Connecticut western news., 1889-08-07
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 2, 1889.
Local News.

pr G. l.. Hurd will be absent on vacation from August 18th. to 3Oth.
 Persons arrested for drunkenness can now be made to tell where they obtained the liquor.
 -Mlss Anna May Strong, of Vail, Iowa, n visiting her grandparents, MT and Mrs T. B. Strong.
 -Aparty of about 30 persons is being organized at Lakeville to make an excurslon to Poughkeepsie within . week or two.
 The Rev Thomas Harrison, ~ the boy preacher" will conduct the meetings at Pine Grove camp ground after August 2Oth.
 -Messrs Peirce & Freeman are now putting in the switch tracks for their now railroad from their quarries to their lime kilns.
 -Messrs Henry 0. Barnes and Edmund D. Lawrence are now enjoying their annual two weeks outing at Saratoga Springs.
 The Twenty-Seventh Regiment O. v. will hold their annual reunion at Hills Homestead, Savin Rock. on Wednesday, August 28th.
 Says Sam Jones "The Lord made me and then lost tho pattern" Gut this out and remember it next Thanks giving day.-[ Pittsield Sun.
 Prof Harvey and family, and Mrs s. 0. Beckley, John G. Beckley, Sedg- wick Tracy and Maitland Osborne, Jr., are camping at Twin Lakes.
 All of & 0. Beckley' s buildings and fences are being painted by Messrs Henry Beardsley, Charles Beardsley, Jerry Messenger and Charles Gillette.
 THE NEWS is indebted to Mir A. J. Spur, of Chapinville, for copy of the second report of the Dairy Commission CT of the State of Connecticut
 "A young child of James Sughrua, of Hartford, was brought here for burial one day last week. We think this is the first interment in the new Catholic cemetery.
 Oysters, chicken pie, green corn, cucumbers, watermelons, ice cream, soda water and peanuts make camp meeting Q synonymous term for cramp meeting.
 The Central New England & Western R. R. Go. contemplate putting on an observation car between Pough- keepsie and Highlands, for the benefit of excursionists while riding over the bridge.
 A fair-minded lady resident of this village suggests that the gate at the Housatonic railroad crossing on Main St be adorned with g republican flag on one mast and democratic flag on the other.
 We were in hopes to announce to- day that Miss Mary Cummings was convalescing, but her fever still con- inues although it has run over 40 days and ct this writing 6 p. m. Tuesday, she is very weak indeed.
 The Connecticut Sunday School Association will hold a convention in connection with the camp meeting at Pine Grove on Tuesday, Aug. 20th. The programme will be interesting and helpful to all Sunday School workers.
 To EMp1oYEEs-Until Monday, Aug. 18th, inclusive, the following trains will stop at Pine Grove Station, to leave and on signal to receive passengers Trains Nos. g, 13 and 17 going north. also trains Nos. 8, IA and 18 going south.
 The surplus shade trees near the residences of P. 0. Cummings, W. H Camp and the Misses Norton, have beer cut down to let in more sunlight and dispel dampness. The trees in front oi other residences on Main street will soon be trimmed.
 Mir Talmadge Pulver, of Eas, Canaan, exhibits some excellent speci mems of mica which he picked up or his wood lot on Canaan mountain. Ht will soon set force of men at worh blasting the rocks and we shall not bt surprised if he finds 8 rich deposit O. mica there.
 Prof Wiggins predicts that Augus 17th, 1904, Pennsylvania will be fear fully shaken up by an earthquake, bu the rainy weather of the past weel justifes Prof VanKeuren in not predic ting that the boat races at Highlan' lake in Winsted will take place befor the year 1904.
 If you receive circular from any one offering to make you 8 valuabl ife-size crayon portrait of yourself free of charge, on condition that yo' have the portrait framed in a suitabl' frame and exhibit the portrait to you friends as sample, it will be we'll fo you to remember that parties who hav bit at such tempting offers have bee required to pay BIO for such suitaDl frame.
 Hereafter constables, grand juror and justices of the peace are to b elected on the minority representatio plan, just as selectmen, assessors an boards of relief have been for sewers years pest. Though not 90 intended the wording of the election law bill . engrossed makes the new plan open <,ve at tha tovn elections in 1889.-