Litchfield enquirer., 1874-07-02
WASHINGTON. June 2eth. 1871

W ASdkNtdIOSS O0AAC <$0b4tS AoSKp TorHE ENoU1RER:-The season is pro- pitious. Grass and Grain look finely, and promise fair crops. Corn and Tobacco. the staple products, are backward, but the fine showers of last week have produced de- cided changed in them. Your regular cor respondent has spoke of She industry and improvement in the valley, but the build-s ing is not all confnedsto that locality, Mr Sherman Hollister is erecting q large com modious barn in .the east part of the town, and Mr. James Clark and Charles Beach on the Newton Clark farm on Church Hill But what has become of that new Hall and conference room? Some three weeks since it was voted with great uuanimity to erect it on the site of the old Academy. Then it was thought better site might be found little southeast of thiss and majority of the stockholders the next week located it there. it was suppos- ed to tine entire satisfaction of all concern ed. Work was commenced immediately,
 
 erect foundation, when all at once the work ceased, and rumor has it that an in- junction is to be brought against it's being located there Shall We have hall or not? If not, 1t is not the first example of failure in the erection of public buildings; and as apropos to this will tell an incident rela- ted in my hearing by the venerable John Gum, one of our aged citizens. It ap- pears that over century ago, the good people of the parish of West Hartford in this state were desirous of building meeting house or a place of worship. They selected location, laid the founda- tion and erected a frame. but division as to the location soon manifested itself. and the frame suffered decay. In process of time the spirit moved them again to rise up and build. A location was unan- imously and lovingly agreed on, prepara tions were made for it's erection, day de- signated for laying the corner stone, ard an invitation was given to the Rev. Dr. Stone of Hartford to officiate on the occasion A large audience assembled. After the invocation he gave out Watts, version of the 127 Psalm lining it as it was the cus- tom in those days:
 If Ged to build the house deny
 The builders work in vain -'
 Which was sung by the great congrega- tion, heartily; but having more confidence in the divine sovereignty than Ill the unanimity of the West Hartford people he departed from the version and gave
 If God deny the house to cover
 It will rot down again
 This moved them to greater activity in acting and completing their house of wor- ship. Will not the building committee take a hint from this, and push forward the to its completion? Dr. Murray and family of New York have arrived in town and taken rooms at the St Nicholas; also Rev. Mir. Lyman, onr former pastor; and his wife number of city boarders are expect ed this week.
 In the shower of last Tuesday an elm near the residence of F. N. Galpin was struck by lightning; also one or two other places near the church.
 The Rev. Theron Cotton of White- water, Wisconsin, officiated in the congre- gational church yesterday.
 Mir. and Mrs. Newel Newton have the sympathies of this community in the loss of two lovely daughters by scarlet fever: Josephine, aged Il, who died June 20 and Gracie, June 27.