Connecticut western news., 1889-04-03
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1889.
Local News.

-Wm. Drum has moved into his new house on Church street extension.
 A. W. Parsons has been appointed postmaster at Ashley Falls, Mass.
 George s, Dunning has been ap- pointed postmaster at East Canaan.
 James Tullis and family have moved to Portland, Conn. Canaanites are 10th to part with such an estimable family.
 Principal H. M. Adams. of the High school, will spend the greater part of the vacation in Hartford and vicinity.
 Peter Hicks has moved to East Canaan, and Frank Silvernale, of Falls Village, has taken the rooms in Mrs David Scott's house on West Main street, vacated by MT Hicks.
 R. w. Ford, clerk of the Warner House, visited his family at Hartford oyer Sunday. He was accompanied by Miss Mable Watson as 8 guest of his daughter.
 A postal card received Monday from Manistee, Mich, states that Miss Lottie Gillette's condition is very en- couraging and her typhoid fever is gradually subsiding.
 Capt and Mrs Bartle's silver we'd ding at Ore Hill, March 28, was such a remarkable gathering that for the occasion we suspend our rules in regard to publishing lists of wedding presents.
 One of the Fl. & c. W. railroads s new mogul engines arrived last Thurs day. It has six driving wheels and is full of ginger, and with "Ginger" at the throttle it skips around lively with the gravel train.
 -E. D. Strong and family have re- turned from the south and have been visiting friends here several days. On and after April 18th MT Strong may be found ct the store of R. H. Moore, in Ct Harrington.
 Mir and Mrs 0. E. Vroman, of Brookfield, are visiting at D l. Peirce's Robert Peirce has also been home few days on vacation from the military school at Poughkeepsie. Hs IS accompanied by his roommate.
 Mir R. Frisbie, of North Kent, is an excellent gardner, yet he little dreamed when he raised those luscious parsnips that the editor would sample them, but . friend in New Hartford has kindly given us few of them.
 The H. < c. W. Railroad Go. have removed the roofs and side coverings from the bridges over the Blackberry and Housatonic rivers. It is said that all wooden bridges on the line are being thus treated, preparatory to substitut- ing iron bridges.
 Rev Elisha Whittlesey, of Hart ford, preached in Christ church last Sunday. In the evening many members of other churches were present, and Mir Whittlesey took occasion to congratu- late Canaan people on the Christian unity existing here.
 The Fl. & O. w. Railroad Go. have bought Moses F. Grants 400 acre farm at Grantsville. Price s6,OOO. They will put in number of side tracks there and probably build a round house. Some think the repair shops will also be moved there from Hartford.
 Rev T. H. Baragwanath and family went to New York last Monday, where Mir B. will attend conference. At the last quarterly meeting held here the official board, in behalf of themselves and the church, voted to request the bishop to continue Mir Barsgwanath as pastor of the M. E. church here.
 Among the many beautiful maga- zines published for our little folks and one which is rapidly gaining favor throughout our whole land, is "Our Little Ones and The Nursery" pub ished by The Russell Publishing Co.,, 36 Bromield St., Boston. Only s1.5O a year.
 With this issue the editor completes six ksoonsecutive years of service on THE NEWS. No exchange of tafy between subscribers and editor is required on this occasion both have lived through the ordeal, which fact alone speaks volumes for each others endurance. Nuf Ced.
 Leonard Lawrence and wife have been living at Wm Walters during the winter but have returned to their farm ct East Canaan. Mir Waller and family accompanied them and will remain there while MT Walters new house is being built in this village. Mir Lawrence has leased his farm the past two years, but will now work it again with the aid of his son, W. D. Lawrence, who has returned from Syracuse, N. Y.
 -Dr H. l.. Ross, our enterprising and popular dentist, is meeting with unbounded success in all branches of $ his profession. For the past two or three weeks he has been doing large amount of work for the family of Mir J. J. Evans. of Bethel, and judging from tho useful and ornamental presents winch have found their way to the 0uninl Dr's odace of late, we should say
 o4 his vork vas highly appreciated.