Connecticut western news., 1891-03-18
Local News.
Charles Gillette Is steadily improv-

Mercury only degrees above Zero yesterday morning.
 See what New Milford and Danbury whiskey did at Kent last week.
 Warren Caul has been very i'll with pneumonia the past week but Is improv- ing.
 -R. H. Beardsley is painting and paperinx the interior of Frank Hitch cocks house.
 Mrs Stone, of Bethlehem, has been visiting her son, Rev D. c. Stone, since Saturday.
 The Rev Robert Hunt tells another fish story. Read his interesting letter published today.
 The masons are now at work upon J. s. Adams new house and the rooms are already lathed.
 The Canaan Choral Union will give . concert at town hall on Wednes- day evening. April 8.
 Mrs Frederick Loder and son re- turned Saturday evening from their four weeks visit in New York city.
 Mir John Van Wormer, of Coxsackie, N. Y. has been spending few days the past week st G. w. Dederick's.
 P. c. Cummings is building 8 second story bay window or conserva- tory on the east side of his house.
 Walter Warner and Freddie Loder have been "housed up' with severe colds for several days but are improving.
 Hugh, son of Conductor Clark Lane, of the Housatonic, IS now running as brakeman on Conductor Hinman's train.
 The ladies of the M. B. church will have an Orange Tea" in the church parlors. Friday evening, March 20.
 Dairy men and milk producers are reouested to read Circular No 30 of the c. N. E. & " road, published on page four. ...-
 It is reported that B l.. Gaylord x Son have sold their meat business and fixtures to E J. Prescott, of Canaan Norfolk Tower.
 Fuller Peet's advertisement con- tains but few words but their buildings contain an immense assortment of gene gal r,archondiaa
 Rev F. W. Barnett has nearly re- covered from his recent illness, and he conducted the services at Christ church last Sunday.
 w. Fl. Walsh has secured employ ment in the thread mill at Willimantic and expects to move his family to that place about the first of April.
 Buy only sugar enough to last you until April 1st, as after that date the tariff ceases on sugar, and every barrel of sugar will lose about six dollars in value.
 The re-opening or re-dedicatory ser vices of the Congregational church at New Hartford were held last Friday at 20. ID. Rev Dr Eddy, of Canaan, offer cd the re-dedicatory prayer.
 Mir and Mrs Julius Corbit. of this village, and President Randall of the National Iron Bank, Falls Village, ac cepted an invitation to dine with Dr and Mrs Clemans last Thursday the oc- casion being the Dr's birthday.
 The following item was clipped from the Norfolk correspondence in the Winsted Evening Citizen of March 12: .Harlow Deming, 8 new conner, died Tuesday of pneumonia after onlya few days sickness, aged "A. Burial at South Canaan Thursday.
 An exchange says: The recent tun- nel accident in New York will compel Governor Hill to ask for the extradition of some of the men employed ou the New Haven, Conn.,, accommodation train, which will place him in an awk- ward predlcament..
 .-4u0 WiuItH tcfm OA Iho SOhooA ~ Canaan Valley closed fast Friday. The teacher, Mr J. NJ. Roys, called at THE NEWS office fast Saturday and ex- hibited samples of writing done by the children at the beginning of the term and at the close of the term. The chil- ,lren have made remarkable progress and have acquired g very handsome and desirable style of penmanship.
 The personal property of the estate of the late W. F. Harrison will be sold at public auction on the premises iD Cornwall, Conn.,, (unless previously dis. posed of at private sale) on Friday. Mar 20, at 10 a. ID. The property consists of p COWS and heifers, two horses, wag- ops, sleighs. 10 tons of hay, rye straw, a large amount of farm machinery and implements too numerous to mention.
 -Barb wire makes an excellent fence, bnt like a dose of medicine 1t should be us.1 with judgment The Iowa Bart Wire is steel fencing of the highest orade. and IS used from Maine t" Texas If1ou need 8 safe and ornamental fence for use on the highway, the Preston Braided Barbless Fencing is strong an' handsome. It costs about $ cents TO- for single strand. These and many other kinds of fencing are sold b, Tracy, rsrbox < Robinson 7o and ol Asylum st.. Hartford.
 Last Thursday afternoon the engin. and five cars of an east bound freight or the c. N. E. & w. road ran of the trach ak . point about one mile east of Win