Connecticut western news., 1881-01-19
E&llD Village

Mr. B. J.. Bradley returned Saturday from New York, with more goods for his store.
 Hattie Street Of Amesville, who has been i'll with measles, is slowly recovering. IS Wm. Colepaugh is engaged in the tonsorial business in Ct. Harrington.
 All are invited to attend the meeting of the Cong. ladies' aid society, which meets with Mrs: Lyman Page Thursday.
 Nicholas Parent of West Cornwall is now employed ip the railroad Co.'S. machine shop.
 John Welch, Jr., has recovered from se- were attack ofpneumonia.
 MT. and Mrs. Wm. Ingerson are boarding at the H. R. R. House. MT. I. has taken the place of George Russell, engineer. James Brown of Hartford IS the latest ad
 dition to the working force in the railroad lsCo'a. blacksmith shop.
 | . At an election for officers of the Congrega.
 tional School for the present year, the follow
 ing choice was made: Superintendent, P.B
 Burnett, assistant superintendent, Myroni a Dean, secretary and treasurer, Lee P. Dean,
 librarian, Charles E. Ford.
 J. F. Robertson of Bloomville. N Y nssa.
 ed through this place last week with a drove of cattle, mostly cows, going east. He stop ped over Sunday at the Crandall House. Mrs. H. M. Parmelee yields the ferule at the Beebe Hill school this term,
 George N. Hanchett and Miss Mary Weth. eren of Huntsville launched out into the high seas of matrimonial bliss at Hartford the 18th ult., with not ripple over the broad expanse to mar their pleasure on SO joyous an occasion George and his bride will soon locate in Bridgeport we are informed.
 Marshall c Dean has purchased the "Ches- ter Holcomb farm" now occupied by Her man Smith, where he intends to.make his fu- ture home after April lst.
 Twenty members from Northwestern lodge of Lakeville visited Cascade Lodge last week Monday night, and there was plenty of music, both vocal and instrumental, readings, etc. :, for the good of the order, with which all seemed well pleased. Hope our Lakeville friends will favor us with call again.
 The many friends of Rev. Frank J. Belcher gave him donation party at the parsonage Friday evening, and left him better of by the handsome sum of $ls6.75, and as the evening was very cold, many were deterred from con- ing, but when their offerings are all in the amount will be considerably increased. All who wished to partake of his generous hospi- talitles were invited to take supper, after which the company indulged in innocent and amusing pastime for awhile, when they ad. journed to their respective homes with pleas ant recollections of the happy hours enjoyed with their beloved pastor and his estlmab!e wife.
 <. MT. G. W. Hall has had a section of the counter in his store moved further toward the Rso:, making the passage way several feet below where it was before. Those who have been in the habit of strolling around behind the counter, with both hands in the confec tionery case and in everybodys mail, if they do not take the hint now, their acumen can not be of the brightest; they will also prove that they cannot "take hint without kick" so beware of the No. boot. Hall keeps 'em, and the clerks don't deny it. | Quite sensation was produced by one of the employees at the Railroad Cos. shops. whose duties it is to keep the locomotives clean-hence called wipers- that one night last week midnight spectre put in an appearance near by him. His unwel- come visitor was ''she ghost" attired in the garb ofa woman, with 8 shawl thrown care lessly over her head. He called to another workman, who was not aware of the danger to which he was exposed, but in the mean. time the apparition had vanished. As the gentleman is slightly built, and of delicate or (bringing the scales down to about 3l5 avoirdupois) wouldn't it be be we'll for | lim to be prepared for the emergency, should | ! 'hob goblin" put in an appearance again, Or if true that it would "make ones blood l un cold" at the recital of his adventure, then l t should keep him on the Qus Usoe. Let him ,arricade the doors, arm himself with hel- net, provide himself with bottle of sHoofail | iniment" for quieting the nerves, and an mpty jamaica ginger bottle, and face the hangers and the midnight incussions of the A