Connecticut western news., 1882-09-27
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Mrs. O. Hunt, of Winsted, has been visiting relatives here.
 Miss Emma, daughter of Robert Hunt, is visiting friends in this place.
 Mr. and Mrs. Lucius Landon and son, of Milton, Vermont, have been visiting l friends in Amesville, for two weeks.
 MT. Lyman Page, who has reached the age of " years, cradled 1 IA acres of buckwheat in one day, recently.
 Miss Phoebe Gardner, of Ligonier, Indiana, who has been spending the summer in Amesville, returns this week.
 Owing to the threatening aspect of the clouds, Thursday, only few from here attended the firemens' parade at Danbury.
 Mrs. Edward Thorpe of South Anne nia, will open 8 millinery emporium in U. H. Miners building, about the first of October.
 Deputy Sheriff H. Brinton is going into the poultry business extensively and is building twenty buildings which he proposes to stock with twenty fowls each
 N. Neisner has just received large assortment of patterns for fall and win
 ter suits, and of all grades and prices.
 His advertisement will appear next
 week.
 Wm. T. Ferguson has gone to New
 York for 8 new stock of dry goods,
 cloaks, &c., for G. W. Hall Mrs. Fer
 guson accompanied him. His adver-
 tisement will appear in the NEWS, on
 thelr arr1val. GI r Several typographical errors we're
 made in our communication last week,
 the most important being awarded ex-
 hibitory," for awarded exhibitors, and
 "Davis sewing machine" for Davis
 swing churn.
 David Holmes has rented the black smith shop near the Methodist church, North Canaan, and will commence work
 this week. MT. Sullivan, a former workman in the blacksmith shop here, takes the place he vacates.
 Not often is there such heavy rain fall continuing three successive days as we were visited with the past week; all the little brooklets were swollen to five 5 times their usual size, and Housatonic t had risen five or more feet Sunday, and ) the meadows in the central portion of } the town had the appearance of vast
 1o1r FTbo 11AA1o ho D <, shops where the rocks are usually bare, l the water was three feet or more@ over , the top of the highest ones; from here - it passes on forming 8 mighty torrent : and madly plunging over the cataract g y distance of sixty feet. From the Ames - vile road it is g grand sight, which a hundreds availed themselves of seeing D The bridge had just had new sills put in 7 one span but had not been finished and : was propped up to make it more safe 7 for the locomotives to pass over, and l fearful that these supports might be e washed out as the river rose, three o1
 four locomotives were taken across Sun
 day morning, and seveval props were h carried over the falls but the spars yet
 stand. A train started the same morn ing to repair the track on the Danbury
 branch, which had been washed out, anc
 returned in the afternoon. o Through the courtesy of MT. H. c I Gaylord, Secretary of the Union Parl
 Horse Association, we are enabled this :, week to send for publication, list O.
 the running horses at the races, Sept
 13 and IA. In the three minute class , the b. g. "Onward," owned by I. B :, Gurney of Poughkeepsie, won the frs . money, time 2.38, 2.39, 2.43; b. g. ''Hi a Sutherland,' entered by Frank Howell
 came in second, and b. m. ''Pearl'' en s tered by Wm. Sargent, all from Pough ,f keepsie, won third money. In the 2.3' class b. m. Breeze Medium" entered b. I. B. Gurney ofPoughkeepsie, took thu d first money, time, 2.38, 2.36, 236, b. g
 Hocuspocus entered by Edwi1 ,s Thorne of Milbrook, N. Y., won tn l. second money, and b. m. Spice" en IS tered by c. H. Burch, of Copake, N :, Y., third money.
 ,- Sept. 14.-Pacing horses, one mil ,+ heats, best three in five. Black q 70 'Elmwood,' entered by I. B. Gurne.
 won first money. Time-2.51 1-2, 300 # 242 1-2, and b. m ''Maida'' second ,s prize, entered by C. s. Hoag of Pin Plains.
 m Two forty-fve class, mile heats bes ,s in 5.-L B. Gurney entered "On ,1 ward" which took first money; time ,+ 2.42 IA, 237 1-2, 241. Dr. Kugler O Scotch Plains, entered black g. "Jerse, v. Boy," which won second money; ant
 Frank Howell b. g. "Wait-a- While, f third prize.
 h In the two thirty-four class l mil h heats best in 5, for purse of $2OO, Geo +o W. Cook of Poughkeepsie, entered b. g = Manhattan, which was the winner o =. first prize; time -2.35 IA, 2.37 3-4 70 2.33 1-2., c. H. Burch of Copake, enter r ed oh. m. ''Lady Garfield" which too r second money. There were four band present, viz: H. M. Co.,, of Lakeville o Cornwall Cornet Band and the H. R. R 10 Cornet band of Falls Village. The thre f. former competed for prizes, and tn 10 first band won the first prize, costl
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