Connecticut western news., 1881-08-10


 Miss Jennie Bierce and Miss Grace Robin son are at home from school during vacation.
 WHIPS. Clayton.
 Thermometer stood eI here in the shade last week.
 R. L. Taft has put in over thousand shock of rye.
 Last Thursday Mrs. Webb sent the little boy, six years old, to drive their horse from neighbours gate. The little fellow went up to the horse and made an attempt to take him by the head, when he took the child with his teeth, lifted him from the ground. and threw him down again, then reared, and would have come down upon him but for the presence of mind of the child, who, seeing the horse was gong to strike him, rolled over, and succeed ed ill getting far enough away, and the horses foot only hit his head without serious injury.
 MT. E. M. Rood's barn was struck by light ming Saturday night. It went in through the roof, and seemed to run all through the barn, tearing five or six rafters into pieces, and splitting three posts There was consider. able bay and grain, and horse and calf in the barn. and four cows in the yard, but it set nothing on fire, and with the exception of the barn nothing was hurt. AsTERIsK. souehfield.
 Arthur Cook is expected home this week Saturday.
 Mrs. Little returned to Westfsld Wednes- day, called home by the severe illness of her youngest son.
 Mrs. Ella Smith, mee Benedict. Miss Daisy Benedict, and a gentleman friend arrived at Rev. A. N. Benediot's Wednesday last.
 The social event of the week was the mar riags of MT. Bsnnie Price of Grant station, to pah ofk vii N. Benedict officiating. The happy pair drove home the same evening.
 It should have read Rev. MT. HAnnon, not Harmon, in the North Norfolk item of last week. We know great many Harmons, but not one of them is Rev.
 MT. Geo. W. Harmon, a retired lawyer of Bennington, Vt, was here last week looking up the genealogy of that family. He found much valuable material in the cemetery at the North Parish. Wednesday evening E. D. Harmon took tea with him at the Mill River hotel, and aided him in his work. He has four generations, nearly or quite perfect, and is now working on the 9th and 9th. He traces his descent from Joseph and Nathaniel Harmon, while his compilations show the Harmons hereabout to have been descendants of Nathaniel. All these go back to John. the prime meridian of all this tribe, Mr. H. hav-
 
 ished early in the 17th century. MT. Fl. is doing this for amusement has been working on it for two years, and hopes to complete it i1 two more. He will prepare a small manu- al, which he will mall grdtSs to all the liar. mon family.
 MT. H. L Barber is home recruiting. His team is better, but not yet fully recovered. His new canopy topped pleasure wagon is now in running order.
 The huckleberry crop is growing beautiful ly less.
 Mrs. R. Warrington returned Tuesday evening from two weeks visit among friends in Princeton, Brookfeld, Salem, etc. She's as gay as lark nowadays.
 Mrs. Ben. Wade is visiting friends in Nor. folk.
 Rev. Mir. Render of Montville preached here in exchange with Rev. A. N. Benedict Sunday. There was but small congregation on account of the weather.
 No one doubts the honesty of certain in habitant out of this village, but many grave doubts have been felt by people not given tx doubting, whether Hen. Kelsey's pail was full of berries, or whether there was .'nothing bu leaves' under them.
 l Say, brother John, did you catch biz string of thorn heads up in Lake Garfield We fear the Hawkeye of Ltchfeld count, will be dimmed for season if you didn't. TArTLE TALE. Monterey.
 LAKE EGARFIRLD-Those who are in searcl of 8 place to rusticate and spend pleasan week, might go much farther and fare wors than at Lake Garfield, which name was givel Monterey's lake last 4th of July. Our Con necticut friends who have never visited thi feature of 'beautlful Berkshire" are hereb advised to rig up their fishing tackle, learn t row. swim and tell the truth about the size o the fish they catch,-the latter qualification is not an imperative necessity, especially ii Berkshire county, built is simply suggeste' as a source of amusement and surprise for tn native Instrumentation make Canaan tn starting point Get Frank Hitchcock for travelling companion if you can, and star about nine o'clock some morning when tn mercury is pumping its little head against tn top of the therhometer in it's sndeavors t hotten things up to 8 swearing point Blu first lay in a stock of cigars, as they are wonderful help towards keeping perfectl cool, and besides they make good fish bait Your best route lays through Clayton an' New Marlboro, which will give you goo roads after you get out of Canaan's san' bed-varied scenery, some shade, and plent., of sunshine, which is the genuine article, too when you get up op the hills. You pas Mill River shert distance to the right, ant s,s.,s . - "uaFtef of a mle to thu left. When you get to New Marlboro, slow-that is, if it's pleasant day and tho city boarders are all out getting their money worth of Berkshire air. The village is thronged with them. As the fellow said "the woods is full of 'sm," and some of then are good looking, too, judging from appear ances, but it wouldn't be news to them if yor should tell them so. The South Berkshir. l Institute accommodates large numbers, ant landlord Futile knows how to entertain them too. New Marlboro is staid old town, ia nous for the city boarders which it produces it's paper mills, and kitchen dances StoE here long enough to drink your horse, etc. and set sail again. Monterey is not mucf over half an hour from New Marlboro by | New York time and good horse, but yo, mustn't stop right in the village-if you dc you'll get homesick. Go about a quarter of [ mile to the east, to Fargo's where Henry vii show you the elephant. Mr. R. c. Fargo | the proprietor of the grove and "Pine Grove Hall, leaves the management of the place tt | Henry, his son, and what Hen. don't know about fishing and rowing-well, somebody else does. Get him to pilot you down to tht lake and first show you about the grove ant hall where there is ample room and all ths accommodations for house keeping. There is place to sleep, eat, cook, dance, swing play croquet and even get lost away of in tht woods if you choose, but don't you do it, be cause Otis is close by, and the ''Otis cannibar has been sharpening his teeth with a whet stone ever since he saw that party of news paper reporters over year ago. After Iva 1ooka6 tho oro11n6 0vnr and admired if sufficiently, get into boat and go out on the lake with Hen, who will do the rowing il you're too 'tired'-and you probably will be- Throw out screw propelled trolling hook with 100 feet ot line, and while Hen. is telling about the big fish that some fellow caught the other day-Jimmy Bryan of the Courier perhaps-Which weighed oyer three pounds,