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Amidst a town order to shut down and a law suit from a disgruntled patron who said the food made him sick, the Hawley Manor Inn remains open and has no plans to close, John Vazzano, the permittee of the business, said. The town sanitarian issued Mr Vazzano an order on June 27 which demands that the Hawley Manor be immediately shut down due to alleged health code violations. Mr Vazzano can remain open while the order is being appealed.

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The circus is coming to Newtown! Sandy Hook School PTA is sponsoring the Roberts Brothers Three-Ring Circus, to be held at Newtown High School, under the Big Top, Thursday, August 22. The Roberts Brothers Circus is a family-operated show, offering family-style entertainment, including acrobats, aerialists, clowns and more. There is an elephant act, trained dogs, and ponies.

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A Button Shop Road resident said July 3 she had given the Board of Selectmen an 86-signature petition calling for the regarding and resurfacing of the section of Button Shop Road between the railroad bridge and Route 25. The petition said that the section had not been resurfaced within memory, and that the surface was so poor “that it is jarring to the nerves of the users of this road and damages the cars.”

July 8, 1960

In accordance with its policy of keeping the Dickinson Memorial Park a place where townspeople can enjoy the facilities without any disturbance or vandalism, the Newtown Park Commission was responsible for the arrest of a young man from Bethel for breach of peace in the park on Sunday. The commission reiterates that the park is for residents of Newtown only.

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The annual musical show given by patients of the Fairfield State Hospital will take place next Monday and Tuesday evening, July 11 and 12, at 7:30 pm, in the auditorium of Plymouth Hall. The program will feature many Stephen Foster songs as solos and chorus numbers.

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World heavyweight boxing champion Floyd Patterson, who has been resting up with his family at his home in Rockville Centre, L.I., since he regained the title June 20, will make an appearance in Newtown this Friday evening, at 7 o’clock, when he will be honored at special ceremonies at Edmond Town Hall. Floyd Patterson had trained for his comeback fight at La Ronda Inn over a period of six months.

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Richard Schoonmaker, nine-year-old son of Mr and Mrs Walter Schoonmaker of Glen Road in Sandy Hook, had unusual fisherman’s luck on Wednesday afternoon when he found a fifteen-pound fish stranded on the rocks in the Pohtatuck River. He managed to get it ashore and carried it home, only to find that it was a carp.

July 5, 1935

Wilton Lackaye’s series of antique auctions opened on Tuesday, July 2, at the Auction Barn in Sandy Hook. Many local and out-of-town people attended on the opening day. There was keen competition in the bidding, especially on the antique jewelry. A chest of drawers with a notation on the back regarding its part payment on a note in 1825 was loaded on a truck and started for a new home in Virginia.

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Mrs Raymond L. Hall, lecturer of Pohtatuck Grange, has arranged an appropriate program in observance of Connecticut’s Tercentenary, which will be presented during the lecturer’s hour at the meeting of the Grange, Tuesday night. A feature of the program will be a number by a comb band. The members of the band have combed their homes for suitable combs from which is expected to emanate sweet music.

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Morris & Shepard, Inc, SPECIALS! Week Beginning July 5, 1935: BAKER’S MOIST COCONUT, per can 12 CENTS; CRISCO, 2 1-lb cans, 42 cents; 3-lb can, 59 cents; FELS NAPTHA SOAP, 5 cakes for 23 cents; KELLOGG’S ALL BRAN, per pkg 19 cents; CLOROX, pint bottle 15 cents; SANKA COFFEE, per 1 lb tin, 45 cents.

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William Corbett and his fellow State Highway workers have completed the job of oiling the shoulders of the state roads in the center of town. This is a bothersome task to residents for a few days, but has been dispatched as rapidly as possible.

 

July 8, 1910

J. Howard Peck of Obtuse has raised his barn up several feet and has had it all newly covered. He is to fit up some up-to-date cow stables in his large, new, airy basement. Stanley Terrill of Brookfield is doing the work.

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The people of St Rose’s parish were given an unpleasant surprise, Sunday, when Rev Patrick Fox announced from the altar that at his request Bishop Nilan had transferred him to the church at Easthampton and that he was to report there for duty, this week. While Father Fox is still in vigorous health he has felt for some time that the arduous work of a parish like Newtown should fall on younger shoulders.

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While unloading freight at the depot, Tuesday, a horse belonging to the Borden Co., in charge of Peter Slater, became frightened at a falling box and ran away. As the team came tearing around the corner of the freight house, the wagon body came off with a bang, causing a horse driven by E.J. Hall to jump to one side. Mr Hall was thrown between the wagon body and the wheel, but managed to rein his horse into the lumber yard. He was badly bruised.

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A sad burning accident took place at Sandy Hook, Tuesday afternoon, when Mrs Charles Beeman was seriously burned and died from the effect of the same on Wednesday. When her husband arrived home, Tuesday, she took his dinner pail and then hastened in to complete the evening meal. A brisk fire was burning in the stove, and on taking off the kettle, the flames shot out and her dress caught fire. Mrs Beeman ran out in the street crying for help. Arza Whitlock stopped and seizing a bucket of water, dashed it on her. He drew two more pails, but she was very seriously burned from the waist up.