Connecticut western news., 1890-10-01
Local News.

George l.. Parsons was on the sick list last week, but has recovered.
 Edward Gillette, from Canaan mountain, is clerking for George L.. Parsons.
 Save one-half of your soap bills by using Brussels soap. It contains "no rosin." Fuller X Peet sell it.
 Don't forget that the Danbury fair begins next Tuesday, Oct ', and lasts until Saturday night Excursion rates on all railroads. See adv't.
 The Methodist society will give an excursion to Hartford on Wednesday, Oct 18th. Fare for. round trip only $l.25 Posters giving full particulars will soon be issued.
 MT John Peet, of Brooklyn, N. Y., was here several days last week, visiting his mother, Mrs Harmon Peet, and his brother, Mir J. W. Peet. He returned to Brooklyn on Sunday.
 Right Rev J. Williams, Bishop of Connecticut, will preach in Christ church and administer the Rite of Con- frmation on Saturday afternoon, Oct 4. The service will be at o'clock.
 Believers in dreams may strengthen their faith in the fact that the body of George Brink, the young man who vas drowned in the Esopus creek, was found precisely where his sister dreamed 1t was
 We received copy of "The Berk- shire News Comic Cook Book and Dys- peptic's Guide to the Crave" but we cannot get chance to read 1t as others 'sfroze to it'' and seem determined to read it through before giving us chance to laugh.
 Two and one-half days of good weather brought smiles to the faces of the managers and patrons of the Great Burlington fair. About 12,OOO people were on the grounds on Thursday. On the whole the fair was one of the most prosperous in the history of the society.
 Last Thursday the old and shaky marble steps at the entrance to Christ church, and also in the terrace on the lawn in front of the church, were re- moved and substantial granite steps were substituted. Messrs Snow < Wooster, of Norfolk, furnished the granite steps and placed them in posi- tion.
 At the Democratic congressional convention for the Fourth district, held at Bridgeport last Wednesday, the Hon Robert E. DeForrest, of Bridgeport, was nominated by exclamation. The Prohibitionists of the Fourth district held their convention the same day at South Norwalk, and l.. D. Baldwin, of Plymouth, was nominated for Congress.
 The next meeting of the North Canaan Agassiz association will be held Tuesday evening, Oct ', in the base ment parlors of the Pilgrim church. The officers for the ensuing six months will then be chosen, and reports may be expect from the secretary, treasurer, curator and standing committees. The following subjects will be considered: Mechanism of the Eye" with illustra- tion "Color, primary and secondary, etc" "Quiz," Mathematics in Nature' and Tides
 The popular dramatic cantata of "Esther" will be presented at town hall in this village this Wednesday, eve ming, for the benefit of the Woman 8 Relief Corps. The cast of characters is as follows: Queen Esther, Miss Anna Rudge; King Ahasuerus, Prof l.. w. Harvey; Haman, R. D. Peirce; Zeresh, Miss Ada Mcintyre; Mordecai, D. D. Walter, Mordecai's sister, Mrs J. B. Bierce; Scribe, H. M. Adams; High Priest, J. H. Drake; Herald, Dr H. A Church. J. E. Skiff will be pianist, and Prof Harvey will be conductor. The Canaan correspondent of the Hartford Courant says: Dr Irving Barnes goes to New York this week to begin 8 postgraduate course of five months in the medical college. Miss Elsie M. Adams has engaged to teach school in North Goshen. The term begins Mon. day October G.. Mrs George s. Gil 1ette, 8 long time resident of this will age, removes this week to AlbanY,N. T., and will make that her future residence .... The Rev H. I. Bodley removed his family last week from this village to MI Vernon, N. Y.
 The readers of THE NEWS have { rare treat in store for them. Dr Tal mage has begun Q series of sermons or his recent journey to the Holy Land ''My First Day in Palestine" is the sub ject of his sermon published on the frs page of this issue of THE NEWS. We hope every subscriber will tell the neighbors about this series of sermoDs and induce them to subscribe for HI NEWS; thus at an expense of only .fom cents per areek every subscriber to I'll NEWS can take the trip through th' Holy Land and at the same time keel posted on what transpires elsewhere.
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