Connecticut western news., 1892-07-14
The carpenters began work on the band stand on Tuesday.

Floyd Wiun, is waitress at the Warner House.
 It is burning shame to keep put ting up the price of coal.-Gowanda Herald.
 The mercury reached 96 degrees Monday, 984 Tuesday, and 96 yesterday in this village.
 Judge Roraback's cottage at Twin Lakes is nearly completed, and he and his family expect to occupy it next Monday.
 W. P. Servin. of Lenox, Mass, and J. D. Seacord, of Lee, Mass, were in town for few days last week, calling on friends.
 We received call yesterday from Henry Chapin, IT,, who IS staying at Lakeville where he will remain for about a-week.
 A raw onion chewed slowly and swallowed without undue haste will de- stroy the odor of ice cream. Port Ale gany Reporter.
 Mrs J. W. Beckwith, of Westfeld, Mass, and Mrs Geo Wollison and son, of Pittsfeld, Mass, ,are visiting relatives in this village.
 The Pawling Journal says:
 MT Eugene Hunt and wife of Tampa, Fla, arrived in this village Tuesday evening to spend the summer with his father, Rev R. Hunt.
 Frances Willard denounces the word female" She says Sit applies equally to hen or to the mother of Abraham Lincoln," and she regards it as ''term of reproach."
 James 0. Benedict, Editor of the Dewitt nowa) Observer, who has been with his uncle. Edward Rose, for some days. called on us during his stay in town. He left for the west on Monday.
 When little John Hubbard and big John Beckley ride out together on their bicycles the contrast in their stature and wheels attracts attention and illustrates the adage that extremes meet.
 Time, patience and perseverance accomplish all things-measles not ex- cepted. Mrs Geo s. Fuller and little son Allyn have finally had all the mea- sles they desired. and are now recover ing.
 MT and Mrs Burton Peirce return ed last Monday from their wedding tour They visited the Adirondacks and Saratoga and also passed through Lake George and Lake Champlain and down the Hudson.
 Miss Lillian E. Lefingwell, aged 34 years, died at Winsted on Wednesday night of last week, after a long illness. She was sister of Dwight Lefingwell of Canaan. The funeral was attended at Winsted on Friday at 3 p. m. and on Saturday the remains were taken to Mill River, Mass, for interment.
 The freight traffic on the o. N. B. & W. road is very heavy at present. On Saturday and Sunday there was a freight blockade at Maybrook and Rhinecliff, and on Sunday evening from seven to ten freight trains passed Ca- naan going east, besides several trains of empty cars going west. We under stand that on Saturday night freight train got off the track near State Line which caused considerable delay.
 A woman writer says: "If you have an old dress that you find you can make over in but one style and that style that had never been heard of or seen be- fore, and would probably always be heard of but never seen again, do not hesitate to make it over. Let it be as fantastic as it's various sized pieces and colors are won't to make it, and when il is finished call it my whist suit, you know and people will never know the difference"
 The fall term of the schools in dis trict No. 9 will begin on the 18th o1 September and continue till the 23d ot December. Prof H. M. Adams, who af ter some hesitation has come to the con clusion that hls strength his equal to it will teach in the upper room; Mrs Roo will continue in the primary depart ment, and Miss Emily D. Newton vii take charge of the intermediate depart ment. The winter term will be twelve and the spring term nine weeks ;betwee1 the fall and winter and spring term
 there will be vacations of two weeks.
 J. B. Messenger met with painful
 accident while painting Judge Bora backs cottage at Twin Lakes on Tues day afternoon. He was standing nea
 the top of "A feet ladder and wa
 painting the gable of the cottage whel the ladder slipped and he fell upon
 pile of timber near the foot of the lad der. He struck upon his right side an' was badly bruised besides breaking on of the bones of his right leg just abov the ankle. Judge Roraback, with tn l assistance of the carpenters at wor 3 upon the cottage, soon placed Mir Mes senger upon spring bed and lifted hir 3 into long-box wagon and conveye I him to his home in this village. Dr Le r. was immediately summoned and re
 duced the fracture. Much sympathy
 expressed for MT Messenger and espe, iaily as the accident will probably prt vent him doing any work for a mont or more during the busy season ( 5 | ~,a;,k,o~ tho horr 4lo NDr,,e, 1.o<