Connecticut western news., 1894-07-19


 Mrs Bowen, of Jersey City, and daughter are at Mrs Dr. Eddy's.
 W. Fl. Camp, of Norfolk, has bought a new Victor bicycle of 0. H. Pease.
 Mrs Theodore Watson and her son, Ted, are visiting at Mrs Col. Harden bergh's.
 -C H. Pease and w. N. Rogers and families are camping out on Lake Washinee.
 The Misses K. l.. and M. L. Callahan of Southport, are at the War ner House.
 Mrs Willis P. Clark and daughter, of Port Chester, N. Y. are spending the summer at Mrs Hams. The Canaan Academy camp at Twin Lakes opened last week Wednes- day with MT Bridgham in charge. In the national game of Capital vs Labor, one strike puts everybody out on both sides New Milford Gazette.
 MT R. P. Paine and family, of New Britain, expect to move into their new cottage at Twin Lakes next Monday.
 Attorney Fred Williams and wife. of New Milford, and Miss Michas, of New York, are camping at Twin Lakes Mrs Mary W. Ward is at Mrs Hobart w. Watson's and the Misses Franklin and Ward are at Mrs o. O. Briggs.
 The ladies of the M E. church real ized SIP qy their sale of ice cream and cake on the lawn in front of the church last week Wednesday night. Plan to be at Pine Grove on Mon- day, Aug. 20, for the Sunday school rally and parade under the auspices of the Connecticut Sunday School Asso- citation.
 Brett" Morton. of the Canaan Academy, who has been in New York since the close of the school; has re- turned and is at the Academy camp at Twin Lakes.
 Two little boys and three little girls received their First Communion at St Joseph's on Sunday. The girls were dressed in white with white veils and looked very prettily. The African prince. Momolu Mas saquoi, who lectured in Christ church and is featuring in other churches in, this vicinity, was converted to Christian ity from Mohammedanism. -Lawton & Go, ofLsnox Dale, lately insolvent, will settle for 24a cents on the dollar, and the firm of w. H. Fer guson & Go. will straighten with credit ors for III cents on the dollar-Spring- field Union.
 Don't fail to secure copy of the | CONNECTICUT WESTERN NEWS until January l, 1895 for 50 cents. This will supply you with good reading dur ing the long evenings. Full particulars in the advertising columns. We are informed that Garfield Bros. have on exhibition, at their office at East Canaan, frog, which was found imbedded in the lime rock in their quarry. It is not petrified but is flexible It was very likely killed by the blastl ho Golsah,1ry If ha Litchdeld Enquirer says: An electric light company has been formed to furnish light for this and surrounding villages The plant will be at Falls Village. and the splendid water power will he used to run the dynomos. A townsman says that THE NEWS gave the selectmen credit for raking the stone out of the streets in this village but now he wants THE NEWS to tell where they did not do that kind of work, viz, between O. E. Holcomb's and D. l.. Freeman's where the high way>resembles ''The Rocky Road to Dublin"
 At last the Telegram has found an editor with sense of newspaper hon. esty. The Knigh. of the quill who bosses and owns the Canaan NEWS credits nything he clips from his ex- changes, which all other editors don't Millerton Telegram. is saying too much Neighbor Card; but our rule is to give all exchanges credit for whatever items we think they are the authors of.
 The stock of the bridge company, which is to build toll bridge between thist town and Salisbury. has all been subscribed for and the company has organized under the name of the "Nortb Canaan Bridge Co.," Joseph W. Peet is president, E. E. Bartram secretary and treasurer, and James l.. Bragg, A. l T. Roraback, s. A. Eddy. E. w. War ner and Junius Rhoades directors Messrs Bragg, Warner and HI. D. Humphrey were appointed building committed.
 l Rev. O. w. Hanna, of Falls Village, occupied the Pilgrim church pulpit last Sunday morning, in exchange with Rev. O. D. Milliken, and preached a deeply interesting sermon from Revela- tions V. 2. His subject was "Angels; their origin, station and occupation. ' The sermon was the result of deep and varied research and was not only mine of accepted bible statments, but was replete with new thoughts and theories. The theories or ideas of prominent in. fidels in regard to angels were also quot. ed.
 As the season for hammocks is at hand it may be of use to know that g