Connecticut western news., 1892-05-26
Local News.

Local News.
 Now is the time to destroy apple tree worms.
 There are a number of cases of measles in town.
 An attempt will soon be made to re- stock the Housatonic river with black bass.
 A fortune was never yet lost by ad- vertising, but many of them have been made by it.
 -Messrs D. D. Walter and E. R. LOT rain are having concrete walks built on their premises.
 Pink eye has struck Harwinton.- Thomaston Express. Perhaps pink eye struck Billy Patterson.
 Mrs William Smith went to R. D. Drummond's in Ct Harrington on Tues day remain 8 week or more.
 Rev T. S. Bond will preach Me- morial Day sermon in the M E. church on Sunday morning the 29th inst.
 The Peter Hicks case was adjourn ed to June 3d at 10 o'clock owing to en- gagement of MT Smith in the United States court. Do not buy an Auburn or Milburn farm wagon until you see Cargill, as he undersells them ALL. He is home every Saturday.
 Collin and Erastus Holcomb have been engaged by the town to keep the highways in good repair. They are paid by the day.
 A Pennsylvania lad smoked seven ty-five cigarettes in three hours the oth- CT day.-Norwalk Gazette. Probably placed them in smoke-house.
 Mrs William Walters, of Michigan, formerly of Southfeld, Mass, and her little boy and girl are visiting at War ren McIntyre's in this village.
 Last Friday morning snow fell on Canaan mountain and remained visible till noon, and even below the mountain there was snow mingled with the rain. A party of ladies and gentlemen, some in carriage and some on horse back, passed through the village last week en route for Norfolk from New York.
 Julius Corbit and Dr Church oele- brated Arbor Day on Monday by having some more fine young elms set out on the road west of the Nathan Watson place.
 An exchange utters the following which is worthy of digestion: s.The less religion there is in church the more oysters and ice-cream it takes to run it."
 While Mrs Leroy, of Ashley Falls, was shopping at the store of the D. M. Read Company in Bridgeport, on We'd >nesday of last week, she fell down a flight of stairs and broke her arm.
 A new time table went into effect on the O. N E. & W. road on the 22d inst. The only change is that the east bound train leaving here at 12. 15 p. m. on the old time table now leaves here at u.58 a. m.
 --Litchfield contributed nearly $40C for the Russian Famine relief fund Does North Canaan intend to contrib. ute anything? If so, it is high time g move was made or the contribution must be called burial fund instead oi relief fund.
 The Housatonic Railroad Co. an. nounce that their Parlor Rock picnic grounds, eight miles north of Bridge port, will be opened in June for the season of 1892. Many improvements have been made this season, and it ii now the best equipped picnic resort ir the state.
 -WAaoNsl WAaoNsl WAaoNsl Per sons who intend purchasing wagons especially close buyers-should call or W. c. Cargill, Canaan, before purchas ing elsewhere. He has about 50 job on hand and offers some big bargains He will be home every Saturday for few weeks and will be glad to show 70, some bargains.
 Rev MT Evans, of Nepaug. who i taking postgraduate course at thu : Yale divinity school. preached in th' Pilgrim church on Sunday. His ser mon was on the text: "Be ye angry and sin not" Eph.4: 26. He pointed ou the occasions when being angry ant hating become Christian duties. Hi discourse was pronounced excellent.
 Adam Forepaugh's shows exhibite in Poughkeepsie last Monday. An ez cursion train ran from Canaan but onl two tickets were sold at this station Between six and seven o'clock Tuesda morning the shows passed through Cs naan en route from Poughkeepsie t Pittsfield. There were AS. cars an they were run in train of three set tions. They were about three hou, late owing to locomotive becoming de railed in the yard at Poughkeepsit Only one ticket was sold at this static for the show at Pittsfeld. We'll, th Forepaugh managers could not expe' to draw 8 crowd from Canaan { they neglected to advertise in the NEW