Connecticut western news., 1891-10-01
Local News.

Lost. strayed or stolen-the equl- noctial storm.
 Engineer Burghardt has moved in- to his new house.
 Mrs Mary A. Peet has been quite ill the past week but is improving.
 Mrs Warner, of East Canaan, is visiting her son, Landlord Warner.
 A welcome and copious shower ar rived about 2.30 o'clock Tuesday after noon.
 Mrs B. J. Prescott, of Norfolk, was dangerously i'll last week but is now much better.
 Mrs William Devine has been dan- gerously ill but is now considered out of danger.
 Daniel l.. Freeman started about a week ago for an extended trip through the Western states.
 John K. Shepard, of Norfolk. was critically ill last week but is now able to be around his house.
 A new time table will soon take ef- feet on the 0. N. E. & W. road but the exact date has not yet been announced. School Commissioner Schamerhorn and wife, and David 8. Proper and wife of Glenco Mills. N Y.are guests at Judge Granger's.
 MT and Mrs Isaac Bowe, of Nor walk, and Mrs A. D. Wait, of Birming- ham, were guests at John Rodemeyer's over Sunday.
 In the libel suit of ELI Webster vs. The Bristol Herald, the defendants have abandoned their appeal to the Su- preme court and settled by paying the judgment and costs.
 Travelling theatrical companies again begin to infest the rslroads. Every few days the morning trains are delayed in changing the baggage of some travelling ''show."
 Arrangements are being perfected by the tennis club to have tournament the first week in October. Entries should be made to G. W. Parsons be- fore Saturday at 8. 80 p. m.
 John G. Be ckley and J. Sedgwick Tracy visited the Poughkeepsie fair last Friday. Sedgwick returned that eve ming but John went to Albany and the next day to Chatham where he stayed until Monday.
 The Higher and Intermediate de- psrtments of the schools began last Mon day. The Higher is again under man. agement of MT H. M. Adams, and num- bers about 25. Miss Root has charge of the intermediate with 37 in attend ance.
 F. J. Lorrain (Young Ed) returned from New York Friday by the way of Poughkeepsie. He stopped few hours at the fair, and arrived here on the TOT. He and Tracy say that Stevens took ex- sctly as good cream to the fair as he sells to his home customers.
 The advantage of advertising in THE NEWS may be proved by the follow. ing: Our Kent correspondent adver. tised Rain Wanted" The item was put in type Tuesday morning and be. fore the proofs were read in the after. noon, an abundance of rain had fallen.
 The Winsted Evening Citizen was enlarged last Monday to 8 2 column folio, and 1000 extra copies were printed for distribution in adjoining towns. The Citizen gives the news of the day up tt 4p. m. and it deserves larger circula ton between Winsted and Millerton ani we hope it will secure it.
 North Canaan will remain solid fo no license the coming year. Publi sentiment says we want no saloon or n' open bar. It said so last year by vot of 165 to 29 and it now says we don propose to vote on that question agai, this year, not even if 8 forged petition IS presented to the selectmen.
 The semi-centennial of the Housa tonic Agricultural Society (the Ct Bar rington fair) IS being celebrated thu week, and on Wednesday and Thurs day the Housstonic road run excursion trains between Pittsfield and Falls Vii lage. Gartland's 10th Regiment ban' of Albany furnish music each day c the fair. Prof Bready, the aeronaui makes balloon sscensions and parachut descents Wednesday and Thursda afternoons. On Friday Go. K of Hari ford, headed by Colts band, will parad followed by guard mount and concel by the band. Hon Wellington Shit of Lee, delivers the annual address o Friday. Yesterday "Wednesday wa called Governors Day" as Governo Russell was billed to be present an deliver an address.
 -Last Tuesday afternoon while D W. w. Welch, of Norfolk, was visitin patients in this village, his driver care lessly tied the Doctors high spirite horse to hitching- post near Camp drug store. There was no check-rei on the horse and as soon as the hors lowered its head the hitching- strap sli down the post and held the horse's hea near the ground. In its efforts to rais it's head the horse broke off the po and pulled down the iron railing coI nected with 1t, and then broke tt hitching strap. By this time the hors was thoroughly frightened and stsrte for home at fearful speed. Near tI