Connecticut western news., 1884-07-23
ORE HILL.

Captain Lewis Smith of Winsted is stopping at Col Harris; also two Sweet young ladies from Housatonic, Mass.
 Farmers are nearly through having, and it would seem as though it was about time to go into winter quarters
 Robert Clark and S. G. Penney, grad uates of Williams college, class '84, are rusticating at the house of Cassius Cook on the Mt Riga road.
 Andy Rock, station agent at West Stockbridge, Mass, accompanied by his wife, is spending a few days with his father-in-law, Nelson McArthur.
 The ladies' aid society of the Lake vile M. E. church met with Mrs Geo. Cook, Wednesday, July 16. A large number were present from Lakeville, as we'll as from this neighborhood.
 The women and children are doing a thriving business picking berries and selling them in Lakeville and neighbor- ing villages. Twenty-Five packages went to Canaan by tram, Saturday.
 sOUTHFIELD.
 Mrs Wm Gibson was quite poorly again last Sabbath.
 Several are about their having and all agree there is not an average crop.
 Will Walter visited his father last week, returning again the next day.
 Cold days are very frequent this sea- son and we fear a cold season is upon us.
 Miss Flora Stevens, from Canaan, spent @ few days and the Sabbath at I. R. Baldwin's.
 Mrs R. Taft has been spending few days with her mother, Mrs l.. Barber, who fell and bruised her face and head quite badly.
 Boss Cook & Pettis are getting along finely with H. l.. Barber's barn, though so much is required weeks will be spent before 'tis finished.
 We have noticed when the crop of hay was scarce saving and economy was and will be used so the little goes much farther, so lookout all next win ter.
 Rev MT Humphrey from Stockbridge, preached in the Congregational church last Sabbath afternoon and Rev MT Ben | a11 o% o1N hio ab1 hou. ing gone to Hinsdale.
 CORNWALL.
 John E. Calhoun is making extensive repairs on the Corner house. When il is finished it will be one of the fnest places in the village.
 Nearly every seat in church was filled last Sunday and we were favored with { sermon by ex-Pres Woolsey, who spends his summer in Cornwall.
 Farmers are backward about having f waiting for the grass to grow. Corn ant oats are looking well; tobacco, owing t. f the cold weather, is rather small.
 The Cornwall cornet band favored u : with some very fine music last Saturda, : eve. They played on the Beers hous l grounds, which were lighted up witt 4 Chinese lanterns. A huge bonfire wa # kept burning, around which some of tn ,, older ones, who felt frisky, joined hand n and danced with vigor that would hay a done honor to lot of Sioux braves.
 The city boys who come out into tn
 country have great deal to learn. On 'r of them while looking around barn i
 this village the other day, found 8 ha ,e cutter. Evidently thinking it som
 sort of musical instrument, | :a set it going, but when he found that part of two of his fingers were minu Y the music came out of the boy.
 One of the heaviest showers evt ,e known in this part of the town passe h. over on Saturday of last week. IT G. lightning struck the church sheds le Cornwall Center, killing one horse ar ,e injuring another. They were the pro- bt erty of Almond L. Miner, who had dri o+ en them under the shed to escape u oa storm. Numerous trees were struC
 and in places the roads were bad , washed.
 io x.Y. z. ed sHEFFIELD. It, MT Ralph Ives came to Sheffield, la on Saturday.
 '1o % Mrs l.. D. Smith is visiting her P ~" rents in Westfeld.
 ;~ Miss Minnie Field sells ice crea od Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. cir Mrs Scott has resigned her positi es. in Bennington and is passing the SUI
 mer in Sheffield.
 Mir and Mrs Frederic B. Ester pa ,aa ed last Sabbath with the brides moth
 Mrs Lemist, in the Barnard cottage. ou, MT and Mrs Ester have had 8 deligl na full trip to Niagara Falls and down
 St Lawrence, with it's thousand isl a-o U They will reside in New York city.
 MT and Mrs Burt Roys and child rived in New York the 18th in 70 MT and Mrs Roys have had " pleasant year in England g i Scotland, the native home of the latt
 They also visited France and the Isle nee Wight, where their boy, Harold T was nyson, was born.
 -- Mrs Ella R. Gore has resigned position as matron in the Westf