Connecticut western news., 1894-04-05
Local News.
Fish stories have arrived.

March came and went like @ lam b.
 Social Assembly next week on We'd nesday evening.
 Forty -four calves were purchased at this station on Tuesday,
 Michael Madden has leased B. W. Warmers livery stable business.
 James Reel is having steam heat or put into his house on Bennett's hill.
 Mrs Caroline King and her son Frederick start tomorrow for their home iu Georgia.
 FORTY NEW WAGONS for sale at Car gill's ats rock bottom prices. Call and look them over.
 -Frauk Hitchcock is replacing his tile sewer pipe with an iron one. The length of pipe is about 325 feet.
 The Village Improvement society propose to s'make it hot" for the smart Alecks who break the street lamps.
 -J. E. Pine, of Winsted, is erecting . large monument of Quincy granite at the grave of the late Col. Hardenbergh.
 Base ball game next Saturday at 2.30 p. m. between the railroad men and Canaan Academy on the grounds of the latter.
 Mrs D. s Proper, of Glenco Mills, N. Y., and her two sons, Miles and Irv- ing, are spending the week at Judge Changers.
 w. G. Cargill will be at home only two more Saturdays before making his Western trip. Call now if you want to save money on wagon.
 No preaching inthe M. E. church next Sunday, but the Sunday school and young peoples meeting will be held about the usual hour.
 The post office department recently issued orders that on and after April 1st the "h" be dropped from all names of places ending in ''burgh."
 Carl Rodemeyer now rides new Columbia bicycle purchased of John c. Beckley. MT Beckley goes to Hartford tomorrow to order more wheels and cycle sundries.
 Samuel Merrill has moved into the house on Watson street previously oc- cupied by Wm. Briggs and Wm. Briggs has moved into the house on Bennett's hill vacated by Merrill.
 "A meeting of the Canaan Lawn Tennls club will be held with Miss Louise Bragg on Monday evening, for the purpose of deciding upon the pro- ject of renting the courts for another year.
 We have received a good report of the conference of Sunday school super intendents at Falls Village, but we must defer it's publication until next issue. Two other long religious articles are also deferred.
 Rev F. Thompson's St. Bernard dog, "Fan." bit a son of James McCor mick in the leg on Saturday. Mir Thompson hired Mccormick to kill and bury the dog, paying him 50 cents for the job. The dog was shot that after noon.
 The annual meeting of the Pilgrim Church will be held this evening. A supper will be served in the parlors from 5. 30 to 2; and the business eeting with the roll-call will begin at 2 o'clock. A cordial invitation is extended to all members of the congregation.
 The meeting of the Literary society Friday night was we'll attended. Mise Bragg read su interesting paper on grapes, and there was a good debate on Resolved. that the efforts of morgan ized charity do more harm than good. " The vote resulted in tie.
 The writer has entered upon his 12th year of service as editor of the NEWS. He refrains from making a speech on this occasion but he express es the hope that it will not be his duty to record as much sickness or as many deaths during the coming year as have occurred during the past year.
 The newly elected officers of the Agassiz association on Tuesday evening for tho ensuing six months were: Pres ident, M. B. Tobey; vice-president, L. Fl. Adams; sec'y, Mss Alice Peircei treas, Mrs Jas. Bierce, Jr.; executive committe, H. M. Adams, Miss s. w. Adam and Miss Louise Bragg.
 At the annual parish meeting oi Christ church, on Monday evening, Joseph w. Peet and Judge Granger were reelected wardens; Messrs Ben. nett, Underwood, Walter and Newton, vestrymen. w. H. Camp was elected to succeed H. P. Tracy, deceased, as vestryman. H. G. Williams was elect. ed clerk, treasurer and trustee of the Mary A. Peet fund.
 John Sweeney, who has been ill with appendicitis since March 23d, ls improving. Dr Lee is attending him. On Tuesday, March 27th, Dr E. H Welch, of Winsted, and Dr Francis Ba con, of New Haven, saw the case in con sultation with Dr Lee and thought that an operation would be necessary. but during Tuesday night the patient i'm proved so much that the doctors decid ed to defer the operation indefinitely
 Miss Louise Hotchklss, of Boston delivered lecture on Shakespeare'i play, "Cymbeline, at Dr H. l.. Ross residence on Main street, last Saturday evening, in the presence of about forty ladies and gentlemen of this place. Tn, lecture was scholarly analysis of th' play with special reference to the char