Connecticut western news., 1892-12-15


 A carload of Christmas trees passed through this place going west last Thursday.
 Lawrence Gillette moves to Danbury this week and will make his home with his son, Ovid P. Gillette.
 After January 1st the fares on the Berkshire Division of the Consolidated road will be reduced from cents to 2i cents a mile and to 3 cents where mil cage books ara used.
 The Winsted Citizen says that w.. A. Roraback, the Torrington town clerk, is Ion the ragged edge of his bachelorhood, and will topple over the brink before the old year dies.
 They tell us that in some places since election, Republicans are paying double price for slaves because they wear such long faces, and Democrats are shaved free, because they are all mouth. New Milford Gazette.
 The sociable at the Pilgrim church parlors last Friday night was unusually we'll attended. The great feature of the occasion was an old fashioned spell ing match in which Mrs Dr Eddy prov ed to be the best speller. About $10 was realized.
 Mail trains on the Berkshire Divi- sion of the Consolidated road now leave this station as follows: Going north. 12 38 p. m. and 6 57 B, m.; going south 8. 25 8. m. and 5 B p. m. Much dissat- isfaction is expressed because the New York morning papers cannot now be had till nearly one o'clock D. m.
 The Philadelphia and Reading R.. R. Go. will immediately double track their line from May to Hopewell. They are Already running about 200 cars of freight daily over that section. They will also run double the present number of freight trains through Canaan as soon as they can procure the locomotives.
 Mir and Mrs John Flowton, recently of Kansas City, Mo, but now residing at Chatham. N. Y.are expected to spend Christmas at Miss WA Beckley's. Mrs Flowton is daughter of Smith Hillard who lives at Miss Beckley's. Mir and Mrs Flowton recently drove their own team from Kansas City to Chatham, and were two months on the route.
 The train dispatcher's office, which has been located in the Union depot for some weeks past, will be moved to Poughkeepsie as soon as the room there can be made ready, probably in about ten days. MT Hanrahan, operator, is on duty at night in the dispstcher's office. The Housatonic railroad company has never had night operator at this station. The NEWS was requested to defer making any mention of the fact, but it is now 8 proper time to state that the late Mrs Mary A. Peet bequeathed $500 to the Christ Church society, of this place, in trust, to use the income thereof toward paying the rector's salary, and $500 to the town of North Canaan, in trust, to expend the income thereof for the care of her family lot in the lower cemetery, as far as may be necessary, and the resi- idue on the general care of the cemetery.
 The entertainment at the Warner House on Wednesday night oflast week was a decided success, and quite an event in the social life of this section. The affair had been we'll advertised and the result was that great concourse of people assembled, including the beauty and manhood of this and the adjoining towns. The main features were a boun- tiful supper, 8 sale of useful and pretty fancy articles, and unlimited oppor- tunities for dancing. both round and square. The music was furnished by a banjo and piccolo club from Pittsdeld and violin played by the we'll known Mir White. of Wlnsted, who also called of in his inimitable style The number of pretty girls in the dance and about the rooms was astonishing and calcula- ted to make the most confirmed bache- Tor very thoughtful. The avowed ob- ject of the affair was to raise money to get furnace to heat the Episcopal rec tory, and we are informed that $16O was cleared. This will pay for the heater and leave BIO to spare for coal. Mrs Warner IS right up on this sociable bus mess. and with her leadership success it always sure.