Litchfield enquirer., 1864-06-30
Anfal aud CnMntn Wsivs

~>>~~>~~~~c~~~~-~~~>-~ LITcHrIELD.-The "Glorious Fourth' will be celebrated in this village on Monday next, in more general and appreciative manner, we imagine, than it has been obser we'd for several years. salute of thirteen guns will usher in the day, and new and elegant flag will be hoisted from the flag staff on Central Park At o'clock P. M., services will be held in the Congregational Church, when the Declara- tion of Independence will be read by Geo. M. Woodruff, Esq, and an oraton wilrbe deliver ed by the Rev. Mir. Richards. In the evening grand display of fire works will be given on the public square, enlivened by instrumental music, from the Wolcottville Brass Band.
 The subscription to defray the expenses of the celebration already amounts to about $500 Our neighbors from adjacent towns will do well to unite with us in celebrating the day. - public meeting will be held in the Court House to- morrow (Friday) evening, at , o'clock, on behalf of the U. S. Christian Commission. Delegates who have been em- ployed in the camp and on the field, in minis tering to the sick and wounded, will be pre- sent and address the meeting. full attend ance is hoped for of the soldiers friends.
 At the same meeting the proposition for the erection of battle monument to our fallen soldiers, alluded to in our paper last week. will be brought up and discussed.
 A deed of land, which was acknowledged before Geo. M. Woodruff, Esq, in this town last week, carried Internal Revenue Stamps 1 upon it to the amount of Five Hundred and fifty dollars
 Warm last Saturday and Sunday, Ther- mometer 94 and 96 degs in the shade, at 4 P. M. on those days.
 SHADY ROADS AND STREkTs.-Let those | farmers and village residents who have neg lected to set out shade trees along their premises now contrast these naked roads with | those which are we'll shaded, and we doubt whether they will let another Fall and Spring pass without planting trees. A recent ride into the country again forcibly reminded us of the barren appearance of the dusty roads, with no shade to man or beast for miles. where little forethought and labor expended ten years ago would have madea delightful shady roadway. Besides adding hundreds of dol lars to the salable value of each farm, there is real profit in growing locust, walnut or other timber along the highway, to be renew ed at pleasure by starting small trees between the old ones few years before cutting them down. They occupy no otherwise available room, growing rapidly, and tell the passers-by of the thrift and enterprise of the occupants of yonder cottage, costly nestled in the shade of those beautiful trees.
 MR EDIToR:- cut the above from New York paper, and do not know for what part of our country it was written. but is not the good advice needed in Ltchfeld Co. also?
 In driving about in the past hot and dusty days, on these long shadeless roads, how grateful the traveller feels, to see before him the cool shade of row of trees on either side. There are many such cases, but also many miles without tree CT shrub
 Let the trees be set out as in England. 80 as to form part of the fence, the rails reaching from tree to tree.
 Let every boy plant a tree, aud when he goes from home, his mother will call it his tlct, tuu WatCu us StoH LII Nltu peGullai ihtoi est, and when he comes home, it will seem like old friend to him., It will 'keepl1ks Fem .,- ry green" and flourish, and ei.e p' ..a<ant shade long after his life is ov.r
 Though variety is desi.. .ab1e, the maple from its dense sb,.le n Summer its briobt ''n's Tn "u'u"'n' '>nd its useful sap, we'll re- pays the trorole of setting out.
 ; tree IS one of the most useful and bcaui- ful of Gods gifts to man. The birds build their nests, and sing among its branches, and men and children, and cattle rejoice in its shade. It. is hard to believe that any one would wantonly destroy tree by girdling, as some evil minded person has done lately in this village. It is robbery, and deserves severe punishment. AN OBSERVER.