Litchfield enquirer., 1879-07-03
New Preston.

l The past week has been composed or the proverbial New England weather. It has been 1 like politician a-straddle of the fence, ready to rain or shine, or anything but what would naturally be expected. Showers have been sudden, severe and numerous, and it required great effort on the part of the haymakers to smile. Sunday, don't you think, the weather arose in the morning with with smiling countenance, hung an excellent chtomo in the west. and made believe that rain would be an impossibility, thereby enticing every lady to wear her her new summer hat and most fash- ionable gown to church. But alas, the treach- erous elements It poaned just as the services closed, and to see the fashions stalking home was sight that beggars description. Some gaudy summer hats, latest style, went home encountered with shawls three folds thick, others hurried along elegantly draped in linen l clusters, while the straw and starch of others were only inadequately protected from the destructive aqueous fluid by immaculate little handkerchiefs, and soon, etc., and such hats 1! We wish you could-but, of course, you have seen such, but much can't be expected of per- sons who never were outside the limits of their natal town, and we can account for our igno- rance in no other way. It was all pictur- esque sight, but extremely bad for millinery show. extremely.
 Last week. for one day, the great attrac- tion for small boys was that soap wagon, and it's gorgeous trappings of paint, gilt and chimes of silver bells. It took three men to conduct the contrivance, and they gave bar of soap to every family in the village. It was pecp- liar but effective method of advertising.
 Misses Julia Averill and Anna Lancashire are home from Maplewood Institute where they have been zealously prosecuting their studies since last autumn. Miss Abbie Bee- man has also returned from Tilden Seminary.
 Among other arrivals, also, are Willie Wooster, first fiutist of the T, U, orchestra, who for the past six months has been close student at the Spencerian business college at Washington D. C., and Mir. Henry W. Bee- man, violin primo, who has been Tn Omaha, Neb., for some time. Now we suggest that the orchestra be reorganized.
 Three boys have four packs of firecrack- CTS each, which they intend to set off on the glorious Fourth. This is all New Preston can celebrate
 -Boarders still come thicker and faster.
 That tortoise once more. Mr. s: O. Holt says she believes the initials s. B. were cut on that animal by Solon Bush0ell about forty years ago, when that gentleman lived where H. s. Gillette now does. Next
 -'L. e." neither the "devil" nor ourselves made mistake in estimating the old maids. The list was correct and not stretched" but how could you know wecould not be included in the list of those between sweet sixteen and twenty five?
 The Coney Island excursion was not very we'll patronized by New Prestonites. We be- lieve only two went.
 Saturday afternoon lightning struck a partly dead tree near Dea. Geo. w. Hum. phrey's, scattering and setting it on fire. It burned all night slowly. MT. Humphrey felt the shock quite severely.
 The Captain Schimmel place has been rented for the summer by family by the name of Oliver
 The melodious whistle of the steamer ''Flirt," can now be heard on the bosom of the serene and peaceful waters of the lake.
 PEN DRAGON.