Connecticut western news., 1884-03-26
WEST CORNWALL.


 Bridgeport, spent the Sabbath at home. Miss Bell Lane teaches the summer term in the Dean district, commencing on Monday next
 The maple sugar season is open and fine quality is being made at the River side farm of Smith Bros.
 Mir and Mrs D. s. Cartwright, accom- panied by their daughter, Mrs Frost, ar rived home on Monday.
 Mrs c. D. Blinn and family have re- turned to New Milford, where they are permanently to reside. .,><
 Mir M. s. Nickerson moves to his own premises the present week and Edward Amundson rents the Bradley house the coming year.
 Charles Hart has lost the valuable colt that has been ailing for several weeks from a wound accidentally receiv- ed in the stable.
 A basket party will be held on Friday evening at R. I. Scoville's on Cream Hill. The receipts to be appropriated to the organ fund.
 The new hall has been changed to a neat pretty dwelling with piazza front and will soon be occupied by our enter prising village blacksmith.
 Mir Roger White died last Monday evening at the residence of George 0. Harrison, at the advanced age of eighty five. The funeral took place on We'd nesday.
 Last Friday the housR of MT James Cochrane took fire from a defective chimney, causing considerable alarm for a short time. By the timely assistance of the crowd that gathered shortly after its discovery, the flames were soon sub- aued without doing serious damage.
 The fourishing Derby lodge has been in lively existence for nearly six months and embraces very profoundly within it's secret arms nearly half a score of the age, wealth, beauty, wit and wisdom of this earth environed hamlet. Access is found to the lower floor in close prox- imity to the oriental sash cuts in the shaving parlor of Fred the barber, right over the gurgling mountain stream that seems to echo as it strikes the grooming old mill wheel, "come up higher" through dark recesses, winding stair cases and bright alcoves until you reach the spacious reception room, where is displayed the essence of comfort and happiness. The richly draped windows in cretonne contrast finely with the arch ed tinted ceiling and checked mahogany strips of paper. The walls are decorat- ed with works of art from 10 cent crayon to the fac simile of Romeo and Juliet. "High upholstered" easy chairs built, it would seem, strong enough to enclose at least $50 pounds of jolly hu- manity lost in deep reyerie and the blue smoke circlets of the great "Capadura" relieve the edges of this elysium for the ''single blest members" Underneath the wide spreading arms of the big chandelier stands the heavy wrought ta- ble, stationary and extended, loaded with the latest and most popular litera- " products of the day, except on feast days and anniversaries of the wild goose chase, when the amicable clam and wa tery eyed oyster are spread thereon as 8 sacrifice for ''lodge" capacity. Warmth and right good humor with 8 heap of jollity and satisfaction prevail within it's precincts and its supporters may well rise and sing "long may the Derby banner wave" :" ANON.
 It is understood that certain party or parties were reported to be intoxi- cated last Saturday afternoon, the 22nd. If those persons that reported it can come forth and prove it, it is well enough, but if they can't the best thing for them IS to keep silent. -. OCCASIONALLY.
 ASHLEY FALLS.
 Kate Heaton is learning telegraphy of Jennie Moore.
 . Hail beautiful spring; when buck wheat cakes no more are seen.
 Miss Florence Bartlett of Falls Village visited friends in town last week.
 Master Charlie Ferris has gone to Litchfeld to visit his brother, Miles.
 Seven horses arrived here from New York last Friday morning for George Blodget, Jr.
 Mrs Gardner has returned home, hay ing passed most of the winter with her daughter in Adams.
 Frank Parmelee will leave, April l, for Ancram, N. Y., where he will work the coming year.
 We are very glad to know that MT and Mrs Myron Decker will occupy their old home this spring.
 Mr Harry Macrea will have an auction this week Saturday. The first of May he will leave us to live in Hudson, N. Y
 MT Bert Lee, who has been most ex- cellent clerk in MT Van Deusen's store the past winter, will not stay after April l.
 The lecture that Dr Eddy was to give us last Friday night was indefinitely postponed again on account of the weather.
 Mrs Stanton is seriously i'll. Her many friends are very anxious about her. Mrs Stanton is highly esteemed in the community, loved and honored in the church, of which she is faithful