Connecticut western news., 1877-05-11
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 on Main StreeHis nearly ready for occupan- cy. It is being painted by J. s. Judd & Son......Ira w. Meade, formerly foreman of the blacksmith department at the repair shops, has opened place of business on Arch street. Ira is tlptop workman and deserves patronage. See his advertisement in another column. Averill has been improving the appearance around his resi- dence greatly this spring, fencing, turing, grading etc., until it presents neat appear ance......Jack has taken. the advice of a friend. Nothing reliable has been heard of Franklin D. Palmer as yet. Many con- ficting rumors are in circulation, but each proves groundless. An advertisement is posted around, giving his description...... An ice cream festival is projected by the male portion of our community no ladies permitted to takeipart in the arrangements. For further particulars inquire of Dan...... The. Boston Millinery rooms seem to he the chief attraction to tue. ladies just about now. A fine display of spring and sum, mer millinery and fancy goods is made.
 CLICK. Clayton.-How tempus does fugit On Iy few days ago and we were shivering and shrinking from old Boreas' chilling presence, and now green grass, wild flow CTS. and sunshine, yea, and a mosquito. The ''chills' too have put in an appear ance about the same time as last year. MT. and Mrs. Wm. Foley have both been seriously afflicted with this disease, but are rather improving of late......Mrs. Grundy declares emphatically that the whooping cough IS going the rounds among us, but from what we have heard and seen of i:. we can only say that it is the mildest form of that disease that we have ever met with. ......We are glad to see that MT. Moses Warner has safely reached terra firma once more. For few weeks past he has been making himself very conspicuous on the roofs of several of bis neighbors build ings but the owners seemed well satisfied, and the Lew shingles are certainly great Improvements. Don't let any f&h come up to Clayton that you do not wish to lose, for Willie Green will be sure to Shook" them. Willie is only twelve years old, but somehow in his dealings with the finny tribe he has a wonderfully ''taking" way with him. Last week he caught over fifty; all of them of good slze, and some weigh ing over pound......W We are little curi- ous to know how Lindsey expects to rum all that land which he has just coaxed Mir. Sheldon to part with, in addition to his blacksmithing. Probably he knows; but we don't and it plaques us.
 Now AND THEN. Great Burlington. n.-Barringto has its ups and downs as we'll as other places. The first severe cut was the failure of the Berk shire Woolen Co.,, winch finally paid ol promised to pay about 46 per cent. of tbeiI liabilities, and are now running part .oi the machines ID their factory. Next comes k. E. Barnes the grocer, who has settled with his creditors for 25 cents on the dollar and is now selling groceries as agent. fol MT. Chapin the flour merchant. Mex comes Messrs. Hare & Martin who run th' Berkshire House last season. They don offer to pay very much if anything, and don't suppose they can as l understand their stock in trade was only $40 to stal with. The last suspension was Messrs Walker & Langdon, hardware dealers, wh' had only been operating about thirteel months. Their liabilities are said to b. about $l6 900 and their assets, good. ba' and doubtful, about $lo,OoO. They had meeting of their creditors on May lst, an' appointed committee to investigate. .an' report May g. What they will do is har' to tell. They appear to have made yer. bad work in short time. Notwithstand ing all the troubles, some are driving ahea' at good gait...... Carpenter Hayes has gang of hands at work on Judge Couch new store on Railroad street. We'll, won tell how many, but they make more nois than forty wood-peckers on dry limb, an will soon have two new stores where tn old hat shop of H. Holmes and shoe shoI kept by MT. Burghardt formerly have been ......Our merchants that are wide awake ar having good trade, and dry goods ar very low in price. Merchants who ar half asleep have nightmare and bad dreams as usual. So mote it be. z. More Aunt Jane.-MIsTER. EDITUR:-
 s'pose you seed the Courier | Which came to hand last week Wall, there is jist one item there Of which wish to speak. Twas that ar piece of poetry Some Bosting lady writ.
 I'm sure she needn't been afeard l To hitch her name to it.
 For every word is saItin true.
 For you and both know
 Of folks who couldn't stand 1t long Unless their tongues could go.
 No matter what you say or do,
 If they can find it out
 They'll add an extra yard or. two, And tell it all about.
 My sakes never seed.sich yarns
 As folks contrived to hatch.
 When Sister SusaD's oldest gal
 And Si. Brown made match.
 Theyised he hadn't got 'cent.;
 And had to run in debt
 For money for weddin' tower,
 (Which they haint taken yet)
 They sed, one day her dress was whit
 And pink, or blue the next;
 And that her mar the feller liked,
 But that her par was vexed.
 Until one day Miss Grundy called,
 To tell what she had heard
 And l jist told her right straightiout l nlnA A.,1k h.