Connecticut western news., 1888-04-18
WEDNESDAY, APRIL IS, 1888.
Local News.

Miss Sarah Eddy returned Friday from week s sojourn at Hartford.
 Miss Laura R TVS has been secured as matron of the Temporary Home. Work on tue foundation wall of the Pilgrim church was commenced last Thursday.
 Splendid maple sugar, in small cakes, only IS cents per pound, at Geo. l.. Parsons.
 There is a woman in Danbury who is not considered at all old, yet she has had nine husbands.
 The first bear of the season was in the village last Thursday. He was muzzled, however.
 Hon V. c. Beers, of Cornwall Bridge, received car load of tobaccs at this station last Friday.
 Rev D. c. Stone will exchange pulpits with Rev Mir Buell. of Falls Village and South Canaan next Sunday Last week Mrs Adeline Beckley was very i'll at her home in New Hart ford, but she is slowly improving.
 At the annual meeting of the Pilgrim church, held last Saturday, the old board of officers were reelected.
 Miss Louise Smith and Miss Mabel Spencer, both of New Hartford, were I'm rlox- until Monday.
 Charles Gillette Is enlarging Con- gressman Changers barn and will paint the congressman's residence and all his out-buildings. An exchange says Instead of making politics your business, young man, it Is much better, in the long run, to make, business your politics.
 Clara l.. Knowles has been brought from the Temporary Home for Neglect ed and Dependent Children at Canaan aud is now with Mrs k. A. Stone of this village, one of the directors of the institurion.-[New Milford Gazette.
 Entsrprising farmers should con- vince their less wide-awake brethren of the importance and benefit of exhibi- ting their live stock aud farm products at the Canaan live stock exhibition, to be held May l.
 The water pipes on Prospect street and Railroad street have been frozen since January, and now that the thaw- ing process has commenced many breaks are discovered in the lines The outlay for repairs will be heavy.
 Dr G. l.. Hurd, dentist, will, on and after Aprll 23l, be at the office in the rear of w. H. Camps drug store, Mon. days, from l to p. m., and Fridays from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m., until further notice in these columns.
 pr Gilman and family leave town to-day. The house which they will occupy in Bristol will not be ready fol them until the middle of May, but iu the meantime Mrs Gilman and tine children will remain at her fathers 1T Barkhamsted.
 If our exchanges will gratuitously mention the fact that the Litchfield County Temporary Home for Neglected and Dependent Children has beer removed to Robert VanDeusen's, al Canaan, Conn. they will confer favo, on the board of charities and all others interested iu the Home.
 The R,v H. H. Kelsey, of West Winsted, has accepted the call to the Fourth Congregational church in Hart ford, and will be associated with tht Rev Graham Taylor, who was recent, elected to the Professorship of Practica Theology in the Harvard Theological Seminary.
 The first excursion of the season vii take place Wednesday, April 25th, tC Hartford, under the auspices of the M E. society, of Canaan. Train will leave Canaan at g. 40 a. m., East Caraan 9.46 Norfolk l0.03, returning on train leay ing Hartford at 4.2o p. m Oaly SIP; for round trip. Tickets limited to 2OJ
 Franklin Brown was taken i'll las Friday with a nervous difficulty and In been obliged to give up his position as assistant postmaster. He has over taxed his nervous system by over-study as for several terms he was neither ab sent nor tardy at the high school, an' was considered remarkably proficien for his age.
 Editor Rodem eyer of the Norwall Gazette and Record has overtaxed hi eyes, and for the past two weeks he ha been obliged to remain indoors an, wear a noodwink. Billy" Duncan act as stenographer for him. The Gazett and Record are as spicy as ever, and n one would mistrust that Rodemeyer wa s'going it blind"
 The Lime Rock Glee Club, Pro L. W. Harvey, conductor, will give Q Old Folks Concert Tn the town hall i this.Tillage, on Friday evening, Apr 2Oth Concert begins at 7.30 sharl Prof Harvey will give some recitation during the evening. Reserved sea tickets go on sale this morning at tn post office. Buy them early, or els stand up, same as part of the audienc did whicn our Lime Rock correspond snt mections.