Connecticut western news., 1895-05-09
NORFOLK.


J. D. Bassett is much better and able to ride out.
 G. T. Johpson's mother, of Mt. Yer non, N. Y.. is visiting him.
 Robert Geer, of New York, is spend ing few days in town.
 MT and Mrs H. H. Bridgman are ex- pected at their residence that they hire this week and are soon to erect fine one on the site they purchased last year on Spaulding avenue.
 Mir and Mrs Everet Curtiss and daughter are visiting at his fathers, Philip Ourtlss'.
 Miss Fannie Barber has gone to Waterbury. From there she accom- panies her father, Dr Barber, on a Southern trip.
 MT and Mrs Mclean arrived last week at the Hillhurst.
 Mrs Pettibone and Miss Harriet Nose ly are stopping at Philip Curtiss' and Mrs Mosely and Miss Helen Pettibone have taken trip to Bermuda. Theodore Beardsley, of Boston, spent Sunday with his family here at their residence.
 Rev MT Davis, of New Britain, preach ed at the Methodist church Saturday evening and Sunday at 2 p. m. and in the evening.
 Neil Blue. the genial ex-depot agont, has secured fine position at Hartford.
 Clarence Sparks. of Winsted,is spend ing few days in town. A Mir Brewer, of Colebrook, has mov- ed into Benjamin Browns house and is to work for Mir Brown the coming sea- son.
 The Robbins School observed Arbor day by planting an elm tree near the school house in memory of Hon. Rob- bins Battell.
 Webster Hart lost most of his house. hold effects by fire on Monday morn. ing> as the house they occupied burned to the ground. How it caught fire is not known.
 Prof. Goodnow, of Columbia College, was in town over Sunday. .. Dr Curtiss, of Cornwall Bridge, has been visiting his parents in the north part of the town.
 Miss Rose Morgan, of New Haven, whose parents live in this town, is in 8 very crltlcal condition and not expected to live.
 Mir and Mrs Wilbur Brinton, of Tor. rington, were guests at George Nun sons on Sunday.
 J.T Levi has purchased more ground on Maple avenue and will erect another residence.
 The cellar is completed for Charles Hotchkiss' house and the carpenters commenced work on Monday. It is te be finished by June 1st Miss Nellie Huggins, of Sheffield Mass, is visiting at Charles Pulver's. | Martin Prescott is to occupy the house recently purchased by Balch & Platt and work for them.
 The community were saddeped by the announcement on Monday of tht death of Miss Clara Baxter iu Albany N. r., where she had gone for medica treatment. Her body, incased in me. tallic casket and accompanied by Mir, Knapp's brother, MT Jenks, arrived or Tuesday morning and was taken il charge by Undertaken Scoville and con veyed to the residence of Fl. B. Knapp where she has always been cherished a, an only daughter. Her funeral wal held from the residence on Wednesday the services being conducted by Rs, Mir DePeu, assisted by Rev Dr Bliss, o New York. She was of such cordial amiable disposition that she became friend to all she came in contact with
 Mrs A. K Thompson, who owns . summer cottage here, is in town.
 Paul Ney, of Hartford, was in tow1 on Tuesday.
 A cablegram received here on Tues day announces the marriage of Car Stoeckel, son of Professor Stoeckel O Yale University, and Mrs Ellen Battel Terry, daughter of the late Hon. Rob bins Battell. The ceremony was per formed at Whitewell on the Isle O Wight, famous as the summer resort O | Queen Victoria.