Connecticut western news., 1879-08-13
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Savin Rock. . Otis is crowded with summer boarders this season.
 -Lenox is soon to have two-mile swim ming match.
 Sharon will have three tents at the Pine Grove camp meeting.
 Vermont relatives are visiting MT. and Mrs. Sheriden Barnes.
 Two men caught 50 good fish in one hour in Otis pond last week.
 Mir. and Mrs. H. H. Cogswell are keeping boarders at Pine Grove.
 -S. H. Knickerbocker is getting up a par ty to go to the Catskills.
 A turtle was caught at Twin Lakes the other day weighing 25 lbs.
 A Litchfeld boy narrowly escaped drown ing while bathingon Sunday.
 The first peach train of the season ar- rived in Bridgeport last week.
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 EWs. "Yet there is time."
 The dead body of a man was seen in the Conn. river at Wethersfeld Friday.
 MT. z. T. Adams is yet confined to his house, but much improved in health.
 A "calico ball'' will be given in town hall by colored people Thursday the Fist.
 Photographer Hall of Great Burlington is to open picture gallery at Stockbrdge.
 A travelling magician amused an appreci- ative crowd on the street Monday night.
 The young peoples temperance union of New Milford picnic at Parlor Rock to-day.
 A strange dog recently killed and severe ly injured several of Frank Goodwin's sheep
 The Clarke House at Winsted was ''pull- ed" by the temperance folks at that place re- gently.
 Ali but two of Graubys former 25 brandy stills have been closed by high government taxes.
 William, son of Congressman Miles, has bought the Bement place, near Twin Lakes, for $3,500.
 A grand excursion to Rockaway Beach is advertised for Sept. 5. Fare from this place for round trip, $2.O0.
 An excursion from New Milford to West Point next Friday, by the steamer Laura from Bridgeport, is advertised.
 Fuller & Peet's store has wonderfully im- proved in appearance, under the artistic touches of Rob't Knickerbocker.
 Ira D. Sankey is expected to be in Win sted soon, the guest of Mrs. Spencer W. Coe of New York, at Meadow Brook farm.
 Those who have engaged advertising space in the DAILY NEWS, and have not yet sent in their ''copy" are requested to do so at once.
 The Clarke House at Winsted is to change hands again, MT. Tracy retiring and Charles Merrill of Barkhamsted taking his place.
 A Savoy farmer has used one scythe for 23 consecutive years, and he mows over 60 acres yearly, and doesn't use a machine either.
 Sheffield lis to have the next Berkshire County Farmers Institute, on Wednesday September 3. The list of speakers is not yet announced.
 The H. R. R. will give an excursion tc Saratoga at half fare. The excursion tickets will be valid from Saturday, Aug. 23 to 27, on regular trains.
 Sherwood Cummings of this place will of6ciate in MT. Ferris Henry's drug store al Tuckahoe, N. Y., during MT. Ills absence or vacation next month.
 Last Monday morning Jerome Root shot large crane, which flew over this village It measured six feet from tip to tip, and five feet from it's beak to its claws.
 -One night last week Warren Orton of Gaylordsville had valuable horse stolen from his premises, and as yet no trace of the horse or thief has been found.
 Mrs. George Hatch of Bridgeport, daughter of the late supt. Brown of the H. R. R. is visiting her mother in this place, and will remain until after camp meeting.
 Mrs. Tomlnson of New Milford is SUD- posed to be the only survivor of the first missionaries to the Sandwich Islands, who went out in 1919. She is s6 years old.
 The beautiful picnic grounds of the Hous- atomic R. R. Go. at Parlor Rock maintain their wonted popularity, and are occupied by ex- cursion parties several days every week.
 MT. Charles Lane, assistant supervisor of the Housatonic railroad, who has been sick for nearly two weeks at New Milford, has been taken to his home at Ct. Harrington.
 The Mill River paper companies have opened the gate to their Monterey reservoir, and it will not be closed again this fall, most of the mills in that village having suspended operations
 Rev. Hiram Eddy, D. D. of Jersey City preached in the Congregational Church at East Canaan last Sunday. The announce ment drew a number of outsiders, as the Dr. is well and widely known hereabouts,