Connecticut western news., 1893-08-24
Local News.

Wonder if the Sons of Rest will observe Labor Day.
 Rev Dr Eddy has been on the sick list two or three days.
 Miss Catherine Adam will attend sch1ol at Pittsfeld, Mass.
 The rain fell in torrents for few minutes last Saturday night
 Fifty set of Harness at Carg ill's Call next Saturday and see them.
 Albert Barnes will enter Rev. l.. H. Reid's school, at Hartford in September.
 Milton Couch has been on the sick list several days and is now confined to his bed.
 Presiding Elder Travis preached at Sheffield last Sunday morning, and at Ashley Falls in the afternoon.
 The new lookup in the town hall cellar is ready for business. Wonder who will be the first customer.
 It is rumored that 0. O. Briggs Of East Canaan, is to remove to B. O. Wards house ut the lower corner.
 The camping season at Twin Lakes has about closed, and all the Canaan campers have arrived home.
 Some unexpected articles have been contributed this week by out of town parties, but too late for publication.
 George l.. Brooks and son Leon, of Belleville. N. J., are guests at s. W. BArnes'. They arrived last Saturday.
 Miss Katherine Callan, of South port. Ct., formerly telegraph operator here, visited Miss Lucy Smith over Sunday.
 Miss Carrie Hotchkiss, who has spent the summer in Canaan, started for her home in St. Paul, Minn., on Tuesday.
 George w. Selleck, wife and daugh- ter. of Norwalk, arrived at the Warner House last week and will remain an in definite time.
 More new houses. Messrs Dwight Lefingwell and Lyman Howe are to build houses on Bragg St. The cellars have already been commenced.
 The cushion sale, and supper. on the lawn and in the parlors of the Pilgrim church last Tuesday evening was pleasant and profitable affair." The gross receipts were over $7O.OO.
 The Judge of Probate and the town clerk have moved their offices into the town hall building. The building known as Col Hardenbergh's law office will soon be occupied by Ritmayer, the tailor.
 An ex-president of the Village I'm provement Association requests the NEWS to state that at the meeting of the members of the association, held last Friday evening, John C.. Beckley was elected president of the association.
 Tt ought to be more generally known that tablespoonful of saltpetre (nitrate of potash) dissolved in a pail of water, and pint of the solution put around each hill of squashes, will kill the stripped squash beetles: It not on- ly rids the plants of the bugs. but makes the plants grow with vigor.
 A brakeman, Michael Burke, employed on the P. R. & N. E., had his left leg run over while coupling cars near Twin Lakes, Monday afternoon. He was on west bound freight and was taken to Lakeville where his leg was amputated and then he was taken to the Hartford hospital on the 4.25 train. He endured the operation without a vince and will probably recover. Burkes home is in Sheffield, Mass.
 That very successful Berkshire newspaper. the Sunday Morning Call. published at Pittsfield, Mass, appeared on Sunday morning, August 20, in a new dress of type set with Thorne type-setting machine. Messrs H. I. and W. J. Oatman, the publishers, are an enterprising team and this progressive step is only one of many they have made in the newspaper line. The Call appears every week as 16 page newsy newspaper.
 We have received handsomely H. frustrated catalogue of the David M. Hunt school at Falls Village. This school opens it's next term on Tuesday Septem- Der 12. Mrs o. H. Guiou, who has been the principal since the founding of the school. has been engaged for another season and the school promises to have very successful year. The Hunt school is school for boys and girls and ranks high with other schools of it's class.
 Rev A. H. Wyatt, of Norwalk, preached at Pine Grove camp ground last Sunday afternoon. We have moi heard what his text was, but it is safe to say it was not Proverbs VI, 6. "Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider hel ways, and be wise" Rev Wyatt has g cottage at the grove, and few days since he noticed what appeared to be saw dust sitting down from the ceiling. On investigation he found that colony of black ants had eaten of one raftel and one large beam. Other cottage owners might do we'll to ascertain whether the ants are eating up the cot tages or not.
 A parlor entertainment was giyer at the Warner House on Saturday nigh by Mrs H. 0. Beers, of Buffalo. N. Y. assisted by Miss Thomson and Mir Rood of this place. pianists. and tn local banjo and guitar trio. Mrs Beer is an elocutionist of some years exper