Connecticut western news., 1884-10-01
LOCAL NEWS.

 company, dividend No. 68.
 John S. Reed, who has been quite sick with fever, is improving.
 70. NJ. Hall of West Cornwall is soon going into mllliner's ware. See his four-inch ad.
 Correspondence from Sheffield and Southfeld received too late, but will be published next week.
 MT Charles Gillette is painting the residence and barn belonging to A. A. Hubbard on Granite avenue.
 MT Thomas Bailey of South Canaan had shock September 19 and died last Friday. His funeral was attended Sun day. Mrs $. L. Nash of Hartford, form erly Miss Nellie Williams, is visiting at Mrs F. Watson's and at Miss Marie Knickerbocker'
 The Housatonic railroad fast express trains, leaving Bridgeport at 5:25 P. NJ, and PlttSheld at AID P. NJ, were ulScon- tinued Monday, September 29.
 The railroad commissioners made their fall inspection of the Housatonic railroad last Thursday and on Friday inspected the H. &. C. W. railroad.
 A. T. Roraback has expended con- siderable money in remodeling the in terior of his barn and now has one of the best and most convenient barns in town.
 The Canaan 3d base ball nine play ed a match game with the Clayton 2d nine at Clayton last Saturday, the form CT nine winning the game by score of 37 to 21.
 Eighty excursion tickets to Great Harrington and return were sold at this station last Thursday. Canaan was we'll represented at the Great Burlington fair for besides those "riding on the rail" many went with teams.
 MT F. s. Spaulding of Norfolk, since last Thursday has occupied his old position of assistant to J. B. Reed at Union depot. He is remaining there few days during the illness of J. s. Reed.
 A Cleveland and Hendricks cam- paign club was organized at Village I'm provement hall last Saturday evening. Between 55 and 60 signed the oonstitu- tion, including several lifelong repub- hcans.
 -J. S. New and family have me,oly moved into their Nep house on West Main street and are as pleased with their Nep quarters as boy with nen sled and the residents of West Main street cordially welcome their Neu neighbors.
 We have been handed two different reports of the republican meeting al East Canaan. We publish them both If you have paid your newspaper sub scription then take your choice of the reports, otherwise don't read either O. them for you are not entitled to choice
 The republican club held a red ho meeting at East Canaan, Friday evening The audience was enthusiastic in the ex treme and the singing went off finely one or two democrats were present who cheered and sung with the loudest apparently to keep their courage up The meeting was addressed by Rev Dl Eddy, Prof Baldwin, Messrs A. T. Bora back and E. D. Lawrence.
 Last Wednesday we received { pleasant call from MT W. 0. Crandal of The Hartford Evening Post MI Crandan has been writing up the busi ness enterprises of Winsted. The sketcl is very instructive, interesting and quit lengthy, commencing in the Connecti cut Post, issue of September 27, and in tending to be concluded in issue of Oc tober 4. MT Crandall wishes to writ up the business of this town if sulicien encouragement is given him.
 The Great Harrington agriculture exhibition, fair and horse race closed las Friday evening, but the Great Barring ton clothing dealers exhibition, fai prices and race for public patronag still continues and now the O. P. cloth ing emporium enters the contest with new advertisement to which your atten tion is called. MT Girling showed u those handsome $2O corkscrew suits i brown shades. They are beauties an good enough for wedding suit.
 Scientists have labored for years discover the North Pole, but all the efforts have failed. They would conf' an incalculable benefit on the race they would now direct their efforts another channel and endeavor to solv the mystery why people do not pay U their newspaper subscriptions, instes of keeping the publisher and his cred tors on the ragged edge of dispair a the time. It is a mystery to many ho publishers manage to live. The way solve that mystery is to pay up your su scription then publishers can soon sho you receipted bills from their prese creditors, ''the butcher, the baker ar !. oandlestick maker"