Connecticut western news., 1885-01-28
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LOCAL NEWS.
 Pay your taxes on list of 1883.
 Fuller < Peet are taking inventory. Mrs Eliza Sedgwick IS visiting at Dr Welch's in Norfolk.
 Which would you prefer to take inventory, castor oil or quinine
 HI. P. Barnum is visiting friends and relatives at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.- The Housatonic railroad company are cutting ice on their lake at Pitts field.
 -Canaanites commenced last week harvesting ice and most of the crop IS secured.
 Mrs Dr Camp and son are visiting in New Milford, whither they went last Saturday.
 The Irish lads and lasses will have a social hop at the Town hall on Friday evening, Jan. 30.
 Frank Stevens is on the sick list with cold and fever and has been hous- ed up for week or more.
 Special attention is called to the new advertisement of Drs Higgins X Swentzel, the Millerton dentists.
 -Meetings are held in the M. E church on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs day and Friday evenings of this week. Saturday night 10 acres of grass were burning on the line of the Housa- tonic road above Newtown, and, a score of men were fighting the fire.
 Miss Ala Strong has been quite Ill for two weeks and large swelling ap- peared on her neck, but she ventured out last Sunday and was in h,r accus- toned place in Sabbath school.
 The ladies of the church aid society will give dime sociable at George F Strong's next Tuesday evening, Feb 5. P.nf Baldwin ald some of his pupils will help entertain. All are invited.
 Weight of hogs butchered in Canaan Valley, fall of 1884: Ira s. Bunnell, three, 500, 486 and 450; J. K. Crofut. one, 400; H. J. Mead, one, 537; Jensen Enmons, five, averaging over 400 each. -MrB. 0. Ives left home Saturday, Jan. IT. He said he was going to at- tend the funeral of Henry Ives at G"- shen. He did not attend the funeral and has not been heard from, but ms friends think he has gone to Florida
 The freight train on'the Housaton- ic railroad which leaves here at ll'O4 A M., south, hauled 55 loaded cars from this station to Brookfeld, and 4S from Brookfield to Bridgeport, on Tuesday .Jan. 20. Good engineering, indeed.-- NelD Mlford Item
 70. P. Gillette temporarily suspend ed peddling fish. Jan. l. A persistent creditor made an attachment and caused considerable trouble, but Ovid has since been collecting his bills and making payments and expects to resume busl' ness in week or two.
 We have received from the Russell Publishing Go, Boston, the February number of '.Our Little Ones and tl ( Nursery" It is very attractive and es pecially interesting to the little ones being filled with illustrations from fa vor1te artists. We can highly recon mend it.
 A sample copy of 8 magazine enti tied ''Babyhood" has been sent us, Thi magazine is devoted exclusively to tn care of infants and young children. l is edited by Leroy M Yale, M. D., an' Marion Harland This is a suf1icien guarantee of its merit. It should hay wide circulation.
 William Thompson, aged 14 years a grandson of George Thompson of C. naan Valley, died with typhoid feve and pneumo nia last week, at Bridge port. On Saturday the remains wei brought to Canaan Valley for buria where the funeral was held at 2 P. M Rev E. F. Atwood officiating.
 George l.. Parsons is inventoryin his stock of merchandise. Every morl ing he loads up bargain counter wit goods at half price, which are nearly a sold before night. He closes out hooC and nubias at 25 cents, children an misses wool hose 10 to b cents, car brics and ginghams and 6 cents and { wool skirts only 50 cents.
 Mrs F. O. Bodley, mother of R H. I. Bodley of North Adams, Mas died at St Louis, Jan. 2l. She h been in poor health for some time b her death occurred suddenly and une pectedly. Her remains will be laid rest at Lexington, Ky, her old hon Jan. 2l, Mir Bodley received telegrs announcing her death and he start immediately for St Loais.