Connecticut western news., 1892-06-23

Have you seen those new Ss0 buck boards at Cargill's?
 -E. P. Bailey, of Jamestown, N. Y., is visiting at Dr Hiram Eddy's.
 Mrs H. I. Bodley, of Mt. Vernon, N Y, has been visiting at Judge Gran, gers.
 | pr H. A. Church has secured one of the Rev F. Thompson's St Bernard pups.
 The Baptist churches of Hartford will hold picnic at Twin Lakes next week.
 Miss Maggie Riley has resumed he, old position behind the depot restaurant counter.
 | Miss Mary Root has been quite sick with the measles but is now i'm. proving.
 The platform on the O. N. B. < W. side of the Uuion depot is being re. plsnked.
 -"If Moses was the son of Pharaoh $ daughter, then he was the daughter of Pharaoh's son.
 Water with indigo (not blueing) dissolved in it is good as a preventive and cure of the gapes. Misses Lena Day and Birdella Sill vernale of Lakeville visited friends here from Friday till Wednesday. Friends of Miss Bridges will be in- terested to know that she will arrive in Canaan about the middle of August. The busiest man in town on Satur- day of each week is w. G. Cargill. The rush for his bargains in wagons is enor- nous.
 Last Thursday night the lightning killed three steers belonging to Lyman Dunning on Palmer Rood's farm. The animals were out in an open field.
 WANTED. A good, live salesman to assist w. G. Cargill to attend to the rush of customers for wagons on Satur- days None but lively men need ap- ply.
 -E. W. Warner has had the two old marble hitching posts, which have stood near the post office for so many years. moved up the lane on the east of the hotel.
 The Pine Grove Camp Meeting will open on Monday, the 22d of August, and close on the following Saturday. Rev Dr A. K. Sanford, of New York, will be in charge.
 We want to suggest that VIC. Ban- non would have better chance to make his restaurant pay, if some of the trains were to stop for ten minutes, say, for refreshments.
 A few drops of oil of sassafras de- posited here and there on dogs per son will, we are informed, greatly pro- mote his comfort when annoyed by cer- tain parasites.
 Miss Garlic Beckley, of this place, and Miss Bertha Hewins, of Lee, Mass, have distinguished themselves by get ting perfect marks in all their recita- tions during the past term.
 The c. N. E. & W. are to have a new time card on Sunday. New trains will be added and you will be able to go most anywhere at most any time. The daily express trains will make the first trip of the season Monday.
 We have noticed that the highways have been so much washed by the re- cont rains that in many places large rocks have been brought to the surface. There are four needing attention be- tween Mrs Wm J. Thomson's and Joseph Kegler's.
 Miss Lena Freeman and Miss Edith Barnes have provided themselves with bicycles of the latest pattern, including pneumatic tires. These young ladies enjoy the distinction of being pione CTS among Canaan girls in engaging in the sport of riding the bicycle.
 We quote as follows from letter which the NEWS has just received from 8 former resident of this town:
 "You ask, for you. very simple con- undrum in the last issue of the NEWS, viz: why is not this Village a Sum- mer Resort? Why Because of bad roads. Dangerous railroad crossings | with big D) and, unless great chan. ges have been made. the poorest livery turnouts the state affords"
 The clap of thunder after the flash of lightning which killed the three steers, so terrified one of O.. B. Hol combs horses that the animal broke through window in front Of his man, ger about 3 by 24 feet in dimensions, though in doing so he broke off some boards at the top and bottom, making the apertuae about 8. feet high. Il takes pretty good clap of thunder te make horse perform such feat.
 Winthrop Robbins, the veteran blacksmith of Torrington entertained four generations at dinner the othel day. These were his son, grandson anG great grandson.-New Hartford Fri bune: This item leads us to remark that Charles Gillette of Canaan has fol |