Connecticut western news., 1884-06-04
WEST CORNWALL.


 sical studies in Sheffield, Monday.
 Quite delegation from here attended the greatest show on earth in Danbury.
 Miss Jennie Ocain left last week for an extended visit with friends in Pitts field.
 Dr W. E. Weed went to Bridgeport and spent Decoration day as well as the Sabbath.
 One dollar pays for the NEWS until Jan. l. Rush in your subscriptions at the post office.
 The ladies' benevolent society meet with Mrs James A. Cochrane, on Thurs day afternoon of this week.
 Frank Wood went on from the Bridge port excursion to New York, where he still enjoys the salt water breezes.
 Joseph Memmott suffered with mala- ria last week, being unable to work. He is now in the shop and can ''whistle."
 The severe frost of last week proved very destructive to vegetation generally. It is feared the fruit crop will suffer intensely.
 Ethan Bosworth Is home for a week, having secured a job in the brass rolling mill at Thomaston, during his absence. He is soon to commence work.
 George Shove, the fat butcher, who lives in a meat cart. can saw steaks, break soup bones, jingle bell and wear the butchers frock and gauntlets with as much genteel gentility as Jumbo can ride the steel rails of the Housatonic.
 Last week Harry Sedgwick purchased another pair of model cows of James A. Cochrane, who to keep the number good has just bought from the Ocain farm, two more Durham and Jersey beauties. James might as we'll hang out his shin- gle and convert his potatoe patch into stock yard.
 Memorial services in New Milford were of more than usual interest, and at the grave of the late Col C.. D. Blinn were ceremonies which will interest all in this vicinity, who knew him we'll from boy hood. He was president and leader of the New Milford choral union, compris- ing musical company of thirty or forty members, exceedingly well gifted in that line, and from receipts at public entertainments given at different times fund had been accumulated amounting to several hundred dollars, which was in the treasury at the time of the Cols decease, and which they soon afterward decided to appropriate toward the pur- chase of monument to be placed at his grave. It was accordingly completed and thus erected that its unveiling with other appropriate exercises might be observed on the above named day, which proved to be pleasant one and Q large crowd assembled to pay tribute to his memory. Leaving the village for the cemetery, the New Milford cornet band, followed by Upton post and the fire company, then twenty boys wearing blue badges with the words, " Sons of Veterans, the Band of Hope, one hun dred children and crowd estimated at twelve to fifteen hundred. On reaching the burial plot they gathered around the monument that was elaborately drap- ed in the stars and stripes, flag made by the ladies and presented to the Union league club in the days of the war, and which had since then been in Col Blinn s keeping ready for use when called for. The opening exercises commenced with a dirge by the band, singing by the choral union, prayer, address by Mir w. F Kinney on the observance of Memo rial day. Charles P. Blinn. nine years old, son of the Col, pulled the cord that caused the yelling to fall, bringing to view beautiful column of Westerly granite, unmarked by ornamental cary ing except near the top. Simplicity and good taste are made manifest in its de- sign and it is truly in keeping with the straightforward and unpretentious character of the brave soldier who rests beside it. The inscription reads: