Connecticut western news., 1886-05-26
WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1886.
Local News.

Local News.
 The advance guard of summer boarders arrived last week.
 The work of enlarging the reservoir has been progressing during the past ten days.
 The railroad commissioners will in- spect the H. & 0. W. road tomorrow (ThursdaY).
 Adam Forepaugh's circus and men agerie will exhibit in Bridgeport Tues day, June 1.
 Don't forget the strawberry festival and loan exhibition at V. I. A. hall this Wednesday, evening.
 Our ancestors fought for indepen- dence, but this generation borroweth its neighbor's newspaper.
 Samuel F. Jones and family of Hartford will occupy ex-Congressman Miles's residence at Twin Lakes this summer.
 -J. w. Peet will soon remove the house now occupied by Miss Odell, and will build 8 handsome residence in place of it.
 The Kickapoo Indians will give ex- hibitions at Town hall every evening except Sunday evening from May 25 to 31, both dates inclusive.
 All makes of PIANOS or ORGANS rented or sold on instalments. Send for LOWEST PRICES ever named to F. B. CAPEwEn1, Torrington, Ct. mh24-tf
 -ssAn government special tax payers emitting to apply for their special tax stamps during the present month will be subjected to penalty of 50 per cent. !" Last Sunday morning Rev F. W. Barnett preached an historical sermon about Christ church parish. We hope he will furnish us brief of said sermon for publication soon as our space will permit.
 When you are in Great Harrington stop at c. H. Lilies drug store and see the latest and choicest articles in the way of perfumes and toilet goods. He keeps the best and only well-selected goods. may12 4w
 Remember, remember the 24th day of May, 1886, for on that dark and cloudy day Harvey Dunham was Sin the feld'' at East Canaan and picked a handful of field strawberries, full grown, and could have picked more but he had no bushel basket to carry them in.
 Improvements are being made on Granite avenue: M. Callahan's concrete walk is completed and A. A. Hubbard and George s. Fuller are building simi- lar walks, while in front of the rectary a marble walk will be built of the slabs taken from the old buttresses of Christ church.
 The ladies of the M. E. church will hold strawberry festival in V. I. A. hall on Friday evening, June 4th. We hope to be Strong on short cake. En- tertainment will be provided. Come one and all and we will try and give you pleasant evening. Per order of com mittee.
 -S. A.-Eddy says The News is an ex- cellent advertising medium. He wished to sell number of pigs, so instead of spending time and money in driving around and hunting up purchasers he expended 75 cents for one insertion of an advertisement in The News and 1t brought him 15 more customers than he could supply.
 Mir Almerin Gillette, one of the railway commissioners of Kansas, stop ped in this city Thursday and inspected the capitol under the guidance of Clerk Utley of the railway commissioners office MT Gillette Is of Connecticut stock, his grandfather being 8 native of Simsbury -[Hartford Courant. Almerin is ar ancestral name in the Gillette family. The subject of the foregoing item doubtless is distant relative of Almer1n Gillette of Canaan.
 w. A. Miles of Copake, N. r., ha. invented a machine for moulding tn. sspig-beds'' in blast furnaces. He ha! also invented another machine to breal up the iron in the '.pig-beds" and loat it in railway cars. These machines are very simple in construction and are no expensive but the inventor claims the. will do as much work as 60 men. H has contracted to place them in opera tion in large furnace in Pennsylvani where 500 tons Of iron are made dail, and rent them to the proprietors of tn furnace.
 -S. A. Eddy harnessed his team to heavy truck wagon Monday mornin, and left them standing in front of hi pig pen while he and Mir Andersen cap tured pig which they intended to car " away. The frantic squealing of tn pig frightened the horses and away the dashed at furious pace, which the kept up for three miles until the res dence of N. s. Stevens was reached where they stopped and showed "Nat that they could not break or jump ou of the Novelty harness" which the wore. There being no evener or whiffie trees to injure the horses legs in thei rapid flight they escaped without sernAeh.