Connecticut western news., 1876-12-22

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 Decidedly Short. The days Tong about | now, are like some people who have bills to pay, decidedly short they are, in fact, the shortest of the year. Rather Crowded.-Our Advertisements this week have crowded us very much more than we like to be crowded, but we expect after this week, the rush which the holidays have brought upon us, will be re- lieved, and our columns assume their usual appearance.
 Please Send Earher.-Some of our cor respondents send in their communications Wednesdays, which, we wish to say to them, is very liable to be so late when the mails get them to us, that we are frequent ly compelled to leave them over till the fol lowing week. This we dislike to do, and hope our friends can ordinarily get their fa- vors to us as early as Monday or Tuesday. Christmas services-In Christ Church Parish will be service in Canaan i Valley on.Sunday morning at II o'clock, and Christmas eve service in the church in this village at o'clock. On Christmas day. there will be service in the church at Il o'clock, with Sunday school festival and distribution of gifts at o'clock in the evening.
 Committee of One Hundred.-The ladies fair, which opens this CThursday) afternoon in the Lakeville Academy, prom ises to be grand event. Of course every body in hailing distance will go. Very ex- tensive preparations have been made, and great variety of elegant holiday presents will be offered very low. The ladies of Lakeville have merited success, and the prospect is that they will have it.
 A Mission supper.-An oyster supper
 will be given Monday evening, January 1,
 1877, in the Academy at Salisbury, by the
 ladies of that village, for the purpose of raising funds with which to purchase ma
 terlal, preparatory to the organization of
 the sewing society for the poor and desti- tute in that locality. Good music will be
 furnished in the hall above for those who wish to dance. A grand social time is anticipated. May our expectations of a goodly number present be fully realized. , The cause is just one, and we trust those
 who listened few Sabbaths since to the
 appeal for home missions will cheerfully respond to the call.
 e snaring Birds.-FR1ENDPEAsE Through Q the columns of your paper wish to ad d dress the Bird Association, which l believe e exists not many miles from here. I would t like to inquire if snaring patrldges is no e against their laws. If SO, why allow it o bt t practiced2 There are certain persons wht s make it their duty to snare all of the afor,
 mentioned birds which is possible for then 10. simply ask for information concern ing this, for if your laws do not forbid it '. l do not know but what shall try the sam " game on the feathered tribe, as I am no $ marksman enough to shoot one.
 AN INQUIRER r. Will Ask for a Charter.-We are il ,s formed by parties who have been lookin g. into the feasibility, the practicability, ,and ad ,e visibility of bringing the water from tn ii mountain to supply the village, that a le application will be made to the legislatur pr at an early hour after it is convened, for g, charter for the Canaan Water Works. Thi -e certainly looks as if the powers that be g. are by no means asleep in this importar x matter, and we confidently anticipat
 prompt action toward the speedy consun
 nation of the project. Of course it wi E cost something to get the pipes laid, an If the water running, but when once properl IS done. the expense of keeping them in goo o order can not be great; and the benefit an - comfort of having an abundance of sof U mountain spring water in any room, an d in as many rooms in ones residence as b |. may elect, will be almost incalculable. 5. The Fair This Evening. ng.-While yo s' about it, dou't forget the grand fair an 'o festival of the Episcopal people, at tf Fe Town hall, this CThursday) evenin, H Something is said on their posters about 'o large variety of all manner of everythir use ful, ornamental, and all that sort o'thin s' ''you know" which Can be bought T. prices that will make old Hard Times hir
 self blush- But sucA supper as the ladj
 will prepare! Just think of it! Ola C Chowcer, oysters, chicken pie, oh OH OI IS It's Just awful anyway for poor editc 8. who don't have anything to eat only on SC in while, to be compelled to write abe B. these good things.S The price of u T. superb supper (75 cents) isn't large, and ne opportunity to hear Whites band ($l I he beyond the pocket book of most pet ,pl ne but for an editor to sit on the CT all outside and look in the window
 luxury. We have nearly, if not q, ii
 two thousand dollars due us for subsc r ys tion to THE NEWS. Won't someb o re. please pay their subscription, and .VH
 promise that the next chowder supper u
 comes around. we'll Ego in ,S