Connecticut western news., 1894-05-24
Local News.

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 The North Canaan Water Co. Is ex tending its main on Barlow St.
 One of the saddest conditions ir life is to have nothing good to live for
 Miss Katie Kane, of Ct. Barrington, visited her cousin, Miss Finnegan, here over Sunday.
 Charles 0. Callender stepped on g rusty nail on Tuesday and is laid ur in consequence.
 Printers Ink says: "Advertisei Ii your business is not worth advertising, advertise it for sale"
 The little son of MT and Mrs B. A. Psirce has been seriously ill for week but is now improving.
 MT Lyman Dunning is in an i'm proved condition according to the statement of his physicians.
 A local bicyclist remarked the other day that he had seen go summers and l29 falls.-Gowanda Herald.
 Frank F. Stevens left here yester- day noon on his bicycle for South Brit ain where he will visit friends until Monday.
 Strawberry festival and sale will be given by the Guild of Christ Church at town hall on Tuesday evening, May 29th. Supper 35 cents from g. 30 to 9.
 The long needed rain arrived about II o'clock last Friday night and con tinued at intervsls until Monday morn ing, resembling an equinoctial storm.
 If there Is anything you want in the line of bicycles, call on Beckley. He sells wheels. rents wheels. and ex- changes wheels. All makes of wheels repaired promptly by skillful work man.
 Mrs H. N. Adams, whose health has been poor the past year, is visiting her brother at Worcester, Mass, and she writes that the change of scenery and freedom from care is proving beneficial.
 The ball game which was to have been played yesterday afternoon be- tween the P. R. & N. E. men and the Canaan Academy nine was postponed to some date not fixed when the NEWS went to press.
 Several Pennington farmers are planting cabbages instead of tobacco this year.-New Hartford Tribune-A good. if not pious, idea. Cabbage leaf cigars arc always palmed off on the confiding public.
 The Report of the Condition of the National Iron Bank Is republished to- day becaase through inadvertance the printer failed to substitute the name Geo. W. Hall for H. c. Gaylord as one of the directors.
 The new badges for David s. Cowles Post have arrived, and are very hand some and elaborate. They are rever- sible, one side being designed for dress parade and the other side for funeral occasions or Memorial day.
 The Julian Comedy Co.,. have made arrangements to play V. I. A. benefit at Town Hall June 15. They will bring first class cast of eight people and present the drama ''Uncle Daniel. , This is good wholesome comedy drama, no vaudeville performance.
 With pleasure we record the fact that Michael Madden has equipped his livery stable with new horses, carriages and harnesses and rents them at re- sonable prices. For many years as a railway conductor he pleased the public, and in the livery business he is also pleasing the public.
 I'll ose who believe 13 is an unluck } nVpber should fight shy of quarters. The coin has 13 stars. l3 letters in the scroll held in the eagles beak, 1a marginal feather on each wing. 13 tail feathers, 13 parallel lines on the shield, 13 horizontal bars, and 13 arrow heads. But few people will refuse 13 carloads of quarters if they could have them just as we'll as not.
 Victory Council No. 65, O. U. AM. held an open meeting on Tuesday eye. ming. State Organizer Thomas Gilmore of Fair Haven; Ex-State Councillor F. E. Clark, of Falls Village; and the Councillor of Poquonock Council, oi Stratford, made speeches. A good sup per was served after which the company was entertained with vocal and instru mental music for an hour or go. "A good time" is the verdict of all present
 The funeral of MT Smith L. Hillard was held last Friday afternoon at o'clock at the residence of Miss Weltbs Ann Beckley. aRev CIV. Hanna conduct edthe services and made excellent an6 impressive remarks. The house wal filled with relatives and neighbors O the deceased. The burial was in tn, lower cemetery Mir Hillard was borr at Williamstown, Mass, in August 1924 He has lived at Great Harrington Monterey and Pittsfeld but for th' last twelve years has had charge of Mis- Beckley's farm in South Canaan. H, was an industrious. faithful, and kint hearted man. respected by all who knev him. He was a gentle and skillfu nurse and he will be greatly missed a the farm where for twelve years he ha made himself generally useful ana taken tender care of the old people wh, have resided there. Mir Hillard married in early life and leaves one daughte and two sons besides number of grand