Connecticut western news., 1894-08-23


 Drama and refined specialties at Town Hall, Friday night.
 A. A. Hubbard and family visited friends in Montville, Mass, last week.
 -Miss Mary Gillette visited her sister, Mrs Smith, in Salisbury several days last week. #r.. asE .
 One good second hand farm wagon left, with three inch tire. Price BIO %, at Cargill's.
 Henry D. Reed started on Monday on pleasure trip to Nova Scotia to be gone 0 week. ...... ga. F Mrs Charles Day and two daugh- ters, of Lakeville, visited relatives here the past week.
 The Misses Susan and Jane Norton left on Saturday morning for Castleton, Vt.,, to be gone two weeks.
 Mrs Royal VanAlstyne. of Honsa- tonic, Mass. visited at Mrs Mary 0. Corbit's during the past week.
 Miss Flora Cogswell, of Pittsfeld, who has been visiting in Canaan and vicinity, went home last Saturday. Mrs William Douglas and son Arthur. of Brooklyn. N. Y. visited rela- tives in town during the past week.
 It is said that Mr Minot A. Bridg- ham, teacher at the Canaan Academy, is going away and that his place will be taken by his brother.
 MT and Mrs B. "A. Pierce were the guests of MT and Mrs John D. Seacord. at Lee, Mass, over Sunday. They made the trip by carriage.
 A pair of horses belonging to Mrs Fred Daley. of Ashley Falls, were kill ed by the lightning while out in the field during the storm of Wednesday of last week.
 There was an informal hop at the Town Hall last night, given by the teachers and pupils of the Canaan Academy. W. H. Camps orchestra furnished the music.
 During the thunder shower on Wednesday afternoon of last week. lightning struck and splintsred large tree near the house occupied by E. J. Lorrain on Church St.
 Hannah, wife of James Lahy, had been on the sick list few days but "misfortunes never come singly" and last Thursday night Hannah got of bed and fell and broke her hip.
 During the shower on Wednesday afternoon of last week, hail stones m eas uring three and one half inches in cir. conference fell at George F. Bartholo news near Ashley Falls. Mass. Nc damage was done as the hail fell gently What changel Lawyers and ministers are rarely called upon to ad dress the numerous farmers meetings which are now being held in nearly all of the country. The demand is fo, farmers and farmers wives to do the talking and they are found to be equal to the occasion. on.--Connecticut Farmer.
 Tt has been decided to take down the partially built abutments of the toll bridge over the Housatonic river and rebuild them in 8 more durable manner. The company had the work inspected by an expert who decided that abutments would need to be built stronger to resist the spring freshets when the ice comes down the river.
 The Rev. H. I. Bodley and family of Mt. Vernon, N. r., have been camp ing at Twin Lakes over month and vii remain about week longer. The. have new tents, new furniture and "al the modern improvements" for camping On Sunday last MT Bodley held tw' services at Pittsfield. Mass, and re turned to his camp in the afternoon. | The ice cream festival given las
 Wednesday evening by the ladies of tn
 Pilgrim church at the church parlor
 was fairly we'll attended, considering the rainy weather. Ice cream, cake an, coffee, all of first class quality, were dis
 pensed. The receipts from the line
 sale, which was also feature of tn
 evening. and the ice cream sale amount
 ed to $6O.O0
 Reading railroad employees ar
 having lots of fun at the expense of M
 F. G. Carroll, night train dispatcher 2
 Canaan. sOn one recent raw and storm
 night, MT Carroll walked a half mil down the Canaan freight yard after
 bod of coal He was minus lanterI and, much to his disgust, after he ha returned to his office, he found the ho
 full of iron ore.-Winsted Citizen. The body of Willis Stevens Thorn,
 who died at Mamaroneck, N. Y., on il 18th inst, as reported in our last week issue, was brought to this place on tt noon Housatonic train on Thursday an inferred in the lower cemetery. Re MT Barnett oficiated. Mir Willis Thorne and Miss Gertrude Steven father and aunt of the deceased, can with the remains, the other members 2 the family being ill with malaria. IT
 cause of the child's death was spin | meningitis.
 : Many will be pleased to learn tn ' the headstones in the lower cemete, ! which needed repairs have just bee : put in the best order possible. N | William H. Cropper, of Ashley Fall Mass, did the work by direction of \ = John B. Reed. Elsewhere in this pap j. will be found list of headstones r paired, and the nature of the repair MT Reeds letter explains how the Pc e Fund can be used. but we trust tn