Connecticut western news., 1885-04-15
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LOCAL NEWS.
 About 55 calves were bought at thls station yesterday.
 Milton Couch made trip west last week, in pursuit of work.
 The residences of George P. Strong and J. N. Van Deusen shine with new coat of paint. .....
 Ensign Butts is dangerously ill with pneumonia at the residence of Ly- man Dunning.
 Mrs James Quinn was taken with 8 severe chin last Friday and has barely escaped pneumonia.
 .. Merrill Humphrey has been housed up all winter, but is improving and ven- lures out each pleasant day.
 Mrs Couch, on Elm street, will be glad to sell 8 few articles of household furniture at her residence.
 Mrs Jerome Root went to New York Tuesday, for weeks visit. leaving Miss Jennie Moore in charge of the telegraph office.
 The 0. l.. s. 0. meet this week on Thursday evening with Mir 0. s. Adam. Quotations from O. W. Holmes. A full attendance is requested.
 -Dr Clemans is improving and Sun day last he said he felt well enough to walk out, but thought it prudent to re- main indoors while longer.
 <. Any of our readers wishing' for situation would do well to read the bus mess card of D. F. Atwood & Go, which is inserted in another column.
 James A., Root of Negaunee, Mich, has been very ill with congestion of the liver. Aletter received yesterday, states he is now able to sit up nearly all day.
 Capt L.. A. Bailey of Portland, Or egon, after an absence of II years, re- turned to Canaan last week and visited his sister, Mrs E. s. Root, and called on his old friends.
 ' We congratulate Rev E. H. Roys on his good fortune in again receiving the appointment as pastor at Millerton, that Mecca of couples determined to commit matrimony.
 The New York conference appoint ments for the ensuing year made almost a clean sweep in the Housatonic valley. B. N. Lewis of Falls Village is the only one left to tell the story.
 The new pastor, E. T. Barlow, dld not put in an appearance last Sunday, but Prof Baldwin read an excellent ser mon in the M E. church. There were no services in the evening.
 A late spring-enough snow fell Saturday evening to cover the ground and there were frequent snow squalls during Sunday and Monday. Tester day morning the mercury was several degrees below the freezing point and the ground frozen quite hard.
 Horace Greeley's advice was "Go west young man." Yes, now is the &C., cepted time to go west. for George Rid de of Carroll county, Missouri, has 22 daughters, including five sets of twins, and has 400 acres of land to give as; a dowry to each daughter. ! E--
 IF. A. Peet attended the funeral oi the late David s. Draper, at New York, last week Tuesday. Frank was taken quite i'll in New York, but came home and immediately summoned Dr Camp, who soon relieved him, but he d1d not venture out doors until Monday.
 George l.. Parsons and wife spent the Sabbath at Sheffield. George is dil- igent in business; in fact, confines him. self too closely in his store, and this if the first time in nearly nine years that he has really visited his parents and re. mained over night under their roof.
 Frank Rood of Canaan, that land which should flow with milk and honey but doesn't, is the new clerk for T. B. Persse, in place of James Daily. We trust Mir Rood will find Windsor Locks 6 warmer climate than Canaan. Wind- sOr Locks Journal, April 10.
 Correct; for it is said that some of the natives of Windsor Locks are we'll fitted for still warmer climate.
 A letter received last week from P. K. Coggswell (Kib) of Butler, Ind, ,states that he is running his engine again, after being laid up four weeks with a lame wrist, received by jumping from his en zine to save his life in collision. He has lately parted company with tn mor, which for two years had beer growing on his neck and had attained the size of hens egg, and which ha' given rise to the .rumor in circulation that Kib had fever sore on his leg and had been taken to a hospital.