Connecticut western news., 1888-01-11
WEDNESDAY, JAN. II, 1888.
Local News.

What is worth having IS worth pay ing for.
 Geo B. Hill and family moved to Bridgeport last Monday.
 Michael Commins goes to Bridge port to day as clerk in Ferguson < Peet's store.
 MT and Mrs Lemuel Bulmau, of Lime Rock, visited relatives here over Sunday.
 The Neptune Club hold their an- nual reunion thls Wednesday Ievening at Wmsted.
 Don't neglect the opportunity but bear in mind that,
 "Of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: It might have been.' "
 MT Castle, of R,xbury, bought and shipped car load of leaf tobacco at this station last Wednesday.
 Congressman Granger is member of the committee on Pacific railroads. and of the committee on war claims.
 The Pilgrim church sociable will be held this Wednesday, evening at the residence of D L. Peirce. All are cordially invited.
 Congressman Granger introduced in Congress Wednesday bill appropri- ating $2OO. 900 fnr post office and cus- tom house building in Bridgeport
 Wonders never cease. Smoke Bennett, Sloan & Co.'S Invigorator" !" Ten cent cigar for 5 csnts. at Rhoades' 1, the barber.
 -Kneeland J. Munson and daughter, Della, of Millerton, N. Y, started yesterday for Bluffton, s. O., to visit relatives.
 -Messrs J. 5. Reed and W. G.. Humphrey have sold their house on Reed street, now occupied by O. P. Gillette. to Patrick Flnnegan who lives on the Psase farm at Twin Lakes.
 The Rousatonic Railroad Co.'S New York limited express trains were not withdrawn yesterday, Jan. 1O; on the contrary official notice was given that the present. arrangement of trains will be continued through the winter.
 Miss Fannie Holcomb and Emma Rndemeyer who recently took the requir ed exampation to cutter the Normal School, received a certificate of approval tho cahNnl ok They will both remain in the High school until June.
 Dear correspondents. We wish 7 U would break the Sabbath" Yes, breah the word Sabbath" all to pieces so that you cannot use 1t again. It would save us the trouble of substituting the word Sunday for Sabbath in your correspon- dence.
 We are prepared to do your job printing in the best possible manner and at the lowest living prices. Send in your orders and don't wait for some drummer to come along soliciting work and have to pay considerable more for 1t than we charge, which you must do in order to pay the extra expense incurr- ed by employing drummers.
 Rev D. H. Roys, pastor of the NJ. E. church at Spencertown, N. Y, has invented a neat device for holding music books and other volumes open, and has applied for a patent on the the same. He Is native of Canaan. We have been told that in his yo ungeI days he invented a musical way of marking out corn ground.
 Passenger conductors on the Hous atomic keep 8 record of all communication and trip tickets and mileage books, as we'll as of regular tickets. ..It is for { short time only, "said a ticket-punche to Q reporter" Mir eveuson wants tc find out how much each train earns and which parts of the road pay best -[ [Newtown Bee.
 We are indetlel to Hon Robert E Lawrence, of Wichita Kansas, formerly of Canaan, Conn. for copy of the De cember number of the Wichita Jourua of Commerce, which IS published bJ the Wichita board of tra4le. It Is vol ume 9 X 12 inches in size and contain nearly l20 pages of information in re gard to the phenominal growth O Wichita. The volumn Is illustrated with number of views of the principa buildings in that booming city. Fron June 1886 to June 1887 the numbe of buildings erected there Is 600.
 We acknowledge the receipt O handsome calendars for 1888 from tn, Messrs A T X NJ Roraback iusuranc, agency of Canaan; also from Messr Wild & Stevens, Boston Mass, manufact urers of print'r's rollers; Bingham Dale, kOHara, New York city. manufacturer of printers rollers; Me>srs 0. I. Hool 0, Lowell, Mass the well-known prnpri etors of Hoods Sarsa aparilla- The Pong keepsie Eagle also sends us Q copy o their handsomely illust 8 annual fo 1888.
 -Rsv H. I B alley, of North Adam Mass, exchanged with Rev F. w. Bar nett last Sunday. It is nearly six year since MT Bodley resigned the rector ship of Christ Church in this place t accept larger parish at North Adams In his sermon last Sunday evening h