Connecticut western news., 1880-08-11
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Where are some of our correspondents this week?
 Walter Paul of Hudson is visiting his father in this place.
 -S. s. Convention on Pine Grove immedi- ately after Camp Meeting.
 -Hymen tied his first knot on Pine Grove Camp Ground last Thursday.
 The Misses Granger of this place are wis., iting friends in New Milford.
 -Lucey's next excursion to Coney Island and Rockaway comes off Sept. 4th.
 Our esteemed Pine Grove correspondent is immense on the punning business.
 We have found it necessary to abridge some of our correspondence this week.
 The south bound through freight ('owl trainn) consist of about 40 cars on an average. We are ready now, to pass our opinion on fall fruit Big hens eggs are out of sea. son.
 -ES0fs Os W udCOuUGE Ol occupied the pulpit of the M. E. church last Sunday.
 Grove last year is at present in Santa Cruz, California.
 Mrs Nathaniel Hunter, of Amenia, N. r., is visiting her daughter, Mrs Ovid Gil lette, in this place.
 on nearly every train, and Pine Grove is quite busy village.
 A. T. Roraback and Lyman Cunning, del egates, are attending the Republican State convention at Hartford today
 A Sunday School Convention is to be held on Pine Grove immediately after camp meeting, and closing Sept. lst
 The wife of P. P. Gilmore of Lime Rock, formerly of East Canaan, died last Saturday morning and was buried Sunday.
 Bishop Williams occupied the pulpit of Christ Church last Sunday morning and eve- ming, with confirmation ceremonies in the morning.
 The sidewalks on west Main street have been greatly improved by grading, etc. The walk in front of the Warner House has also been repaired.
 Peter Nihil, the new Conn Western R. R. car inspector for this section, has re. moved his family from Springfield, and will occupy rooms over union depot.
 A drunken man fell on the track as the through freight train was backing up last Saturday, and would have been run over if somebody had not pulled him away.
 The Connecticut Western News is get ting to be splendid paper. It's items are short, mostly, but very sweet.- Windsor Locks Journal Thanksl We see you take sugar in yours.
 Ovid Gillette had ten watermelons on his wagon last Saturday which aggregated BOG pounds in weight, some of. which weighed 36 pounds each, and contained ever so much cholera morbus.
 Rev. William G. Peirce of Champaign, Ills preached in the Congregational church at East Canaan last Sunday MT. Peirce was formerly resident of this place, and at one time taught school here.
 The two colts recently purchased by Dr Camp and Myron Decker, are promising an- imais and will probably trot on Riverside Park next week Saturday. Both are in training at Ashley Falls.
 Whoever will send us the correct solution of the following, accompanied with 25 cts. in cash, ''as guaranty of good faith, will be 7 entitled to the DAILY NEWS: 19-21-2-19-3 1925 6-15-1s 2O-8-5 4-1-9-12-25 IA 23-19.
 Mrs. David Proper of Elizaville, N. Y. who is visiting at Judge Granger's in this place, received letter from her husband last week, that their house had been totally de. stroyed by fire, but very little of the furniture etc. being saved.
 If some enterprising man who owns a team will run an Accommodation wagon" be- tween this place and Pine Grove in the even- ing during camp meeting week, he will make it pay. There are many who would go down to hear the evening sermons if there were ac- commodations for returning. The R. R. Co. run no trains north after 7.30 p. m.
 Tho Tobacco Growers Mutual Insurance Company of this place is destined to prove a grand success. Secretary Briggs is kept busy every day writing policies for all parts of the State, and the amount of business already done is beyond the most sanguine expecta- tions. The aggregate amount of insurance will reach way up into the tens of thousands of dollars.
 R. w. Landon, of Niles, Mich, sends us a remittance, and writes: Being 8 native of Salisbury, your paper is very interesting to me, although forty-four years have elapsed since left there, and my residence has been here since that time, and am thoroughly western man in all my feelings, associations and impulses, still I have a warm place in my heart for Old Connecticut my mother state. Michigan has bountiful ercp of wheat this year, and all other crops are fully up to the average. Corn now just in roasting ear.''