Connecticut western news., 1881-04-06
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0~NNN-AN- There was DO prea hing in tue Cong church last Sunday.
 Druggist Camp Is to put in sods foun. tain the coming summer
 -Dr F. P. Wlttlesey of Ct. Burlington. wash town last Monday.
 Summer boarders haven't begun to arriv, yet, in overwhelming numbers.
 Another domestic jangle at the Sandbank north of thls village last week.
 A fire hydrsnt bulsted near the M E church last Wednesday morning.
 Miss Emma Stiner of this place. is visit ing relatives in Wallingford, Conn., It isn't too late yet to April tool the prin- | ter by paying up your subscription. The famous "dog raae" of Ills Village, | has been "put over" another month, Mir Brooks of Norfo has moved int" l. Foote's tenement on Church street. -Lorrain's carpenters are building ca pacious refrigerator room ill Ives meat mar ket. The tenements in this place are all oc- cupied, and there is an evident need of more houses.
 -The band is to give m open air concert at East Canaan as soon as the weather will permit.
 -Myrop Decker of Ashley Falls is slck with chills and fever, and George Abbott with pneumonia.
 Rev 8 R Free and wife, of Stafford Springs, spent Tuesday night with D. L. Peirce iu this place.
 The schools commenced their spring term last Monday, with the old force oi teachers, and good attendance.
 Another interesting Texas letter from Mr. H. c. White, arrived too late for thls issue, but will appear next week.
 There will be no preaching in the Meth odist church next Sunday, on account of Rev. Mr Mackey's absence to Conference.
 The Falls Village special was delayed about two hours last Friday night by the breaking of an axle on the passenger car al Lenox.
 -Vennor hit the nail squarely or the head on the .'snow and sush" business for March's march out. And April came in according to contract.
 The service pipe in the cellar ot Chm mings' block, bursted last Sunday morning, and deluged Parsons cellar. but did no great damage.
 -Thsre are three Patrick Finnegan's T this place now, and the post office clerk i' afra of getting into hot water, in distribut ing their mail.
 The wind bloweth where it isteth, anc ye hear the sound thereof and It doesn' sound much like the balmy zephyrs of gentle spr,ng, neither.
 John T. Northrup has taken possession of the Dr. Smith farm, John Calkins. the for mer occupant being at work for butcher Burt Ives, in East Canaan
 Mir John Mccormick who died in Eas Canaan last week, at the age of 67 years, hte been in the employ of the Barnum Richard son Company at their East Canaan furnaces or 35 consecutive years.
 Miss Nettie May, the famous ''culluc Rar" who immortalized herself while hitch ca maid at the Warner House last fall, wa in town last week gazing on old acquaint ances, here and in Sandtown.
 The Honsatonic R. R. Co. now sell tick cts through and check baggage direct iron Canaan and other principal stations for Bran ford Guilford, Saybrook New London, Watch Hill, Newport, Providence and Narraganset Pier.
 Mir. J. A. Underwood was seen on tn streets yesterday, for the first time since hi recent severe illness, and his many friend congratulate him on his complete recovery which brings back his jolly good nature, a lively as ever.
 The electric lights and steam heating system to be introdu ed in Lime Rock. spok en of by our correspondent. will make perfect paradise of that beautiful little burg where nothing that refined taste desires, O wealth can procure, is lacking.
 -Rnraback blacksmith and wagon shop for some time unoccupred, has the appearance of business nowadays, Mir. Barrett late o Falls Village making music in the blacksmi,i shop, and Grove Knckerbocker banging away in the wagon shop up stairs.
 The Dr. Wright auction last Saturday d Humphreys store drew quite crowd. anf made no little sport. Dr. Cemans bought { l't of old forceps and turnkey just for cl rio1i,y. Saddle bags filled with medicine. anr other old fashioned trlnkets sold for 8 soI g -Dr Camp is having lots of vaecinating te do, as the recent cases of small pox in H"us atonic and other nelghboring towns hay. awakened our citzens to sense of danger Forty of the operatives at the Clayton clny works ar, to be vaccpated today. Tho>e who desire to be operated on, will do well to hs in time, before the enormous demand ex. s