Connecticut western news., 1895-06-13
Local News.

Ferris w. Henry was ln town rom Saturday to Monday.
 Mrs J. N. Fox, of East Canaan, is visiting at "The Grove"
 During the past week the mercury has ranged from 650 to 900.
 The Lend-a- Hand club had picnic at Twin Lakes on Tuesday.
 MT Keates, of New York city. is visiting at Mrs Chas Collins.
 Miss Louise Bragg went to Boston l,st Saturday to remain week.
 Prof. L. Boisse and family, of New York. arrived at Clayton yesterday.
 Wallace Garfield is building barn near his new house in East Canaan. Tomorrow, June l4. is Flag Day. Fling the banner of the Republic to the breeze.
 Two of the cottages at Pine Grove camp ground are already occupied for the season.
 MT Howard La Field, former teacher at Canaan Academy, was here over Sunday.
 The selectmen have caused some of the dangerous rocks to be blasted out of the road near John Hoag's.
 Miss Florence Thomson returned Tuesday from New York where she has remained about two months.
 MT and Mrs Harvey Kellogg and son Joseph started for their home in Toledo. Ohio, last Thursday.
 MT Henry D. Reed and Miss Min nie Spaulding attended the Husted- Spaulding wedding at Winsted yester- day.
 Morris Horan has the best piece of potat ,es we have seen yet. He thinks he will have new potatoes the 4th of July.
 The selenaders were out in full force on the evening of June 9th but the heavy shower out short their pro- gram.
 Mrs Jane W. Branch has nearly re- covered from the heavy fall she experi- enced the Sd inst, and her mlnd Is now clear as ever.
 -One thousand millions of dollars was represented by the guests who at tended the Burden-Sloans wedding at Lenox last Thursday.
 The Reading railroad is stringing new and heavy steel rails alongside their tracks from Norfolk to East Canaan preparatory to laying heavier steel.
 The place formerly owned by Fred Reel on the plain east of Ashley Falls was sold Friday, under foreclosure of Q mortgage, to Frank MoCarty for $l1O. The Pope Manufacturing Com pany's factories in Hartford are running twenty one and a half hours daily with force of 2, 300 men on bicycle orders. Mrs Charles Paul and Miss Eliza Paul left home yesterday to visit friends at Peekskill, Cold Spring and New York city. They will be absent two weeks. For the month of June, Deming the Photographer will make you dog cabinet photographs and a 16x20 cray on for S4 50. These are genuine crayons, not process prints.
 Charles Wheeler, formerly of New Marlboro, Mass, who bought the Tal- mage Pulver farm in East Canaan, has begun the erection of house on the site of the one destroyed by fire.
 -"Among the Berkshire and Litch- geld Hills" is the title of 8 new and handsomely illustrated guide book, fCl summer tourists. recently issued by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Ry. Go.
 Edmund D. Lawrence and Henry c. Barnes went to Saratoga Springs, N r.. last Friday. They were accompan jed by Henry s. Rood, of Benton Cen Ire, N. Y, who has been visiting rela tives in Canaan.
 The 25th annual reunion of tLs Connecticut Masonic Veteran Associa tion will be held at New Hartford Thursday, June 27, 1895, at 10 8. IT. The monument to "Elder" Atwell vii be unveiled with appropriate exercises All Masons of 25 years standing invited
 The new guide book recently issued by the Philadelphia, Reading & Nev England Ky. Co.,, contains over 13 pages including many charming views It is by far the finest one published and is entitled Summer Homes in tn Berkshire and Litchfeld Hills" It i mine of valuable information and withall handsome souvenir.
 Rev Fr. Lynch officiated at Si Joseph's church on Sunday and preach ed a most excellent and practical ser mon on the heinious character of morta sin, as an offsnse against the maiest and goodness of God. The preache was really eloquent at flor instanc where he described the harmony in tn whole universe, all animate and inan mate Nature. obeying the laws of Gof man alone standing up and virtuall saying, II will not obey" It is to b hoped that Fr. Lynch will spend som time on this mission.
 NOTICE. We are compelled to her, by again notify our correspondents an others that we cannot afford to gratu tously publish advertisements of fair festivals, dances and other speculatiy picnics. To those who favor us wit