Connecticut western news., 1885-12-16
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1885.
Local News.

Asa V. Bartholomew returned Sat urday from the Fort Edward institute.
 -FA word to the wise Is sufficient: Read all the advertisements this week. Subscribe for THE NEWS. It pays you 52 dividends year on your in- vestment.
 Christmas falls on Friday this year and by special dispensation Catholics are allowed to eat flesh meat on that day. Ira Bunnen of Canaan Valley butch cred three yearling hogs last week whose weight aggregated 154O pounds. Next? At the hour of closi ng our forms this Tuesday, afternoon we have not received a report from the annual meet ing of the H. & 0. W. railroad.
 George T. Johnson has outgenerall- ed the hard times at Norfolk. Johnson's low prices and attractive stock won the battle. See advertisement.
 M. Callahan's new house is nearly completed, MT Stone and assistants from Winsted are now painting the ex- terror in very rich colors.
 -Boys, attention Parsons is selling the Halifax club skate at $1.25 per pair. Last year, or before the patent on them expired, you paid $4.5O for tn em. Make a note of 1t.
 Read "St Nick's annual announce ment' as translated by his agent, G. V. Capron. We will not attempta revised version of it, for it occupies a column, SO read the adverti sement.
 --Jeweler Gardner received, yesterday, an immense stock of silverware of the latest batter ns for the Christmas trade and wedding presents. Just stop Tn and look at them-no trouble to show goods. Prices DEFY COMPETITION
 No better Christmas present could be imagined than years subscription to the NEWS. It virtually is 52 gifts wear. ana bn0 ISClP1CAo "PPASNOS WAN donors kindness every week.
 St. Valentines Day comes on Sunday. Now if that pesky order had not been issued, requiring the post office to open on Sunday, you would feel at liberty to deliver your valentine in person. Sun day evening,
 -Jeweler Gardner has just received his new Christmas stock of jewelry, and everything is marked down to the low est living prices, and he asks his friends and neighbors to come and see his stock before purchasing elsewhere.
 A special communication of Housa- tonic Lodge, No. 61 F. & A. M. has been called for Saturday evening Dec. l9. at ' o'clock, sharp. Work, M. M. It is expected that the D. D. G. M. will be present. A cordial invitation to at- tend is extended to the members of neighboring lodges.
 All Masonic lodges in the state have
 
 CT that at the first stated communication a collection will be ordered for the ben eft of Masons who were sufferers by the Galveston fire.-Erchdnge. Housatonlc lodge responded promptly and liberally to the appeal for aid.
 The death of Edward W. Reid at Lakeville last Saturday has saddened the hearts of many in this community. During his residence in Canaan he gain ed a large circle of near and dear friends who mourn his untimely death, and ex- press sympathy for the bereaved family.
 The new time table of the Housa- tonic railroad, in effect December IA, shows but slight changes for the winter schedule. Going north: trains now pass Canaan at 2. .45 and COP A. M., 12,30. 2.1O, 6.1O and 7.48 P. M., Sunday pas senger at IL 21 A. NJ; Going south: 6. 25 and 9.40 A. M., 300, 3.O5, 6.35 and Il. 1C P. NJ; Sunday milk BIO P. NJ.
 The December number of |" The Monthly Budget" 8 new paper publish ed by John G. Beckley of this place has appeared. John is editor and com positor-in fact does the entire work or the paper. Terms 20 cents year. We must admit that it is worth the price asked.
 Attention is called to G. F. Hen dricks advertisement Patents for In ventors," We are not personally ac quainted with Mir Hendricks but if he ii as prompt in attending to the business entrusted to him as he is in paying uI for advertising, no one will be able tC steal your invention after it is placed il his hands.
 A MODEL LETTER. Wednesday Dec. g we received the shortest ant sweetest letter we have yet seen. w. quote it entire as follows "Procrasti nation, I. P. Stevens, New Britain. Enclosed with the letter were two verse clipped from our issue of Dec. 2, viz "Pay the printer; pay the printer, ? etc MT Stevens also sent $5 with the letter which pays his subscription to July 1897 Ha has our thanks for trvino on