Connecticut western news., 1895-10-10
S13.M.
Special sale ranges Sl3.OO. Alvord's, Winsted, Ct.


 "A lilac bush on Mrs Col. Harden bergh's place is in full bloom.
 Mir and Mrs M. B. Tobey are visit ing friends in Danbury and attending the fair.
 Mrs T. Archie Evans, of Bethel, has been visiting relatives here since Monday.
 Mrs George B. Coggswell and daughter Clara, of Pittsdeld, Mass, are visiting at G. P. Strong's.
 Mrs Carter and Mrs Miller, of Stockbridge. Mass. spent number of days at Judge Changers last week.
 The first week of October proved unusually pleasant, with bracing air, sunshiny days and delightful moonlight nights.
 Miss Kitty A. White has returned after five weeks absence in New York and Hartford on business and visiting friends.
 Invitations have been issued to the marriage of Mir Burton Grant and Miss Ruth c. Pixley at Granville, Oct. l6, at l2 o clock.
 The Rev John C. Goddard. of Sails bury, will preach at the Pilgrim church Sunday morning in exchange with the Rev 0. D. Milliken.
 Tt was stated by Mir William Couch this afternoon, that the will of the late Norman Brooks would be contested.- Winsted Citizen, Oct. 3.
 The lower cemetery has been we'll taken care of the past summer. and even at the present time it looks neat. It never was kept in better condition.
 Mrs E. w. Warner is giving series of fruit pairing bees at the hotel. On Tuesday there were 24 ladies present and they pared four bushels of peaches.
 WANTED. A live and reliable man to act as our agent in Canaan and sur rounding towns. Address, Grand Union Tea Co.,, 237 Main street. Derby, Conn.
 A New England Tea will be served in the Pilgrim church parlors next Wednesday evening. Oct. 18th. from 5.3O and there will be an auction sale of paper articles.
 Julian Palmer and family will move from Woodbury. Conn.,, to Detroit, Mich, next week. MT. Palmers daugh. ter, Miss Maud. visited Mrs Mary Beebe in Canaan last week.
 George Dodge, of Lime Rock, who has been quite ill a few weeks past. is now improving and is able to sit up. His sons have charge of the meat mar ket here which Mir Dodge purchased of Mir Lane.
 Good morning neighbor! If you cannot pay cash for your subscription, please bring us load of seasoned wood fright away quick" We are 'out of wood, and we need fire these chilly days.
 Special sale! Side lift tubular lanterns, 23c Alvord's, Winsted, Ct.
 Mrs Ellen Warner, of Chicago, has been al tue Warner House for about Q week, having come East. for tue first time in 2i years. to visit her cousin. Mrs s. NJ. Humphrey.
 The Winsted Citizen says: Rev ". A. Mackey, former pastor at Canaan, and highly esteemed, has been informed that when an estate of one of his parish toners in Monticello, N. Y., lately de- ceased, Is settled. he will come into possession of S5, GOO as a bequest.
 MT Daniel Chester French, the sculptor. and Airs French made call at Judge Granger's on Tuesday. He has been spending the summer at En- field. Mass., engaged on statue of Gen. Grant, which is nearly completed and is to be placed in park in Phila- delphia.
 At the meeting of the Wangum Club last week Wednesday night these officers were elected for the ensuing six months: President, Samuel A. Eddy vice. president, Frank A. Peet; secretary and treasurer, Arthur P. Freeman; ex- ecutive committee, Harry G Nicoll Lester H. Adams and Lewis 0. Rboades The clnb has paid $5 toward the new sidewalk in front of the premises and the members are to pay 8 more.
 As William Van Alstyne, who is a brother of Mrs J. s Corbit of this town was boarding the 10 24 D. m. train on the F. R. & N. E. road Monday, he missed his footing and slipped between the car steps and the depot platform. I The train was moving rapidly at the time and NIT. Van Alstyne was dragged in his perilous position the whole length of the platform. tearing his coat badly, before the brakeman and others succeeded in rescuing him. Accidents of this kind are of frequent occurrence at this station, but never, perhaps, has the danger been so great .as in this in stance.
 i -Rev NJ. J. Lynch, of Lakeville spoke on the subject of temperance a St Joseph's church on Sunday morn ing. The reverend gentleman is always an effective and fluent speaker and at al times thoroughly in earnest and inter ested in his subject, but on this occasion he surpassed all his previous efforts. IL urging the merits of temperance. he ap pealed to the pride of race in his nearer as Irishmen, their religion and love o their wives and children and their inter