Connecticut western news., 1892-09-08
Local News.

George Dederick's new house on High street will be finished by October 1.
 Charles s. Clark, one of the teach CTS at the Canaan Academy, arrived last week.
 Miss Grace Roraback will resume her studies at the Great Harrington High school next Tuesday.
 Samuel 0. Beckley, editor of the NEWS, left here on Monday for bicycle tour of 8 week or ten days in Berk- shire.
 Robert Van Deusen. who is employ ed in Taylor's crockery store in Great Burlington, has been staying for flow days in this town.
 ID. l.. Freeman is having steam heating apparatus put into his house and Chas H. Pease is putting hot air furnace into his office building.
 Miss Elsie Adams begins her Bchool in Torrington this week, Miss Pearl Ham in East Winsted, and Miss Irene Greene in South Canaan.
 Henry G. Williams has done good piece of work in cutting off the weeds and bushes on both sides of the way between the railroad crossing and the lower cem- stery. .
 The Niagara Falls excursion train. on the H. R. R., passed here about 12 m. on Tuesday with one parlor car, ono sleeper and seven passenger cars all about two thirds full.
 Mrs R. s. Reid, of Franklin, Tenn. |, James H. Dixon, of Mason, N. H. and F. l.. Carney, of Portland, Me-, have all within the last two weeks entered their sons at the Canaan Academy.
 Tt is reported that MT Demithorne, of the P. R. & N. B. road, telegraphed to New York last Saturday to send no more Italians to this division of the road until the cholera scare was over.
 Governor Bulkeley and Lieut.. Gov ernor Merwin were in the village Satur- day afternoon and held an informal re- ception at the Union depot. Quite a number of our prominent citizens were presented.
 Last Saturday about 20 of the Ital- ians who were working on the section near this place, after being off for some days, left for New Hartford, where it is said they will go to work on the section. Their places here were taken by others. James Reel says that boys some times place their target on the magazine of explosives near the Peirce &~Free man quarry. He also says that If they should hit the dynamite that there is enough there to blow them to "king- dom come" All funeral expenses would be avoided.
 Miss Lizzie M. Becklsy, of Brook lyn, N. Y. eldest daughter of the late James A. Beckley, of Chatham, N. Y., was united in marriage on Monday Aug ust 29, 1892, to Robert Rose Leitch, U s. N. The home of MT Leitch, pre- vious to his entering the navy was il Baltimore to which place they went or their wedding journey.
 A horse attached to long box wag on loaded with trunks, ran from thu Union depot, west through Main street out beyond H. Schamerhorn' where i dropped into walk in the sand and wa caught. The driver held on to thu reins till opposite Humphreys drut store, when he fell down and had hi foot run over. The outfit was iron New Marlboro, Mass.
 Last Thursday afternoon the villag was enlivened by crowd of about 2 Italians. They congregated in front c Fuller & Peet's store at first and after wards made rush for the NEWS office as we supposed, but the meat marke proved to be their objective point Charley Rodemeyer and the Italians ez changed pleasantries in thelr respectiv languages to their mutual amusement
 J. l.. Ives, who few years ago re moved from East Canaan to Manning Ia. has outgrown that place and is no in business at the state's capital, De Moines, where he is member of tn firm of Ives, McCurdy & Henshaw, ger eral commission merchants. Just ho much MT Ives owes to his wife for h. success in business we cannot clearl determine, but it is fact that Mrs I've was his instructor in penmanship befol she became his wife-and he is fir penman. Winsted Herald.
 The Citizens band have very nic custom of serenading their newly ma ried members. Accordingly on Thur day evening they donned their blue ar gold, took their instruments and r paired to the home of MT and Mrs E. Pease, where they played some vel pretty music. After the serenade \ Pease invited the boys in, where sumptuous banquet had been prepare The boys responded heartily and u rest of the evening was spent very @ joyably within doors. partaking of t excellent supper and in general soci bility.
 The road leading out of the hig way proper to the watering trough ne the Union depot is in very bad conc tion. It is so much washed that lar rocks have come to the surfave. Recel
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