Connecticut western news., 1893-06-01

felon which began on his left thumb last Friday.
 John H. Benton returned Monday noon from his bicycle trip to Pittsfeld and Monterey.
 | Cafe wafer crackers, sweetened and unsweetened, 25c per box at Humph. rey's Drug Store.
 W. G. Cargin will start next Mon. day on his semi-annual western trip ot several weeks duration.
 Rev Dr Eddy and Mrs Eddy, and Mrs Charles H. Briggs will visit the Worlds Far. They leave Canaan June 9th.
 | There will be trawberry tea al Pilgrim church parlors on Friday even ing beginning at o'clock. All are in. vited.
 Mrs Weston Barnes has purchased g new Hartford bicycle and Mrs o. H. Pease has purchased Ladies' Colum, bia Model 31. Miss Pearl Ham also rides Ladies' Columbia.
 Mrs B. N. Rawson, of Brooklyn, N. r., is visiting her brother, Dr J. D. 1 Clemans. Her son Edward has been 8 guest of the Dr but returned to Brook lyn Tuesday.
 | THE CONNECTICUT WESTERN NEWS can be found regularly on file at the Connecticut State Building, Jackson Park, Chicago, for the benefit of visit tion.
 Jim Drake is having some good luck fishing lately and the other day he hooked the mate to his big catch, but sad to relate he did get him. Junius Rhoades got 21 nice trout last week with 8 fly.
 Some of our local ball players gath. cred themselves together on Decoration Day and played the Academy team. Ii was foolish thing to do as the score showed, the game resulting Academy 46, Scrub team 12. l Ten Great Harrington young gen tlemen came to our village Sunday afternoon on pleasure ride. Some were on horseback, some in buggies and some came on bicycles because they had no fare to pay.
 -One of the strangest things at the Worlds Fair is the association of inter prefers employed on the grounds. It. president, Charles A. Barry. speaks six teen languages, and has some acquaint ance with half dozen others. l We noticed in our Norfolk cores popdence last week that the RobbinI school boys were in training to ''do up the Canaan Academy boys in fielt sports. Considerable training will b' necessary as the Academy boys are nt slouches ard can keep up their end 1T field day sports.
 A few careless farmers are getting killed by their bulls this season, as othe careless farmers were last year, and ev cry other year since farmers have kep bulls. It is way bulls have, but ther' are several men still left in Connection whom nothing but personal experience will convince of the fact.-Conn. Farmer
 Rev Dr Eddy preached memoria sermon in the church at Otis, Mass. Jas Sunday afternoon. He says there is { real live G. A. R. post up there among the rocks in Otis, and that the farme choir sang with an enthusiasm and har mony that would be creditable to tn choirs in large villages and even som cities.
 We wonder if the old sponge wh' left that little advertisement here fev weeks ago for us to ''put in some tim just to fill up," and who has paid fv cents copy for The Telegram for tn past three weeks in hopes of seeing hi item, has come to the conclusion tha ssyou don't get what you don't pay for in this country -Millerton Telegram. George s. Fuller and wife left ol the $40 a. m. train Monday for Chicag } where they will visit MT Fuller's broth , CT, Robert, and attend the Exposition [ They stop one day at Niagara. Joh
 Robinson also left on the same train fo
 Chicago where he will attend the Fail
 John will be away about two months
 visiting friends in Detroit and elsewhere Over in Winsted the people are ad vised by the Citizen to use old boxe
 full of nails to kindle fire with, an
 then throw the ashes out into the road
 This will get rid of the ashes and tn
 nails, as the nalls will be picked up b the horses and carried away in thei
 feet. It may ruin the horses but it wi
 get rid of some of the nails. This woul !, work equally well in Canaan and tn nails that the horses did not get woul be picked up by the bicyclist and cal
 ried away in his pneumatic tire.
 -Hymen nabbed another of "Evar E geline's'' bachelors last Thursday. No, , there are only five survivors of tn , twenty-two jolly bachelors whose pc portraits appeared in the NEWS thirtee years ago last March. The little Spar tan (not sparking) band of five survi vors are hesitating whether to form
 snicida club or to commit matrimony
 We hope they will choose the wises course and that the clergyman will re a ceive his fee from their hands instea n of from the hands of their executors. l A new rule has just gone into effec a on the New York, New Haven & liar : ford road. Passenger brakemen ar 8 those most interested. In future 8 , employees of this class are to be exam l ined as to freedom from color blind ness. The men must understand th