Connecticut western news., 1881-08-10
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Norfolk had three funerals Sunday.

ANSAASAA A child in Ken sington has the small pox. Sharon is well represented at Ocean Grove. Winsted has night patrol to keep order on the streets.
 Ruggles Case, Canton's blacksmith, died last Thursday at the age of 92. | There are now 325 boys in state reform school. Four more wanted immediately. l H. c. Rowley < Go. have sold the Amenia Times to it's former proprietor, Charles l Walsh.
 Rev. Dr. N. J. Burton and son, of Hart ford, are boarding at Col. H. B. Knapp's in Norfolk. nook was considerably damaged by hail last Friday morning.
 A Stilson Hill man killed an adder two feet and half long the other day as it was trying to get back into his boot.
 Wanted, editors who always tell the truth. -Rpt. Eagle. We are in our sanetum from ' 8. m. till 6 p. m. Call. Four girls employed in Warmers corset shop, Bridgeport, were prostrated by the heat last Friday, and had to be conveyed home. l One of the Woodbury Reporters cores | pondents signs bis communications "Avery Dricus," but the editor don't seem to take the hint
 The New Milford Gazette shook with the chills last week 50 violently that Erwin couldn't mark the credit on his borrowed l items.
 1 The Times says that band of gypsies are are headed toward Winsted, and warns its readers to ''keep an eye on the babies" Look to home.
 Gaston & Granger, silver platers, of Win sted, have been succeeded by joint stock company called The Winsted Silver Plate Company.
 A Hartford man shot himself out west re- gently because he ''loved Sten" Now if ''Stell" would only entangle the affections Of Guiteau-!
 | A Harwinton man is going to end the world in 1888. Subscribers of the NEWS are re quested not to pay their subscriptions over seven years ahead | Betheps new fountain, presented by P. T. Barnum, is to be dedicated on the 17th, which is to be grand affair, marking the cold | water era in Bethel.
 Thomaston is to have a Scotch picnic on the 10th, when the bonnie lads and lasses will "wanton thro' the oW'ring thorn" to their hearts content.
 The Sharon base ball club went over to Cornwall and defeated the local club by a score of 15 to IS. The game will be repeated in Sharon next Saturday. Minot s. Giddings of New Milford has ripe peaches, grown in his garden, and the Ray of last week retained much of the flavor of those left with the editor.
 A drummers' sconvention is to be held in Derby on the 18th, when it is expected that over thousand drum sticks will wake the echoes and the babies for miles around.
 Wait Garrett of New Hartford is the oldest Mason in the state, having belonged to the Masonic order for Ii years. Captain Ford of Westville has been Mason for 70 years.
 Waterbury has Hack of benevolent citi. zens' Well, they aint needed that's why. The newspapers there are all able to support themselves, and in good shape, too, thank ys.
 General ticket agent, w. Tomlin, of the Naugatuck kR. R., died in Bridgeport last Saturday, at the age of 5S, He was some years ago connected with the Bridgeport Farmer.
 Addis of the Windsor Locks Journal went down to New Milford again yesterday look | ing for another fit of sickness. He'd rather be sick than not, because then he can wear his store clothes.
 One of the New York "poor children" boarding in Woodbury, picked up an inhab- tied wasps' nest the other day, which he was going to take home. He didn't take it home. He left it right where it was. The Canaanites are mourning because the apple crop there will be light, and refuse to be comforted They can stand anything bet ter than to be deprived of their cider, their band, and their organizations for the improve ment of the world.-IRon,asto7a Egpress,