Connecticut western news., 1888-06-27
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The Stockbridge house has already

The Stockbridge house has already 60 guests.
 The formal opening of the Casino at Stockbridge last Tuesday afternoon was attended by several hundred persons.
 The new Hurlbut Paper Go. con- menced to make paper at their mill in South Lee on Monday of last week.
 Prof T. c. Schurr, of Great Barring ton, will place his fine natural history collection on exhibition at Saratoga The next meeting of the Housatonic Valley Methodist Ministers Association | will be held at Lee the second Tuesday in July.
 Mrs Wm H. Vanderbilt and on..were the guests of her daughter, Mrs Wm. D. Sloane, at "Elno Court" Lenox, last week.
 The graduating exercises of the Lee High school will be held at the Memo rial hall in that place on the evening of June 29th. Laraja, of Pittsfeld, will furnish the music.
 A Monterey correspondents says: We are promised an abundance of apples if the blossoms don't blast. and if we have one to five hundred blossoms, shall have enough to supply the nation.'
 Plans for round house to be located at Pittsfeld are being drawn by Super visor Cogill of ths Housatonic railroad. It will be built of brick with marble arches, and will te commenced this. season. ..- .a Rev H. L Bodley, of North Adams, who had planned to spend the summer in the West, has now decided to accom- pany Bishop Paddock on his trip to Europe, sailing the 3Oth.
 Owing to lack of enthusiasm Pittsfeld will have no Fourth of July celebration. Arrangements had been made but sufficient financial support could not be obtained to carry out the plans, and so the project was aban- doned.
 President Bliss, of the Boston and Albany, is, said to display the most stylish coach and span seen on the streets of Pittsfeld. The ladies of his family use landau with a span of chestnuts and are accompanied by driver and footman in tall hats, and green coats. A destructive fire occurred at Lee last week, and there is strong suspicion of incendiarism. A business block was badly damaged and the entire stock of dry goods and groceries owned by Sparks & Graham was consumed, and many other parties lost heavily. The total loss is estimated at about $45, 1000. Mir and Mrs Josiah H. Hulett of Sandisfeld, will celebrate the 73d ami yersary of their marriage July 4. The aged couple were both born in 1791, the husband on February 28 and the wife in August. They have lived in their present house ever since their marriage and have had four children, the oldest born in 1918 and the youngest in 1884. MT and Mrs Hulett are probably. the oldest married couple in Massachu- setts, if not in New England. -[Spring- field Republican. The new Trinity church at Lenox was consecrated with imposing ceremonies on Tuesday of last week. Bishop Potter of New York, and Paddock of l Massachusetts, assisted by the rector and clergymen of neighboring parishes, among whom were Bodley of North Adams, Foster of Great Harrington and Ellis of Sheffield, conducted the servi- ces. The music was from the surpliced choir of the church of the Advent in Boston. Among the prominent persons present were Mrs McElroy and Miss Nellie Arthur, sister and daughter, respectively, of the late President Arthur, whose last public act was the laying of the corner stone of this mag niicent structure. The interior of the church was profusely and tastefully decorated with ferns and flowers, while the memorial window to the late ex- President was covered with passion flowers. The sentence of consecration was pronounced by Bishop Paddock and the regular consecration service was read in connection with the morn ing prayer, by the bishops and assisting clergymen. The sermon was by Bishop Potter, and was followed by the com munion service with Bishop Paddock as celebrant. At the conclusion of the ceremonies the clergymen with their families and friends were invited to 8 lunch in Sedgwick hall.
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