Connecticut western news., 1889-08-07
Thomas Riley and family moved hArA from Hartford SatnrflaY


 here from Hartford Saturday.
 Tt is suspected that umbrella manu- lecturers are also making the weather this season. ...
 -C. M. Humphrey is digging a cellar under the west wing of his house, and is Ssing the dirt to build sidewalk. Master Howard Bierce, five years old, has been i'll for couple of weeks with intermittent fever, but is improv- ing.
 Letters remaining unclaimed and advertised in Canaan post office, Aug. 1st, were as follows George Banson, T J. DeVan.
 It is rumored here to-day (Tuesday) that MT Egbert Hollister, of Great Harrington, is very ill. We think if MT Hollister was dangerously i'll our Great Harrington correspondent would mention it.
 Miss Minnie Quinn returned last Saturday evening from visit of about two weeks with friends in Millerton, N. Y. About Sept 1st she expects to go to Millerton and learn the mysteries of telegraphy.
 HI. D. Humphrey has made exten- sive and expensive alterations and improvements on the interior of his house. Joseph Mundry did the grain ing and paper hanging and is now painting the exterior of the house.
 Mrs William Bennett has suffered for years with swollen or Liberated limb and at present is very ill and con- fined to her bed. MT Bennett fell and broke his shoulder blade few weeks ago but is gradually recovering from his injuries.
 Presiding Elder Travis preached in the M. E. church ast.Sunday morning, and Rev Dr J. G. Oakley of New York, preached there in the evening. Rev P. M. Burch, of Middletown, N. r., preached at Pine Grove camp ground in the afternoon.
 Good riddance to bad rubbish-we refer to those unsightly patent medi- cine advertisements which have for years, notwithstanding our oft repeated protest, appeared on the fourth page of THE NEWS. We have finally got rid of those eyesores by transferring our patro- mage from New York publishing company to newly established Boston publishing company. Undesirable advertisements will never again appear in THE NEWS if we can prevent it. Please show this paper to your neigh bors and ask them to subscribe for THE NEWS.
 On Thursday last Mir Talmadge Pulver, of East Canaan, finished trough ing several hundred cords of wood down his land on the east side of Canaan mountain. The trough is 1139 feet long and one foot wide. It has been very interesting sight to see the wood come down the trough ct 8 speed that eclipses an express train running mile g minute. It requires only eleven or twelve seconds for stick of wood to run the 1139 feet and as it leaves the trough it leaps 90 feet horizontally be- fore striking the ground, and the veloci- ty is % great that stick frequently bounds 100 feet further after striking the ground. Last Thursday afternoon Mir D. l.. Peirce and the writer accepted MT Pulver's invitation to witness the wood rush down the mountain. Stand ing at a safe distance in front of the lower end of the trough and looking upward the swiftly approaching wood looked like number of boys rapidly coasting down the hill Standing at one side of the lower end of the trough and viewing the wood sailing 80 feet through the air reminded one of acro- bats making the flying somersault in a circus Charley Smith, who works for Mir Pulver, acted ss train dispatcher and started the wood at the upper end of the trough. Had not the supply of wood given out we could gladly have remained there for hours and witnessed it's descent.