Connecticut western news., 1880-08-27
News for Campers

No smoking in the enclosure duriug ser vices.
 -supt. sillson was on the grounds yes- terdsy.
 Over 100 were at breakfast yesterday morning. ....
 -35o0 persons were Oh the grounds yes terday afternoon.
 About 2O0o people listened to the sermon yesterday morning.
 -The prayer meetings show an increase in numbers and interest. .., Every room in the lodging house taken and applications for more
 The excursion train from Bridgeport brought many to the grove.
 Mrs. Louisa McCarty and daughter from Ashley Falls rent A. H. Ferguson's cottage. --380 took dinner at the eating house yes- terday. A whole beef went the way of all flesh.
 The worth of the best sermon lies in the force with which 1t makes the hearers of it think. A sign over the oyster house should be put up. New corners don't know what the building is for. ........ Back numbers of the DAILY NEWS can , be obtained at this office and at the post office on the grounds.
 It is not too late in the season for ice cream, and Mir. Johnson has just the kind for z this time of the year.
 The "average small boy" was on hand yesterday and smoked his first cigar. He thinks he wont any more.
 ---Great Harrington was largely represented on the grounds yesterday, and good looking delegation they were, too. ...s.. Col Matt Fl. Ellis, Adj. Gen. 9th divi. sion, New York N. G., accompanied his sis ter, Mrs Enc, to the camp grounds.
 Never was there more orderly assem- bly, than that gathered in the grove yester, day. It speaks volumes for the management Bishop Foss participated in the ceremo- nies attending the laying of the corner stone of the new Methodist chapel in Middletown last Wednesday,
 Bishop Simpson preached the sermon il the morning on Thursday of last year, Rev Dr. Newman in the afternoon, and the Rev M. 8. Terry in the evening.
 -Mr.-E. L. Mead, of West Winsted, ha' purchased of the association the cottage in thu rear of the preachers house and will mak' improvements on it next season. -Mr. s. R. Merritt of LaB;eville. who dio some fine carpentering on the grounds prio to the opening of the meeting is the tol taker of the teams that pass in from the high way.
 There are more ministers on the ground now than commonly at this time of the meet ing. More than seventy have been at thu grove, and probably two-thirds of that nun ber are still there.
 -Unusual care should be taken with tn camp fires. If one ever gets the start it wi cause much havoc, and destroy the labor ( years in short time. Every fire that is bull should be carefully put out, when left.
 -Messrs. Van Deusen and Mead are cate ing to; the wants of their customers with ze' that calls forth words of commendatiol Their tables are neatly set and well Jade with the good things of life. Give the eatin house call.
 No previous season can show more better improvements made and planned tha the present one. A thorough study of tt needs of the Grove has been made and vol has been advanced with an eye to the futur as well as to the present. .
 The crowd of arrivals by the mornir train from the north yesterday was immens and formed an unbroken procession from tl camp station, the front ranks of which we out of sight over the brow of the hill befo the last had left the depot.
 We invite the attention of the readers the DAILY NEWS to the advertisement of t Conn. Western News on the fourth page oftt issue. The weekly News is local coun paper, of interest to all who reside in Lite field County, and to others who desire know what the County is doing. The of we make is certainly liberal enough and ' should be pleased to have the subscriptic come in with like iberality. Specim copies of the Weekly News can be obtain at the publication office.
 With the increasing popularity of Pi Grove there comes the necessity for grea facilities in the work for which the gatheri is annually made. A few years ago tt served for preachers house and a rude sta for platform now a large and commodie house takes the place of both. Formerly prayer meeting ytent was sufficient for preaching service whom the inclement weat forbid services in the enclosure, now a tab nacle built several years ago, and large enor then, is found to be inadequate. A new 6 larger building for use in case of storm, z for union prayer meetings, will probably erected in time for the gathering next ye Other buildings will follow as the needs the meetings require.