Connecticut western news., 1892-06-02
THURSDAY, JUNE ?, 1892.
Local News.
Summer.

5 visiting with Mir and Mrs H. M Adams. The Agassiz Society will meet next Tuesday evening at the house of H. M Adams
 MT and Mrs Nichol, of Yonkers, N. Y. and three sons are staying at the Warner House.
 A Boston girl is reported to have said: Where singleness is bliss .tis fol- ly to be wives.
 Stop selling whiskey, for in such an hour as ye think not the Prosecuting Attorney cometh.
 MT and Mrs Wm A. Thompson, of Troy, spent the day at the Canaan Acad emy last Saturday.
 -J. H. Roraback went to his home in Sheffield last Saturday and is now having picnic with the measles.
 w. 0. Bannon, of Waterbury, will soon open the restaurant in the Union depot recently vacated by MT Gurst.
 Mrs Judge Roraback is very ill with measles. Three of the children also have the measles but in milder form.
 Rev l.. H. Reid and Mrs Reid, of Hartford, called on friends here last Sat urdsy en route to Salisbury or Lake vile.
 Wallace Roberts is very ill at his home in East Canaan. His wife and two or three children are very ill with heasles.
 Rev Dr Eddy supplied the Pilgrim church pulpit last Sunday, and the Rev Mir Bradley, of Stockbridge, Mass, will supply it next Sunday.
 -Dr George Adam has had his house s painted light cream color, and has erected long stretch of close board fence in the rear of the place.
 William A. Newton, of New York, visited his parents at Myrtle Hill from Friday until Monday. It is nearly two years since his last visit there.
 On the fourth page will be found w. O. Miners interesting article con- corning the falls in the Housatonic river at Falls Village and Amesville.
 The NEWS is requested to state that it isIknown who stole the crow from John Pulver's cornfeld, and the thief will save trouble by returning the crow.
 W. G. Cargill says business is booming. He has sold eight farm wagons within ten days and several light wagons. Call and see him Saturday. Irving Roberts is very ill with mea- ales at the home of Mrs Harlow Root. His brother William has also been very ill there with measles but is improving
 -Drs J. s. Radway and J. Pasmore Berens, of New York, were the guests of Rev F. Thompson over Sunday; they made this place the starting point of an extended bicycle tour.
 The Norwalk Gazette of May 27th says: Four car loads of car wheels ar rived here from Lime Rock. Saturday, over the Housatonic road, en route to Valparaiso. They were transferred to the propeller City of Norwalk.
 A correspondent speaks of the Ga naan falls at Falls Village. A propos, we remark that the Canaan falls are far superior to the falls of the Rhine at Schaffhansen, in Switzerland, which tourists go to see. So we were inform ed by gentleman who had seen both falls.
 While cruising for items lately near the Union depot, we were struck with the idea that If there was a lawn in front of the town hall laid out as neatly and smoothly as around Christ church and the house of Junius Rhoades-why, show nice 1t would be" as an esteemed contemporary says.
 After the outside pages of the NEWS were printed we received R. H. Moore's copy for change of advertisement. We can only say that Mir Moore has just re- ceived an entire new stock of wash goods, ginghams, percales and outing cloths, gauge underwear for ladies, miss es and children, parasols &c &c.
 The railroad commissioners arrived here last Tuesday at noon in specia car and met Supt. I. w. Fowler anG other railroad men. The party dined at the Warner House and then wen west to State Line in special car, and thence went east to Hartford. They were making an inspection of the O. N E. & w. road.
 Two wagon loads of household fur niture belonging to John Donnelly, H K. Bloodgood's coachman. arrived her last Friday on the cars, and were takei to New Marlboro in the evening in tw' wagons drawn by English shire horses These horses are very large and heav and have as much ha1r on each fetloc as many horses have on their tails.
 MT and Mrs William Shields left O Monday to attend the funeral of thei grandson, Eugene Callahan, who die at Holyoke. Mass, on Saturday, o consumption of the stomach. Miss Ana Shields also attended the funeral whic took place on Tuesday. The decease was a very promising young man. an all will sympathize with the family il their loss.
 MT William O. Hinman, of tn Berkshire Courier, has invented an rrhl;ahed a hook which will be a walt