Connecticut western news., 1885-01-14
LOCAL NEWS.

LOCAL NEWS.
 Spring weather last week.
 -. N. Van Deusen pays $14.5O for rye straw. Mrs Mary Finnegan is quite sick with pneumonia.
 Mir s. W. Barnes visited friends at North Adams last week. Don't forget the auction on Friday next, at Mrs Knickerbocker's. . aa-Ssven years ago tomorrow, Jan. 15, the railroad disaster at Tarifville occur x red. x.
 '~ -The c. L. S. O. will meet with MT H. N. Adams on Friday evening of thls week.
 Presiding Elder Ferguson will preach next Sunday evening in the NJ. E. church.
 Bob" Ingersoll is to lecture at the Pittsfeld Academy of Music this Wed nesday) evening.
 Misses Minnie and Alice Peirce left home last Friday for visit with friends in New Haven. They will also visit Tel atlves at Brookield. . The Gaill will give dime socia- ble at Mrs D.. Camps week from to- night (Wednes layj. All are inviteL. Be deacon if you want to be sue cessfnl fisherman. Recollect the old s;saying. +'if von swear you won't catch any fish See G,,shen correspondence. Dark and rainy Sunday evening with Io service. at the NJ. E. church. but we prssrae t'," u-;la.i nualhr w .rsiip- ell at Cup's siirile
 William Shields tuIs taNtll town ti,., large barn on hts plantation between CaGr.n aud Ashley Falls and is huiI'l- village
 A letter .r5ts rssF.ivat lu.t Satnr lay from " v. Uali.rTooj Il and Cald- well ha.I arrived sdE.ly at Jacks nnvillr. Fla. and Underwood was feeling tip top.
 -Davil Davis says that his worst en- emy is woman whose poetry he once laughed at That was twenty eight years ago, but she still hates him. .,Hrgord PoSt
 Tt will pay vou to call at Charles Barnes Sons cooper shop and see them fee the animals The genial keeper. Mir W. will take pleasure iD exhih- iting them. m.-Lims Kiln NeWS.
 -Thirty-one men are now employed at the tobacco wareh 'use and the pro- prietcr wishes to hire six good, spry girls to tie up wrappers, and he is now really to purchase crops of fine quality tobacco.
 Tn, w.ak of prayer was July ob- serveI Meetings were he'll in the lec- ture room If the M E church every evening last week except Saturday eve- ming anll there was good attendance This year. Lent begins Feb Is and ends April 5. Some families observe lent during the whole year, at least the family newspaper is always lent to some neighbor who is too penurious to sub scribe.
 Prayer meetings are hell this week in the lecture room of the M E. church evenings On Thursday evening at the close Of the prayer meeting the fourth quarterly conference will be held in the same room.
 William t'anfield shipped five tons of tobacco last Thursday, to Wildman & Green of New Milford. We think this is the largest crop that any one farmer has raised in this section and il was also an extra fine crop, probably the finest one for it's size h the state.
 The first number of The Canaan Item. published by Master John Beck ley. appeared last Saturday. John i' editor. foreman. compositor and all hands, in fact tlld the whole work or the paper and if he had not already dis covered that much hard work is reouir ed to publish paper. he might become n 1angnrons rivals and we should ask hin to .'sgive tn oll man fair chance"
 About 5 couple attended tha ma sonic ball last evening. The hall wa tastefnilv trimmed. and Barnard's or ehe.tra of Pittsfield won new laurels fo themselves For an hour before tn dancing commenced they entertainet the company with concert, which wa rare musical treat Land ord Warne provided the supper, which rapidly dis appeared, as Mrs Warmers excellen spreads always do.