Connecticut western news., 1892-12-29
Local News.

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 What has become of our Norfolk correspondent?
 A class will begin latin in the High school department next term.
 The ice harvest has already com. menced in this town and vicinity.
 Miss Lucy Smith is spending the holidays with friends at Plainfeld, N. J.. R O. Newton, Jr., of New York, was at Myrtle Farm over Christmas.
 There seems to be no law against having Ia grippe as often as you wish to-
 We are compelled to defer West Goshen correspondence until next is- sue.
 During the last week of leap year Mercury has had the audacityi ito hug Zero mighty close.
 Some iof the stores in this village were closed last Monday for the Christmas holiday.
 On Tuesday last Santa Claus and son N. A. Caldwell and son) were both riding the same bicycle at the same time.
 Miss Lillie D. Root was quite se- verely burned last Tuesday by the ex- plosion of some alcohol which she was heating to bathe her sister with.
 The services of the week of prayer (next week. at the M. E. church will be held on the evenings of Tuesday, We'd nesday, Thursday and Friday at 730 p. m.
 Tonight for 25 cents you can hear Jerome Mays banjo quartet at the town hall as seats have been reserved in the balcony for those who don't dance. Concert pegins at 8:30.
 Notwithstanding the rumors that the P. R. & N. E. road was to make the public Christmas present of @ new time table, no change has yet been made in the schedule of trains
 The village schools closed last Fri day for the usual holiday vacation of two weeks, but the Intermediate room will resume work Tuesday the 2d of January owing to one week of lost time.
 Fred G. Dean, of Maple Grove farm, Falls Village, is after the poultry ma randers and has within the past few days caught five foxes; four of them in- side of week, and three of them in one trap. Nextl
 The case of Adam and Joslyn vs D. T. Warner, involving the disposition of trust funds in the hands of Judge Warner, is set down for trial for to- day before Judge Brewster, of Danbury, as . committee at Salisbury.
 Last Thursday Thomas Paul was thrown from wagon and sustained a compound fracture of his left arm. It is the same arm which was broken years ago, at the same place (elbow,) and was set at that time by Dr Wright.
 The bridge carpenters of the P. R.. & N. B. road struck last Saturday on receiving notice that their time was to be reduced to nine hours per day. The railroad company re-considered it's proposal and the carpenters resumed work on Monday.
 -Hubbell's clothing store at Great Burlington will be closed on Friday ol this week to take inventory but will be open again the next day. The new firm of Hatch & Dewey will take possession January 1st. and we bespeak for these enterprising and popular young men a share of your patronage.
 It was .sBlack Christmas" with out sleighing for Santa Claus but he got here just the same. It formerly re- quired "eight tiny reindeer" to draw his ''sleigh full of toys" but this season he came with pneumatic tire sulky which took only two reindeer to draw it, but oh nay what great sack of toys he carried on his back!
 -George Daniels, a scythe grinder in one of the shops of the Winsted Man ufacturing company, at Winsted, was instantly killed yesterday afternoon by the bursting of grindstone., MT Dan iels has been grinder for 30 years and has heretofore had two accidents witf defective grindstones. He was AS years of age and leaves a wife and five chil dren, four sons and daughter.
 -Dr. William H. Crocker died or Tuesday at his home in Aneram, N. Y at the age of 36 years. Nearly yea ago, while dressing cancer on one o his patients, he took the poison of tho sore into his system. One of his hands was amputated at the time, but it ap pears that even that stringent remedy was not sufficient to save his life. Ht leaves wife and three children. There are many in town who have pleasant memories of Will Crocker and will bt sorry to hear of his untimely death The funeral and burial will take place at Ancram to-day, Thursday.
 Last Friday afternoon as west bound freight train, with an engine al each end, was passing from the siding on.c the main track, just east of the Blackberry river bridge on the P. R. H }. road, two of the cars jumped the
 k, breaking the coupling, and were 1 med with such force against the
 fly upright timbers, on which the
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