Connecticut western news., 1884-02-06
WEST CORNWALL.

 cold.
 James H. Cochrane is home from Bridgeport for short vacation, during the dull season.
 Mrs M. $. Nickerson is in Torrington visiting her aunt, who is quite unwel with eyresipelas.
 Messrs OIdfield and Stevens are bow ed down with meek comforter" after the style once worn by the patient Job.
 J. NJ. Kellogg, Esq, is the looser of quite valuable horse, recently used by Mir T. J. Bosworth, in the organ and piano service.
 The dime sociable is held this Wed nesday) evening at Mrs G.. H. Crandall's. Simply the announcement insures crowded house.
 c. M. Hall is wholesale and retail agent for the Polk diphtheria cure, con- ceded by the medical world to be the most wonderful discovery yet known for the certain and speedy cure, when timely applied, of this terrible scourge.
 MT Irving Scoville, who has been To- cated in Plainview, Nebraska, the past two years returned home last Saturday, we'll pleased with his western trip and its adventures, yet finds no place after all like the charming old hills of Cornwall.
 The auction on Cherry hill came off
 last Thursday as advertised, under the
 supervision of MT Gould W. Hart, exec
 tor on his fathers estate, who has man.
 aged very successfully for the best in
 terests of the same. The auction sales
 amounted to nearly thousand dollars,
 and with MT c. B. Baldwin behind the
 block, the goods were knocked off at
 satisfactory figures.
 On Wednesday evening last, MT and
 Mrs Henry Wheeler celebrated the
 twenty-ffth anniversary of their mar
 riage at their residence on Cream Hill.
 In spite of the inclemency of
 the weather, over fifty guests
 assembled to congratulate the bride
 and groom of a quarter of century
 leaving many substantial tokens of their
 regard and esteem. The entertainment
 was an abundant and delicious one, to which all did ample justice. The walls ) of the old mansion, an ancient landmark, re-echoed with stirring strains of music, furnished by the Salisbury band of three,
 to which the younger portion of the crowd kept time until on early hour-tht following day.
 , FALLS VILLAGE. r Ned Wetherell made visit home
 over Sunday.
 r Miss Nellie Hall was home from schoo : over Sunday. l Ask Stephen Brigner about that GOV t he butchered the other day. D. K. Colepaugh and Curtiss Cole paugh madea visit to Ancram last week
 Mir Chester Ford, who has been spend l ing the winter with his son James il l Canton, N. Y, is at home again. ' John Kilmer, who has been on tn Q sick list for week or so, is able t, attend to his duties again. d Costing through the railroad arcl U has been prohibited by the selectmen v a timely warning, as it is dangerous t' B both teams and coasters.
 The ladies aid society of the Congre l. gational church was entertained by G . W. Ford at his residence last Thursday # A very enjoyable occasion. }, Rufus Whitford Otherwise known a e Solomon Isaacs) is doing tremendou J business in the peddling line. Repor if says that his best field is White V hollow.
 William Rectal passed away on Janu 2 ary 29 of consumption, aged 45 years i. His funeral was largely attended at tn d M. B. church on Thursday last, ,intermen ,r at Philmont, N. Y.
 T. The young ladies of the chapel antic = , pate giving Q sleigh ride on Saturda .e of this week if the weather permits. A W it is leap year they propose availin
 themselves of it's privileges. The boy 'a n are awfully "broke up." T aT,. MT Henry Belden, with his customar es largeness of heart, took load of friend J. to Harrington one night last week. I'll T. objective point was Mrs Charles Lane' 'o who welcomed and entertained them to her usual pleasant way. is Two large sleigh loads went from he, he to Ebert Eggleston's on Town hi 1 Monday evening, where they passed u of hours in dancing and music, returnir ut home about 8 o'clock Tuesday mornin or MT Lyman Wickham died on Sundt he morning after an illness of only wet CT of pneumonia. MT Wickhams deat by removes another of the old residen ne who have been identified with the inte w ests of the town for many years. Alwa ITS of a qu1et and retiring disposition, CT was universally respected and believe he Had he lived until February he wou bbo bbo have reached the age of 85 years. A SHEFFIELD. UT The ladies missionary society mee ne this afternoon at Dr Smiths. m ,m Charles Harris and Charles B. Go of are expected in town this week. to The $. F. U. expects music from ( Ter Harrington, next Friday evening. ,n Mrs Hart is visiting her daughter rs, the home of Mir Birdsley Burtch. Ter The ladies' aid society of the M. Ill church will meet this afternoon a '1t evening at the home of Mrs Cyr nr French.
 ok Rev Fields Hermance is preaching as series of sermons on the humanity oo Christ, to be followed by one on od divinity.