Connecticut western news., 1895-09-12
Local News.

Old Humidity Is here thls week, with ninety or more degrees of caloric
 W. R. Baldwin, of Cleveland, Ohio, is visiting his uncle, J. A. Underwood, at Canaan.
 Mrs Sara J. Warner is making two weeks visit with her sister in Yer gennes, Vt.
 -Winsted's wild man has not yet been captured. Perhaps he has dried up and blown away.
 -Uria E. Whining and daughter. of TorringtoS, were guests at J. l.. Bragg's day or two this week.
 70. H. Pease and family broke camp at Twin Lakes last Thursday after so- joarning there since June 8.
 -Dr T. W. Harvey, of Orange, NJ., is spending few days with his family at Mrs J. N. Fox's. at East Canaan.
 Mrs Bushnell and daughter, of New Haven, visited at D. L. Peirce's for several days this week and last.
 The Hartford Times says that the Katydids have become nearly extinct in Southeastern New York and in this state.
 Mattresses, kitchen girl and pastry cook wanted at the Beardsley House, West Winsted, Conn. Steady work and good wages.
 MT and Mrs Fl. O. Barnes went to Oyster Bay, l. l., last Monday to visit their son, Dr I. F. Barnes, They will return this week.
 Mir and Mrs Geo. l.. Parsons ex- pect to start next Tuesday for Lincoln, Neb to visit their son Joseph. They will be absent a month or more.
 Robert R. Smith, of New Hartford. has been seriously i'll for several weeks with catarrhal jaundice, and Ut last re- ports remains in about the same condi- tion. HI. H. Beardsley is painting Charles Wheelers new house at East Canaan and is making nice job of it too. get ting on some tasty shades.
 -S. A. Kemp had orders Tuesday for 105 baskets of Hale Brothers peaches. He succeeded in getting S7 baskets in Hartford, and was lucky to get that quantity as peaches had ad- vanced 70 cents or more per basket in less than a week.
 Miss Louise Roraback enters Mount Holyoke college this week. She left home last Monday. Samuel G. Camp enters Yale next week. Albert Barnes returns next week to Mir Reid's school in Hartford, and Marcus Barnes will en- ter the Robbins school at Norfolk.
 Mrs James Beckley and her daugh- ter. Miss Clara, of Brooklyn, N. r., are guests at s. O. Bsckley's. They ar rived yesterday from Richmond, Mass, where they have been visiting relatives about two weeks They intended to reach Canaan the 24th of August. but changed their plans and went first to Richmond.
 Principal Helon B. Mcfarland. of the Canaan Academy. was married to Miss Olive F. Shadwick, of Bucksport, Me, on the 9th, inst, at the home of the bride. Mrs Mcfarland is grad nate of Bucksport Seminary and studied ct the Boston University. The happy couple arrived here Tuesday and are now at home at the Academy.
 During the past month country newspapers have fairly bristled with items about large potatoes, and almost every farmer who has raised potatoe weighing between one and two pounds has rushed into print'' with the won derful product of his land. Alas. how are the mighty fallen. Get out with your two pound potatoes. Go to Shelf field, Mass, and see those six pound potatoes raised by Marcellus Chapin.
 The Gilbert School at Winsted was dedicated on Monday evening with i'm pressive exercises. The building is a large and substantial one, built of gran ite, three stories in height, and con tains twenty rooms. It is equipped with all the modern improvements in school furniture and apparatus, and al- 30 contains public library. The late Wm L.. Gilbert made provision in his will to build and maintain the school.
 The public schools in this district (No. 2 have never opened with brighter prospects than at present. The attend ance is already 155 and it is thought that it will reach 175. The standard has been raised and the new course oi study includes Latin, German, Botany, English Literature, Bookkeeping, An. cient History, and Natural Science, be sides the common branches. Another new feature is that class of six is pre- pairing to graduate at the close of the present school year,
 John G. Beckley started last Mon day morning for Atlanta, Ga., where he will remain an indefinite time and ther visit Northern Alabama, New Orleans and other parts of the South. He ex poets to be absent three months or more if the climate agrees with him and if he finds the "Sunny South" to be such { charming country as some have repre- sented it to be. He sailed from New York yesterday via the Old Dominion line for Norfolk, Va, (which is only 24 hours sailj and from thence he goes b, rail via the Seaboard Air Line to Allan