Connecticut western news., 1876-05-05
Ellsworth

Our Ellsworth (almosO Centenarian, Miss Rhoda Smith, failed to endure to the end of her centennial year and quietly passed away on April 27th, having reached the age of ninety y-nine years and four months. Al
 though her life could not be much but 8
 burden to her and her friends, yet they
 were very much in hopes that her, for
 sometime, feeble life. would be prolonged
 to next January at least, so that they might
 be able to recall the fact that Aunt Rhoda'
 lived to be hundred years old; but they
 were disappointed. Although not mem-
 Der of any church organization, she lived
 an upright life and professed to love the
 Saviour and to have hope of enjoying
 glorious resurrection. . Mrs. Bennett Mon
 roe, also an aged and lifetime resident of
 this place, died April l4th, aged sl years...
 Everett Dudley is failing slowly from
 complication of diseases from which he has
 suffered for several months. Now that spring has come again, il is to be hoped
 and expected that sickness, which has pre-
 vailed to such an extent for few months,
 will abate and physicians have rest. All Nature is beginning to rejoice under the
 influence of spring-time sun and gentle,
 refreshing showers; and men too, carry &
 more genial countenance, and go about as
 though they had something to do besides
 waiting for spring. No one feels the exhil
 arating effects of springtime more than the l writer of this communication it always
 brings to us a sense of something worth
 living for, and the man who is insensible
 to its influence must be callous indeed. Glorous spring yet like our lives so soon
 to be followed by the scar and yellow leaf.
 ,.....Farmers are rushing the ploughing and
 sowing, believing apparently in the promise
 of the early and latter rains to bring them
 another harvest by and by. We haven't
 noticed anyone making gardens here yet, but expect to ere many days......The milk business f1ourisheth as usual Our village
 is not very newsy place, i. G., news inter
 esting to THE NEWS readers, yet we fee
 the importance of being occasionally no
 ticed in Me paper of the county, which
 HE NEWS is acknowledged to be, and the
 circulation of which ought to be extended
 in this postal district, and iu course of time
 will be when our people realize it's true
 value. We are blessed CD with too man,
 inferior and worthless local newspapers (Now MT. Editor, don't think we wish tt
 fiatter-we mean it, every word. ...... .Ou : merchant is doing 8 constantly increasin,
 business, and although beginning in a smal
 way, G. H. says he is bound to work up trade, despising not the day of small things | to do business fairly and honestly, to meri l due proportion of patronage. Our roa } masters are pushing the work of repairin , the highways, which came out this sprin in about as bad condition as could we'll be . We never considered our present town fs ) thers as being over quarrelsome, yet the
 have been engaged in several law suits late f ly, the last of which was to recover fC E damages done by miserable cur dog fror K out of town among our sheep. Decisio ;, by Judge Tupper reserved.....Two of or young married men have become dissati j. fled with Ellsworth, and with their familit y moved on to farms in North Goshen. Cal e admire their taste, but everyone has the is own notion of things, wise and othervis Il We wish them good success... 'squi .s Chaffee, our legal adviser, farmer, ,contrac IS or, builder, and general land proprietor ar 7. overseer, has gone to inspect, and if poss ble, utilize the lands on the N. P. R. R. b If longing to former bondholders in this ' .s cinitY..... Swallows made their first appea ,s ance April 26lh, and got showed in Apl IS soth. AJAX.