Connecticut western news., 1888-02-29
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 29, 1888.
Local News.

w. A. OunhAm IS Stlll 6ellng those Arst class sewing machines for s2O.
 -Mrs Dr H. NJ. Sanders will move tQ1.pWan Foot's house on. Church St.. April 1st- ~ Rev Mir Mead, of Falls Village, will preach in the Pilgrim church next Sunday. x, Congressman Granger, and daught- sxs returned from Washington D. c. lAst Saturday.
 -The Canaan high school observed WAahington's birthday by appropriate exercises,
 -E R I,orralne has taken the con, tract to build the Pilgrim church, and complete it in July. '' ..
 David Scott will move back from She @eld, Mass, to his farm in Wetogue, about the lst of April. ~ Do not forget that the Peter Moore farm, near this village, will be sold at saetaon tomorrow, March l. Mrss Elizabeth F. Edwards, sister of Mrs Abraham Lincoln, died suddenly in Springfield, nA, Wednesday.
 Communion services will be held in Che Pilgrim church and in the Metho- dist church next Sunday morning
 John Soules, of this village, has caught 371 pickerel through the ice at Twin Lakes during this month of Feb xuary.
 -Remember that Patrick Finnegan's auction at the Pesse farm at Twin Lakes, take place next Wednesday, March 2.
 North Canaan proves to be one of the thirty Connecticut towns in which no death occurred during the month of Jaauary.
 -Mn F s Sparkling, of Norfolk, has been visiting at l. Bragg's for several days, and her husband arrived Saturday to remain over Sunday.
 's The Hartford Courant says The Rev Hiram Eddy, of Canaan. amour css that in the coming campaign he shau take the stump for protection. -C. H. Preston, of West Cornwall. w.s in town last Thursday. He goes to Brooklyn, N. r., next week to resume his former position as bookkeeper. At the Leuten service in Christ church tomorrow, Thursday evening, the sermon will be preached by the Rev @. w. Grifath. Subject, Responsibility for Belief"
 About 75 persons attended the Pill grim sociable at w Barnes last We'd nesday evening. All the pilgrims and strangers were cordially welcomed and agreeably entertained by the host and ho tess.
 The frame and roof of B R. Lor- raine's new house on Prospect street has been raised and sheathed. The structure presents m imposing appear ancs. It will be shingled on ali side aa ysll as the roof
 1-Rsv E. H. Roys, of Spencertown. N. Y. was in Canaan last Tuesday and Wednesday. He had besn to Winsted arranged with Messrs Brown < Wooster to manufacture his recently invented Combination Book Holder.
 -R D. Curtis, and daughter, Jessie, oi Collinsville, Conn, attended the : funeral of Mir Jerome Curtis at Mill River, and on their return visited at JC Richmond's from Thursday after ' no6n until Fnday afternoon. .s- srrDr c " Camp "bust his biler" last eakaf.isy, or in other words through sonA neglect the boiler of the steam hsaaer in his house burst and Jack Frost took possession of the house un. til stoves coald be rigged up.
 Julius Corbit will tear down his house, the John A Bsckley homestead, on High St aud will build . modern style mansion on the site It is . pity Co destroy the main part of that house better timber and lumber were nevel put into . building and the frame is 8 solid ono, and good honest carpenter and mason work was done there. Bet him new hst the intrinsic value of tn, old house will exceed the new one ant * would out live it.
 An exchange tells of . new gam called Editors D1hght," which i played in this wise Take . sheet o ordinary writing paper and fold carefully. incloeing . bank note suf6ci ont to pay all arrears and . year il advance and mail to the editor. Wha adds immensely to tho pleasure of tn game is to send along the name of ne, subscriber or two accompanied by cash Keep your eye on the editor, and if
 smile adorns his face the trick work like charm. Now is an appropriat time to play the joke. Just try it.
 The Tarihville correspondent of tn Hartford Courant writes as follow about former resident of East Csnaar
 "Mr Porter White, who has been resident of this village for over twent years, w.s . stage driver on the liar ford | Albany ino between Hartfor and New Hartford in 1886 and '37. an
 also in '62, '63 and '64 In the earl
 winter of '38, when driving stage fro
 Norfolk to Sheffield, Mass, Mr Whi
 had the honor of having a passenge
 0eneral Winfield Scott and friends. B
 is now, and has bssn for ssvsEal year