Connecticut western news., 1885-04-29
LOCAL NEWS.

Straw hats are npe.
 April showers have been scarce article this season. s-......t.- ,..-Jack Frost has been good friend to c. P. Strong and J. s. New.
 -S.. W. Barnes is enlarging his barn by. raising the roof several feet. Miss Elvira Abbott has opened a millinery store at East Canaan.
 The new skating rink at Lakeville will be opened about May 1.
 A band of gypsies were encamped last Thursday near Patrick Fitzgerald's. ,.-Mr D. L. Freeman arrived home last week from the New Orleans expo Hition. .s..-. -:--.
 "A new roof and coat of paint great ly improve the appearance of James Quinn's harness shop.
 Harry Sedgwick's family have re- turned from New York to spend the summer at Cornwall Hollow.
 The pews in the Methodist church in this village will be rented for the en- suing year next Saturday afternoon at 2o'clock.
 w. H. Camp has purchased Mat thews soda fountain and that irresista- ble beverage draws the nickles from many a pocket.
 After short sermon in the Metho- dist church next Sabbath morning the sacrament of the Lords supper will be administered.
 The North Canaan water company are re-laying the pipe on Railroad street and placing it lower in hopes to get be- low the frost line.
 -Thereswase three slimly 4attandRd entertainments in this village last Friday evening-C. l.. s. O., the select hop and the South Carolina colored troupe.
 If any of our readers are in want of ajob where they can earn good pay, they should read the advertisement of D. F. Atwood & Co.,, which appears elsewhere.
 To our farmer friends we would say, if you are fond of griddle cakes raise 8 piece of barley, it makes the incest cakes. For barley seed, see advertise ment in another column.
 The Episcopal entertainment at Town halfs Thursday evening. April 30, will commence promptly at 7:3O o'clock to avoid keeping the children awake un- til late hour. Don't forget the date. John F., Belknap died of peritonitis at Bridgeport, Conn., April 23. aged 2s years. His remains were brought to Canaan Valley last Saturday for burial. His wife was sister of William Thomp- sons wife.
 Received just as we go to press half-column advertisement of R. l. Fay Tor, clothier, Ct Harrington. You must wait until next week for the advertise ment, but his bargains are already awaiting you.
 William Alseph returned from But Ter, Ind. last Friday. He says business is very dull on the Wabash road and some of their engineers do not have steady employment, so he did not wait for 8 job on that road.
 -Humphrey Brothers euchered the hot wave last Thursday by putting theil soda fountain in operation and inaugu. rating the soda water season. The crowd around the fountain resembled flies around molasses hogshead.
 Mrs Adeline Beckley of New Hart ford has been quite ill for nearly foul weeks with an abscess of the right lung She has improved during the past week and 8 letter received yesterday states Eve hope she will be up and dressed by the last of the week. j.
 The Tobacco Growers Mutual In surance Go. have paid all their losses 1T full, have surplus on hand, and a there can be no assessment on policy holders it would seem the part of wis dom for 8 tobacco raiser to insure 1T this company. Their advertisement II another column fully explains their plar of insurance.
 Don't fail to attend the rare musica entertainment given by the Hanoveriar family at Town hall Friday evening May 1. They are excellent musicians give first-cIass entertainment free iron all objectionable features that nigh offend the most fastidious and the pleas ing entertainment they gave here las season ought to insure them 8 crowded house on this, their second visit
 Mrs Ferdinand L. Beckley returned Monday from Cornwall Hollow, wher, she has spent week with her father MT F. Bradford, who is quite feeble thi spsing. The old gentleman is 83 year old has always been 2 hard working farmer until old age and disease com pelled him to relinquish work. He | still suffering the effects of an acciden received months ago and can only ge about the house on crutches.