Connecticut western news., 1876-05-05


 will be added as soon as we have time to look up their accounts.l a
 Ninety -Nine.-Miss Rhoda Smith of Ellsworth, who died last week, was ninety nine years old.
 Personal.-Mr. and Mrs. s. c. Scoville are home on visit. MT. s. returns to Buff falo in two weeks.
 Changed. Clark Bros. have changed their advertisement this week. It is very interesting. Read it.
 sorry.-We are very sorry to be com pelled to leave oyer so much correspond ence again this week.
 woman's Board of Missions. The la dies missionary meeting will be held We'd nesday, May 10th, at o'clock p. m., at Mrs. Williams in Lakeville.
 Time Tab1e..-New time table on the Housatonic road. No important changes from the old table, except the regular freight trains run daily now instead of ev- cry other day.
 A Clerical Error.-A Cornwall Bridge clergy man threw a stone at skunk the other day. He thought it was cat. He knows better now. He said the. business end of that "cat," beat all he ever saw!
 Bird and Fish Co.--The regular meeting of the Salisbury Bird and Fish Go. will be held at the Miller House in Lakeville, May 9th, at 2 o'clock D. m. The members are requested to be present.
 PER ORDER COMMITTEE. Canaan.-The street lamps with which the good people of Canaan have provided themselves, alluded to in last weeks NEWS. were in position and lighted for the first time last Saturday evening. They are very satisfactory and will be source of comfort to the villagers......Th old Beckiey place has been rented for the season to New York family, who will keep city boarder' through the summer.
 Election Parade.-The interest in thu election parade in Hartford "Wednesday was not very great at the western end o the road, judging from the numbers wht went from this way to participate in it There was no early extra train, and unles people went Tuesday, could not reacl Hartford till IA p. m., much too late al hour to make the effort satisfactory. Thi fact may account for so few going.
 The Centennial Tree.-Messrs. J. A McArthur, Martin Harris and Daniel Prat went into the fields last Monday and mad selection of an elm tree to transplant i this village, in accordance with vote o the town at Q recent meeting, to be know
 as the centennial tree, and the work o
 transplanting is to be done today (Thur' day). The exact location at this writing not fully determined upon, but 1t is said will be somewhere on the green just mort of the Congregational church.
 LATERr-The tree is being set about thi ty five feet north of the Congregation , church, and near the side walk. f Snow in May.-A snow storm of un' 8 sual severity visited this region last Sunda Il night. At about o'clock Sunday aftel d noon it began showing, and throughout u t evening and until midnight, snow fell vel = rapidly, accompanied by brisk northwe n wind. At the time the storm began, Sul !. day afternoon, the temperature was abo }, forty degrees, as indicated by thermom
 ters, and the snow melted as rapidly as k came for an hour or more, but as the nig i- advanced the weather became colder, al ,s the ground began to whiten. The sno h was something like two inches deep Mo le day morning, and the smart breezes fro " the north were decidedly wintry, and e ,i- trely unlike what is expected on the fiji = day of May. By noon Monday, the snc lg had nearly all disappeared.
 lg He Goes for 'Em.-MR. EDIToR-N '' being regular writer for your paper c' 10 only ask you to publish these fue lines UT the benefit of your Contributors in sou lls Canaan. The village of Lakeville has a. IF understand Q society for the protection " game. Now this society must be gre r. benefit to Lakevllle and vocinity as it i! O. society that works SC much for it's own 'n terests and has so many secrets, one re which IS to visit their adjoining towns a CT hunt for Woodcock in this pleasant seas gs of the year as they did April 27th, 1e 10 and am sorry to state that one of Lal V- wills most respected young men so-call al was recognized among the others. N st we have often heard the remark of, I do 10 want any of that in mine, and guess cn can do without any more of this (B
 Hunting in our and if we see any thing
 this king again we shall call upon this p
 tecttion Society to protect our fue Bil oA from the bold hunters that trespas on tn | Is ~c {