Connecticut western news., 1875-10-01


 six inches long, grown in the garden of l. L. Hermon, who says he can pull twenty five more as large Oh for beet that can beat this beet!
 Game Meeting.-The regular monthly meeting of the Salisbury Bird and Fish Protective Company, will be held at Clark's Hotel, in Lakeville, Saturday evening of this present week, at o'clock, sharp. A large attendance of the members is particu- larly requested, as important business re- quires their attention.
 Sunday School Institute.-The State Sunday school committee of Massachusetts, fwhiEh is composed of some of the best men of that state, and of whom, Mir. Lit tle6eld is one, will hold Sunday School Institute in the Congregational church at Sheffield, October 5th. A large gathering and grand meeting is expected. D.
 Ashley Falls.-The Rev. Mir. Hughes of Boston delivered temperance lecture in the NJ. E. church in Ashley Falls last Sat urday evening. It is an interesting fact, if it be true as stated, that this Mir. Hughes participated in the exercises of dedicating this Ashley Falls church edifice on its com pletion in 944......The new bell for the school house has arrived, and will be sus- pended in it's place in the tower this week. Going Away.-We are sorry to an linounce that Mir. Walter Niver, who has been in this village the past thirteen years, has this week removed hls family to Clay crack, N. Y. MT. N. has been one of oul very good citizens, and we have snone o1 his sort to spare. He has sold hls residence here to MT. Martin Harris. and goes to what he thinks will prove to be a better field of labor than hereabout. We hope he will not be disappointed in his expectations
 Mark Twain's New Book.-Miss M. w. White will soon canvass this town and Canaan for Mark Twain's new book enti- tied Mark Twain's Sketches" There ap, pears to be demand for volume of his sketches, the choicest bits of humor from his pen and when It is remembered that Mark Twain IS unquestionably tue great humorist of the age, those who are favored with visit from Miss White, will at least look at the work. As book to take from the shelves of your library to snatch bit of fun in aid of your disturbed digestion, to dispel cnnui or ''drive away dull care, T this new and last work of Mark Twain has no peer. Those Votes.-"It is fact and no mis- take" that those who voted votes at the NEWS office, were remarkably successful, and now then, we are ready to do 1t again. Send in, your tickets for next Mondays election as soon as you can after they are made out, and be sure and have the names written plainly. Names, as everybody knows, are spelled all ways, and there is no guide to accuracy in the spelling of 6 name, but the writing of the same, and ii the writing is carelessly done, we arc obliged to resort to guess work, whici sometimes works admirably, but more times l is wide of the mark. We repeat; send ir your votes to us ''early and often," ant you're sure to win. t
 Canaan.-Capaan was not very largely represented at the Rhinebeck excursion only two going from this station. Two poor fellows, were left here on the return trip, they leaving the train with many oth CTS to get some cigars One walked par of the way and went on foot the rest tt
 East Canaan, in hopes to catch the train
 which was waiting for Eggleston's to pass
 The hotel had the benefit of the other unti
 morning......The telegraph wire is all ul
 from Canaan to Mill River. The wire ha
 not been connected with the office here, bu
 will be soon, when Mill River will be il
 communication with Canaan. and whicl
 means, of course, the rest of the world too ......Mr. Wm. Bull is soon to put on an ex
 press from Southfield to this place, ,arrivin
 here in the morning in time for the train
 going north and south and east and west and returning on the arrival of the LAO r
 m. train from Bridgeport. X. Lakeville.-A few city boardcrs still re : main at the Miller House in LakeyilIe. Th : house has had very good run of this clas r of trade during the past season, all C - whom were from Bridgeport and Ne i York. Nearly all of those here this pal r summer were never in Lakeville before, an Q express themselves as delighted with th s village and it's surroundings, and promit 0 Landlord Miller to fill his house to it's full s est capacity another season....-The towt = of the new Catholic church is now up, an n reaches 135 feet from the ground. Stant B ing on the hill Gs it does, it is said thu a from this tower, the Catskill Mountains e New York state can be seen on clear da, }, Anyway mountains of some sort can | v seen, and they might as we'll be called Cat s kill as by some other name that is not an s nearer the truth..... Friend Pettee, (not tt O surveyor, but the other fellow is grievou s ly disturbed about so many trains of ca r. passing over the Conn. Western road evel :, day. He hasn't threatened positively { e put an injunction on so much seeming i J. regularity and confusion, but that he col
 templates some severe remedy for his grie
 ance, there can be no question. He say when off in his fields digging potatoes an
 whether the trains he hears are the 1922 n or the l.2O, and don't know when to g a home to dinner. He says he's been foole f about enough in this business and shal % stand 1t much lon1er