Connecticut western news., 1882-08-02
Jog days have begun.

M o. s. Quito is making his annual visit in this vicinity.
 Charlie Hunt of New York has been stop ping in this village for few days.
 The Episcopal church is being re- shingled. <
 Judge Granger and family visited Twin Lakes yesterday
 -Calves brought eight cents per pound in the local market yesterday.
 -stock.breeders and bar-keepers agree that there is profit in short. horns.
 -Conductor Emmons' family are located in their cottage at Pine Grove.
 The week just passed is the one that Vennor predicted would be cold.
 w. T. Ferguson, formerly of this place has gone to Virginia for vacation.
 Our village was treated with with tune from Erin's Isle in the shape bagpipe.
 -Murry Hoag was prostrated with the heat last Thursday, but has recovered.
 -Mr. 0. Hitchcock and wife of Monterey are visiting their son Frank in this place.
 w. H. Camp has for sale large assort. ment of Reed and Bamboo poles for fisher men.
 Ten or twelve Yale students with ladies, are camping out in Gardner's Grove, at Twin } Lakes.
 -Myron Decker of Ashley Falls, has sold s~E d. a1i fr ,,,R port.
 About fifty excursion tickets wore sold at this station, to Barnum's show at Pitts- field, last Friday.
 Mss Lihie Wooster has returned home from Sherman, her school having closed for the summer vacation.
 Main stleet has been cleaned up and naked off This is the work of our public spirited citizen, Gardner.
 The Housatonic passenger trains North are daily crowded with people seeking the breeze of the Berkshire hills.
 The engine on Conductor Cummings train blew out cylinder head, between Canaan and Norfolk, last Friday morning. MT E. W. Ward lost valuable horse last Friday by running away while attached to a moving machine and falling on it's head and broke it's neck.
 -Mr. T. Taft, of Tarifville has been en- gagged for the coming session, as principal of the High School. He will remove his family from that place to this village.
 Capt. Isaac Thomas of New York, is visiting his brother, 0. M. Thomas, foreman of the NEWS Captain Thomas is job con tractor, and first class mechanic.
 IF. P. Briggs of New York, is a summer boarder at the Warner House. Several other boarders are expected to join MT. Briggs ir few days for their annual vacation.
 -Ed. B. Grant has sold the stage route and mail contract from Canaan to South6eld Mass, and the new proprietor, I. M. Bald win drove to Canaan, Monday, for the frs time.
 What bore slight resemblance to run away, enlivened our citizens for few min utes recently; but the apparent complacenc. of the fair driver quickly dispelled all sucl ideas.
 Now is the time to subscribe for th' Daily NEWS. 25 cents will pay for the entire edition, which will contain a full report o all that is of interest in connection with the Pine Grove camp meeting.
 Farmers say that this hot, dry weathe is playing the mischief with the crops, ant that if it continues unbroken week longe serious results may be expected. Corn ha already begun to curl up.
 -The Hartford & Connecticut Western R B. Co have purchased new engine for tn road 1t will be the most powerful one o the line. With the Rhinebeck engines tn road now owns fifteen.
 Various reports are adrift in regard t the new Fl. 6 c. W. time table but nothin definite is known. One thing is certain how ever that there will be considerable chang in running of nearly all the trains very soon
 Through drawing room cars will run on the Housatonic railroad betwee Pittsfeld and New York, on trains leavin New York at 3.45 P. M arriving in Pittsfel at s:s5 P. N and leaving Pittsfeld s:2o P. :, arriving at New York at 800 P. M
 Frank Hitchcock has rigged up patel head trimming for his horse which de6t description. It faiatly resembles an inverte peck basket trimuied with the national color fF or it might be taken for the latest style ladies' summer hats. "You pays your none and takes your choice"
 The track walker in making his daily tr from Falls Village to this place last Frida morning, found the dead body of Wells Ro of South Canaan, laying on the track. IT supposition is that he was killed by one the night trains, but nothing certain is know of his whereabouts that evening. An whether he was on the train and fell of, was struck by the engine is not known. An ice cream festival will be held in u conference room of the Congregational Chur at East Canaan, on Friday evening, Aug At The proceeds will go todefraying the expens of repairing the church. The usual attrt lions are offered The Canaan Cornet Ba will give an open air concert in connecti with the festival. A general invitation extended.
 J -It has been hot July after all. We nor's predictions of cool wet month vi occasional frosts went wide of the mark. temperature this month has been higher tn for the corresponding period in any year slu 1876. At 10 o'clock Wednesday the tn rnnmatar marked 86s, though the air V