Litchfield enquirer., 1875-05-20
LlTCHFI D.
-Arbutus is abundant.

LITCHFIELD.
 -Arbutus is abundant
 The Hon. G. H. Hollister was in town. this week.
 This has been a very poor season for maple sugar.
 A. l.. Train. Esq, of New Haven, was in town, on Sunday.
 - Some repairs are being made on Mrs. Gilman's house on Prospect St.
 The Lake View House will be opened for the season on the 24th inst.
 The Administrator on the estate of the late R. Kenyon will sell the personal prop erty at auction, June 1st. See adv.
 - Isn't the flag pole to be raised. so that we can show our coIors when the Regi ment comes.
 - Miss Ida Mckinley returned home, last week, from protracted visit in Phil adelphia and Brooklyn.
 - Mrs. Bostwick has rented her house for the season to Mir. Robbins, of New York, who has occupied it for several summers past.
 - One of our celebrated fishermen fish, ed the Vaill Brook for trout, the other day, and caught two so large that he brought them home for his cat John.
 A gentleman fishing for trout few days since, in one of the streams north of the village. caught several large. suckers with hook. It is something rather unu- sual for our shad to be taken in that way. The seats in the Congregational church were sold, on Monday, the sale amounting to g, 300. with enough unsold seats remaining to make the amount s2.5OO.
 Circulating Library books must be returned on Thursday of next week-in accordance with the bylaws of the society for repair and renumbering before the annual meeting.
 We spoke of Woodbury cactus, re- gently, with over 30 blossoms. Mrs. Ed ward Wetmore, of South Chestnut Hill, has a cactus with over'an hundred buds and blossoms. Can anybody beat that !? On Monday afternoon, the little daughter of Mir. Clifford c. Newberry, aged years and 8 months, was drowned in the brook running near the old gate house of the Wolcottville turnpike. She was found by her mother, who went to the brook to get pail of water. Her funeral took place Tuesday afternoon.
 We call the attention of the Amuse- ment subcommittee of the Village Im- provement Go. to the description of the Norwich Martha Washington Tea Party, in another column, and to the suggestion with which it closes. It is doubtful wheth- CT Litchfeld could develope George Washington; but there are at least doz- en good Martha Washingtons among us.
 The WinstedsHerald has biographical sketches of members of the legislature in this vicinity. The first representative of Litch6eld comes in for the following:
 Dr. William Deming is a native of old Litchfeld, where he was born, March 16, 1888. and is consequently now forty-two years old. He IS by profession a physi- elan, and was graduated from the Medical Department of Yale College in 1858 Dr. Deming is an able member of his profes- sion and deservedly popular in Litchfield county. In politics he is a Democrat on general issues. but a very outspoken and independent thinker. He fayors trying the experiment of woman suffrage the abo- htion of capital punishment. etc. Very likely he will be heard from before the session closes.
 SPELLING MATcH.-The epidemic has reached us at last. On Saturday evening of this week, the citizens of Litchfeld, great and small. are invited to meet at the Old Congregational Church, and spell for an Unabridged Dictionary CWebster or Worcester as may be preferred). To the lucky speller who subsidies first, something surprising and appropriate is to be pre- sented-what. the committee decline to announce. The words to be given out are those in general use, and no merely tech nical words are to be allowed. Any spelling istO be taken as correct that is in accordance with any recognized authority. The pro. reeds are to go into the Treasury of the Village Improvement Company, and a general attendance may enable us to walk over the steep foot-path from the Station, as we'll as the sleeper paths orthographi- cal, without stumbling. as.s.a
 The doors will be open at 2; spelling to begin at 2: 20. Admission. 9 cents; child rem under 12, 15 cents. e1e .-
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