Connecticut western news., 1892-10-13
Local News.

John Lorrigan shot IA woodcock Monday forenoon.
 -Dr Barnes and wife, of Collinsvill,., spent Sunday in town.
 Mrs George O. Peet has returned from her visit in Bridgeport.
 Mrs Geo. B. Cogswell, of Pittsfeld, Mass, is visiting relatives here.
 Presiding Elder Travis pr~ach ed on Sunday in the Methodist church. Miss Lillie D. Root has returned from three weeks stay in Winsted. Willard A. Roraback was elected town clerk of Torrington for the coru- ing year.
 Mrs Austin Spaulding, of Norfolk, spent Sunday with her daughter. Mrs J. L. Bragg. ..-.. r -- MT and Mrs Sanforl Waterman, of Cohoes, N Y, are visiting relatives in this village. James Pendergast, of Ancram, N. r., has moved into Frank McCarty's tenant house.
 Mrs s. O. Beckley went to Norfolk last Friday to remain week or more at Dr Gidman's.
 Alfred Adams. of Plymouth. has been the guest of relatives here during the past week.
 Mrs Hunt, of Lenox. Mass, has been visiting her sister, Miss Mary J. Peck, this week.
 IL Foote has removed the old piaz- ga from the harness shop and will build a porch at the door.
 Rev E. Whittlesey preached at St James Episcopal church,. Great Bar rington, last Sunday.
 J. R. Elton, of Vineland, N. J., left town this week after visit of several days at D. l.. Peirce's.
 Three children were born in this village last Friday, and it was'nt much of day for babies either. MT and Mrs Small. of Hartford, are visiting at GeoC Peet's MT Small is asst cashier of the Hartford Life Ins. Go.
 John Nicoll, son of A. w. Nicoll, is in town again after an absence of sever al months in the Dakotas and Montana. The road agents have had the strip of road from the highway to the water ing trough repaired in a durable man. ner.
 Miss Elizabeth Newton and Miss Doane, of New York, spent Sunday and several days this week at R. O. New toms.
 After Nov. 1st, there will not be a single liquor license along the entire line of the railroad, from Hartford to Millerton.
 Officers of the Agassiz society will please remember to meet at J.L. Bragg's on the evening of the 18th to discuss the lecture project.
 Mir Van Houstan, grandson of Joe Howe, formerly of South Canaan, called on his relatives Mrs Harlow Root and Lyman Howe last week.
 Miss s. P. Norton has been taking needed rest for several days and hel millinery and dress-making establish ment has been closed during said time
 Mrs Maria Van Tassell, who diet at Mt Ross, N. Y. last week, was thu mother of Mrs Peter Hicks, of Canaan and Mrs F. P. Barnum, of Falls Village
 There ought to be railing by th' side of the highway where it crosses thu brook at the foot of the hill near Mir Wm J. Thomson's. It is dangerou spot.
 M. l.. Osborne, Jr., will tomorrow commence month s engagement as fore man of the New Hartford Tribune. I this temporary engagement proves satis factory to all concerned it will becom permanent. -...
 On Friday last, August Brue bought the Comstock place at Sand town. now occupied by James Shefiel who has lease of it until next April Mir Bruey moved into the Lyman Levi place on Monday.
 Hon. Wm. Wallace Lee, of Mer iden and Leonard Lee, of Kenosha, Wis. who are looking up the Lee family his tory, called at Judge Roraback's and g Rev E. Whittlesey's yesterday. Dr Le is relative of theirs.
 Last Tuesday afternoon the railroa tool house at East Canaan. which is O. cupied by Italians, was broken into an money and clothes were stolen. Tn next day. it is said, several of the gan could not be induced to work.
 We took great pleasure last wee in recording the fact that North Canaa by declaring for permanently goo roads and making large appropriate by way of beginning had taken hs place among the progressive town This is what the NEWS has always adv, cnted.
 Editor Beckley, of the Canas News, and his son, John o., took t~ days bicycle trip through Berkshi last week. They say that Beckley cs ride like the little fellow who works his office. Winsted Herald -'Poss bly," but Beckley cannot ride like u big fellow who works in his office ar who rides at John Gilpin or a Nant Hanks gait.
 The Rev Charles D. Milliken le