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The fund drive at the Cyrenius H. Booth Library will take a different turn this year as library staff, trustees, patrons, contributors, and friends are invited to eat dinner at the Newtown Inn on behalf of the library. The Newtown Inn will split the proceeds from the dinners with the library.

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At its “The Way We Were” fashion show at the Stony Hill Inn, Bethel, on February 4, Welcome Wagon of Newtown gave the audience of about 50 persons not only a glimpse of fashions dating back to 1850, but also quite a lesson on Newtown history. The program was researched, prepared and narrated by Nancy Culver, Welcome Wagon’s vice president of programs. Most of the pieces modeled were items loaned by Kay Behre of Main Street, a member of the Newtown Historical Society.

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JUST LISTED Newtown’s First Schoolhouse. Built in 1717 and in excellent condition. Come see for yourself the charm this lovely old home has to offer. 4 bedrooms, 1½ baths, formal dining room, hardwood floors. Delightful sun porch. Too many extras to mention….. ASKING $229,000.

February 24, 1961

The Supreme Court of the United States this Monday refused to review an appeal from the decision of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors, which had upheld the constitutionality of the 1957 statute allowing communities to use public funds for the transportation of non-profit private schools, if the voters give their approval in a referendum. The August 1958 referendum in Newtown resulted in a count of 1,242 to 1,218 in favor of such transportation.

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Millard S. Goodsell, Newtown’s Fire Marshal and high school science teacher, was honored as the Newtown Junior Chamber of Commerce “Distinguished Young Man of the Year,” at a Jaycee banquet and presentation on Wednesday evening, at the Yankee Drover Inn.

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The four students currently participating in the American Field Service program presented colored slides and an interesting discussion on their experiences while studying and living with families in foreign countries, at the meeting of the Rector’s Chapter of Trinity Episcopal Church, February 21, in the church hall.

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The Newtown Adult Education Council opens its current season of evening classes for adults in the Newtown High School on Monday, March 13, with the largest selection of classes in its history. This year, prospective students may choose from more than 20 courses, covering a wide range of interests.

 

February 21, 1936

Newtown was again visited with a miniature blizzard last Thursday night which lasted until about noon on Friday. The high winds filled up many of the side roads. On Tuesday morning, rain which was followed by snow, with a rapid drop of the thermometer, left all the roads in town with a heavy coating of ice and snow. The traveling is still dangerous.

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Constable Wesley Stanton is confined to his home with complications resulting from the recent automobile accident in which he was struck by a car and suffered a severe shaking up and bruises. He is under the care of Dr John George.

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SCOUT NEWS: Through the kindness of W.H. Chase of Mt Pleasant, the boys were loaded into his truck and the scoutmaster drove them, shovels and all, to Gray’s Plain, where they helped the selectmen open up a back road leading south from the residence of Homer Clark. Two patrols took half the road and the other two the other half, and a wild race ensued.

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The barber shops in Newtown and Sandy Hook will be closed all day, Saturday, Washington’s Birthday, in compliance with the law, which requires all barber shops in the State to close on that day. These shops will be open on Friday night until 9 o’clock for the accommodation of their patrons.

 

February 24, 1911

It was a burning shame that every dairyman from Hattertown to Lake George and from Taunton to the Zoar country were not present, Monday evening, at the Brick Building, to hear the address of Mr Drake, who spoke in the interests of the Dairyman’s League. He did not condemn big companies. At the same time he urged the necessity of organization as at present the farmer and milk producer has absolutely no voice in fixing the price of milk. He spoke with a force that drove conviction home.

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Oliver Blackman has sold a tract of timber near Botsford to Mortimer Stowe, who expects to convert it into charcoal. A.S. Edwards of Stepney will unload a car of bran, middlings and mixed feed at Hawleyville, Friday of this week.

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A Bible class has been formed of the younger set in Huntington District, meeting once a week in the home of one of the member’s, each taking turns receiving them.

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The Town hall was crowded, Tuesday night, at the entertainment of the Ladies’ White Minstrels, given for the benefit of St Rose’s church. For two hours, the young ladies kept the audience highly entertained. Mrs Grant Nutting won a storm of applause in her whistling solos, and was heard with pleasure in her vocal solos.