Connecticut western news., 1890-09-03

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 School begins next Monday.
 Miss Louise Bragg returns to Mt Holyoke September 10.
 James B. Adams started yesterday on his return to Blair, Neb.
 Norman L. Moon, of Hoboken, N. J., has been spending few days in these parts.
 Mrs Julius Corbit and daughter re- turned last Wednesday evening from their visit at Rockford, I'll.
 The Saratoga excursion train on the Housatonic road arrived here at o'clock last Thursday evening.
 George Benedict's cider mill was fired by an incendiary Friday morning about o'clock and burned down.
 Miss Pearl Ham has gone to New Britain where she enters the Normal school which commenced yesterday.
 George l.. Parsons is having Q won derful sale of the famous Brussels soap. The patent soap trays are very handy.
 A new counterfeit ten cent piece is in circulation, which so closly resembles the genuine that it can easily be passed.
 People come from Canaan and vicinity to Fuller X Peet's to buy the famous Brussels soap (no rosin) and get 8 patent soap tray free.
 Mail Agent Moore, who has been on the Housatonic route for the past seven years, has been transferred to the run between Worcester and Norwich. Principal Adams returned on Tues day of last week from his summer vaca- tion. Mrs Adams is still with her in- valid sister, Mrs Willis Dewey, in Granby.
 Look out for them. The Pough- keepsie Eagle tells as follows how house. keepers are being vlctimized in that vicinity: ''Two swindlers are operating in this section. Their plan is to gain admission to house, display their wares and ask the lady of the house for drink of water, or make some other excuse to induce her to leave the room. During her absence they pick up any valuable object which they see."
 On Tuesday evening of last week while J. l. Bragg was handling cluster of bananas in his store tarantular came out of the cluster, and ran across MT Bragg's hand and disappeared again among the bananas. MT Bragg's clerk, MT Weaver, then carried the cluster out upon the sidewalk and with cane o1 stick finally drove the tarantular out oi the cluster but the varmint hopped around mighty lively upon the ground before he was overtaken and killed. MT Bragg luckily escaped bite from the ugly customer but he has no desire to shake hands again with tarantular. The Bee Man, en route to his family at Winchester, Saturday night, Aug. 23, ! was stranded at Canaan, where Con- necticut Western train pulled out with. out waiting for the Housatonic train 1 just coming into the station. The Bee man got to Winchester and don't you forget it, but the point of this paragraph is that the misadventure proved the pleasing means of knowing Editor s. O Beckley and his beautiful little village After reading his editorial on the way railroads fail to connect at Canaan, tn. Bee man is glad that he got left. Now Editor Bolles, just you call on you generous Canaan compeer and you vii no longer abuse his pretty little town l-Newtown Bee.
 During the last three years thu churches in this village have enter tained and assisted students and mis sionaries from Turkey, Armenia, Africa Alaska and the four quarters of thu globe. They have even been honoret by the presence and poverty of the so1 of an African chief. Now it's abou time to have a church fair on the Mattituck plan describe. elsewhere, for the benefit of old Yaggi yaggi the head chief of the Booliboo Islands. All the old bachelors in Can aan are anxiously waiting for kisses, an, old Yaggiyaggi, who lives near the equa tor, is dreading the approach of winte and is anxiously waiting for fund to buy clothing with; therefore tn case is urgent and such Q fair shoul' be held forthwith.
 BERKSHIRE COUNTY.