Connecticut western news., 1895-04-11
Local News.

The annual parish meeting of Christ Church will be held at the church Monday evening at 2 30 o'clock.
 Ladies, you are invited to call and examine the "New Richmond" end "Wsst Shore" ranges at J. H. Alvords. Winsted, Ct.
 Miss Grace Rorsback returned to Wellesley college on Monday afer spending her two weeks vacation at her home here.
 Ives & Peirce have just received a car of choice seed oats. Call and see them and be convinced they are the best you have ever seen.
 The horse belonging to Dr A. l.. Futile, of Bridgeport, advertised for sale in last weeks issue of the NEWS, has been sold to Fl. N. Adams.
 Rev James Grant, of California, has acc opted the call to become associate pastor of the Baptist church at Pitts he d, Mass., at . salary 5000. a year.
 James Sinnett. aged 3l, of East Albany, N. Y. freight brakeman on the Boston & Albany railroad, fell from car at Pittsfield last Monday afternoon and was almost instantly killed.
 There will be no services at St. Jo- seph's on Sunday. It is the Falls Vil- lage church's turn to have mass and Bishop Tiernsy has informed Rev Fr. Bannon that it will be impossible to send another priest here.
 The officers for the ensuing six months of the Agassiz chapter are: President. M B. Tobey; oe-president. L. Fl. Adams; treasurer, Mrs J. Bierce; secretary, H. M. Adams; executive com mittes, Miss 8. w. Adam, Miss l.. H. Bngg and Mrs H. M. Adams.
 The Conference appointments for the Poughkeepsie district of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church were not an nounoed in time for publication in this issue of the NEWS but will appear in these columns next week, not, however, as an item of latest news but for refer ence.
 The annual meeting of the Pilgrim church is to be held to-day. Tea will be served from 5.3O to 630 in the par lorE The roll call and business meet ing at 2 o'clock. It is especially desir- ed of every member of the church who cannot be present at the roll call that they send some verse of scripture to be read.
 "A Wheeling, w. Va dispatch says: Barnum Richardson Go. of Connec- ticut have entered suit in the United States court against the Ensign Car company of Huntington. W. Va, for $50, 900 royalties. The defendants have been manufacturing chilled car wheels under license to use the patents of the Connecticut companY.-Winsted Citi- zen.
 Last Monday was . rainy day, but it was only . preparatory lecture to the storm which ragged that night and con- verted some of the snow on Canaan mountain into raging torrent in the Blackberry river. LATER. The heavy thunder showers of Tuesday evening were in advance of the season but fur nished water enough to satisfy the most ardent Prohibitionist.
 "A monument to the memory of our late respected citizsn Henry G. Will hams has been erected in the lower cemetery. It is of dark Barre granite, sarcophagus design and the whole effect is tastefully artistic and striking ly pleasing. It is an appropriate tribute to him for whom 1t was placed, and much credit is due to J. w. Chopper, of Ashley Falls. Mass, who did the work in his usual style of integrity.
 Owing to threatening thunder show. CTS and heavy rain. a small audience greeted "Af.er the Ball" at Town Hall on Tuesday night. However the per sonel of the house was such as could appreciate . geod performance. and ''After the Ball" was a very amusing comedy, finely presented by Al talent. MT Hampton. MT Drake and Miss Bon heur were particularly pleasing and were supported by very ''clever" artists
 The Amenia Times of April 9th says: Mrs George s. Williams. daugh ter of MT J. J. Cspron, of Amenia, is very i'll at her home in Poughkeepsie We understand the malady from which she is suffering is bilious remitteni fever" Mir Williams and family resid ed in Canaan from April 1887 to Aug. 1890 during which time MT Williams was foreman of tho NEWS. In behal of Canaan people as we'll as the NEWS staff we tender MT Williams our sym pathy iu this time of sickness and W, sincerely hope that Mrs Williams vii soon regain her health.
 Oscar Chittenden, ST., son Of th' late George Chittenden, of Chittenden' Falls, Stockport. Columbia county, N T., died at his home in Brooklyn, NY March 18th, aged 58 years. His child hood, youth and earliest manhood wer passed in Stockport, and he was engag cd in business first with his father am brother-in-law. After his marriage b moved to New York city. where he wa engaged in the paper commissio business in Reade street for a numbe of years. The past ten or twelve year