Connecticut western news., 1891-09-24
Miss Susie Oakley, of Goshen. N .Y. visited at Dr Lees, Tue 3day.

have to buy chewing gum for all those cows?"
 Fred S. Parsons returned to New York Monday to resume the study of dentistry.
 MT John T. Bond of Kingston N. Y., visited his son, the Rev T. s. Bond, last Monday.
 The man who does not find adver- Using profitable generally finds business improbable.
 Mir and Mrs Charles Smith and son of Amenia, N. Y., spent Sunday at Mir Warren McIntyre's.
 Black ice cream is now produced by incorporating charcoal and prune juice into the compound.
 Mercury had the audacity to hug Ninety in the shade last Friday noon, and coquetishly hugged Seventy-fve the next noon.
 The Housatonic excursion for Mag ara last Tuesday. comprised eight we'll filled cars. Mir and Mrs E. w. Warner went from Canaan.
 Miles T. Ingraham, who has been absent for few weeks, has returned to Canaan and taken up his old quarters at the Warner House.
 Mrs J. T. Bond was able to go from the M. B. parsonage to the Warner House for her meals for the first time in three weeks, last Tuesday. I--
 Large stock of stationery, includ- ing Cranes and S. Ward Co.'S. extra fine papers just received at Humphreys Drug Store. Call and examine.
 pr F. P. Whittlesey has improved since he arrived in Canaan He now eats we'll, sleeps we'll and is able to re- ceive callers although he does not leave his room.
 A thief in a Massachusetts town first threw out of the window the cork leg of the man he had come to rob, and then coolly went through the house at his leisure
 Alfred Evans, while firing engine No 13, on the o. N. D. X W. road last Tuesday morning received a painful burn on his left hand and face from an explosion of gas.
 John Cullen, who was killed by the cars at New Milford Sept 16, hailed from West Stockbridge and is said to be the thirty-seventh from that town to have suffered death in similar way.
 The public schools of the village will probably open next Monday morn ing. Any pupils out of the district de- string to attend the fall term should make immediate application to the principal, H. M. Adams, or to the chair man of the committee, A. A. Hubbard.
 Mrs Lynda R. Culver, adopted daughter of Eugene Webster of Canaan Valley, is studying medicine at Laconia N. H. and will enter the Medical and Surgical College at Boston, Mass. at the next term, for medical practice. Mrs. Culver is widow with one little daugh- ter. Her parents and many friends in these parts will be glad to learn of her success.
 Deputy Sheriff Michael Slocum, of Winsted, is very sick with dysentery and is not likely to recover. He is un- consious most of the time. His brother, the Rev Father Slocum of Norwalk, was summoned to his bedside Tuesday LATER. Sheriff Slocum was just alive at II o'clock Wednesday forenoon but a still later report says that he died Wed nesday afternoon.
 Mir Herman Gurst. of Hartford, has bought out R. J. Dillon restaurant at Union depot in Canaan. MT and Mrs Gurst will give their personal supervision to the business and have already made many improve ments in the appearance of the room. They placed neat oilcloth on the floor and provided several tables in addition to the lunch counter. Everything looks neat and attractive and we hope that MT Gurst's enterprise will be appreci- ated and that he will secure enough patronage to richly compensate him fol his outlay.
 The Elmore family (from London, England) drew a good house and gave g fine concert at the town hall last Friday evening. Many of the seventeen mum. bers on their program received an en- core, and were kindly responded to- The piano furnished with the hall an6 used on this occasion is far too large ol powerful for the size of the room, an6 the singers labored under the disad vantage of trying to drown the instru ment. The piano also sounded loude because it stood on the stage where i
 echoes more than when standing on th ! floor in front of the stage. It is hoped that the Fillmore Family will give an ' other concert here next season and ths the conditions will be favorable to dis
 play their musical talent. ] The highways in this town are be r coming narrower year by year. Certai land owners have built their fences s : that they encroach on the highway, an
 the road makers year by year round u 3 and narrow up the travelled path unt - now it is almost impossible for loade 6 teams to pass each other at many place r on the Highways. It would seem tn, . | the road makers and soma land ovno,