Connecticut western news., 1884-05-21
WEST CORNWALL.

with her friend Miss Jennie Ocain.
 Smith & Sons offer 30 tons best fine ground plaster, for next few days.
 Ethan Bosworth has gone down the Naugatuck valley in pursuit of employ ment.
 Mrs Hannah Baldwin spent the Sab bath in town, the guest of MT c. B. Baldwin.
 Mrs James A. Ford of Canton, N. Y. is visiting friends in this vicinity, for a few weeks.
 Mrs M. A. Hallock of New Milford is stopping at her old home on the hill for for a short visit.
 Miss Jessie Hart, who is receiving musical lessons in Sheffield, is home for the present week.
 John Rodemeyer, Bethels Yellow Spasm, was entertained for the Sabbath at the residence of F. W. Yutzler.
 E. H. Dean paid Cornwall and his family visit last week. He is still &C., lively engaged with Q. Smith, the big commission merchant of Bridgeport.
 The sociable at MT R. F. Smiths pas sed off very pleasantly and was well attended. The receipts amounted to about $6 another lift to the organ fund.
 Dr W. E. Weed, our new doctor, spent last week in New York at com mencement exercises of Columbia col lege, from which he graduated three years ago.
 The village blacksmith, J. H. Barton, has moved to his quarters in what was called the Catholic cathedral. He is sorely afflicted with boils, and refuses to be comforted for they are not-fully developed.
 Mir James A. Cochrane has just re- ceived the appointment of deputy sheriff for this district, and will commence his official duties June 1. He will without doubt prove himself the right man in the right place, as has his retiring pre- decessor, MT c. B. Baldwin.
 FALLS VILLAGE.
 George Day is having his house paint ed by MT B. Halstead.
 T. Tucker is making some good i'm provements on his block on Main street.
 Martin Boyles' house presents neat appearance since the application of paint.
 Lilies of the valley are in bloom and their fragrance permeates the air in con- junction with the apple blossom.
 E. M. Turner and son are in Goshen for few weeks, in the employment of one of the thrifty farmers of that town.
 The roads are being put in good con- dition and the thoroughfare on Railroad street is perhaps, better than ever be- fore.
 Miss Fannie Shondy is doing quite a business in dress-making and the ladies would do well to give her their orders.
 Elder Ferguson delivered very in teresting sermon in the M. B. church on Sunday. A large congregation lis tened to his discourse.
 Owen Parmelee has left the employ of Landlord Dudley and has joined the fortunes of his better half in Norfolk Charles Harvey, Jr., fills the vacuum.
 w. L. Brown will leave us in July fol the wilds of Maine. He thinks there is nothing so conducive to good consti tuition as the woods of the "Pine Tree State"
 The cavalry company are getting tc be quite proficient in military tactic! and the boys say that they won't be beat D. w. Clarke and E. l. Dudley are tht tutors.
 The Sunday school convention will bt held this year in Waterbury. Mir Let A. French is delegate from this town The convention meets May 27 and 28
 This is the biennial session. MT Charles Graves is working at his trade in Bristol, Conn. It seems a : though all of our best mechanics are tc find employment out of town, as littl, or no building is going on here. The band has recognized and vii hold weekly rehearsals in Miners block Tuesday evening is their practice nigh and the sweet sounds that emanate fror , that locality must be the forerunner c , some fine music this summer, that is , if some of our public-spirited citizen
 turn out (the inside of their pocke
 books) and give the boys show. Tn
 band numbers now some IS experience S players, and, under the leadership ( a MT John c. Wolfe, ought in shol e time to render some good selections. SIXTEEN. u ORE HILL. r Ore Hill has no lookup as yet, but has a mail catcher. Mail trains g I through here flying, but by hook an n crook they take the U. s. M. r Thomas Paul and Robert Bennett, CT !. perienced miners, started Monday morl 't ing for the silver mines near Austin l. Nevada. We hope ere long they wi ia return to their families with their pocl |, cts full of silver.
 The first train west on the new tin s- table stopped to take on Capt Wm Ba tie. On Thursday evening he returne = with his endorsements, 13 in all, = children and one grand child, of { - sizes from the young mother down n n the young captain in its mothers arm ta A splendid dog led by little boy abo ~ ~ half as large and two canary birds - I cages made up the party. An al pie baggage train followed. Col Har1 !, had heart large enough and house sr '' cious enough to take them all in, b
 Tim had to go twice before he could 2 'd them all housed. The Colonel loo
 happy. He seems to have every facili ,e to establish family boarding schot V. Capt Bartle, with his interesting famil y: will soon occupy the George Bushn ". place.