Litchfield enquirer., 1878-07-04

Works IS very nearly completed d-Mrs Henry Church who spent the winter in Wolcottville, has been dangerously i'll in New Haven with malarlal fever. Even the old bridge on Main street, dees not escape the awful depression, as witness the condition of the north end. ad- joining Mr. Elliott's store-A barn of Charles Munger about mile west of this village was struck by lightning during the thunder storm, Thursday afternoon, and burned to the ground. t-The residence of Mir. Daniel Lynch of Tor rla@ford street, was consumed by fire, Tuesday
 night. Everything was a total loss, Mir. Lynch and wife barely escaping with their lives. -Register.
 At TWISTED President Strong announces
 that tie last of the present seriesof temperance
 meetings was held at the 2d church on We'd
 nesday evening. The Rev. John F. Hawley
 of Talcottyille was the principal speaker at the temperance meeting at the N. E. church, 1 Wednesday, evening, deliyeringa, thoughtful address. s.-''C Cottage Hall' has been sold by J.
 NJ Benjamin for $5, 300, the price paid for it few months since, W. A. Thompson & Co.,,
 being the purchasers. Graduated at Yale with l honors and now home for congratulations of their many friends-Robert Samuel Hubert and Seymour Landon Alvord. -Hernld. - { Spencer w. Coe and family arrived in town on Wednesday. is rumored that the Thayer Scythe works in this villageis about to shut down permanently and go out of the bus iness.-Press. ~.,..r
 The WooDBURY Union Woolen Go, close ] their mill for a month in order to make needed repairs to the mill and machinery The Amer ican Shear O. are having large orders for shears, and are driving that department of their works on full time.-The farmers are cutting hay, which is good crop in these parts, the best i'll some years and the lowest in price
 Miss Moves after a rnc6QDans i1, Colorado, where she has been engaged in teach ing, has returned on visit to her friends in town. Her two brothers one member of
 Yale and the other in business in New York, are home on a vacation, making hsppy union in the family of Rev. Mr. Noyes.-Sen- knez.-W. V. Rood, and wife, of the Parker academy are spending their vacation at Wal lington Ohio.-Our public schools have closed for the summer.-The temperance movement
 was inaugurated very auspiclously, last fall, conducted on the whole, for a season, wisely and well; but isn't it pretty hard for even this cause to bear with second rate speakers on hot
 summer ,nights, with the hat passed at the close ?-American. Many of our Woodbury people are pained to know of the serious ill., | ness of MT. E. s. Lemmon.-It is reported
 that another new house is to be built on our lower Main st., besides the one in contempla- tion by Mir. Walker.-A. subscription was ta- 1 ken up at the Catholic society's meeting here | on Sunday last, in aid of a fund for their new 1 church, and about eight hundred dollars was pledged. Our former ''mine host," Burr Per 1 kins, well known for years as the popular pro- | prietor of our hotel here, is spending the sum- l mer with his daughter, Mrs. Stone.-1r0n- 1 script.
 l The NEW MILFORD Center School closed l this week for seven weeks vocation. SaI,4 sof t1,o TncfSt St,1tn n1Hc
 this week Friday, the 28th.-Noble Bennitt
 has begun the erection of new barn, to take l the place of the old one ill the rear of the l store on Bennitt St-The remains of daugh- | ter of Frank Chase were brought to this Vil- 1 lage, last Monday, and buried in Lanesville.- | The Center school closedt this week Friday and | the term has been a'fruitful one in all the de- l partments. Walter B. Bostwick is moving l into the house he purchased of Wm. B. Allen, | and Mir. Allen is moving into the house vaca' ted by Mir. Bostwick. First National Bank of this place have declared dividend of per cent. payable next Monday.-Mrs. Fred l erick Boardman, her daughter and her sister ! in-law, start next week for Lake George fol l the sultry season.-Last week Wednesday as l c. w. Roraback was driving through Schagh- ticoke he killed rattle-snake which measured
 feet and inches in length and had b rat tles.-Bridge street is being graded from its
 Main street junction to point near Dr. Hines residence.-The Housatonlc Railroad Compa ny have declared dividend of $2 per share
 on it's preferred stock Ray.-Miss Amelia l.
 Pixley returned to her home in this village | Wednesday evening, graduate from the Jane
 Gray school, Mount Norris Livingston Coun
 ty, N Y.-The Housatonic Railroad Co. sole
 eighty-two tickets from this station for th'
 Coney Island excursion Thursday morning
 The Christian Temperance Union gave straw berry and ice cream festival in McMahon'.
 Hall, Wednesday evening, and $25 were netted
 The early part of the evening was devoted ,I t
 an excellent address on temperance by Mir
 Eccles Robinson. The address was very mucl
 liked by all who heard it.--We see it stated il
 one of our exchanges that one of the graduates
 of the Wesleyan University, Rev. J. M. Bai
 ley, is dead. In order to correct any misap
 prehension which might exist, we would sa.
 that the Rev. J. M. Bailey mentioned is not
 the J. M. Bailey of the Danbury News. G"-
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