Connecticut western news., 1895-03-07
Local News.

The frame of the new meat market building was raised Monday.
 -Acel R. Tobey is now living with his mother on the Tobey Hill farm.
 Harry Sedgwick, ofCornwall Hollow, was in town Tuesday and Wednesday.
 Mrs N. A. VanDuesen is again oc- cupying her house on East Main St.
 Special ten days sale! First quality ladies' parlor brooms, 21c. Alvord' 8 Winstei, Ct.
 Watch for the eclipse of the moon next Sunday night unless the eclipse be eclipsed by clouds.
 Rev s. F. Adam preached and as- sisted in the services at Christ church Sunday morning.
 -Mr and Mrs Joseph Holcomb, it is reported. will occupy the Martin Tres colt place after April 1st
 March l, Spring; March 9. Winter; March 3, Spring; March 4, 5 and 6. Winter and Spring combined.
 -Messrs Daniel R. Spaulding and Robert Little went to Rome, N. r., yesterday to remain few days.
 MT and Mrs Geo. Skidmore, of Chatham, N. Y. attended the funeral of 1r Skidmore's niece, Miss Caul, in this village on Tuesday. .
 Mrs Baudry, wife of Train Dis patcher Baudry of the P. R. & N. E., is critically i'll with typhoid fever at her home in East Canaan.
 It is unoficially announced that . dining car will be attached to the Berkshire express when the season of summer resort travel begins.
 Tt is said that pancakes can be bak- cd without using grease if the griddle is kept at just the right temperature and wiped clean with damp cloth.
 The regular communications of Honsatonic Lodge No. 61. F. & A. NJ. have been changed from the second and fourth Saturday of each month to the first and third Tuesday of each month and don't you forget it.
 -Asahel Kellogg, who sold his farm in Minated last fall and has recently been talking of moving to Falls Village, has decided to remain in Winsted and has hired the Barker house near Still river bridge at East Winsted.
 Several inches of snow fell last Sat urday and patched up the sleighing. Only 10' above zero Tuesday morning and trains were detained an hour by snow drifts in Berkshire county, as the wind had blown g gale the previous night and the storm which was rain at Canaan was snow further north.
 -NoTIoEl The annual meeting of the Village Improvement Society will be held in the court room of the Town Hall on Saturday evening, March 9, at 8 o'clock. Election of officers, annual reports and other business will come before the meeting. A large attendance is requested. J. G. BEcKLEY, Tres.
 Tuberculosis, which is kind of consumption. is now very prevalent among cattle, certainly in this state and in Massachusetts. Prof James Page, of the Agricultural College at Amherst, in . recent lecture on the subject, stated that the decease WAS incurable, but that it could be prevented by giving the cat. tie plenty of light, fresh air and e1. ercise. It is often caused by keeping COWS in close, too warm. damp and badly ventilated stables.
 There will be a total eclipse of the moon on the 10th of March. This in. terposition of shadows will be the chieI feature of the sky for March to the casual observer. The lunar body will carry darkness on it's face for an houl and S5 minutes. The longest possible total eclipse is but ten minutes more. This one will be visible throughout the United States. The penumbra will first show at about eight o'clock on the night of the tenth. The total eclipse will last from 9.51 to 1127. At 12l or the morning of the 11th the last vestigt of shadow will have disappeared.
 The sick list. Rev B. Seeholze, had relapse of the grip last Friday evening but is now able to walk arount his room. His mother arrived Sunday from Poughkeepsie to take care of him and his wife and son who were also sick but who have now nearly recovered Mrs E. s. Root is improving and sit up part of the time. John Rodemeye is recovering from a weeks siege witl the grip. Rev F. w. Barnett and sol Francis are recovering from sever colds or grip. Mrs Hattie Brown i quite sick with grip. Miss Carolin Bailey is recovering from a severe at tack of cold. sore throat and rheumatism Mrs Bell, mother of Mrs J. S. New, ha been failing all winter and is now yer feeble. Her death is daily expected Mrs Freeman is on the sick list Mir Fairchild, aunt of Mrs O. R Camp. re mains in about the same condition.
 The meeting of the Literary society like most of those which have precede it, was an interesting one. We thin that all those who have attended any ( these meetings will agree with us ths there is always plenty of fun and CT tertainment developed before the mee ing is over. Mrs o. H. Briggs read
 very entertaining selection from Jame Whitcomb Riley's works. Then cam the debate on the question of allowin