Connecticut western news., 1884-08-06
FOCAL NEW 8.

Mrs M. K. Belden has been=very ill but is recovering. r,-. .e
 Prof s. A. Weaver and family are camping at Twin Lakes.
 Miss Lucia Meiggs of New York is visiting Miss Sarah Eddy.
 pr s. D. Merriam will remain at Ashley Falls until Friday evening.
 Master John Beckley is visiting Henry E. Lester, at New Hartford.
 pr ". H. Crocker of Ancram, NY. was in town Monday and Tuesday. Mrs H. H. Cogswell has fuschia that has 50 full blossoms and 64 buds Judge Hitchcock of Winsted visited at MT Frederick Watson's last Friday.
 Miss Emma Rodemeyer went to Bethel last Monday, for a few weeks visit.
 Mrs George l.. Parsons visited at Mr Hopkin Candee's, in Sheffield, last week.
 -Wm B. Gibson warns the public not to purchase certain notes. See his notice.
 Rev W. s. Winans, Jr, of Katonah, N. T., preached in the M. E. church, last Sunday.
 About A. calves were sold here yes terday, at prices ranging from to n cents per pound.
 -Messrs F. B. Young, W. l.. Brown, G. B. Gardner and E. D Benedict are camping at Twin Lakes.
 -C. B. Johnson and brothers, also two friends, all of Newtown, will camp at Twin Lakes, next week.
 Rev Thomas Bonsall of Cold Springs, Long Island, preached in Christ church, last Sabbath.
 In the last issue of theYellow Spasm, Rodemeyer has given comical account of an imaginary celebration of the 4th of July in Canaan.
 MT Frederick Watson, who has been ill so long, rode out last Saturday. His mind is as clear as ever, but has not recovered the use of his limbs.
 About 30 families are now occupy ing cottages at Pine Grove camp ground. They have preaching every Sunday, and a prayer meeting on Tuesday and Thurs day evenings.
 Misses Louisa Bragg, Mary Parsons and Ila Freeman visited at Mrs Austin Spaulding's, Norfolk, last week. They also attended the dedication of the Will lage hall in that place.
 Barber Rhoades has been playing lone hand about three weeks, as his as sistant, John Parmelee, has the fever and ague. Saturday and Sunday Frank Slye lathered em for Rhoades to scrape lem.
 The family of Rev Elisha Whittle- sey are spending the summer ut their old home, seThe Grove" near this vil lage. We think the Rev is now haviug vacation, as we see him driving past nearly every day.
 The Guild vi Il give dime sociable at the rectory on Thursday evening of next week, Aug. A. There will be a table of useful and fancy articles. Music by the orchestra. All are cordially invited.
 -G. B. Gardner thinks if the public onIy knew that he sells cheap, conven- r-ient, practical and effective burglar alarm attachment for doors and windows they would come for them two on a horse, as they do after pork barrels in Goshen.
 2 -Arthur Freeman, Robert Peirce and Henry Ives pitched their tent at Twin Lakes the fore part of last week. Asa Bartholomew, George Beebe and Irving Barnes are occasional sojourners with them. They expect to break camp on Thursday of this week.
 Mrs David P. Warner and daugh- ter, Eva M., of Durham, Conn, who have been visiting about three weeks at MT nOfdCe Ddrnuu 5, "CAS AOh'S A'~0' Saturday. Mir Warner arrived at Mr Barnum's Last Thursday and returned with his family on Saturday.
 The golden wedding of MT and Mrs Samuel M. Beckley of New York was celebrated at Piermont, N. Y., Tuesday. July 29. at the summer residence of their son in Jaw, Hon $. Hastings Grant, comptroller of the city of New York. We have received report of this we'd ding, and will publish the same next week,
 We have accidentally discovered that in our issue of July g. we did Nil HIP. Lynch an injustice by stating that he deserted his post while foreman oi the New Hartford Tribune. We hap pened to meet Editor Jones at Norfolk last Wednesday and he gave us a differ ent version from the one given us by an other party, whose statement we pub -lished. We regret that we were not correctly informed in the first place and we hope that the statement we now make will reparr any injury which Mi Lynch may possibly have received.