Connecticut western news., 1895-12-26

| Miss Elsie Adams IS home Tor holiday visit.
 WANTED. Four good woodchop- pers. EDWARD BoTNAY. Canaan Conn
 A beautifully gilded metallic cross has just been placed in position on St. Joseph's church.
 Mrs Thomas Bonner has sold the wood on the hill belonging to the Ben nett farm to Rhoades < Stanton.
 Miss J, 2. Newton and R. o. New ton, Jr., spent Christmas at R O. New tons. Miss Newton will remain for q few days visit.
 A dance will be given in Town Hall, Monday evening by David Curtiss and George Smith. Ball Bros orchestra furnish music.
 -Sprinkling the streets on the 18th of December is an unusual thing, yet that Is what was done at Millerton, N r., on that day this year.
 Rev T. F. Ramon oficiaten at St. Joseph's church on Sunday and gave some very useful instruction on the on the subject of confession.
 George Wood, car inspector of the P. R. & N. E. road, went to hls old home at Newburgh, N. Y. last Sunday to enjoy a we'll earned vacation of a week or more.
 The Jessie Couthoui Concert Go. will appear at the Opera House in Win sted on Friday evening. January 3. 1896. under the auspices of the Winsted Peoples Course of entertainments. | Let the war come. It will not find us unprepared Bob. Vance's Red Headed Rangers are being drilled in New Britain, and Canaan is re-organiz- ing it's old brass band.-DaDbury Dis patch.
 -Sam1 Camp and Clinton Barnes of Y Ytle, Albert Barnes and Walter Warner Of Hartford. James Thomson of Spring field, Mass., and Marcus Barnes of Nor folk are among the young people who are home for the holiday vacation.
 West Main street was formerly call ed Pudding Lane," and could boast of only three dwelling houses. Now there are 28 dwellings houses commencing at Frederick Gillett's and ending at Dr Camps. Thers are also a score or more on parallel streets.
 The young people of the Pilgrim Church will give dime sociable and entertainment in the church parlors on Friday evening, Dec. 27. The program includes dialogues. charades etc. Coffee and sand wiches will be served.
 Here is what Georgia editor, in a fit of desperation, says: "The wind bloweth, the water foweth, the farmer soweth, the subscriber oweth. and the Lord knoweth that we are in need of our dues. So come 8 running; this thing of dunning gives me the blues. :"
 The many different front curtains that have. hung at the Town Hall stage have every one of them spoiled some pretty stage picture by their inability 10 work at the right moment, and the present one is not going to be an excep- tion as was demonstrated Saturday night. Why not always have the cur- | tain in working order?
 The Personal Recollections of Squire Forbes," written by Mrs Eliza Sedgwick, are exceedingly interesting. We regret that Mrs Sedgwick does not consider them worthy of publication. We hope she will change her mind ere ng and permit us to give our readers t,e feast which we lest week promised them. .N .-
 A Rraphophene entertainment will be given in Town Hall on next Thurs lay evening. Jan. 2, for benefit of V. I. A. Edison had not perfected the graph ophone until March 1895 and it is 100 per cent more powerful than the phono graph in rendering selections Col. W H Philips. an old newspaper man. is in charge of the instrument, and rer. resents the Washington company
 MT Frank Little of Sheffield Mass. died at the home of MT Charles Robin. son. in New Hartford. Conn, about lC o'clock last Thursday evening, after au illness of eight days with typhoid pneu monia. MT Little was veteran of the 49th Mass. vols His remains were es corted to Sheffield last Saturday by fnur members of Edwin R. Lee G. A R. post, No. 78 viz. Commander Grov. Tanning. Past Commander Augustus T. Wilbur. Comrades Oliver Futile and John Drewne. The funeral was attend ed at the Congregational church in Shef field on Sunday at l 30 p. m. Mr. Lit tie was nearly seventy years of age, ant was brother of Mir Robert Little O Salisbury. ... ..
 Miss L. A Norie. presented tn, operetsa of "The Gypsies' Festival" a Town Hall Saturday night to very ap preciative audience. The operetta wa sung by about fifty school children, th leading parts being taken by BessI Riley as the fairy queen, Louise May a the gypsy queen, Nellie Schamerhorl as the count, and Imogene Van Deusel 4s the countess. Juvenile specialize , were introduced by many of the child ren. those gaining the most applaus being by Fife Cudney, Jamie .Qnini and Roger Rood. A recitation by Mis- !, 1 AIax 0aL