Connecticut western news., 1893-09-21
Local News.

Rev Dr Krans, of New York, was in town the past week.
 M. l.. Osborne, Jr., of New Hart ford, is home on a weeks vacation.
 Pumpkin pie sociable at the M. B. church parlors Friday evening Sept. 22
 Guess the rain of last Friday and Saturday will have to pass for the equi- noctial storm.
 Bulbs. easter lilies, hyacinths. tu- lips, narcissus, fusias. CARL SwENsoN, Florist, Winsted, Conn.
 --Messrs F. E. How'd and Sidney w. Wickwire, of Falls Village, called at the NEWS office last Saturday.
 Rev c. E. Milliken and son, of Swanzey, N. H., have heen visiting Rev 0. D. Milliken of this place.
 Frank Van Desen and family board ed the Reading express, Sunday night, en route to Chicago and the Worlds Fair.
 The indictment weather of Friday evening caused small attendance at the Pilgrim sociable at the church on that evening.
 Rev o. E. Milliken, father of the pastor, preached in the Pilgrim church Sunday morning. His text was 'I am kha I;ohk of the zorld
 About these days many man who pays cash for beer may be heard de- nouncing the grocer who won't trust him for his family .-Westporter.
 Cards are out announcing the mar riage of Mir Bernard B. Pearson, of East Canaan, Conn, and Miss Margaret G.. Burge, at Shoreham, Vt, Sept. 12.
 Read the advertisements of the Board of Selectmen and the Registrars in reference to the making of voters. Don't forget this important matter.
 Down went McGinty to Millerton, N. Y., where with one Paul, under the firm name of McGinty & Paul, he has engaged the Kenney building and will establish first class laundry and will open for business about Oct. 1st. -The NEWS is indebted to Prof R. M. Adams, now visiting in Bristol, for the very interesting report of the re- union of 18th. Conn. Vols. published to- day. Mir Adams had not met with his old regiment in seven years until last Saturday.
 The cattle show and fair at Winsted was held Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. Rain put damper on the attendance the first day, and ouly about 700 people were present. The exhi- bition in all departments of the fair was very creditable.
 The climate at Collinsville did not agree with Dr Irving Barnes health and he has sold out his practice there and is contemplating going south in about a month, and will probably locate in Georgia. At present he is visiting his parents in Canaan and his wife's parents in Norfolk. N /x-The express trains on the P. R. < N. E. road are we'll patronized and the route seems to be favorite one with Worlds Fair visitors. For several weeks the number of passengers has been SO great that said trains have been run in sections. Last Thursday night ct least 500 west bound passengers were carried.
 Both the editor and assistant editor of the New Hartford Tribune have gone to the Worlds Fair, and the Tribune will not be published this week. We are glad that Neighbor Jones has estab- lished the precedent of emitting an issue of his paper to suit hls own pleas ure or convenience; other editors may sometime want to follow his example.
 Tt is we'll known that Canaan flows with milk and honey, but just now Canaan is making g record for big to- matoes. J. B. Messenger has raised some big ones this season, and on Thursday last gave us one which weigh. ed pounds 3} ounces. John Robin son claims to have larger ones. Bring them on John and let the scales decide it.
 -'Rusticus" says in the New Yorl Tobacco Leaf of Sept. 18th that tobaccc has been injured in the Connecticut valley by frost. We would like to have him mention the name of a tobaccc grower whose crop has been injured by frost up to this date. Sep 15. "Rusty, "yor are way of: The farmers have had suffic- ient trouble this year without freezing them to death-Windsor Locks Journal
 -Orlo Moore, of Clayton, while ou gunning with Scott Parmelee near Ga naan Valley, on Friday, received { charge of bird shot in the face. One eye was severely injured and his face badly hurt. Dr Camp was called bu Moore decided to visit Hartford occu list and went there in the afternoon Moore was behind some bushes wher Parmelee fired, not seeing him, and tho most of the charge struck him in th' face.
 The Lime Rock correspondent o the Winsted Citizen says:
 sIn the 184O's came papers from Eng land stating tho death of Abraham Law renee, leaving e8, ,OOO, 900 to heirs in thi country. Hon Robert Lawrence, iron Boston went over once on that bushes but died soon after returning. In 1855 tho family in Canaan called the heirs t meet on Thanksgiving and they mum bered nearly 300. Years later Mir Law ronce from Craryville started to get th names of all descendants. but died be fore he sent them to England. His so thinks the fire in the patent office g