Connecticut western news., 1884-04-09
LOCAL NEWS.

Next Friday IS '1aSC uay.
 A nice assortment of Easter cards at Camps drug store.
 The liquor cases against ). M. Shultz were adjourned last week to Saturday April 12.
 Mir Harry Sedgwick of Cornwall Hollow was in town last Friday calling on friends.
 -Peirce, Lawrence & Go. are now running their three lime kilns to their full capacity.
 MT W. H. Camp has composed a Te Deum for the Easter service at Christ church.
 Fifty four calves were shipped from this station yesterday. The average price was St cents per pound.
 70. L. S. c. will meet Friday night at D. L. Freeman's. Latin, French History, quotations from Tennyson.
 Read the article in the editorial col umn, stating the arrangements necessary to be made for observing Decoration day.
 MT D. l.. Peirce and daughters ar rived home last Thursday from their so- iourn at the south; quite change from orange groves to snow banks.
 MT E. w. Warner is happy again, and has commenced his semi-annual repairs on his hotel. He is also making Q walk from his hotel to the depot.
 -Ex-Editor Barnes of the Lime Kiln News, who has been working the past two months in wagon shop at Wash ington Depot, Conn.,, is home on short vacation.
 The annual parish meeting of Christ Church will be held at the church on Easter Monday, April 14 at 10 o'clock A. M. All voters of the parish are requested to be present.
 Mrs M. ". Ward has been quite sick with rheumatism, but has nearly recovered, and Eddie Ward has been very sick and narrowly escaped course of fever, but is improving slowly.
 Be sure to read the interesting arti- cle, GA War Reminiscence. It is of To- cal interest and tells how Dr W. W. Welch and associates of Norfolk, Conn.,, aided the government during the dark days of the rebellion.
 The barn on the Lee place, in Salis- bury, belonging to F. W. Homes was burned Monday night, together with about 20 tons of hay. The fire was doubtless the work of an incendiary. Loss about $500. There was small insurance.
 Mrs Chauncey Yorker attempt ed suicide last Saturday night during fit of tenn porary insanity by cutting her throat with pair of scissors. Fortunately the wound was not as severe as 1t at first ap- peared, and she will probably recover.
 The Easter services. next Sunday evening, at the NJ. E. church will be very interesting. The program consists of recitations and singing by the chil- dren and the Easter eggs will be broken and their contents, which are to pur- chase books for the Sunday school i- brsry, counted.
 The next regular meeting of David s. Cowles Post, No. 60, G. A. R., will be held Wednesday evening, April 16, at their new hall in E. W. Warmers building. Their new furniture will ar rive this week and MT Harmon Scham- erhorn is building the altar and desks. The Post numbers 46 members and sev- eral applications have not yet been act ed On.
 MT Willard Underwood has three snlendid violins and it is a question which is the best one. He has lately purchased genuine Cremona, over 100 wears old. Last Wednesday Mir T. Tucker presented him with an elegant violin of his own make. Willard would be perfectly happy were he possessed of six arms instead of two, then he could play all three violins at once.
 Editor Rodemeyer of the Yellow Spa m was in town over Sunday. He says he is subject to spasms and the next Yellow Spasm will be terror The only Bethel woman who was mad at him was one whom he forgot to mention in his list of marriagable persons. Bethel ladies you observe are not like Canaan ladies; it's not safe to enquire of Canaan ladies if they ever visit Millerton.
 Last fall Mir H. B. Stevens com menced shipping car loads of potatoes to market. but the farmers were not willing to take the market price, and he ceased buying potatoes. After winter ing their potatoes and loosing the shrink age, and loss by decay, the farmers are now importuning him to purchase. He has corresponded with the dealers at different cities, but everywhere potatoes are drug on the market. He cannot pay over 20 cents bushel for potatoes, delivered on the cars at Canaan. Farm CTS at Sheffield are delivering potatoes to whoever will purchase one, five or ten bushels at 25 cents bushel, and those who have stock to feed them to -. a;.x,nasxac of them in that way,