Connecticut western news., 1892-12-08
Prospect Avenue is being gravellet

Prospect Avenue is being gravelled on a generous plan.
 Fred B. Young, formerly of this place, is now in Aurora, Ill.
 Charles H. Pease now has his printing office building heated by furnace.
 The day express trains on the P. R. & N E. road were taken off on last Sat- urday. Dec. Sd.
 Peter Nihil and family moved to Amesville last Thursday, where Peter is employed in the car shops.
 Rev D. O. Stone left town last Thursday for Mt Vernon. N. r., for two weeks visit with relatives.
 The meeting of the Citizers asso- citation last Saturday night, did not ma terialize owing to the absence of quo- rum.
 The delay in the arrival of the Washington express on Sunday morn- ing due to a wreck on the Boston & Maine road.
 Carl Swsnsen, the florist, keeps a fine assortment of cut flowers constant ly on hand. Beautiful palms and other plants suitable for Christmas presents. Holly for Xmas green or church decora- tions. Wipsted, Ct.
 A T. Roraback's new safe was put into his office last Saturday. Our citi- gems will be pleased to know that the probate record books, for which there was no room in the town safe, have been placed in Judge Roraback's safe.
 The Pawling correspondent of the Poughkeepsie Eagle says:
 Rev Robert Hunt is spending few days down in New Jersey. It is said that he has purchased a farm down there. where he contemplates locating after this year.
 Last week Ava Root, who lives near Lake Wangum, killed two hogs which together weighed 905 pounds dressed. About the same time he killed spring pig for his neighbor, William Barnes, which dressed 276 pounds. We can back Canaan noun tain on the pork raising industry. There is a great deal of cleansing power in an ordinary Irish potato. In many laundries boiled and mashed po- tatoes are used to produce snowy whiteness As matter of fact, pota- toes will remove stains which fail to yield to soap. and the chemical action is much less injurious to fabrics. -Ex- change
 The Winsted Evening Citizen and the Litchfield County Leader are in CT. TOT in stating "An epidemic of scarlet fever has broken out in East Canaan. and there are eleven cases of the disease there." The people of East Canaan art happy to state that there are no cases oi scarlet fever there. neither have there been any cases recently.
 The literary society held meeting last Friday night. Miss Spauldine read paper on "Early discoverers O! America" s. A Eddy described the opening of the Worlds Fair. The de bate was an impromptu one on tue res olntion "That the world is improving morally" The decision was to the eff feet that. as matter of fact, the world is improving, but that the weight of ar gument on this occasion was Tn favor O the negative.
 The following is taken from trib ute to the memory of Edward Pulver il the New Milford Gazette:
 "The question is often asked in con nection with persons dying: Does pay to be a Christian? To those wh were permitted to be with Mir Pulve the last few weeks of his life the ques tion is fully answered. Though not protesting Christian in former years during the last few weeks of his life hi faith in the Saviour's love was firm, an to him death meant only going home
 be with Jesus"