The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-08-31
OUR VIEWPOINT
 :. NEWS LETTER
Cspecial to The Times.)

Newtown, Aug. 31.---A movement again is on foot to a;'ouse public spirit both in the borough and in Sandy Hook to take stand for the improve ments of community life by the adop tion of some plans to bring about the desirable result. It is suggested that the people of the borough purchase the old Grand Central hotel, formerly the chief factor in the political and social life of not only the center but of the whole town, and turn it intp a community home Second, to induce one or more of the millionaire class to erect and endow a new high school with a. central public school depart ment to cost approximately $30,000. For Sandy Hook it is proposed that they petition the Newtown Water company to extend its lines of pipes to the sister village, so that it's homes and business places may secure a plentiful supply of the fresh mountain waters of Fountain Lake for culinary and bathing uses, and incidentally fire protection. Second, make a con- tract with the Danhury Lighting com pany to furnish lights for the houses and streets in Sandy Hook, and lastly build concrete or brick sidewalks in the village, so that when a house. holder steps over his door-sill he will not step into mud up to his ankles. "A. P. Smith and Hobert Warner are the prime movers in these contem- plated movements, and it is to be hoped their agitation of this genera tion old project may be crowned with success. jNewtown and Sandy Hook S capitalists should not be slackers in this local necessity, any more than slackers in the national cause, which imputation cannot be applied to them. There are no farmers sons in New town hiding behind stone fence and cider-jug subterfuge, and thus evad- ing the draft, and the coupon-cutting class of wealthy men in town should remember the town which provided their ancestors with the estates which devolved on the shoulders of their de- scendants without effort on their parts, when the old folks passed away. The new dispensation is that wealth is a wpder right in which the public should share, and so the good comon people here look for pleasant realization of these amenities of life in our villages soon.
 MT. anu MIS- M. J. LN llCIl Ol Ids street are in receipt of a notice that their oldest son, Thomas J. Lynch. is safely overseas where a younger brother, James E. Lynch, has been fol several months
 Lieutenant Waddell of Danbury i: now drill master of Newtown's platoon of Connecticut State Guards. The next meeting is on Sept. 8 at tht platoon headquarters.
 Mrs. Shoemaker delivered thu third of the course lecture on civic
 before a greatly augmented audience Thursday, at the home of Mrs. Louis' Gibson of Sandy Hook
 Lieutenant Colonel Surgeon Charle
 H. Peck, detached from duty il France and reporting at the head
 quarters of Surgeon-General Gorgas
 it is expected, will address the peopl
 of Trinity church at the religion
 meeting, Sunday night, Sept. 1. State Senator s, H. Wright of tn Cleveland, Ohio, district, is visitin
 with his family at the home of MI
 and Mrs. L. c. Morris.
 MT. and Mrs. H. Lane are visitin MT. and Mrs. w S. Goodsell, Sout Main street.
 Gustavus A. Betts sent a card tht
 week announcing his safe arrivt overseas.