Connecticut western news., 1890-09-10
Local Bubbles.


 Mrs Nelson Ham has house full of boarders
 Miss Fannie Holcomb is teaching the school at South Norfolk.
 Miss Minnie Spaulding is teaching the primary school in Norfolk.
 HI. H. Beardsley is painting Joseph Kegler's tenant house at East Canaan.
 Miss Minnie Quinn has charge of the telegraph office at Sharon, for a short time.
 Nearly every family in Canaan m ust be using Brussels soap (no rosin) judg ing from the large quantity Geo. l.. Parsons is selling.
 David s. Cowles Post has been as- signed position in the great procession at Winsted on Thursday, at the dedica- tion of the Memorial tower.
 Gall and see the bargains that am offering in wagons. Fine, good. second hand carriages at low prices. w. G. CARGHL, Canaan, Conn.
 A year ago Brussels soap (no rosin) cost 10 cents bar. To-day, Fuller & Peet are selling it for 8 cents. or 7 bars for 50 cents, and a patent soap tray free.
 A woman has been arrested in Chicago for attempting to stand on her head in the street. The hasty police man didn't even wait to see if she could do it.
 On Thursday last Charles Butcher brought us mushroom or puff-ball as large as peck measure. We did not eat 1t, so we dou't feel uncommonly puffed up.
 Miss Florence Thomson returned Friday to her studies at New York. James Thompson will attend the Rob- bins school at Norfolk, and Hugo Thomson attends the high school at Canaan.
 Francis Bissell, of Bantam, was here Friday attending to his insurance business. He has just taken the agency for the Rhode Island Mutual Live Stock Insurance Co.,, a class of insurance which recommends itself to all owners of live stock.
 Mrs George P. Strong and daugh- ter returned Friday from their visit at Dalton, Mass. MT B. D. Strong, recent ly with R. Fl. Moore at Ct Burlington, is going into the mercantile business at Dalton and will open his store in about two weeks.
 If the New Hartford Tribune is cor rect concerning the price of tobacco, then the growers ought to be happy. The Tribune says:
 "The tobacco crop is reported much above the average. Buyers are showing themselves and several fields have been engaged for future delivery. The prices range from 23 to 26 cents per pound. {" Senator Bartram, of Sharon, was in town last Thursday on his return from the Putnam Phalanx excursion to New | port, R. I. He speaks in glowing terms l of the Inequalities extended to the l Phalanx by the people of Rhode Island | and the courtesies received from the governor of the state and from the mayor of Newport.
 The Rev Horace G. Hoadley, for the past three years pastor of the Con- gregational church at East Canaan, handed in his resignation Sunday, Aug 31 Mir Hoadley has recently become interested in the work of the Evangeli- cal Alliance and has accepted position under that organization, and will make his headquarters in Baltimore. l The Newburgh Journal gives the following sketch of the late Rev Thomas l A. Kenney:
 MT Kenney was the son of Thomas and Margaret Kenney, of Fostertown town of Newburgh. He was born 1T that place in 1855, and educated in the local schools and at Claverack Institute In his early manhood he showed the possession of talents fitting him for the Christian ministry. He became mem Der of the New York Conference in 1881 and his frstappointmentwa was at Florida Orange county. He remained there ono year, and the following year was spent in ministering to the congregations al Washingtonvllle and Salisbury Mills In 1883 and 1884 he was pastor of the church at Bellvale; in 1885, 'e6 and '8i at Glasco, and in 1888 and 'S9 at Green vile, Greene County. Last spring, a the session of the New York annual con ference, he was appointed to the pastorate of the church at Falls Village Conn. He was an earnest preacher anC devoted pastor. Mir Kenney is sur yiyed by wife and one child.