Litchfield enquirer., 1877-09-27
HarwInton.

In the absence of regularly ordained minister, last Sabbath, Mr. Hubert Bar Der delivered religious discourse Tn the morning. and Superintendent Buel read sermon in the afternoon.
 MT. & Mrs. Wm. Vickers, of Farm ington, were in town, last Sunday. Mrs. Tyrrell, of New Haven is visiting at Geo. Cooks, all former residents of this town. Mir. X Mrs. Scoville and son have return ed to South Carolina, and their daughter to school at New Haven,
 The legal voters of the first district held their annual meeting in the school house last Saturday evening to appoint officers for the ensuing year, but as we were off Saturday night, as usual, We are unable to report proceedings.
 MT. Norris Bristol is attending school in New Britain. ....ta
 Miss LudeIla l.. and MT. l., Peck of Bristol, gave reading and musical en- tertainment in our church, which was we'll attended and gave general satisfaction.
 The President of our Agricultural Soci- ty wishes us to inform the public that the State agent for selling dynamite blasting powder will be at our Fair next Tuesday, and will give series of practical illustra- tions of the explosive power of that arti- cle on some of the large rocks near the Center. Also that our "boys" will give another masquerade similar to that of last year, only little more so. Th1s time they will be assisted by our Burlington cousins. which is grander sight than Bar. nuns pageant. The Fair is expected to be the best we have ever had. .st The ''Amateurs" of Harwlnton gave 8 grand dramatic and musical entertain ment. in Bakers Hall. at BakervilIe, last Tuesday evening. The first act of the program was called .'The Black Chem. ist," and was performed by our Mark Twain and a burnt cork darkey, and was exceedingly comical. Next came the act entitled the Musical Servant, which was also very Imaginable. O.. s. Andrews sang "A Sleigh-ride," with a jig ac. compartment by the Wolcottville String Band, which also furnished most excellent music between the acts. Next was dia- iogue between two darkeys entitled "What the Ledger says" MT. o. s. An drews, of Hartford, followed with an in strumental piece on the guitar. and song with guitar accompaniment. '.The Stus pid Servant" was well performed; and was followed by 1.-The Ghost" Then came a long humorous stump speech" by large hook nosed darkey, on s'Woman and Wo- mans R ghts. Then MT. Andrews gave a Dutch song entitled "My Katrina, 'danc. ing tothe chorus accompanied by the band. Wanted. Nurse" followed, which was loudly applauded. Lastof all came ..Bad Whiskey" which was very ludicrous. The attendance was large. filling the Hall be- yond its seating capacity. The perform ance closed at 10o'clock; then the floor was quickly cleared, but as quickly taken again by the impatient dancers who atrip. ped the lighs fantastic toe. ?. till the moon went down, prompted by Johnny Cake of Wolcottville. 34 s@t a4 l. The Adventists. .sat Campyille, raIsed the frame for their new Chapel last Fri day. After the raising the ladies invited the men into the adjoining sohool-house and regaled them with bountiful celia
 tion. ssR ,l1H siiee 8z os E-zIna 78see5 a sa A Prayer meeting was held at Mrs. Baldwin s, last Sunday evening. ese. --Messrs. Page < Dains are repairing their dam across the Naugatnck. sae | The people in Harwinton have been greatly excited over what was supposed to be q stray bear escaped from some menagene. which had been seen proving around at night on several occasions, snd chased any unfortunate wight that hap pened to be out after dark. Finally 8 crowd of valiant young men armed with l clubs followed it into the woods one night