Connecticut western news., 1893-04-13
Local News.

The first Court in Connecticut was held April 26, 1886.
 M. L. Osborne has bought Elisha Beuedict's milk route.
 Mrs c. w. Camp gave tea party to a few friends on Thursday evening last week.
 -WANTED.-A good farm hand. Wages liberal HENRY SPIoER, Falls Village Ct.
 -J. l.. Bragg finds it necessary to havc another clerk and has secured the services of Will Emmons.
 Peter Hicks has opened 8 bakery and fruit store opposite the depot, and will run bakery cart through Canaan and vicinity.
 On April 9th the legislative finance committee at Hartford reported favor ably on the petition exempting from taxation the property of the Canaan Pine Grove Camp Meeting Association.
 The Canaan Citizens band would like more players. Persons with a view to joining the band will be instructed at the weekly band meetings on the fol- lowing instruments. Cornets, Eb altos. and the big drum. The band would also like to get hold of clarinet players. Harry Booth of Poughkeepsle has sv,k usI lou kxun week. He said when asked how every thing was in Poughkeepsie. Tt is there the same as it is here, if you get 8 dol lar you have to earn it."-Millerton Telegram. .-City and country are alike in this respect.
 -Auction posters of all sizes. and pos ters and programs for entertainments of every description, all printed neatly and quickly at tbe NEWS job printing rooms. For those favoring ns with their pat ronage we will gratuitously publish in the NEWS a reasonable notice of the date and place of auctions, entertainments, etc.
 The water main at the junction of Main and Gillette Sts. has been frozen several months. but or Saturday last it thawed out and the large stream of water which found it's way to the sur- face and then ran down to the gravel pit showed that the pipe had burst. The break was not repaired until Tuesday, and in the meantime the water ran to waste.
 We have received copy of the Curtiss Souvenir, edited by Col Edgar J. Bliss and printed by the Berkshire Courier company, Ct Darlington. The little volume is handsomely printed and contains fourteen of the best poems from the pen of that gifted aud lamen ted writer, Fred H. Curtiss. The book also contains life like portrait of Mir Curtiss, and two poems in hls memory, by Frederick w. Pangborn and Luella D. Smith. The volume is tenderly dedicated to Mrs Curtlss. themother.
 David Scott, of Weatogue, (Salis- bury.) died at his home on Tuesday night, April 4, of heart disease. He was absnt 64 years of age and was in his usual health up to within an hour after o'clock and between then and !. ten had two convulsions. passing away about 10 o'clock His funeral was at tended Friday at the house, Dr Eddy officiating Burial in the new cemete,y J at Ashley Falls. Mir Scott had been married twice, his first wife dying some years ago and leaving two danghters who still survive. His second wife (the Widow Moon) is still. Ewing an6 several children by her first husband.
 Sudden changes of weather. Last Thursday morning nearly six inches O light featbery snow covered the ground that quantity having fallen since mid night. About nine o'clock the cloud, parted, and the sun beamed forth in al It's splendor. The snow disappeared more rapidly than it came, and durins the afternoon the walks and roads hat dried off sufficiently to permit bicycl' riding. In the evening grass fires rag ed, started by sparks from a locomotiv' quite an eventful day. but the mex day tried to surpass it for about Il o'clock Friday morning furious snov storm, regular blizzard set in and con tinued until several inches of snow GOV cred the ground. About II p. m. thunder shower with vivid flashes o lightning arrived. Saturday did no want to be outdone by it's companions SO it brought fourth several heavy thun der showers between 1130 a. m. and D. m. interspersed with clear sky an bright sunshine.
 Pat Maloney and his troupe drew full house at town hall last Friday eve ming, many more than could be seated This was surprising considering the in clement weather and wretched travel ling. Pat gives 8 variety entertainment sDOW tuu1 ID Soou OhouSh AoA '"oo who like that kind of show-and 1t evident the masses do like it for the crowd the hall in every town where Ps appears The only unpleasant featur was the method of selling reserved sci tickets. Reserved seat tickets wit number, section and letter were sol from chart at the post office durin the day, but in the evening reserve seats were sold at the door without SCI tion, letter or number and without re erence to the chart or the seats previou ly sold, and the ushers allowed late pu chasers to take and occupy seats whic had been previously sold to other pa