Connecticut western news., 1881-05-04
BERKSHIRE COUNTl.

James Gilmore of Lee has removed to Paterson, N. J.
 The Sheffield selectmen charge $lOO for a liquor license.
 Dr. W. H. Parks of Gt Harrington is dan gerously sick in New York.
 Several new cases ofsmall pox were discov- cred in Adams last Sunday.
 A loon was shot the other day in Pittsfeld where they have liquor license.
 MT. and Miss Gibbs of Lee, have gone on an excursion to Colorado and California.
 Last Friday nights concert at Ct Barring ton netted about $6O. for the new library.
 N. H. Anderson of Ct. Harrington was buried last Thursday with masonic honors.
 North Adams had cock fight last We'd nesday night, and one man made $4OO. out of it.
 The Smith Paper company of Lee has just purchased a truck horse weighing l540 pounds.
 Carl E. F. Beer, Ct. Barrington's florist, is going out of the business, and is selling of his stock.
 Thirteen prisoners will be released from Pittsfeld jail this month, their sentences having expired.
 Michael Clary was killed by the cars near Pittsield last Tuesday evening, while walk ing on the track.
 "When will Pittstield be a city ?"-Jour- gsal. When will limburger cheese make a Dutchman sneeze
 Twenty pieces have been procured for the new hand at Plttsfeld the subscriptions amounted to $1,2OO.
 Pittstield's land league has sent $100. to Father Walsh, treasurer of the national league, Waterbury, Ct.
 A colored boy was before the court in Pitts. field the other day for stealing a goat. He pleaded all butt guilty.
 The corporators of the Gt Harrington savings bank hold their annual meeting iol the choice of officers to-day. Renfrew (Adams) talks of getting up g brass band They are infested with rats uI there, who grow fat on poison.
 Barbed wire fence is getting fashionable ir the vicinity of Ct. Burlington, among those who have sparkable hired girls.
 Michael Clary of Pittsfield took out life insurance policy for $l,000, and then wen and killed himself with the cars. Miss Littlejohn of North Adams has suee the Fitchburg R R. Go. for $lO,00O, for in juries sustained in a recent accident.
 Real estate in Pittsfeld is on the rise since the Journal located there, and Barnum's onli est and biggest show announced itself.
 A man named Burke. 80 years old, fell iron railroad embankment in Pittsield the othe night, and injured himself probably fatally The selectmen of Adams have decided t. grant only only one class oflicense and charg | n0c7 for;+ TTho r1no anllarQ ara mad ahOu it.
 George Garfield of Tyringham, while work ing on Stedman's rake factory at Lee las Thursday, fell from building and broke hi leg
 | There are 136 miles of road in the town 0 Pittsfeld. How many 'after dark" girls doe it..require to line" that distance, MT. Jou1 nal?
 WJ. W Hull and Edward Bothwood of Pitts field, sailed for Europe last Wednesday i the steamer ''Bothnia," for a two month stay.
 The Lee depot is to be extended 60 feet the north end, to accommodate the increasin freight business, and new side track is to b built.
 Several Lee veterans have recently receive back pensions, among whom are John Wo finger, who gets $l,70O and Jacob Perr! HOO.
 North Adams laborers struck last Thursda for an increase of wages from $l.25 to $l.5 per day. but they "struck over," and didn succeed.
 The furniture of a delinquent tenant in C. Harrington, was placed out of doors the otf CT day. where it had more room, by an incl orable landlord.
 There are 400 members who take books, the Lee literary association, and others wi would if they could get chance when n
 body was looking. Pittsfeld beat Lenox, shooting rifles, la t Saturday, by l3 points but Lenox had bs r cold, otherwise she would have shot u shirt right of of Pittsfield.
 Coal is S6.. ton in Pittsfeld. and tho . who are laying in big supply will swe t awfully if next winter happens to be mil y and coal doesn't Ego up" to $lO. y A bet on the result of last falls eectic l between H. w Wright and L. Ramsey of Il Harrington. was decided in the district COL last Saturday in favor of Wright.
 The Journal says that c. B. Bisse formerly of Reads meat market in Gt.' B. y rington, is now pastor of the Method
 
 s Extenslve repairs are being made on Miller House in Sheffield by landlord Jo s M. Benjamin. who anticipates an unusual good season for summer boarders
 Another Journalistic consolidation is d tow. The engagement of editor N. c. Fowl d Jr.. of the Pittsfeld Journal to Miss Fam E. A. Foote. is announced. They all do it. u The Pittsfeld jail has had such an exte u sive patronage during the past year, that ;; l can afford to make many repairs and impro1 o ments, and re-furnish the'jatlerls residence
 They graduate young up in Pittsfeld; ;; !. number nt pupils from Il te IA years o 8 are leaving school to engage in business, d tool carriers or "; ter boys on gravel tra North Adams cows have decided that tn l. can't afford to give milk in the summer al
 cheaper than 5 cents a quart, the wint price. Vennor's prediction of dry summ did it.
 , The doctors of Berkshire County had } annual meeting at Pittstield last Wednesda and congratulated each other on the near a proach of the green apple and melon col
 season.
 ,, Beckett has no doctor now, and the autho , ities think that before the wheels of u hearse dry up and fall to pieces, they h:
 better paint it up, ard sell it to a Danbu
 hat peddler. The burning out of chimney on D Knickerbocker's house at Stockbridge la Thursday nearly set the house on fire, b, the prompt application of water prevente any serious damage. An Adams paper company is making ledge paper like that made in ye olden time befol the day of paper making machines, and It having big run, they being the only con pany in the country making it.
 Lee wants a creamery established there with capital of $2.0OO. 1t is thought ths 400 cows can easily be secured, which wit the new water works about to be constructe there, ought to furnish milk enough for large creamery business.