Litchfield enquirer., 1881-06-23
New Preston.


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 There has always been seed time and 1 harvest We heard one farmer yesterday re- l mark that after all the weather was about right. We hope he'll have good crops and we bet he will
 "Wednesday afternoon the Cogswell broth CTS raised their new barn which is 5Ox3O feet There was the usual amounts yelling and 1 swearing, but the frame went together very 1 nicely indeed, refecting great credit on the young builder. Mir. John Ferriss of New Pres ton Hill.
 Mir. Walter Burnham has purchased fine young horse which looks and can travel about | as well as any of them. Jerome Graniss has ! also purchased another trotter: so also, Mr. George s. Cogswell has invested in another pair of high toned gray horses with which to carry mail to and from the noble Shepaug.
 The new line of telephone on the west of the lake is in working order. Now every time member of the Roach Club catches pickerei he can telephone to his friends that it weighs two pounds and fifteen ounces and they can't see him blush and wont really know how big lie he is unreeling. Such an apparatus is mighty handy.
 The steamer Flirt was set af1oat last week all in apple-pie order, and Saturday the Ban tam Band came down with their sweetheats and took sail about the lake and picknicked at Carter's, furnishing their own music, brass as well as chin. In the evening they had a dance till twelve o'clock, when they reluctantly stopped. tucked their instruments under their wagon seats, took their gals and drove home. The uniforms of the band (swa low w-tailed coats with six rows of big dierly bearing, were imposing. and at first we thought the British had entered Yorktown Their 'gals" were attractive but with these resplendent uniforms before their eyes, New Prestoners stood no chance
 -E. G. Wooster, of New Haven, is visit ing his mother and his many friends here He tells us they have an orchestra in New Haven that can beat ours. We cannot hardly believe it. however, this reminds us that on account of Will Wooster's arrival from the west (who is an old member of our orchestra) the N. P. T. N o. met, last week, Thursday evening" at Mir Sherman Cogswell's, and dis coursed some almost celestial music. It was impossible to do otherwise for there were four violns, three flutes, ope violoncelio and piano, all playing their several parts for dear life. After the members had become exhaust ed with their harmonious eXertious, NIT. and Mrs. Cogswell set out an abundance of eata- bles to which the musicianers did ample jus tice, the vlands disappearing before them like horse thieves before officers of the law. Will can blow just as we'll if not better than before he (we mean blow the flute of course) went west. We all had good time, thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Cogswell.
 Miss Carrie Boles returned. last week, from protracted visit at Wilksbarre. Pa.
 -H N., How about that eclipse? We ex- pected graphic description of the occurrance from your ready pen. Instead, you went gamboling off to the Northwest with the young people, finding Mercury.
 The festival which was to have been held on Friday was put over till Saturday, when goodly company gathered at four o'clock, p. m., in the grounds of Dr. E. P. Lyman tn eat 1 strawberries and cream. The weather was made expressly for the occasion and was too pleasant for description. The Bantam band came down and furnished some excellent music for the merrymakers and everything passed of as smooth as a newly greased wag on while ice cream and the other eata- bles rapidly disappeared. It don't make a particle of diffaronna- if t dooo liU liko lead and produce seven hundred horse power. nightmare, when one is sitting beside a fairy like form and face ''too lovely for anything" Ice crean, has flavor decidedly richer than it ever has at any other time or place. This proximity to the fair one, the delightful tete-0-tete, the DOlce Jar niente. is what does the business. No person ever eats ice cream a'one. Alone one prefers ham and eggs or chick en. In the evening the young folks adjourned to the doctors house where to the dulcet tones of Alfred's fiddle and Leman's flute they danced away the happy hours. 1t was a pleasant time all round The proceeds are to be applied to chVch purposes. Prof. Northend of the St ate Normal School delivered lecture before thestudents and friends of Upson Seminary last Wednes- day night We have no doubt but that it was we'll worth attending. We wish we had been l there
 -Thereis just one thing about it, and that is that New Preston is no longer safe place for | amateur accordeon players. That is certain. One night last week a musical German started home from Ed. Zeigner's with his accordeon under his arm. He thought to shorten the distance by going across lots, so across lots he | went his soul swelling with the double ex- tracted quintessence of melody as he gazed at the full moen, softly repeating to himself, ''If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it. that surfeiting, the"--when3 his soaring spirit was suddenly recalled to earth by loud below and tremendous rush. He gave one glance, flung his beloved accordeon into the brush and fled for dear life with Dan Wheaton's bull hotly pursuing. He climbed the first tree he came to with the quickest kind oi alacrlty just in time to save purchasing new pair of pants. When the bull saw he had the affrighted accordeonist safely treed he seemed satisfied with his taurine exploit, stretched himself out under the tree and waited patiently. He waited some time Meanwhile, the accordeon. ist, O, where was he Like the boy who stood upon the burning deck he would not leave his post but there he staid, and among a hundred other things thought of ''Bingen, l Piprap tho Dl,:,, t;ll e.,,. s.,.p..l-