Connecticut western news., 1888-05-02
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.


 Forty-three applications for liquor license have been made in North Adams.
 A survey is being made for an altera- tion in the highway from Egremont to Mount Washington.
 The operetta "Echoes of Spring" was recently produced by children in the town hall at Adams.
 Seven carloads of paper mill machi- nery were shipped from Pittstield last week, bound for Japan. A battery of government artillery from Fort Hamilton, N. Y., contem plate camping at Pittsfeld for the summer.
 The survivors of the 10th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers will have their next reunion at North Adams, on June 21st.
 The street railway company of Adams propose to introduce electric motors on the road, and have all cars propelled in this manner.
 The members of the Young Mems Christian Association of Pittstield have recently elected Robert w. Adam for their president. ;
 Stockbridge' boasts the honor of having entertained the late Matthew Arnold, as it's guest for several weeks ir the summer of 1886. =,
 X machine for braiding whip lashes has just been completed by J. A. Fur ner, of Southfield It is sad to be the only one in the country.
 The ladies of the Congregational church at North Adams have pledged themselves to raise $5 900 to contribute toward the proposed new chapel,
 The experiment of transmitting iron into copper has met with little favor among scientific circles, and is pronoun- ced by some chemists to be impossible.
 A fire occurred at Lampson's shoe factory at North Adams on Friday night, and much damage was done by the flood of water thrown into the building.
 Indications point to larger and more successful season in Lenox than ever before. Nearly every room in the hotel has been engaged for che months of May and June. A mission has been organized in Pittsfeld for the purpose of providing pleasant resort where men may spend their unemployed hours. A room has been engaged and attraetively furnished
 Thomas McDermott, of Sheffield, l>,,3, in the Pittstield jail for vagrancy, es- capped on Thursday morning. A reward of $50 has been offered for his capture. Eva c. Clark. Pittsfeld girl of six years, sent President Cleveland a set of six views of Pittsfeld in the blizzard, and six of Pittstield's summer views, and received in acknowledgement a neat letter of thanks.
 The snow crested mountains and the ice-clad wales cause the Berkshire County Eagle to insert the following ill it's columns in last weeks issue Tnfor 1 nation wanted of the whereabouts of d season of the year answering to the name of Spring" Its discovery anu return will gratify a large number oi anxious friends.
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 George H. Bliss, of Pittsfeld, afte, two years of devoted study has perfeo. ted a novel device in the line of shoe buttons. He also is the inventor of the machinery used in manufacturing the article. Orders for his goods havt increased so rapidly that he will bt compelled to enlarge his plant. ...
 Editor Rogers, of the Lee Cleaner, is turning his attention to oratory, and has been displaying the result before crit cal audiences in Texas. He addressed the students of Bailey University al Waco, and with MT A. Green, of tht Springfield Republican, spoke in the opera house in the same city. The editors are members of an excursion party and are "doiug' the various | cities of the Lone Star state.