Connecticut western news., 1891-06-24
Local News.

J. G. Root and wife moved into their new house last week.
 Start the shingles on Col Harden bergh's barn 0his evening.
 -Hurrah for E. w. Giddings. See East Canaan correspondence.
 The pipe organ for the Pilgrim church is expected to arrive to-day.
 Rev. s. F. Adam of Plainville visit ed relatives here last week.
 Miss Mabel Beardsley of Norfolk was the guest of Miss Mabel Watson last Friday and Saturday,
 Mrs O. NJ. Humphrey returned Monday from an extended visit in New Haven and elsewhere.
 Mrs. K. B. Daly arrived home last Friday evening from her five months sojourn at Jersey City, N. Y.
 -G. B. Gardner and family of Cox sackie, N. Y. have been visiting at War ren McIntyre's since last Thursday.
 Miss Louise Bragg graduated Tn the seminary course at Mount Holyoke last week, and arrived home Friday evening.
 D. c. Catlin of New Haven, former ly on the staff of the CONN. WESTERN NEWS. visited friends here last Monday. w. G. Cargill leaves this week on a business trip through Ohio and Ken lucky. He will be absent six or seven weeks
 Rev. Dr. Hiram Eddy supplied the Pilgrim church pulpit last Sunday and preached grand sermon from Revela- tions III. 15.
 Next week THE NEWS will be pub lished on Thursday instead of Wednes- day, but we want the correspondence sent in at the usual time.
 The staff of THE NEWS wishes to ex- tend thanks to the generous hearted young ladies who favored us with the fine box of cherries last Saturday.
 Now IS the time to secure bargains in footwear at W. K. Landon's, Nor folk, Ct. One hundred pairs of shoes and slippers will be sold at less than cost.
 Eugene Hunt has, this season, rais- ed and marketed, from his Florida farm, over 600 bushels of tomatoes at an av- craze price of g.. per crate.-Pawling Journal
 -Junius Rhoades is making some de- cided improvements on his house by changing the size of the windows and adding double doors in place of the sin gle door at the front entrance.
 Mrs. Hanson, widow of John Han- SOD, and her two children sailed for Sweden last Saturday. By the assist ance of the town and aid rendered by kind friends here, Mrs Hanson was en- abled to return to her native land. It will be remembered that MT. Hanson died May II.
 Rev Dr Zaccheus Eddy and wife of Detroit, Mich. and Mrs Eddy's mother, Mrs Marvin, arrived Saturday and are boarding at D. D. Walters. Miss Tappan of Pennington, Conn.,, sister of Mrs Marvin, is also boarding at Mir Walters where she arrived about two weeks since.
 While Dr. Church of this village was visiting friends at Richville, N. Y. on Tuesday of last week he met with a very serious accident. The house in which he was stopping was struck by lightning. the electric current render ing the doctor insenslble, in which con- dition he remained for several hours. He returned to Canaan yesterday.
 In freight car standing on the siding at Union depot last Monday morning was deer's head and antlers which attracted much attention by theil remarkable size. The antlers were each over four feet long and each bore six prongs. The spread of the antlers from tip to tip was over four feet. We can. not tell where said curiosity was ob tained but the crate containing it was consigned to A. Mitchelson. Tariffville Conn.
 On Tuesday evening, June 3O,there will be 8 meeting held in the G. A. R hall for the purpose of organizing { council of the order of United Ameri can Mechanics. in this village. T. F Gilmore, the state organizer, and other speakers will be present. The objects of the organization will be fully explain ed at the meeting. All men interested in its motto: Honesty, Industry, So briety, and America for Americans" arc invited to attend.
 The next meeting of the Agassi; Society, will be held on the 1st Tues day of July at the usual hour. at some private house to be announced later There will be no papers read. but th' members are requested to bring witt them specimens of scieptific interest II any department of science, especial. botany and geology. The time will b occupied in the examination and ex planation of such specimens. A gool attendance is desired.
 Mir Harry l.. Goodwin died at hi residence i'll this town about 2 o'clocl yesterday morning, in the S5th year his age. He had been gradually failing fer some time but the immediate caus of hls death was jaundlce. Mir Good win was a lifelong resident of this towl