Connecticut western news., 1894-01-04
Miss Mary Finneean of stockbridge,

Miss Mary Finnegan of Stockbridge. Mass, is visiting Miss May Finnegan.
 Mrs James Greene and three daugh- ters were all sick at once with the grip last week.
 Mir and Mrs John H. Pulver. and Mrs Henry Pulyer and two children, who live on the Parks farm near Chap inville, were all sick with the grip, at the same time, last week.
 The Rev Thomas Vealie, of Hyde Park. N. Y., leaves to-day for New Zea- land to enter the Wesleyan work there. The Rev MT Woolsey, of West Stock bridge, Mass, expects to succeed Mir Vealie at Hyde Park.
 About three inches of snow fell last Sunday forenoon, but the sun shone brightly in the afternoon. Thus a white mantle of charity, figuratively speaking, was thrown over the follies, sins and sorrows of the departing year
 The new Methodist Episcopal church at Red Hook, N. Y, will be ded- icated on Thursday, January 18th. It seems to be Rev David Phillips mission to build new church or a new parson- age at nearly every charge to which Conference appoints him.
 The first money which we received this year was from MT Robert De Forest, of Canaan, who before 10 o'clock on New Years morning paid years sub scription to the NEWS. We thank MI De Forest for his substantial support of the NEWS, and for the good example he has set for others.
 The "Old Subscriber" las MT N. P. Loomis calls himself has returned to Canaan, after several years experience in the poultry business at Falls Village, and on Tuesday he resumed his old po- sition as clerk of the Warner House, where he is the right man in the right place. All are glad to see Mir Loomis again, and we suspect that Landlord Warner rejoices that his right bower has returned.
 The editor of the NEWS has received a postal card from Mrs Lucia D. Smith. dated Redlsnds, Cal, Dec. 26, 1893, which reads as follows: "We were glad to receive three of your welcome papers. We have now started home ward and cannot expect another till we reach Hudson. Then I will write you letter. On Xmas day we rode by many acres of orange trees, laden with their golden fruit"
 On Tuesday, Jan 9th, there will be an auction on the farm of Anna l.. Smith in the town of Sheffield, Mass, two | miles north of Chapinville, Conn. Auc- tion begins at 10 0. m. sharp. Thirteen COWS and heifers, two horses, seven sheep 1 five swine, a number of wagons and sleighs. one ten-can Cooley creamer, l one-horse power, a big lot of farming machinery and implements, and fifty tons of good barn hay will be sold. For further particulars, see advertisement in this paper.
 Clarence Selleck, son of George VI Selleck, of Norwalk, died of spinal men, ingitis in St Luke's Hospital, Chicago, at o'clock on the morning of Dec. 29, aged 23 years. Clarence Selleck had travelled extensively in this country and Europe and had seen a good deal of the world. He was quite skillful artist and at the time of his sickness was em- ploYed in studio in Chicago and strain ed his back in carrying large valuable picture. The strain brought on the fa- tai disease. MT and Mrs George Selleck are usually summer guests at the War ner House, and Clarence had been here though not to stay.