Connecticut western news., 1892-05-26
MT and Mrs Leroy Stone, returned to their home in Bethel yesterday.

to their home in Bethel yesterday. The two diptheria patients at East Canaan are recovering.
 The frame for James Graney's house on Bragg street has been raised and covered
 Fifty three calves were shipped from here last Tuesday; price from 5 to 5a cents per pound.
 Miss Dorothy Beach, of Columbus, Ohio, is visiting Miss Louise Bragg who was her classmate at Mt. Holyoke col lege.
 | Frank F. Stevens came near having bilious fever about two weeks ago. He got we'll enough to resume his place in the store but caught cold and is housed up again.
 The article announcing the meet ing of the Connecticut Library associa- tion was contributed and we did not discover that the writer had failed to give the date of the meeting till it was too late to supply the omission.
 WE. Hall & Co.,, of Bridgeport, say that their "patrons will have cause to remember Thursday, June 2. with keen pleasure for many day to come." The explanation and other nuggets of infor- nation are given in said firms adver- tisement.
 Gut flowers for Decoration Day. Fine carnations 40 c. per Dog. Extra fine rosebuds $1 % per Dog. Easter lilies 15 c. each. Inferior flowers sell according to quality. Orders by tele- ! phone. Carl Swenson, Florist, Win sted, Conn.
 David s. Cowles Post G. A. R. will leave Armory Hall in this village for Cornwall Hollow, at eight o'clock in the forenoon on Memorial Day. and will be accompanied by the Canaan Citizens band, who have decided to take part in the exercises at Gen. Sedgwick's grave.
 M. l.. Osborne, Jr, returned Sat urday from Peterborough, N. H. where he has been employed several months in a printing office. His employer was 10th to part with him and wished him to return. and perhaps he will in the fall but he desires to spend the summer in Canaan.
 There was a beautiful rainbow in the east at 6. 30 o'clock Monday evening. As viewed from the NEWS office the north end of the rainbow rested upon W. G. Cargills house on Prospect Ave- nue while the south end rested upon the house occupied by H. W. Watson on High street. According to the old legend there must be bag of gold in each of those houses. There will be no observance of Memorial Day in this town except the decoration of the soldiers graves in the Ashley Falls and Canaan Valley ceme- teries by detail of the G. A. R. Post. As announced last week there will be a Memorial service at the East Canaan I : after which the cemetery at East Canaan and the lower cemetery will be visited by the Post.
 Captain A. B. Shumway, for 25 years or more the foreman of the Litch- field Enquirer, was in town Monday and called at the NEWS office but we are sorry to say that both editors happened to be away at that hour and missed a pleasant call. The last time we had the pleasure of meeting Captain Shum- way was at the reunion of the 2nd Conn. H. A. at Norfolk in September 1888. Call again Captain, we want to visit with you.
 An item about New England weath- CT may interest our southern and west CTS subscribers, SO we will mention the fact that it rained hard Thursday night, Friday night, and nearly all day Satur. day and Saturday evening, also Sunday night and Monday night. The temper. ature has been low and the wind from the east for several days but today | Wednesday, the wind is from the south and the atmosphere balmy and more like May weather.
 The Rev J. H. George, of Salisbury, delivered very interesting lecture or "Some of the characteristics of the Southern Negro" at the town hall or Tuesday, night. The hall was about two thirds filed. MT George was borr and brought up at the south and is the son of slave holder and therefore very competent to discuss this subject. The negro is endeared to him, as he is te very many southerners, by early asso citations and his many good and lovable traits. The lecture was enlivened by characteristic anecdotes of the colored people, in relating which the lecturer initiated the negro dialect to perfection All things considered, Mir George ha4 , great hopes for the future of the color , ed race. The lecture was preceded b, , good concert of vocal and instrumen tai music by some of our local talent which had not been announced. Ne t receipts of lecture about $14 i |
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