Connecticut western news., 1889-06-05
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1889.
Local News.

Summer.
 -Leafy June.
 -Buttercups and daisies.
 -Fire-hies and horn-bugs.
 Last calls your dog registered
 -Dr Camp has purchased a new surrey.
 Mrs s. l.. 0. Harvey is visiting friends in New Marlboro.
 Mrs John Ramsay, of Jersey City, is visiting ut s. W. Barnes
 A lot of mems and boys boots, at bargain, at G. s. Dunning's.
 -The Methodist parsonage is being painted by H. Beardsley and his assis- tants.
 Geo. Wooster was stricken with paralytic shock last Saturday but has nearly recovered.
 A quantity of mems and boys cloth ing, to be closed out at low figure, at Ut. S. Ounn1ngS- S.
 Mrs M. w. Ward, of Hartford, visited relatives here last week and returned home Saturday afternoon.
 John Milleg has received 8 back pension of g, SSO and will also receive in future SIP per month.
 A nice new line of flannel and wor- sted dress goods, satines, etc., at G. s. Dunning's.
 Frank A. Peet is giving his house, office, barn and fences their biennial coat of paint J. s. Mundry is wield ing the brush.
 It is said that brakeman Olds was the 18th man from West Stockbridge who has been killed while in the em- , ploy of the Housatonic Railroad Go. .-Children's day will be observed next Sunday with appropriate services at the Pilgrim church in the morning and at the M. E. church in the evening.
 The officers of the Housatonic road have investigated the causes of the recent collision near Trumbuu Church, and Saturday discharged Train-Dis- patcher Flynn and Conductor Curtis.
 The law now requires that school districts shah call their annual meeting in June, five days notice being required to make it legal, for the election of off cers and the transaction of other busi- ness.-Rockville Journal.
 The overwhelming disaster in Pennsylvania is without 8 parallel in history. It appeals to the heart and pocket book of humanity. Steps will be immediately taken by residents of Canaan to raise money for the sufferers in the Conemaugh valley.
 This week THE NEWS gives Memo rial day the right of way by fagging and temporarily side-tracking some correspondence and local items, also the report of the public meeting held at Salisbury on Monday evening to express joy at the finding of the lost child. Next week THE NEWS will pub fish sketch of Dr J. B. Lawrence, 8 native of Canaan, who died suddenly at Wichita, Kan, May 28. Other deferred articles will also appear in THE NEWS of June 18th.
 We believe that this town has never made an appropriation for the obser- vance of Memorial day. Last October the men in town meeting assembled refused to appropriate even one dollar for that purpose, but notwithstanding that fiat of "the lords of creation" last Thursday the ladies refused to let the veterans go hungry, and with their own hands prepared them 8 good dinner. Here you have two refusals-frst the the men's-second the ladies'. Which action is the most creditable to the town? In It's report of the Memorial exercises at New Milford last Thursday The Gazette says:
 'The Rev Henry Upson in the course Qf his remarks severely censured the town of New Milford, for not appropriating proper sum of money for covering the expenses of Memorial Day and for permitting the veterans who had risked their lives for their country and sacrificed so much for its welfare, to incur the whole of the expense necessary for the appropriate observance of the day. His remarks were we'll received and 1t was acknow- ledged that the towns lack of patriot ism was much to be deplored. = THE NEWS was misinformed in regard to memorial services in the Roman Catholic churches in this vicin- ity. Quite 8 number of Rev Patrick Fox's congregation misunderstood his announcement on Sunday, May 26th. He announced that services would be held May 30, and urged all to attend. Inasmuch as Memorial day occurs on May 30 many supposed the services were to be patriotic memorial services. The services were held as announced, but were in observation of Ascension day. A number.o of Protestants attended expecting to hear patriotic memorial sermon. The incident shows that patri .otic memorial services in the Roman Catholic churches would be hailed with delight by Protestants as we'll as Catho lies. Everyone knows that hosts o Roman Catholics served in the Unior army in defense of their adopted country, and it seems to us that 1t would be eminently proper and appropriate for the Roman Catholic churches te hold memorial services to recognize the