Connecticut western news., 1893-03-02
About 100 new books have recently been added to the Douglas library.

been added to the Douglas nbrary.
 Tho selectmen will soon call town meeting to act on the report of the com mittee on town records.
 -RooMs TO RENT. The rooms, over my store, recently occupied by Miss Lorrigan. Fl. D. HUMPHREY.
 An exchange says: With the crino- line an established fact, mascullnty must condense itself into skin-tight trousers. Last month was month without full moon, happening that comes on- ly once in about 20 years. and can only occur in February.
 -J. B. Mendenhall, who was recent ly one of the train dispatchers of the P. x R. Go. at this place, is now head train dispatcher on the Louisville & Nashville railroad. Charles Dutcher has bought building lot of Salmon Barlow. It is the first lot west of Patrick Commins on River St. MT Butcher will build house thereon this spring.
 We have been requested to say that Miss Carrie Richardson brought the pu- pills of the Hephzevallah school to wit ness the Canaan Academy play and not those of the district school, as was re- ported.
 | /-The new 823 a. m. P. X R. train was two hours late on Monday. This was due to snow blockade near Nor folk. A freight train and fve engines were stalled there. The new trains can now be relied on.
 Rev B. F. Atwood, of Wethersfeld, formerly pastor of the East Canaan Congregational church, was elected chaplain of the State Association of Union Prisoners of War, at the annual meeting Tn Hartford last week. We are informed that farmer in Sandisfeld, Mass, on going to the barn one morning this winter found that the stable floor had broken down and nine of h,s COWS were hanging by the necks in the stsnchions, dead Another COW fell head first into the watering tub and was drowned.
 MT William Bennett visited his daughter, Mrs Thomas Bonner, at Stam- ford from Feb. 18th to Feb. 23d. Mrs Bonner came to Canaan Feb. 9th and accompanied her father to Stamford the next day. She also accompanied him home last Thursday, and on Saturday she returned to Stamford.
 Auction posters of all sizes, and pos ters and programs for entertainments of every description, all printed neatly and quickly at the NEWS job printing rooms For those favoring us with their pat ronage we will gratuitously publish in the NEWS reasonable notice of the date and place of auctions, entertainments, etc.
 The Lakeville Dramatic Club will present ''The Confederate Spy" at town hall on Friday evening of this week. The actors need no recommend from us; the admirable manner in which they have presented this thrilling drama at Lakeville and other places in this sec- tion is already we'll known. We bespeak for them crowded house.
 We have received copy of the Illustrated Saturday Chat" the paper managed by w. H. Farrally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It contains an engrav ing of the Roaring Brook road in Shef- field. Mass. The engraving in itself IS good enough, but as a sample of Berk- shire scenery it is complete failure. That is not MT Farrally's fault however. A far better scene can be found on al- most any country road in New England.
 -Dea. H. P. Morse, of South Canaan, called on us last week and, apropos of the snow, informed us that in 1857 he was living with his father in Conesville, N. r., and on the 18th of April of that year. after they had plowed for oats, snow fell to depth of five feet and re- mained on the ground till the 18th of of May. He also said that in October of that year, before they had got in the apples or harvested the buck " heat, one foot of snow fell
 An exchange says: One curious cause of delay in the delivery of mail in incement seasons is not generally un- | derstoed. It results from the fact that mail is assorted for delivery or 'thrown," as they say in the business, on the trains. Two men cover certain line of road and one is supposed to be at ore l end when the other is ready to start from the opposite end. If one gets caugh. in snow storm or by accident the other goes out as usual and both get on one end, the consequence is that when the next train is ready there is no railway mail clerk for the run and mail is not sent out.
 Mrs Ellen l.. Beach, wife of George Beach, died at her home in this town on Wednesday of last week, aged nearly ! 51 years. She had been i'll long time with dropsy but was able to sit ~up the day previous to her death. Mrs Beach was sister of Messrs Frederick and James Reel. Her first husband was the late Edward Bailey. Nearly if not all her lifetime she has resided in the house opposite the Lewis place on the south road to East Canaan. She leaves one son and one daughter, by her first hus- , band, James H. Bailey and Miss Rosa E Bailey. Her funeral was attended at her late residence on Saturday at 3 p. m. Rev D. o. Stone officiated. The burial
 was in the lower cemetery.