Connecticut western news., 1880-07-21
smart races next Saturday.

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 Two smart races next Saturday.
 --Picnickers and campers are in their glo- ry.
 frank vanDeusen lost another valuable horse last Friday.
 Our thanks to engineer Mark Barnum for courtesies extended.
 HI. K. Smith of Philmont, N. Y. is visit ing at G. P. Strong's in this place.
 Send along your subscription for the Camp Meeting DAILY NEWS, 25 cts.
 Station Agent Loomis' mother, of Hart ford, is visiting her son in this place.
 w. Prescott, Esq, has the finest lettuce in town, and we've had proof of it, too.
 Our Hancock English club have just stepped out. He'll be back in minute.
 -Messrs. Scott, Barnum, and Decker have some fine fields of tobacco across the river.
 The engineers on the Housatonic R. R. are soon to be examined for color blindness. -Engineer Kib Cogswell's family are oc- cupying Rev. M. R. Lent's cottage on the Camp ground.
 Our former townsman John H. Pulver, now of Copake, was in town the other iday, looking hale and hearty.
 --One of congressman Pratt's horses drop ped dead at Mill River the other day just af: ter returning from this place.
 "A number from this vicinity went te Pitts6eld last Saturday to see the elephant with the Great London circus.
 -H. P. Morse. on the s'under mountain roadn has torn down his old house, and ii rebuilding, in handsome style.
 --Housatonic Lodge No. 6l, E. ( A. M adjourned at their last communication to thu first communication in September.
 Ut was 8 mean trick to give the Warne House a Dutch whirl." but the Warner House looked awful funny going over.
 The Housatonic R. R. track is being raised between this place and Falls Village with gravel hauled from near Ashley Falls.
 The grain crop along the South Canaan road is splendid-much better than any VI see in the immediate vicinity of the village
 The Tobacco Growers Insurance Go ara daily issuing policies. Secretary Briggs, can now be found here every after noon.
 Hon. B G. Northrop, secretary of thu state board of Education, changed cars hert last Saturday, having in charge two young Chinese women.
 The omni-present patent medicine fenct defacer has adorned Dutcher's bridge with the loud injunction, in lamp black: "Use Wastc1 Hazse!"
 --Messrs. vanDeusen 6 Mead are to oper their Camp ground boarding tent1 the frs week in August to accomodate those living or visiting on the grounds
 Will Ferguson, clerk at Fuller & Peet's is enjoying weeks vacation. Win stick close to business, and will appreciate ant make the best of his furlough.
 -The fathers" bristle up like porcupin' over our allusion to the road bridges, but hoy is it about the necessity of public hors <vo,,o,h oy, tha vilIaOe dasArt?
 James Knickerbocker of Springfield, Ills is visiting at his father's, MT. Whiting Knick erbocker in this place, and Rev. Dr. Hiram Eddy of Jersey City, is at Mr. Wm. Adams
 For some days past our village has beel well represented at the Twin Lakes camps by doctor, lawyer, merchant, priest" as tn girls say when pulling of daisy petals for husband.
 The Canaan cornet band are putting Il the big .licks, and are happy-and so ain't th' neighbors: The verdict is: Heavenly mu sic. but hellish noise," but teacher Norti win soon change that tune.
 Allen B. St John, former resident O this place, now employed on the Naugatuci R. R darkened our doors the other day. Hs says that the veterans of fthe Second Heavy residing along the Naugatuck valley will turn out in force, to attend the regimental reunion here Sept. 1lth.
 -Dr. Camp and Milton Roraback of this place have sold their trotter, owned in part nersbip. to John Stallman of Lee, profes- sional horse dealer, for .long price" By. Dibble now owns the fastest trotter in town, but Mcintyre is raising colt that is chock fall of lightning, and to that colt we look to sustain the local reputation on the track.