The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-12
OUR NEWTOWN NEWS LETTER
Especial to The Times.)

NeWtOWn, April l2 - The N1clOry Liberty loan committee for Newtown has been chosen. MT. NettIeton of the Newtown Savings Bank. who has been in charge of the other four loans, $ again chairman, with the following: Charles Cole, Charles A. Peale, William R. Curtis, Leo T. lick son, Levi c. Morris, Arthur J. Smith. Mrs. Wallace Mitchell and Miss Aime B. Frost compose the woman's com mittee. During the canvass of the campaign it is expected g. whippet tank will be on exhibition about ApriIN24. This latest feature is eX- citing much interest among the younger folks of town as a tank was difficult to conceive until shown on movie screens, then, as the boys say it could not be seen working, how ever, they look forward to seeing one on Newtown streets very soon, which, | it is hoped, will be as effective in in | creasing subscriptions as it was on l the battle front decreasing the enemy. The usual April spirit of moving 1 and real estate changes are notcea- | ble in town. The Gallagher family, who have rented the P. H. Mccarthy house on Newtown street, have pur- | and will move there before May 1. The bungalow of the estate of Mrs. | Leonard Johnson on Depot road was purchased by Thomas MaIoney of the i NeWtown Coal & Grain Go. Attorney J. Robert Beecher of Bridgeport and l Newtown is reported as having bought 1 one of the attractive cottages of Mrs. | Cora Pierce on Sunset Hill The Herman Peck farm on lower Main | street is bargained for by the MOllOy 1 family of Bridgeport. There are still | many real estate bargains where the | city people, who are willing, can hire and raise their own vegetables if only the country could coax them to the open.
 | Mrs Bertha and Miss Elsie Ferris ! were Friday visitors in Bridgeport.
 Francis Mccarthy and Joseph Ban tel of Sandy Hook have obtained po- sitions in the Danbury machine shop.
 Mrs. William GoodseH of lower Main street was a. visitor in the Park City, Thursday.
 Private Edward PizschIer from Camp Devens is at his home for a few days furlough.
 Miss Clara Sheehan, chief operator of the local Telephone exchange, is spending a week in Danbury.
 Miss Anna Lang spent Friday ir Danbury.
 l.. C. Morris was a visitor in the Park City, Thursday.
 Miss Margaret Crowe of Botsfort was guest Thursday and Friday O the Misses Blake of Walnut Tree Hill MT. and Mrs. Leibold of PaIestin, district entertained their daughter Mrs. William Smith, of Danbury, thi! week.
 C,,-,.ir rr1,,11-, 70 Mo- rT .t. , friends in Sandy Hook for a few days
 James Larner has taken a position in the American Graphophone com , pany of Bridgeport.
 Churches.
 Sunday morning at Trinity church
 Newtown, morning prayer and ser
 mon at II a. m.
 Sunday school at 12 m. At "A
 ?. m. evening service at Congrega l tionaI church.
 Congregational church at II a. IT
 morning service with sermon. At
 m. Sunday school. 7:45 p. m. com munity service, subject of sermo Great Hours of Life'' St. Rose, Newtown, masses at 9 an
 II 8. m. Mass at St. Thomas
 church, Oxford, at a. m. Mass 2 7 Sacred Heart church, South bury, g ! = m. in St. Mary's hall, Sandy Hook. 8 St. Johns church, Sandy Hook, 2 = 1O:45 a. m, morning services an = sermon. Sunday school at 12 m. Methodist church, morning servic
 at Il a. m.; at 12 m. Sunday schoC and Bible Class.
 At two or three different period
 In the last two years an appeal ha 7; been made for the G. A. R. of New Il town, which appeal should neve
 have been necessary, much less neces /, sary to repeat. It was simply to hay
 subscribed enough money, which
 less than S15O, to have arranged o
 the grave of each veteran in the seV
 eraI cemeteries of town a marker fo IF future generations to identify tn 5 graves of those who fought durin if the Civil War.
 if Former Selectman E. Brusco ha
 again brought the matter to attentio
 not in any spirit of request, but 8
 one of the four remaining veterans
 and as one who has a genuine rigt
 to ask since he served his countr
 during the war, and his town eve {. since the war in public offices an
 good citizenship. Why is it diffcu
 in a really wealthy town to have tn if amount donated by public or privat
 subscription? Would any of us lik # to believe that in 50 years hence tn n boys who served in this recent wa # would bep racticauy forgotten? Ther
 were 75 veterans, now there are fou ts Give them their markers for DeCora ,t ton Day, 1919.