Connecticut western news., 1884-01-02
LOCAL NEW 5.

LOCAL NEWS.
 Leap year.
 Bachelors are quaking.
 Town clerks and ministers rejoic ing.
 Ladies choosing their life partners
 Houses in demand, real estate booming.
 Pig, that leap year does not occur more often.
 Extra calves brought 10c per pound, live weight, yesterday.
 Christmas what present Peter Nihil received. See birth column.
 MT Abel G. Stevens sold $S1.3G worth of calves yesterday, to MT Henry Bunnel.
 The total weight of the six men on the Connecticut Western railroad milk train is 123S pounds.
 Mir B. J. Bradley, formerly of Ca naan but recently of Cornwall Bridge, is living at Fort Edward, N. Y.
 MT l.. $. Parsons takes @ vacati on from G. l.. Parsons store from January 1, until the spring trade opens.
 The interesting sketch of the farm CTS convention at Waterbury is iron: the pen of one who "was thar" read 1t.
 Misses Minnie and Alice Peirce each received handsome gold watch and chain as Christmas present from their father.
 -Messers Henry c. Barnes, Horatio N. Adams, Nat c. Stevens and Samuel A. Eddy attended the farmers convention at Waterbury.
 We had one old fashioned January thaw even if it did come in December. Perhaps the cold weather only let go to get better hold.
 Rev D. Phillips illness prevented his preaching last Sabbath, therefore the only service at the Methodist church was praise service.
 We arc daily indebted to Hon E. w. Seymour, M. C., for copy of the Con- gressional Record of the forty-eighth congress, first session.
 The annual meeting of the womens' missionary society of the Methodist church will be held Thursday afternoon n ~
 The c. l.. S. c. will meet at G. w. Cowdrey's this week Friday night. Pro gram, Vegetable Biology, Readings in Art, Oliver Wendell Holmes.
 MT R. L. Taft's sheep fold at Clay ton, Mass, is about 100 feet from his house, yet one night last week dogs killed 15 of his choicest sheep.
 MT George N. Gibbs has closed his barber shop and returned to Riverton. This again leaves Scidmore monarch of all he surveys" in the tonsorial line.
 Edward McNeil and family returned December 21 from Amenia, Dakota. They will spend the winter at Chapin- vile, Conn, and return to Dakota next spring
 The annual meeting of the Congre- gational church will be held in the con ference room, Friday at 2 P. M. A clerk, treasurer, committee, and deacon are to be elected.
 R. P. Rogers, late clerk at the War ner house, left town about three weeks ago and the vacancy is filled by N. P. Loomis, lately with Dwight Brinton at Falls Village.
 The ladies of Christ church have ar ranged for a sociable at the house of Mrs N. c. Ward on Thursday evening, Jan nary 10. A general invitation is extend ed to all. Each one is expected to bring a dime or more for the box which the ladies are making up for one of our western missionaries.
 Notwithstanding a heavy snow storm was raging on Christmas night q large audience witnessed the tableaux given by the young ladies mission cir cle at Town hall. After paying all ex penses, $25 remained on hand. This is encouraging considering the admission was only 15 and 25 cents.
 -Etlitoy. Neus:-Inclosed please find S1 for your paper. Mir Bates says he shall send for your paper as long as he has any sight to see to read, for have lost all interest in other papers. Sincerely yours, JONATHAN BATES.
 Mr Bates was born February IT, 179l, and is almost 93 years old. We hope he may yet live many years and if his eyesieht fails, that some kind friend will read the NEWS to him.
 When gold dollars are offered at 70 cents why don't you secHre the bargain :? MT 2. T. Adams offers his place on Maln street for sale ut less than it's value and some one will be keen enough to pur- chase it. Alter the place is sold you will wish you had secured that bargain few dollars would convert the prop erty into desirable business stand and the location alone is worth almost what = -. R1. Ahx xvh0lo saP0DAPkw