Connecticut western news., 1892-12-22


 Der 1892.
 Miss Florence Thomson, of New York, is spending the holidays with her mother at Mt Elm.
 Edwin s. Pease is building near his house. workshop which will be much larger than the old one.
 Mrs J. S Adam and her daughter Rose. left last Thursday for Pottsville, Pa., for ten days absence. Thus far this season the Lord and the weather clerk have sided with the public against the coal barons. An exchange says: The man who don't read adv ertisements is just as far behind the times as the one who don't advertise.
 Conductor Hook is doing ninety days penance for missing connection with the Housatonic road at Canaan Winsted Herald. :.
 This week the days are the shortest of the year; in fact they resemble the credit which merchants prefer to give -short.
 Some don't mind a dime when it goes for drink, but if the wife asks for some cash for some shoes for the kid,- that's different. Tt is said that one thousand tons of steel rails will be laid on the New England division of the P. & R. road this winter. Additional sidings are also contemplated.
 What became of the comet? Per haps the Reading company gobbled it to cut into chunks for locomotive head lights in anticipation of scooping the Connecticut River road. Billy Calkins acted as fireman for Holcomb as far as Canaan the other day when the regular fireman was ill. Ask Billy how the water spout operates at Canaan. n.-Millerton Telegram. The debates at the literary society meetings are always lively, spirited and entertaining and our citizens make a great mistake in not coming to the meetings in greater numbers. This is peculiarly tune of "deals'' and ''coups" of various kinds and Ga ] naan, it appears, is not to be an excep- tion. At any rate it is reported, though nothing definite could be ascertained, that the Anchor lime kiln property had changed ownership. It is said that the new owners are New York parties. James Blodgett, of Chicago, H.. formerly of Sheffield, Mass, has been commissioned by the managers of the ] Worlds Fair to collect sixty of the fin est horses in the United States to be ex- hibited at the Worlds Fair. Mir Blod gett is brother of MT George Blodgett who lives on the old homestead between Sheffield and Ashley Falls. Whenever the late Leman Church. one of the brightest lights of the Litch- field County bar, wished to illustrate the extent to which a witness was lying he would say: "That man is telling a lie, he lies like tombstone. Had Lawyer Church lived in the present age he would doubtless have mentioned a railroad time table instead of tomb stone whenever he wished an illustra- tion of lying.
 A little desk has been put up at the Union depot, on the Consolidated side, in which to keep the registry book. It may be interesting to some of our read CTS to know that on the arrival of any train the conductor, or, if there is no conductor, the engineer is obliged tc register the names of conductor (if there is one) and engineer, the number oi the engine and the number of cars, the time of arrival and departure, and wheth CT there were any signals.
 The meeting of the literary society was held last Friday night. A brie biographical sketch of Whittier, some extracts from his poetical writings and a lively debate on the resolution That the railroad companies should be com pelled by law to reduce their fares tc the Worlds Fair" were the attractions It was voted that the merits of the ques sion were with.the affirmative and thai the weight of argument was on the side of the negative. Messrs Roraback anC Eddy argued for the negative.