Connecticut western news., 1890-01-22
Local News.

laSt MonuRy.
 Where is that cold wave that was due here Tuesday?
 Fred Capron was home from New Hartford over Sunday.
 Editor Rodemeyer was in town from Friday until Monday.
 Fuller & Peet commenced their inventory last Wednesday.
 W. B. Hall & Co.'S excursion takes place tomorrow (Tharsday).
 New York city people look upon La Grippe as the Inevitable.
 Lawyer Taft. of Unionville. called on friends in town last Monday after noon.
 Its about time for somebody to rise up and say, the backbone of Winter is broken"
 John H. Pulver and Chas H. John son attended the Masonic grand lodge at Hartford last week.
 The pouring rain last Wednesday caused an indefinite postponement of Warehouse Nash's auction.
 Lent begins February 18th. Holy week commences March Both. Good Friday occurs April 4th.
 Vital statistics of the town of North Canaan for the year 1889: Births 36, 1.ckhe IT
 A prominent physician of Bridge port estimates that 6, ,0OO people in that city are now on the sick list.
 =" Is marriage failure ?" Not in Great Harrington, where last year there were 65 marriages and 65 births.
 Some parents have taken their children ont of school as precaution against the spread of scarlet fever.
 The farmers motto =" make hay while the sun shines" The doctors motto-make money while the grippe rages.
 Three of James Quinn's children have been ill with scarlet fever during the past week, but all are getting along nicely.
 By remarkable coincidence "honors are easy between Huntsville correspondence and the poem on the first page.
 Bear in mind that the Madame Fry Concert Go. appear at town hall next Saturday evening. Tickets for sale at post-office, 50 and 35 cents.
 A. " Bartholomew, formerly assist ant postmaster here, has left Topeka, Kans., and is now 8 conductor on the cable cars in San Francisco
 pr. Camp estimates that there were at least 90 persons on the sick list in this town last Wednesday. Most of them had the grippe, and in some in stancsswhole families were down with it.
 The statement that the Gulf Stream had changed its course is denied, hence that theory as the cause of recent mild winters has been exploded. Does the universal use of steam and electric light affect the weather
 John B. Reed was taken with cold and nervous prostration on Tuesday of last week. The excitement attending the fire at Pilgrim church, and the collision at Union depot the next even- ing unnerved him. He is not improv- ing, and has high fever to-day tTuesday.)
 Last Thursday morning as the 5 g. m. train for Hartford was being made up at this station passenger car was pushed of an open switch and landed across the junction where it remained three hours before it was pulled upon the rails, thus delaying trains on both roads that length of time.
 The Wilson Point freight train, so called, on the Housatonic road runs 236 miles daily, or, more strictly speaking, nightly, as it leaves Pitsfeld at p. m. and gets back there the next morning. The men on that train double the road nightly and certainly earn their crackers and cheese and Herrick's pills.
 The Women's Relief Corps is moi fully organized in this town, at least the officers have rot been installed. The organization cannot be completed until some time in February, owing to the resignation of State Department Presi dent Mrs L. T. Paight. Tier successor when elected, will install the Canaan officers.
 -Harlow Root was recently grumb ling or complaining to J. A. Underwood because his bees gathered SO little honey during the past wet Summer Jay face tiously replied, Harlow, you should have gone down to Naugatuck and bought some rubber overcoats for youl bees so they could have worked in the rain" We omit Hsrlow's reply.
 ID. L. Freeman went to Brooklyn, N. Y., last Monday to consult with the firm who made the seats for the Pilgrim church. He will make arrangement. for reseating the church. A number ol the seats were entirely destroyed by tho fire. but possibly the remainder can b. repaired.