Connecticut western news., 1881-03-16
BERKSHIRE C0UNTl.

Lenox will be crowded next summer.
 Ct Burlington is to have free lpaibHc tli- brary.s
 They have begun to put up .awnirgs in Pittsfield. ..,2a
 * A son of the late, high sheriff Root has just died III Mexico.
 F. s. Gross of Lee is to build this spring, a new barn 41x6O feet ,>, III~-.t
 The Lee grammar school had public ex. animation last Friday
 The next farmers institute..is to be held in Pittsield on the 22d'inst. -,. E
 St. Patrick's ball is to be held in Ct. Burlington to morrow night. ,a There have been over 8 hundred days of sleighing thus far, in the county. =:
 The $l5OoOO property belonging to David Leavitt is for sale at Ct. Burlington.
 A little son of S. Roberts of sandisaeld fell i'll barn and broke his arm, recently:
 There are now 65 prisoners in Pitts6eld jail; five were discharged last Saturday.
 For selling liquor to minors, Lee saloon keeper was heavily fined recently; appealed. Rev. E. W. Mallory of Housatopic had a dime sociable at his residence last Thursday evening
 A ''church wedding" was held by the North \ Egremopt Methodist society, and their $93O debt iquidated.
 :, Thirty; pairs of boots sand shoes were re, gently stolen from B. & A. R. R. freight car at Pittsfeld | Glendale. has cottage lectures every; Thurs day evening during Lent, and curtain lectures every club night:
 An old lady was found dead'iS her bed in
 Pittsfeld. last Esaturday morpingf cause. heart disease Five young men from Mill River are on tria
 in Ct. Harrington to day, for creating a. dis.
 turbance in Mill River.
 The Lee debating club held mock town meeting Monday night. This is something
 like burlesqiing farce. ',
 The Lee monthly club has passed resolu tons expressing regret at the death of it's lat' . brother, Alexander Hyde.
 The pupils of Gt., Barr;neton's sedgwicl institute had their annual prize gymnasti } contest last Friday evening. Mrs. Col. Geo Church and Mrs. John H
 Coffing and their families have gone to Hamp ! ton, Va. to spend few weeks. r$ f Mrs Col Clapp of Pittsfeld was severel. f injured by being thrown from a sleigh tn
 other day. She is s6 years oid. - r Frederick Laffargue who has been in Hi
 nois for some years, was in Ashley Falls wis l itlng old friends few days ago. fS H c. Joyner. Esq of Ct. Harrington ha , been appointed associate justice of the dis l trict court of Southern Berkshire. T Ienenents arc scarce in Housatonic, an
 many families who are obliged to move 8 'have not where to lay their heads. J: '' . Pittsfeld has more money than sue know what to do with, and new bank is to be es
 abolished, with a capital of $loo,ooo: : The Lee young men who started iout t , buy Omaha, got showed ip at Chicago o-an : Omaha still stands in the same old place.
 Ths mail route between SandisAeld an - Holland is to be discontinued, and $a ney route opened between. New Boston to- Mont vile.
 Mrs. Wm. Blake of Stockbridge, whe burie : her husband on the 9th inst and her brothe - on the Sd inst, was herself buried last Tues ' day. =.
 The Courier office is as mad>as March har because it isnt-represented in Garfeld's cab net and $'goes forS.> thaat ats b9dy like ] hous ! a-ffre. ''<''.> 't~' s--@'~'' $ >'*I V
 s W. F. Osborne, deputy postmaster of Pitts l. field, has been appointed postmaster pro tenn ; awaiting the appointment of NIT. Chickering successor. .~ Geo. Garfield has been inaugurated q
 Tyringham as the boss cider maker in tn e county He ss smashing apples yet and ha all he can do. S,
 R. Girlihg, the.Gt. Harrington clothier, c ''O P" renown ..has just returned from Nev
 York where he has purchased a big line C e spring goods. Pittstield people think $l, chargedby the doctors for vaccination is too high. It sholl n be reduced so that poor people could enjo
 the luxury as well as the rich. Stockbridgcs truant school boys anus D. themselves by pulling down barber poles F This is sure to razor row, and the litti : shavers generally get strapped
 An old man named George Baker of Leno1 was assaulted by Wm. Church, with clut r last Thursday evening. and received injurle 6 which, it is feared will terminate fatally. : The rooms of the Ct. Harrington shirt man
 ufacturing company are being fitted up wit 8 improved machinery, and 1t is expected tha y manufacturing will begin about April 1st.' g According to, Brother Rodemever of tn : Conn. Western News, tho "piary" interest !. of. Berkshire are well looked after Oourif,
 There, there, naiahbor,sgiYe the 'deyiip Iii .ss due. and charge the above typographical errc B sEtoshis Sairnpishn hiehness, with the same chal itsblesspirit in which we attribute to- soa II ssdaH,l.' 4ha Courier biunder of last week,