Connecticut western news., 1880-06-09


 added to his stock of caskets, coffins, burial robes, etc., one of Holmes & Co.'S. celebrated ice caskets MT. Scoyi}le started out with the intention of procuring the best ice casket our land affords, and we understand that he has succeeded in finding it in the Holmes patent, as it has combined in it everything of any value that any other ice casket has, and many valuable Improvements that no other patent possesses, consequently it has "all" the modern appliances, and it is said to preserve body better than any other invention; it's folding cooling rack and nickel head.rest are very valuable attachments MT. Scoville will be pleased to furnish it free of charge. SPECIAL. John Gallvan has exchanged the Carney team with MT. Donovan of Norfolk for sin gle horse and buggy.
 The Tobacco growers are setting their plants.
 Potato bugs prevail to an alarming extent One boy has captured half bushel. Miss Minnie Briggs is spending 8 few weeks with friends at New Haven.
 Rev. MT. Day of Avon supplied the pulpit last Sabbath.
 Miss Millspaugh of Falls Village is visiting her sister Mrs. Hanchett.
 Mira Garfield and children narrowly escaped. serious accident at Canaan on Saturday last, by the overturning of their buggy, which very nearly threw them in the Blackberry River.
 Eli Giddings has made flying trip to Can aan on his bicycle, making the round trip | without alighting.
 | The telephone line between this place and Lime Rock is now in talking condition. ~ '& The B. R. Go. have in their employ here, three men, by the name of Charles Johnson. l Edward g. Roberts is working up the inter ests of the Tobacco growers insurance Go. in the Conn. Valley. :.... :, : ;Messrs. Briggs Bronson are building two 1 Now AND THEN
 West Cornwall.
 Tke' streets ofo village and vicinity are going through thorough repairs, under the su- pervision of Seiectman Crandall, with Capt
 Cole as driver. It's high time they mended their ways.
 ,E. F. Scoville spent last Sabbath in town. lHe is looking hale and hearty and appears as Ehappy as clam at high tide.
 The champion fisherman, "Steve," showed us last week the finest string of trout caught this season., ..-.-r.,..
 T.J. Bosworth will furnish you with jewel Fly, silver ware, etc, at extraordinary low prices. He is at present travelling in Corn wall and adjoining towns and carries nothing fbut irst-class goods which he can fully war trant, and when he warrants thing, it's so,
 every time. '. - '.
 Mrs E. F. Scoville is visiting friends at
 Long Hill near Bridgeport. ,.- The regular monthly entertainment of the
 Sabbath School Association was held in the
 Chapel on Friday evening to large and ap-
 preciative audience. The band as usual, dis
 coursed some very fine music, and the various
 exercises of the programme were quite inter e: ting. The poem, Songs of Seven' by
 Jean Iugelow. was well rendered, those be.
 ing selected to personate the different charac
 ters with marked appropriateness. The little girl orator, Edith Dean, favored the audience ! with a recitation entitled Little Sunbeam,
 which was well committed and finely delivered , MT. John Rodemeyer of the Connecticut , Western News was in town last Friday, the , guest of F. w. Yutzler.
 , Some fine specimens of Jersey cattle car be seen at MT. Ebert Shepard's. ANON. The young men who "emigrunted" to Da
 kota recently, arrived at their destination ] right side up with care, and are busily en- . gagged at getting rich. Frank Snyder has purchased horse and yoke of oxen and is tilling the soil % industriously, and eat not the bread of idieness. On the day O | their arrival they all went fishing and caugh : four fish weighing 20 pounds-or 20 fish
 weighing four pounds-or four. pounds weigh Ling 20 fish, or some such fshy transaction , They propose to go out and kill a,few Indians } when the invoice of hair restorer arrives al the drug store.
 millinery business in Bridgeport, is expected home about July 1st..' u Miss Cook of Hartford is-. assisting Miss ,sE Holmes, milliner and dress maker. during the 1T Wm. Dean, . our veteran carpenter, is re. modelling the Curtis house at Cornwall Bridge rE- Cochrane Bros store IS always chock full } of goods and customers, and the business o , the town is done at this stand They carry 5 an immense stock. rl: Miss Carrie l.. Vollmiller, who has been living in Bridgeport for the past two or three sEyears, has returned to her home in this place i to reside.
 Il George Oldfield dropped pinch bar on his , toe the other day, laming him for little while.
 The regular Sunday School Association ii meeting at the Congregational Chapel last ,,t Friday night called out goodly audience, sI and the entertainment was well received. | The West Cornwall band was present in uni , form, which added in no small measure, to the l interest of the occasion. The programme was we'll arranged, and successfully carried Tout, The singing and declamations by the si little ones were good and speak well for the |patience of the teachers and, parents. Miss . lCsrrie Barnum's representation of "Love'' ! was especially fine, displaying declamatory ! powers of superior quality. Mrs. Dr.. San ford's "Mother' was charmingly natural and received warm applause. "Widowhood" by Mrs. James A Cochrane was feelinglY ren,
 dered, and touched the pathetic, in the audi ence. ''Given in marriage" in which MT. George Old6eld was "the happy bridegroom of fair young bride" Miss Mary Miller, who was given in marriage" by Mrs. c. E. Baldwin the handsomest kind of a bridegroom. and Miss Miller-well, she looked too angelic l, to be approachable. Longing for home" was finely rendered by Mrs R. R. Pratt.
 Westendorf's song "I long for the old home again" was excellently sung in quartette, Mir.
 Geo. Hughes taking the air; MT. Chas M
 Hall, presided skilfully at the organ. The
 band under the efficient leadership of MT. W. J North, discoursed most excellent music at
 intervals during the evening The boys look
 hobby in their fine new uniforms of "rebel EgFay." The band at present consists of eight. cen pieces, and are iD splendid practice.
 For the success of these entertainments the Rev, MT. Fitch deserves the highest com
 mendation He doesn't belong to the class of narrow souled, tombstone countenanced
 dominies, to whom the hearty laugh of a Il 1ehi1d on the Sabbath, or in church edifce,
 is but an evidence of the utter deprayity of
 the human heart, or who holds that the t tsouhds of bass drum or fiddle desecrates the
 sacred walls beyond all reparation. Where
 such convictions govern the management of 8 Sabbath school, there you will find the vital faculties of childhood lying dormant, and the
 pill either g little bigot r$a little scamp. The moral and spiritual growth in the pupils;
 the lively interest taken in the schools, and it's hourishing condition and large attendance,