office, and has forwarded his records of over S75 pages to the. State l Historical society in Hartford. In the matter of vital statistics. the earliest record was in the year 1880, being the year of the birth Of Newtown's second town clerk, Joseph Peck, who was born in MiIofrd, Conn, from which town the pionee~ Pecks here came From 17o1 to 1852 the town had eight town clerks, one of whom, Caleb Bald win, served fifty years. The first town clerk was Hufbe11, who also clerk for the town proprfetors before the in lcorporation of the town in I'll. In l the matter of longevity of the towns people, he found the greatest age given in the death Gas 105 years, and this singu1ar1y, is given as that of a negro woman The vital records of deaths, the inv hytigator finds, is often irregu- lar here, as he has found in other towns examined, due to the fact that ithese data are often handed in by the executors or administrators of the es- tates of deceased persons. The birth lrecord from 1900 to 1850, the year the state took action and established a l uniform system of vital statistics rec ords, is very defective, as the data 1 were scattered over volumes of land records, but in 4he minutiae of details in the earlier records, Judge Arnold found much to praise. These gave not only the birthplace but the former res idence of the first settlers, which is of great advantage to genea1ogfSts AL together, he adds that in the matter of