Connecticut western news., 1894-12-13
Local News

-Geo. s. Hammond and son, of West Goshen, have been guests at J. O. Richmoni's this week.
 Miss Lena Gillette, of Falls Village, was . guest at S. O. Beckley's from Saturday until Tuesday.
 Special Sale-Unusual bargains Thirty parlor Stoves at cost at J. H. Alvord.s Winsted, Ct.
 Al Briggs says that all the hens in the United States have only laid 1l3 eggs since the elections.
 -Wm. Garfield has the poles set and soon Canaan will be connected with Brooks Hollow by wire-Hello!
 James, the nine year old son of Frank McCarty. is very ill with typhoid fever, but is doing as we'll as could be expected.
 Miss Bodley left town on Monday for Mt. Vernon. N, Y., where she will spend the winter with her brother, the Rev Fl. l. Bodley.
 Il. J. Stewart found new whip near Hiram Mller's Monday. The owner will find 1t at Mir Lawrence's on Henry Mead's place.
 M. l.. Osborne, Jr., commenced work Monday in the job and book printing establishment of Waterman & Wright, at Hartford,
 James Bailey and family have re- turned from Huntsville and are now living in his house on the South road opposite the Lewis place.
 Photographer Deming says that he has few dozen more of those silver frames which Ee will continue to give away as long as they last.
 Thomas Abbe, of Abilene. Kans. {, arrived in town yesterday afternoon, coming East on business. He reports very dry, mild weather in Kansas.
 Mrs J. N. King aud Master King will leave for Providence on Saturday. Their rooms at the Warner House will then be occupied by Mr and Mrs Henry B. Ives.
 Leon Frazier. of Clay ton, is doc toring cattle sick with tuberculosis. He is very successful; he has had some 30 oases in a short time and has not lost case.
 MT E. D. Lawrence's condition con- tinues to show marked improvement. He is able to sit up more than an hour ct time each day and yesterday he sat up to take his dinner.
 A Quincy granite monument of rock faced design has just been erected in the cemetery at Ashley Falls. to the memory of the late Mir and Mrs Jacob Decker. The monument was erected by M. Lux, of Great Burlington, Mass.
 -Messrs Thomas Bonner, Lorenzo Lawrence, A. T. Roraback and sons did . good deed last Sunday morning by blowing snow from the sidewalks in this village thus giving people an op- portunity to attend church. The Vil- lage Improvement Association has no snow plow, and no appropriation 10 buy one and operate it.
 "A damp heavy snow began falling Saturday evening and made good sleigh ing. Monday was cloudy and mild with hail on Tuesday morning and a light mist in the evening; but Oh My how it did rain Wednesday noon, and at this writing the sleighing is rather thin. We might say it is a January thsw s'up to date and month in ad vance,"
 A very interesting meeting of the Agassiz Society was held at D. l.. Peirce's Tuesday evening. There was . large collection of Indian arrow heads. MT Tobey read a paper on trap and granite and Miss Adam showed some of the curious Mexican beans." The latter are of about the size and appear ance of coffee bean, but for some reason are endowed with the power oi locomotion. Some say that there is 8 little worm in each bean.
 Brett Morton, of Canaan, who was badly bruised in the football game at Torrington on Thanksgiving day was ~ovo-xo1 ;r tho Nrxuu rf Dao oo how ing recovered from his injuries. The report was somewhat premature. Brett has not yet fully recovered. In fac: Brett says that last Friday he was ex. amined by Dr Orton, of Lakeyille, who tells him that two of his ribs were broken in that football game.
 FAIR WARNING. The school child bicycle contest will close at 30 p. ID on Wednesday Dec. 26. The grant ''round up" of ballots may be quite ex citing and ballots will be in demand after tho NEWS of Dec. 20 is printed At present the race does not belong tc either of the contestants. The prize o . $50 bicycle can be collared by which ever contestant or his friends manifest business sagacity sufficient to order ex tra copies of the NEWS of Dec. 20 print cd for them.
 The evening whist club met at D: Ross on Friday night with the usua large attendance. Mrs William War ner and Mir Daniel l. Peirce took the first prizes, viz, beautiful lace ma made by Mrs Ross and an artistic papel knife. Mrs Dr Camp and Mrs Bierci tied on the second lady's prize, tiny drum with the motto Something yor can beat" and it was given to Mrs D. Camp, the two ladies having ''tossed up" for it. Mir Geo. s. Fuller won the second gentleman's prize, fine solitaire