The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-11-27
sOUTHISG TON.

fare Of the town in mind are helped by as fine a body of hard working. intelli' gent citizens as you will find in any | community anywhere. Our humblesl citizen has his opinion of what should be done 10 help out in a public way and he Is not slow in giving his ap- proval when things go right, As a people We are learning to find as little fault as we can with what we do not like. and are ready to work under the best plan that we can have for this community. We are all pleased with the present and therefore expect good things In the future.
 IL Is surprising to note the changes which have been made here In ten years In the make up of It's citizens. There are number of new corners here and they are industrious and good honest folks. building homes which they like and which their chill dren like. Being born to the manor, all this is gratifying to the writer who would love to see the truest of true men here. who are in favor of all modern improvements and who be lieve In building houses and homes
 IL may not be necessary to say n word about our Y. M. C. association. Still 1t may do no hurt to say that the Y, M. c. A. reading room is open nights and that young men go there and have papers to read and like the privilege. There are a good many trains passing through here and 1t would not be big mistake If a railroad mems reading room were opened up near the depot The men would find from five to ten minutes to spend there and newspa- per man can leave 1t to themselves whether they would like 1t or not. A good cheerful fire and a cup of hot cof- fee would be good thing for a rail- road man on cold bitter night, and we speak in favor of such place here
 The number of happy homes here outnumbers the houses. as in some houses there are two tenements. To get good idea of how people here love the town one must go about good deal and observe the signs of thrift and careful work to be seen on all sides. This place has among it's in- habitants large number who love the best things there are in life and like to have others share with them all the good things as they come along. There are none of us, no matter how humble place in life he may be, but what may find it hard to let appointments for doing good go by, and being dis turbed in this way by thoughts of do- ing good and lacking the means. we do not accomplish what we want to, but lesson comes to us that we each day ac- complish a great deal. The hap-haz- ard workers of the world do great deal of good and modify great deal each days work There may be no reason why this community may not do good deal of good outside of the town and outside of the state this win ter where work q. may be needed. Work here, which will do good for peo- pie who are here, will be accomplished, and all will be ready when winter comes to enjoy good winter. weather and all the beautiful days which win ter may bring. While working along in a way by which it may come easy for us to help another by a good word we are mindful that good words have in them nothing of present good for those who are in the pathway where there is no progressive good. and there is nothing by which they can learn immediately and permanently the way back to the pathway of right. We must drop word in their favor, how ever, and point out the positive good which the future, their future and our future, holds out to them. There is no turning back the days that have made up this year os far, but the mind may recall many of them one by one. May the rest of them be free as far as may be from error and may we gradually grow so that we can enjoy perfect day.
 Thursday was as clear as a bell and the weather was delightful in every particular. For a wet day Wednesday seldom has an equal; while for a fair day Thursday was all that could be wished or desired. The day grew bet ter as each hour came along, and the sun had got the complete mastery of the fog and left no vestige of it any where. The sky was clear and not even cloud was to be seenina any quar- ter of the heavens. The thick smoke from the shops, instead of floating up- wards, dropped downwards soon after leaving the mouth of the smoke stack and sought the level of the ground and finally lost itself, mixing with the air A spell of such beautiful weather is what is wanted
 There are a great many desirable places here for homesteads. Five hun dred dollars would go a great ways to- wards building a comfortable house on good site a mile or mile and a half away from the center of the town A number of buildings of different de- sign could be put up here and pleasant homes made by the end of next year without much effort other than ordina- ry work being done. From look al the new Southington directory issued by Price, Lee & Co.,, New Haven, it is learned that the territory owned by this town covers an area of thirty-flve square miles, and from a personal in. spection of this territory it is found that there are many fine places where houses can be put up and pleasant country homes made ThH natura