The girls field hockey varsity of Newtown High finished its final regular season game against Masuk in Monroe on Wednesday, October 29, shutting out their hosts 4-0. Two goals each were scored by Beth O’Byrne and Jerelyn Taubert. That win brought the girls record to 9-4-1 and gave them a third place rank in the Western Connecticut Conference.

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 Edmund C. Platt, II, president of the Platt Lumber Company in Hawleyville, announced this week that his company has been sold to Dill Enterprises Inc. of Brewster, N.Y., parent company of the Lloyd Lumber building supply chain. While the retail lumber and building materials business will be discontinued within several weeks, Component Systems Inc. will continue to manufacture prefabricated roof trusses and other building components at the Route 25 site. Component Systems has operated as a manufacturer and supplier to both Platt Lumber Company and other building supply firms in western Connecticut since 1966. It will continue operation under the direction of Mr Platt.

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At its annual meeting on Tuesday, October 28, the Garden Club of Newtown was happy to present its tenth annual Civic Award to The Newtown Bee. The Bee, under the owner-and-editorship of three generations of Smiths, has been published at its present location on Church Hill Road since 1903. Although always a neat and attractive building, a recent addition, new paint and landscaping, and the famous adventuresome bee on the roof make it a landmark in the heart of Newtown. Over the years the history and life of Newtown have been recorded in The Bee. Civil projects have always been supported and generous publicity given to the activities of all organizations. It is the hope of the Garden Club of Newtown that this award will express in a small way its appreciation of what The Bee means to Newtown.

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The Board of Finance on October 27 approved a special appropriation of $360 for purchase of three shotguns which Police Commission Chairman Charles St Arnauld said would be “minimum armament” for patrolling officers. He said armament other than handguns now used is privately owned or borrowed from the Civil Defense organization.

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On Thursday morning, the members of the Newtown Police Department met for an hour and a half at Police headquarters and agreed to ratify a new contract. According to Sgt Raymond Tompkins, president of the International Brotherhood of Police Officers local union chapter, the ratification of the new agreement was not unanimous, but it did pass. Details of the new contract have not been revealed since ratification still had to come from the Board of Selectmen. However, apparent agreement was reached on salary, length of contract, and other aspects, including overtime.

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Bids for the planned 40-unit “Nunnawauk Meadows” elderly housing unit were opened Thursday, October 30, 10:30 am in the Cyrenius Booth library. A total of 11 complete bids were submitted for the project, for which an $860,000 mortgage has been promised by the Farmers Home Administration. The successful bidder will be informed within 30 days, and closing on the contract and the mortgage will occur in 60 days.

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Resurrection Cemetery, Route 25, will be formally dedicated at 2 pm ceremonies performed by the Most Rev Walter W. Curtis, Bishop of Bridgeport, on Saturday, November 1. The new cemetery, bound on the north by Huntingtown Road and Bear Hill Brook, covers a 40-acre tract and will serve the Newtown region.

NOVEMBER 3, 1950

On Monday evening of this week, the Newtown League of Women Voters held its third annual candidates meeting in the Alexandria Room of the Edmond Town Hall, providing an open forum for state and local candidates to meet the voters of the town, discuss their respective platforms, and answer questions from the floor. The meeting was very well attended, with the Alexandria Room being filled to capacity. Mrs Herman E. deVries, league president, was chairman, and Mrs Warner W. Bayley, moderator. Of the seven candidates present, State Senator Oscar Peterson, Jr, of Stratford, who seeks reelection from the 25th Senatorial District, was the first introduced. With the ten minutes allotted each speaker, Senator Peterson devoted most of his time to a criticism of Governor Bowles, saying that the governor’s inability to get along with people had caused confusion in the General Assembly.

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The 95th annual meeting of the Newtown Savings Bank, which was held on Friday, October 27, at 6:30 pm in the director’s room at the bank, was a significant meeting in the bank’s long history, closing the active banking career of Arthur T. Nettleton, who has been connected with the institution for 52 years. Mr Nettleton’s resignation as president and treasurer was presented at the meeting of the corporation. It was accepted with much regret, but with a full realization that Mr Nettleton’s failing health made it impossible for him to continue in office. A tribute was read by Paul S. Smith in his honor and unanimously adopted, to be incorporated in the records of the bank. Mr Nettleton has been a patient at the Danbury Hospital since May 15, confined there by the infirmities of advancing age.

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Drill in airplane spotting will take place this Saturday and Sunday between the hours of 9 am and 6 pm from a high point on the property of Comdr Warner W. Bayley, Mt Pleasant, under direction of Walter Los, chief observer in the Newtown Civil Defense program. A score of observers will take part in one and two-hour shifts.

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Another proof that New England climate is far from predictable was given on Wednesday of this week when Mrs John Ross of Main Street proudly reported picking more than a quart of strawberries and nearly as many raspberries in her backyard. Mrs Ross reminded The Bee that two years ago unseasonably warm fall weather had permitted her to harvest strawberries well into November.

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The next PTA meeting, to be held on Tuesday evening, November 7, which is election night, comes during American Education Week – Art Week, too, for that matter – and has been arranged to appeal to the entire membership. Marni Wood, well known writer on homemaking subjects, and artist, will give an informal, illustrated talk on painting.

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With American Art Week being observed both nationally and locally November 1 through 7, the Village Coffee Shop, run by Ned and Dottie Foster of Gray’s Plain District, takes special pride in its own small gallery. Since the Fosters took over the establishment on Church Hill Road last year from Virginia and Mack Lathrop, they have done much to create an interest in the work of local artists.

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Dealing with the atom bomb, Col James H. Wild of the Connecticut State Guard was the speaker at the monthly dinner meeting of the Candlewood Shrine Club held in Hawley Manor Thursday evening of last week. Col Wild also showed a War Department film called The Tale of Two Cities, depicting the story of Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

 

OCTOBER 30, 1925

The achievement program given by the Jolly Sewers Clothing Club, with the hearty cooperation of the Flat Swamp Health Club, which was held on Friday, October 23, proved to be a great success. The program was so well attended by interested parents and friends that the Fire House was filled to entire seating capacity.

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Michael T. Carroll and assistant William Carroll are painting the barns and outbuildings of Miss Anna Bradley of Pole Bridge.

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Mrs L. Martin and Mrs Victoria Ferris have sold their place on the Boulevard, Newtown Borough, to Mr and Mrs Clarence Fillis of New Rochelle.

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E.J. Hall has put in a Stamford pipeless furnace for Wesley Peck.

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Jacob Goldberg has bought about 50 acres of land of the Israel Nezvesky estate, that was formerly a part of the Andrew Northrop farm.

NOVEMBER 2, 1900

The Hawleyville whist club met, last week Tuesday evening, with Mr and Mrs J.A. James. Frederick Lake won the gentlemen’s prize and Mrs J.A. James, the ladies. This week the club met with Mr and Mrs Amos Camp.

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George F. Northrop of the Newtown Creamery has been at Lee and Seabrooke’s New Haven creamery, while the head man there was on vacation.

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Mr and Mrs George R. Wilson returned the first of the week from a carriage drive to East Morris.

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The house of M.S. Otis was broken into by burglars not long since, but so far as could be ascertained nothing of value was taken.