Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1880-07-29
New Preston.

The overworked city folks continue to come
to New Preston. What haggard and care
worn set they are, and how sorry we feel for
them! Poor men and women with plenty of
money and nothing to do but seek the mer-
riest way of passing away time. How over
worked they must be! The boarding houses
are all nearly full of such pitiful objects.
Some poor country dogs of fellows we know
of, would like to 60 somewhere and board
three months during the summer and be thus
overworked. Overworked indeed!
Miss Annie Lancashire is to give read
ings and Rotations In the village church here
Tuesday night, interspersed with music by
members of the choir and others. But it will
be all over with before this is printed, so we'll
say no more about it till next week.
"A boy who boards at the Sherman House,
while playing ball with the seminary students,
fell and broke his arm, one day last week
DR.. Lyman attended him aud even now he is
able to go fishing.
VIM. O'Hara, 'Washngton's young law
YER we here, is soon to open an office in the
building occupied by the town clerks office,
at Washington Depot. We wish him sue
cess.
Henry Lennon and wife, of Bridgeport,
are visiting at his fathers, A. G. Lem
mons.
The telephone doesn't meet with much
favor among the fair SEX and never will, be-
cause the rules and regulations allow only
three minutes for message. What woman
under the blue canopy of Heaven could talk
enough in three minutes? And echo repeats
the question. When any of the gentle sex
reads this and begins to earnestly desire a
handful of our hair, or takes firmer grip
upon an imaginary broom handle we beg
that they will remember that married man
of some years experience suggested the fact to
US, and vent their wrath accordingly. A mes
sage will cost only two dimes and We'll guar
antee that it will be safely delivered to him.
Rev. l. L. Cuyler, of Brooklyn, who has
been staying some days at Rev. 81. Upson's,
preached very able discourse in the church
| on New Preston Hill, last Sunday morning,
from the words found in the Goth verse of the
XVII chapt. of the Acts, They cast four
anchors out of the stern and wished for the
day." The four anchors with which christ
ian ought to be fastened were described as
Faith in God, that is the first anchor to be let
go. Loyalty to all that is right and gooi. is
the second. Patience the third, and Hope
the fourth. OF course if any one wishes to
know how good sermon Mr.. Cuyler can
| make from that, they must hear him. We
couldn't begin to report it with any sort of
justice to him.
Edward Galvins barn at last approaches
completion. The construction of the greaa
| pyramid was nothing as compared with the
building of this barn.. But the old adage
reads, "Better late than never"
| A New Yorker with white vest on came
to the hamlet of New Preston.
| For to seek recreation
| he went hshing one day and caught by mistake
| snag and fell overheard into the lake, =.
| And when by great efforts they fshed him out
That Yorker went back from New Preston
To New York without white vest on,
So ended his vacation.
One thing appears to be advisable JUS
now after the recent heavy rains, and that is
to repair the highways here and hereabouts
They need it badly in places.
| PEN DRAGON.
Goshen, No. 400.
Mr.. Calvin futile is sick, and we fear hi
will not recover.
Arrived, at Mr.. Robt. Allyn's Mrs Nor
'timer Fenton, of Wolcottyille; at Norman T
Wadhams, Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Wadhams
at Alvin Dickinson's, Mrs. S. D. Ross, O
Great Bend, Penn, and Miss Ada Mitchell O