Connecticut western news., 1888-01-04
Local News.

-Leap-year.
 The ladies' opportunity.
 Now let every bachelor beware. A Clayton man says: ssall have to travel fat-footed on icy sidewalks.
 The parishioners of Rev F. w. Bar nett gave him Christmas present of $3O in cash.
 The average attendance at the Pilgrim Sunday School during the last quarter was 61.
 -Conundrum-Who when and where did Miss Belle Hyde marry? See South field and New Marlboro correspondence Mrs Jenny Bierce visited relatives in Bridgeport last week and went with them to see the holiday decorations in New York.
 Ed M. Barnum, conductor on the Brookfield Branch, was presented with handsome cane bv the committees of the road on Christmas eve.
 Miss Genevieve Clark, organist of the Congregational church at East Canaan, was presented with S2O as Christmas present from that church.
 The heavy rolling door of the Hous freight room at Union depot caught Charles Emmons' left hand last Friday and broke one of his fingers.
 p. F. Reed, the Hartford builder is said to be S2O. 1000 in debt. He is offer ing his creditors twenty cents on the dollar Danbury Register.
 The recently elected officers of Housatonic Lodge, No 61, F. X A. M. were installed last Saturday evening by Past Master c. H. Johnson, of East Canaan.
 Wonders never cease. Smoke Bennett, Sloan & Co.'S Invigorator. 7" Ten cent cigar for 5 csnts. at Rhoades', the barber. @ -Messrs Peirce & Freeman gave Christmas gifts to their workmen. Each family was presented with turkey, and each child (some 40 or more in number) was also given present.
 The ladies guild will give cracker and coffee sociable at the Episcopal rectory on Friday evening, Jan 9th. All are cordially invited to be present and bring dime with them.
 Our exchanges made considerable sport of us because on Dec. 14th we jocosely remarked, "January thaw- last Sunday" Now what have you got to say about January thaw-lasi Sunday P
 -Talmadge Pulver has trough 94( feet long on his wood lot at East Canaan for sliding wood down the mountain The wood slides down the trough with great rapidity and leaps POO feet from the lower end.
 Small stores near large advertisers in Chicago rent for nearly double the price of those two or three square away A merchant that advertisers is tn,
  and we might say to the entire city, fol city that does not advertise would b, voted dead by millions outside. Inte Ocean.
 The Litchfield Enquirer has moved into 8 new office on the second floor o Phelps block at Litchfeld The room are heated by steam and lighted by gas The rooms are the best the Enquirel ever occupied since it was started, ove 60 years ago. The fire was not vel come visitor to Neighbor Hickox but h. finds that there is no great loss with out some small gain"
 The Palenville, Gree ne county, r., correspondent of the Rondout Free man writes ''Brooms stained with solution of Paris green are sold at Cat: kill and probably at other places. A many housewives use broom splints try cake with, It is we'll for people know this" There is no doubt abor the presence of poison in broom splint
 
 In an unguarded moment W agreed to publish the school report ( the intermediate and highest depar ments of this school district. To-day VI fulfill the promise, but we do not esta' fish a precedent for publishing scho reports. We shall not repeat it. or ope the food-gate for every school distri in this county to deluge us with scho reports. After we had agreed to put lish the report that appears to-day V recollected that two or three years az we were obliged to "shut the pan" ( school reports as they were sent from all directions. We will be impa tial and discard them all
 There has been nearly $1, ,5' recently expended in repairs and il provements on the exterior and interi of the Methodist Episcopal church this village. These improvements el brace the re-shingling of tue roof; u tower and spire has been newly cover and the whole edifice has been new painted, without and within. T inside walls have been painted, tint or frescoed the ceiling or wood wo has been newly dressed; the cushio been re-illed A new furnace of lar heating capacity has been put in. T ed,fsce is now is shtsd by one of Baiie.