Connecticut western news., 1893-12-14
Mrs Patrick Lynch is still quite ill but ia reported as improving.

Mrs Patrick Lynch is still quite Ill but ia reported as improving.
 MT H. B. Sherwood, of Napaunee, Canada, and Mrs Alexander Hart, of Toronto, Canada. visited their sister, Mrs Wm J. Thomson, on Tuesday.
 Last Saturday the boarding scholars at Canaan Academy learned chat it costs $5. % land sometimes more) to snowball people who do not enjoy being snow balled.
 The tunnel at Winsted, which is to connect Rugg brook with Crystal and Highland lakes, was completed on Sat urday. The first blast was exploded March 16th. 1893. It is eight feet wide and six feet high and 3252 feet long.
 Mrs Edwin W. Warner will give her. annual sociable at the Warner House Wednesday evening, Dec. 20th. Supper from 6 to g p. m. There will be games, good music and dancing. Mrs Warmers sociables do not need any praise from us. Their reputation is established. See posters.
 Our holiday advertisers are now having their inning and they have re- quired so much of our time and so much space that We have been obliged to omit some items we would otherwise have gladly published, but we trust that the advertisements will prove profitable to the readers and to all concerned
 The NEws printed about 300 extra copies last Thursday but that number did not supply the demand, and on Saturday it was obliged to put the sec- ond page on the press again and print 100 more copies. We cannot furnish any more complete copies A. pages) of the issue of Dec. .7th but we can supply g few copies of the second page.
 If we had time we should like to write humorous version of the per formance Gt surpassed circus) of Full Ter Peet's black horse last Tuesday. Suffice it to say, the horse ran away and dashed frantically several times through Railroad St. and Main St. until it had made kindling wood of the delivery wagon. The hourse fell down twice on the ice, and different persons had narrow escapes in trying to stop the runaway who made comical yet fright ful appearance with the blanket flying part of the time over it's head and part of the time under it's feet.
 The closing lecture of the course at the M. 2. church was given Tuesday evening by the Rev Wm. Ackroyd. of Stockbridge, Mass, who has just re- turned from Europe on the steamer Etruria and arrived in New York at 1 o'clock last Sunday morning, after delay of half day in mid-ocean caused by the breaking of crank pin in the steamers propelling machinery. Rev. Ackroyd's subject was, "A Preachers Life in the Wild West" It was an in-. teresting lecture and described the hardships and p1Yatlons endured by himself and other preachers in that sec- tion. He gave us glimpse of frontier life and society. and he related many as we'll as thrilling incidents of personal experience. A counter at traction at the town hall prevented 8 larger audience from hearing the lec- ture. Now that the lecture course is closed we wish to make a friendly criti- cism as follows: All of the lectures l have been instructive and entertaining, but three of them were twice as long as the audience expected, because the lec- turers did not stick to their text but 1 used up half of their evenings in des- oribing their journeys to the subjects of their lectures.