Connecticut western news., 1885-09-23
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1885
Local News.

AONCtI 1NS HDs Look out for the equinoctial storm. According to the almanac autumn began yesterday. Miss Meta Rodemeyer is organist at the Methodist church.
 Coal hods at J. H. Alvord's in Win sted, only 25 cents each.
 Rev Elisha Whittlesey will preach in Christ church next Sabbath. .... Mrs Mary Willard, mother of Mrs P. O. Cummings, will be 91 years old on Friday.
 We find ourselves compelled to de- fer some correspondence and letters un- til next issue.
 William Bennett has an uncommon ly fine field of corn, probably the best in the county.
 -The weather has recently been .'perfectly lovally" except the nights have been frosty.
 The days and nights are now of nearly equal length. Sun rises at 5.32 and sets at 5.39.
 -S. w. Barnes went to North Adams this Wednesday morning to take in the Hoosac Valley fair.
 Canaan hose company were out for
  practice Saturday afternoon and swept past like cyclone.
 Master Gardner w. Barnes is at- tending l.. H. X l.. F. Reid's classical school at Lakeville.
 Rev F. W. Barnett is taking three weeks vacation and on Tuesday of last week started for Iowa.
 Moody and Sankey will preach and sing in Bridgeport three days during the last week in October.
 All aboard for Cherry Park-one of the finest parks that lays outdoors. See notice in another column.
 W. H. Camp and wife and Miss Hattie Adam went to Troy, N. Y., last Monday to remain several days.
 He who starts without money but with faith in advertising soon outsteps the capitalist who does not advertise. For cold in the head, catarrh and throat troubles try Griswold's anti-zy motic pastilles. There is nothing equal to them.
 -Drs Furguson of Thomaston, Bid we'll of Winsted and Deming of Litch- field have been appointed pension ex- aminers for Litchfeld county.
 Tomorrow, September A, partial eclipse of the moon, commencing at 1.15 A. M, will be observed by those who keep awake and in condition to observe anything.
 Samuel F. Adam conducted the services at Christ church last Sunday. Monday morning he went to Middle town to pursue his studies at the Berk- ley divinity school.
 -B. Grotta of New York, accompa- nied by the tobacco inspector, visited MT Grotta's warehouse in Canaan last week, sampled the tobacco stored there and found that it turns out satisfactorily. Look Look $12 buys Richmond range at Alvord's. See advertisement. Jack Frost withdraws from the church when they take in Q Monitor wood fur mace and shake four feet stick of wood at him.
 MT and Mrs George T. Lawrence of Stamford, former residents of East Canaan, have been visiting friends in East Canaan and this village since Sep tember 12 and will return to Stamford next Saturday.
 Eddie Seeley of Falls Village is the owner of the finest banjo in this section. It has nickel plated bell with 20 brackets, has patent keys and is elegant in tone and every respect. He goes to Pittsfeld every Saturday and takes les sons of Prof Smith.
 Miss s. w. Adam recently purchas- ed the "Fitch Ferris homestead" ad joining her premises on Elm street and has removed the fences in front of bott that property and her own residence and has also commenced extensive re pairs on the latter.
 In personal letter accompanying his supplement to "Reminiscences ot North Canaan and Vicinity" Rev R Hunt says: "The Florida fever begins to beat up again as the cold weather ap breaches. Isaac M. Elkins and family and Mrs Rev Albert Nash, Jr, start fol the Sunny Land October g.
 Timothy Church of Waterbury call ed on us last Thursday and subscribed for The News. He was perfect stranger / to us, but undoubtedly many old resi- dents will remembe him. Over 50 year ago he drove the stage, for two years boarded with the late Charles Lewis who then kept the hotel in the hous' now occupied by Rev Dr Hiram Eddy He has resided in Waterbury continu ously during the last 50 years. His wifi is still living, and their two sons are ac tive business men, but MT Church hal retired. He is nephew of the lats Jonathan Bates of Huntsville.