Connecticut western news., 1892-04-21
Local News.

-Dr Whittlesey is now in very fee ble condition.
 For the present, Mrs Charles H. Briggs will have her home at Major Bennett's
 MT and Mrs Charles Norton, of Newark, N. J. visited Mrs J. s, Adam early this week.
 The broken marble post in front of the Warner House has been restored by Wm Cropper of Ashley Falls.
 70. O. Garvin has moved into the house next to the bridge across the Whiting river in East Canaan.
 Miss Edith Greene left town last Thursday for West Winsted to work at dress-making with Mrs Wright.
 On the fourth page is an item from the Wilkesbarre Times which throws a flood of light on the Reading Deal.
 The evening Times, of Bridgeport, lived two weeks and then "passed in it's checks" on Tuesday of last week.
 The frame for James Graney's new house on Bragg street will soon be rais- ed, as the cellar walls are nearly com pleted.
 A boiler weighing about five tons, was transported from the c. N. B. & w. siding here to the clay bed at Clayton, on Saturday last.
 Frank VanDeusen has finished grading the grounds of B. R. Lorrain's premises on Prospect Ave. and around Fuller & Peet's store. ....-
 -.'No Terror in Death" is the sub ject of Talmage's instructive and trium- phant Easter sermon. The sermon Is published entire on the first page.
 We had call last Tuesday from Mir Leonard, of Bridgeport, and John Rodemeyer, Jr. The gentlemen took the train for Bridgeport the same after noon.
 Mrs Branch, widow of w. B. Branch, of Waterloo N. Y. made weeks visit to Mrs Jane w. Branch and other friends in town, and returned home Tuesday.
 The G. A. R. post have been invit- ed to attend religious services at the East Canaan Congregational church on the Sunday before Memorial Day. Rev MT Utterwick will preach.
 Edmund D. Lawrence is having another picnic with the rocks on his premises on Prospect Avenue. He is going to change the grade of his lawn, and for two weeks or more has been quarrying out the rocks.
 Mine grave stones in the lower cem- etery have fallen down, and number of others are many degrees from perpen- dicular. The attention of the select men, who have the care of the cemeter- ies, is respectfully called to this sub- iect.
 -J. l.. Trowbridge, of Utica, N. r., we'll known to visitors at the Warner House, has been in town for some days past Early in May he expects to drive a tally -ho coach between Elizabethtown N. Y. and Westport on Lake Cham. plain.
 We regret to have to announce that we are likely to lose Lester Adams from among us. He started last Saturday morning for Nebraska, where he will visit his two brothers who live in Blail and Beatrice. He will look around out there with view to locating.
 -"Good Roads!" that is now every where the cry on the fourth page will be found what the Connecticut Stat. board of trade has done about the mat ter. If we had good roads in this towl the value of real estate would be raised and the town would grow faster. w want good gravel roads. .t.
 Yesterday notice was posted warn ing the electors to meet at the town hal
 
 in North. Canaan on Monday the 25tl inst at 9 o'clock a. m. for the purpos of electing Judge of Probate for tn district of Canaan for the remainder o the official term commencing Jan. 7t 1891. The polls will be open from g g m. to p. m. and the election will b conducted in the usual way, with off cial ballots and envelopes,
 The fire which swept across the cer tral part of the lower cemetery abou two weeks since did considerable dan age. Some of the grave stones are dii colored and some of the evergreens an shubbery are ruined. It is not certain ly known how the fire originated but is thought that boy was burnin brush on the west side of the cemeter and that the fire got beyond his contro Milton Couch and James Rodemeye saw the flames and smoke from di tance and at once rushed to the cem, tery and worked heroically nearly a hour before they got the fire under col trol.
 At the meeting of the literary soci ty last Friday night Miss Eddy read paper on Scottish authors and Mi Minnie Spaulding one on the univers ties of Scotland. It is needless to ss that both these papers were full of Ii terest. Mrs. Dr. Adam read sever poems by "Robbie" Burns and tl "Ettrick Shepherd" bringing out the Scotch character. The subject for d bate was the resolution that the Unite States government is right in it's pos