Connecticut western news., 1885-07-01
The Water company are laying their pipes on the new street,

The Water company are laying thei1
 pipes on the new street.
 Long days, but short cake-straw
 berry shortcake, yum, yum!
 Mrs Pequigney's ice cream "takeI
 the cake" All should try it. Only ter
 cents dish.
 Three stores have recently beer
 closed in Thomaston. The Express
 gives the following explanation: "As
 none of them advertised the cause is
 obvious"
 Mrs Almira Williams returned yes
 terday from two weeks visit to hel
 daughter at Mamaroneck, N. Y. She
 is nearly SC years old and made the
 journey alone.
 -Messrs Milton Roraback and Elias
 B. Reed are selling first mortgage cou.
 pon bonds paying 6, and 8 per cent interest. Read their advertisement,
 Safe Investments"
 We intend to publish next week an excellent report of the L. c. W. c. T. U. convention held at Norfolk last Wednesday. Said report was re- ceived too late for to-day's issue.
 This village, but especially East Canaan, wont need any fireworks for the night of July f. We have already seen grand display, for the fire on Canaan mountain on Tuesday evening of last week was a more magnificent sight than all the fireworks ever invented.
 Mrs Sarah P. Bettis died at her res idence on Railroad street at 9 o'clock last Thursday evening, aged S4 years. She has suffered with palsy for many years, but until recently she was ire quently seen tottering along on the side walk between her dwelling and the stores. Her funeral was attended Sun day morning at her late residence, Rev E. F. Barlow officiating. Her remains were inferred in the cemetery near Huntsville.
 An ounce of prevention is worth pound of cure." Probably none of the young men or boys who play ball in front of the post-office desire to injure or annoy the telephone company, yet the players have been repeatedly noti- fed that the entangling of the wires caused by throwing or knocking ball against them prevents telephonic con- munication. The line man has made five trips to Canaan to repair the line and now informs the players that the law imposes a $50 fine for interfering with telephone or telegraph wires. If the wires are entangled again the tele- phone company will make an example of the offender. Complaint is also made that horses are frightened by the ball playing. Boys, you better select an other ball ground where you will not anyone.
 The H. X c. w. railroad, which has for years shipped all the coal which comes from the coal fields by the Air Line route which was consumed be- tween this place and Pittsfeld on the line of the Housatonic road, has lost the business owing to new arrangements made by the Housatonic road with the New England road, whereby the coal is received at Hawleyville instead of Can aan. It is said that the Housatonic road refuses to take any coal from this point from either Rhinebeck or the all rail route except at local rates, and the in- lications are that unless the Housatonic md H. X c. W. roads come to some sat sfactory agreement the latter road will be confined to hauling coal to local points only. The passenger trains are run with no idea of convenience to the public; in fact, the local travel west of is said to nave decreased over One-half since the through trains were put on. All railroad men say that local traffic is what pays, and until the road caters for it instead of through freights and through passengers, which it can- not get, it never will be success fnan- Cd7,aaaa correspondence in Wate,'- bury Americdn.