Connecticut western news., 1884-04-02
LOCAL NEWS.

.%t Important propaIo hoAooo UuAs week. Read them.
 Gov Waller has appointed Good Friday, April II, as 'fast day"
 Read Articles of Association of the Salisbury Cutlery Handle Company ,..s The Ladies' Missionary society will meet tomorrow afternoon, at Mrs G. F. Strong's,
 Please read Prof LouisW. Harvey s business card. He will be in this village everyMonday.
 Rev David Phillips will be away next Sunday as he went yesterday to at- tend Conference.
 MT H. H. Coggswell went to Sher- man, Coan, to-day, to commence two weeks job of painting.
 The father of Conductor F. B. Hook of the H. & c. W. railroad, died in Maine last Thursday, March 27.
 No preaching at the M. E. church u01b OADDALLl, Dub bAO 0Aho"J o~AON4 will be held at the regular hour.
 There is quite Q change in the resi- dents of our town, as loaded teams of household goods passing in all directions testify.
 HI. D. Reed has secured the services of l.. A. Caldwell to erect poultry house for him. Poultry business is all the rage now.
 George Bullard went to Winsted yesterday, where he has accepted position as clerk in the hardware store of G. H. Alvord.
 Mrs Weston NJ. Barnes of Green vile, N. J., has been visiting for few weeks at Calvin E. Barnes. She expects to return to her home sometime this week.
 Rev W. P. Strickland of the M. E. church, Lambertvine, N. J., has moved to Trenton, N. J. Rev Strickland and wife, nee Miss Julia P. Gillette, visited relatives and friends in this place last fall.
 The liquor cases against George Thompson have been settled but the cases of State cS. James Shultz are on trial before Justice Bennett as we go to press. Smith for state Hardenbergh and Clark for defendant.
 -"Come and see us" is Hart, Merri- am & Co.'S invitation this week to the readers of tho NEWS. If you will carefully read their new advertisement you will see what they believe, and they also state the grounds for their belief.
 Don't forget Floyd Hawley's auc- ton tomorrow (Thursday) at A. M., at the Parks home farm, so called, two miles west of Ashley Falls. Horses, shoats, wagons and farming implements will bs sold. No postponement on &C., count of weather.
 Prof Weaver has closed his day school, as so few of the class attend the High school this term. Some that re- mained of the class however have joined the evening school. Prof Weaver has great patience in conducting this school and it is progressing finely.
 e. H. Yutzher, merchant tailor, has moved from Norfolk to Kent, where he will continue the tailoring business. He carries splendid line of cassimeres, broadcloths, etc, and makes garments in the latest styles and at reasonable prices.
 So great was the demand for the NEWS of March 2G, containing the obit- uaries of the late Nathaniel c. Ward, Samuel L. Ferguson, Mrs Jane Law renee Franklin and Henry S. Norton, that we were compelled to leave the forms on the press until Friday noon. We published three editions and have ouly few copies left.
 MT G. L. Parsons store was bur glarized last Wednesday night, an en, trance being affected by breaking { window light and saving out portion of the blind. The cash drawers were pried open and a few pennies taken Nothing else was missed except wood en pipe. It will be dangerous under taking to burglarize the store again an6 will furnish business for the coroner
 To-day Wednesday, is the last day of the Art Loan exhibition at Hartford Excursion tickets including admission to the exhibition are sold to-day at al stations on the line at greatly reduced rates. Tickets from Canaan S175 Tickets are good on train No. 10 anC to return on trains No. 13 and 15 thi day only. Passengers west of Yves Winsted will return on train No. 13, a train No. 15 only runs to West Winsted
 MT W. F. Bishop the undertaken Bridgeport, Conn, and his assistant Her " s. Beers were the undertakers l charge at the funeral of N. c. Ward MT Bishop went to West Haven las Wednesday to take charge of the It mains of Mrs Sherwood Stratton, moth CT of the late CharlesS Straton, known 8 Gen Tom Thumb. Mrs Stratton died o Wednesday, and on Saturday her It mains were taken to Bridgeport for 1T torment in Mountain Grove cemetery.