Connecticut western news., 1893-10-19
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| -DT o. ID. I '. huOA anu Wle, LII ohn- ta Barbara, Gal, visited at Mrs J. l.. Pease's the past week.
 Jack Frost visited Canaan Monday night and at ] l p. m the mercury regis tered only 320 above zero.
 Several clusters of apple blossoms were picked from F. G. Tefft's trees at Ct. Burlington last Saturday.
 When boiling cabbage, tie piece of dry bread in bag and drop in the pot to remove the disagreeable odor.
 He loves to steal an hour away | From every cumbering care, 1 And enjoy himself on the Midway | While his wife takes in the Fair. | Salmon Barlow is going to build house on the corner of Barlow St. and Terrace Ave. The cellar is dug and the stones for the wall have been drawn to it. | -Messrs F. R. Collin and Henry Ives have been hunting at Hibernia, N. r., this week, but whether they have been hunting Hibernians the deponent saith not.
 | At 8 meeting of the Litchfeld County Medical Society held at Litch- field, Oct 10th. Dr F. H. Lee, of Ca- naan, was elected member of said society.
 -B.A Peirce has constructed dura- ble driveway from Prospect Ave. to his barn. The foundation of the driveway is marble chips, and then coating of gravel is applied.
 Thirty persons attended tea given by MT and Mrs Henry Barnes to Dr and Mrs Irving Barnes last week We'd nesday evening The evening was pass- ed very pleasantly.
 Potatoes at Monterey. Mass. have been bringing 65 and 75c, but of late they have got down to 60 and are ex> pected to go still lower. The crop is better than was expected.
 W. s. Page, of Chicago, formerly assistant trainmaster at Maybrook, is now trainmaster of the F., R & N. E. with office at this place. He began his duties last week Wednesday. | MT W. B. Bailey, superintendent of the Lehigh & Hudson railroad. formerly superintendent of the P R & NE R R., has gone to Chicago. He may extend his trip to Salt Lake City, Utah. Weather prophets who have been consulting the goose bone report that that time honored oracle indicates a winter of unusual severity On the other hand, data gathered by the corn husk seers denote winter of almost ethereal mildness.
 The term yacht" says the London Times, s'is derived from the Danish word jaght, meaning chase; hence yachting is the chasing of one vessel after another." Perfectly correct, go far as it goes. But it should be added that the British vessel usually does the chas- ing.-New Haven Union. ..-
 Some one who was deeply interest ed probably in the sermon, wrote the following on the margin of the hymn book used in one of onr choirs:
 There was young girl in our choir, Whose voice went higher and higher
 It went clear out of sight I And was gone all night,
 But they found it next day in the spire. Postmaster Hinman, of Ct. Bar rington, called at the NEWS office yes- terdav afternoon on his way to Willi- mantic to visit his son George who is the editor of the Willimantic Journal. MT Hinman is taking weeks vacation, having we'll earned it as he has not been absent day from the post office in over a year.
 If you never have seen Salmon Bar lows new bridge over the Blackberry river near his quarry it will pay you to visit it and get some novel ideas in bridge building Four railroad rails span the stream and are firmly bolted to the truss work, thus giving addition al strength to the bridge and enabling it to support any weight which it is possible to place upon if.
 Senator Allen, of Nebraska, made a long winded speech in the United States senate last week. He began speaking at 5.15 p. m. Wednesday and concluded his speech at a. ID. Thurs day. He kept his feet fourteen and three-fourths hours. Wieh we could hire Senator Allen, at reasonable price, to visit and dun some of our delinquent subscribers, and advertisers, who pay no attention to bills repeatedly sent them. .as
 The first lecture of the course was given in the M. E. church last Tuesday evening by the Rev A. E. Lord, of Shef- field, Mass, subject, "With Scouts, Sol- diers and Indians in the Northwest" A large audience greeted MT Lord and listened attentively for one and one- half hours to his instructive, humorous and pathetic lecture. Mir Lord spoke with out notes and related many incidents of his personal experience and observation as soldier of the regular army at Gov ernors Island in New York harbor and asa soldier and scout in the Northwest. We should like to hear MT Lord again, and have him devote his time exclusive | Iv to tha Indian r,roh1au and how tha "wards of the nation" have been treated in the Northwest.
 Cullen B, Holcomb. Jr., had an ex- perience Tuesday which he does not wish to repeat. With span of horses and wagon load of charcoal be WAS