Connecticut western news., 1889-10-02
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 2, 1889.
Local News.

Irving s. Barnes returns Friday to his medical studies in New York.
 Mrs Adeline Beckley, of New Hart ford, is visiting relatives here.
 Mrs Nelson Ham has been appoint ed librarian of the Douglas library.
 Mrs Mary W. Ward is ill with bilious fever at her home in Hartford. Jacob Schamerhorn has been repair ing or rebuilding lime kiln at Bethel. Mrs Mary A. Peet has bargained for E. R. Lorrain' mansion on Prospect street.
 -E. D. Strong, of Ct Harrington, visited his parents here from Friday until yesterday.
 pr Ross will be away from Friday morning. Oct. 11th, until Tuesday morning. Oct. 18th.
 Constable O'Donnel, of Cornwall, is certainly entitled to the credit given Dy OuI COIIOSPOAoOne.
 The booths required by the secret ballot law will be erected in the town hall the latter part of this week.
 Col Hardenbergh's house looks very neat in it's new dress ,of cream colored paint with dark trimmings.
 Thomas Van Allstyne's daughters, from Waterville, Conn.,, have been visiting their aunt, Mrs Julius Corbit.
 John s. Reed began his duties, yesterday, as Adams Express agent. between Canaan and Campbell Hall, on the 0. N. E, & w. railroad.
 Mrs Geo B. Coggswell, of Pittsfeld, with her two youngest children are visiting at her fathers, T. B. Strong's. They will remain in Canaan another week or more.
 The Torrington Register says:
 "The venerable Col Justin Hodge, of Riverton, has been confined to his room for the past two months by illness"
 70. P. Gillette, of Danbury, has been sick for the past three weeks with typhoid fever. His father, Lawrence Gillette, of this place, is taking care of him.
 MT Louis Carter, former conductor on the Shore Line railroad, has been appointed conductor on one of the express trains of the 0. N. B. & Western R. R.
 The Connecticut State Teachers association will hold it's 43d annual meeting at 4aNord Oct 1st tand 19. Hotels and railroads will mike the usual reductions to members of the association.
 The Adams Express Go. have extended their line over the Central New England & Western railroad and opened an office in Poughkeepsie. It has also secured control of the news and merchandise business on the new road.
 Patrick Carrigan attempted to gc down the cellar stairs at his home Thursday night, without light. He in someway tripped and missed his footing, falling the full length of the stairs. injuring his back and breaking three of his ribs.
 Conductor Hook, of the Central New England and Western, reports that the parlor cars on his train are well patronized, and lays it to the low rates The parlor cars have six wheels in thei trucks, and ride correspondingly easier than coaches having four-whee ed Winsted Herald.
 Mir and Mrs s. O. Beckley hay, received an invitation to attend th marriage of Mir William Alexande Newton, of New York, and Miss Mar. Emily Doane, niece of Mir and Mrs B Clark Smith, at St James church, Ney London, Conn.,, on Saturday, Oct. 9th at 2 p.m. MT Newton formerly passed his vacations in Canaan and subsequent ly his fathers family boarded here on season. All the Newtons won man. friends in Canaan who will congratnlat the genial "WilP' notwithstanding ht was considered proof against Cupid darts.
 Henry Thomas, who has been con ductor of the train that arrives at Ne, Milford at II IS, resigned his situatio Sept 21, and will go into business i Bridgeport. He has been in the emplo of the road twenty-five or more year' has attended to the interests of tn company faithfully and intelligently, an the officials were 10th to have him go but in-health has compelled him t retire, his physician having told hir