Litchfield enquirer., 1881-05-12
New Preston


 New Preston.
 Summer approaches apace.
 We've been bitten by Norwalk mos- quito These musical little ''skeeters' are like migratory birds and city folks, as soon as try.
 -J. B. Wilson has the masons at his house. When their work is done the finishing touches will be applied to the structure lively. The bathing season has not yet arrived, but Tom Wooster and Fred Hurlbert took bath against their wills in tue lake one day last week. They were out in boat which in some manner capsized with them. Tom being good swimmer struck for shore while Fred who couldn't swim clung to the over- turned boat. Tom secured another boat on his arrival at the shore, and helped his friend to land SO, what might have been serious affair, proved luckily to be only cold duck ing.
 At the meeting of the temperance society, 
 were adopted and Dea s. J. Averill was chosen president.
 Last week Wednesday, Mrs. Betsey Averill and her numerous friends celebrated her 93d birthday. At her advanced age. Mrs. Averill is still in possession of all her mental faculties, and is delighted to receive friends aud talk with them. Her memory is something remarkable for one of her age A couple from Watertown were in the village, Sunday, and met with quite serious runaway. The horse ran on Christian street and flung the gentleman out, when the lady caught the reins and endeavored to obtain control of him, but he ran through the village and upset the buggy near the church flinging her out violently, but luckily she was not hurt though considerably frightened. The buggy was as badly used up as the "Deacon's one hoss shay" though it was not ground to powder quite. The horse was captured, and one of our young men said he'd see whether any body could drive that horse or not, so he hitched him into his blackboard, jumped in
  interested group of bystanders watching. The ''start" was superb but the ending was a total wreck of the blackboard, for the horse seemed to think himself circus per- former with large audience, and hadn't gone but few rods before the driver was seen to take double sommersault, and with back action handspring shoot to the mother earth like meteor of the twenty seventh velocity, while the horse plunged up Main street, cut ting such adelicate curve around the cofher at B. Griswold & Sons ss to knock only the corner picket off the fence. The young man was not hurt, only shook" The blackboard was ''strung" and is now laid aside for re- pairs. The horse was once more captured, put in the stable and given peck of oats. He seemed perfectly satisfied with his achieve ments.
 Rev. N. B. Remick, wife and family, of Troy, N. Y., are spending couple of weeks at w. D. Sperrys. Mir. Remick has come to our village to recuperate and rest from his labors as pastor of the Ninth Presbyterian Church, of Troy, N Y. He spoke with fer vor at the temperance meeting, Sunday even- ing The president, S. j. Averill; Rev. H. l Lancashire, and Rev. H. Upson, also made short speeches. One temperance mau was present who has not put in au appearance at meeting since he made great speech some- thing over year ago, but he said nothing.
 Last week, Abel Tyrrell, of Merryall, brought over to O. E. Beeman's cider mill nearly eighty bushels of winter apples and had them made into cider. We do not know which is worth the most, apples or the ci- der they make, but we know that the cider l has by far the most "foolish madness" and 'quintessence of the devil" in it. l There was bad case here yesterday. A boy had the headache so excruciatingly that he e uld hardly breathe, about g o'clock. Under the circumstances it would have been very cruel and iuhuman to have sent him off to school. At just fifteen minutes after nine, he had made willow whistle; pain in the head had subsded; pulse, natural; and the great god Pan never blew such music as was heard from then till now. PD. It is said that it is an i'll wind that blows nobody good. The late season having caused a little stagnation m the Dry Goods market, Messrs. w. B. Hall & Co.,, of the Bridgeport Dry Goods House have purchased about ten thousand dollars in ready made suits Silks, Dress Novelties and Linen Goods. We copy from the New Milford Gazette regarding this firm:
 Facts are indisputable, and low prices, good merchandise, polite treatment and vast assortment of reasonable novelties, coupled with truthful advertising and honest represen- tations, have made an enviable reputation for the house of Messrs. W. B. Hall & Go.
 Also from Bridgeport Sun:
 If you want to be instructed, entertained, pleased and pro6ted, go to w. B. Hall & Co.'s at once and look at their beautiful Suits, Saques. Dolmans and Skirts. Every day the fact becomes plainer that there is no place like the wond@ful bargain house of W. B. Hall & Go. ,-. E. ,.- s-s,.-. .--..- -
 THEY ARE LIABLE The doctors are all liable to be mistaken, they were in my case. Ii cost me $200O0, because they said had Heart disease, and then told me must die Grandmother said it was Liver complaint and $2:O0 worth of Sulphur Bitters cured me- JeRase P---, ROckpOrt
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