Connecticut western news., 1888-08-22
WEDNESDAY, AUG. p, 1888.
Local News.

Peter Hicks IS on the SICK list but is improving slowly.
 Fred B. Young was home, from Danbury, over Sunday.
 Miss Emma Bullard has been en- gagged to teach school in the Willard district at South Canaan.
 Julius Corbit has cut down the tall locust trees in front of his new house, preparatory to grading the lawn.
 MT and Mrs H M Adams are now at North Granby, but expect to return home next Wednesday or Thursday.
 Carrie Hoag, little daughter of John Hoag. fell on the sidewalk on Thursday and fractured her arm.
 For wagons, carriages. fine surries, etc.. you will save money by calling on WA Dunham. Ashley Falls, Mass.
 Col Hardenbergh has completed the large addition and new piazzas to his house and now the painters are shining up the entire residence.
 The road scraper Is getting in its work on Railroad street, and other streets in our village will also be inn proved.
 Samuel A. Eddy was elected one of the secretaries of the Republican state convention held at Hartford last week.
 The annual reunion of the Seventh Connecticut Volunteers will be held at Seaside Park, Bridgeport, on Thursday, September 18th.
 Albert Hull and family, and Mrs Barringer. of New York, who have tar ried few days with Mrs Nellie A. Van Deusen, expect to return home to-day.
 The excursion train run by the H. & c. W. railroad to Poughkeepsie on Saturday passed this station with nine we'll. filled coaches. Seventy-fve board cd the train at this depot.
 Mrs Dr H. M. Sanders and daugh- ters will move to Jersey City, N. J., this week, where Mir Sanders is now employed in an iron works with S5 men under his supervision.
 Out of town clergymen occupied the pulpits of the churches on Sunday, Rev Dr J. G. Oakley at the Methodist, Rev Elisha Whittlesey at Christ church and Rev Mir Bird, a missionary from Syria at the Pilgrim church.
 -Canaanites are returning from Sar- atoga Springs. Miss Emma Lawrence arrived last Wednesday. Mir and Mrs S. 0. Beckley came Friday and Messrs E. D. Lawrence and H. 0. Barnes are expected home this week.
 A goodly number of the members and friends of the Christ church Sun- day school attended the picnic at Twin Lakes on Wednesday. A large picnic from East Canaan and also one from Ashley Falls occurred the same day at the same place.
 All persons outside this school ulStllCb WuO WlSu GO oggCAO G1O dlSA School department should make appli- cation to the principal, H. M. Adams, or to the chairman of the committee, H. c. Barnes, before the term begins, September 3.
 P. c. Cummings and family return ed last Saturday noon from their six weeks outing in Main and other places. s. 0. Cummings and family, of Norwalk also arrived Saturday evening and Sherwood" has charge of Camps drug store while Mir Camp is rusticating in the Adirondacks tor Adriatics, as 8 West Norfolk man speaks it.)
 -Junius Rhoades has moved into his new barber shop in the rear of the post office. The room is handsomely fitted up and is twice the size of his former quarters, yet former size quar- ter pays for one of "June's' or ''Lew's'' artistic hair cuts.
 General Harrison is the standard bearer of the republican party, and General Fisk Is the standard bearer of the prohibition party, but according to our Great Burlington correspondent it seems that General Apathy appears to command each party in Great Barring. ton. On November 9th it will be re- vealed that General Debility has com mand of all the parties in the United States except one, the winner.
 Commencing Friday, August 17th, and until Monday, Aug. 27th, inclusive, the following H. R. R. trains will stop ct Pine Grove Station, to leave passen- gers, and will stop on signal, to receive passengers: Trains Nos. 3, 5, II, 13, 15 and 21, going north also trains Nos. 6, 8, IA and 20, going south. An agent of this company will be stationed at Pine Grove from August 17th to 27th, inclu- sive, and personal baggage for Pine Grove, sent by the aforementioned trains, should be checked to Pine Grove Station and unloaded at that station.
 The Pilgrim church edifce was vir tualy completed last Saturday, even the carpets and seats have been put in and all that remains to be done is to place the chandeliers, the desk and the choil chairs in position. The dedication ex ercises will take place September 5 The detailed program has not been full ly arranged but it will be published 1T khe Nnws of August 29.