Connecticut western news., 1895-04-11

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 J. H. Alvord's, Winsted, Conn.
 There was no preaching at the NJ. E church last Sunday but the Sunday .chool and the Y. P. s. O. E met at the usual hours.
 Owing to meetings in some of the churches on Friday evening the meet ing of the Literary society has been p ,stponed until next Monday evening". David s. Cowles post did not at- tempt to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Gen. Lees surrender at Appomattox, April 9, because the members of the post are so scattered.
 Canaan mountain is still covered with the snow which the "Indian Sum- mer" of late November failed to remove Who says the season since Nov. l, 1894 has not been a remarkable one? Sheridan w. Barnes and family ex- pect to arrive home Friday from their two months sojourn in Florida. They started north Monday but are 10 stop over ut Baltimore and Philadelphia. Officers of Wangum Club elected for the ensuing six months are: s. A Eddy, pres. F. A. Peet, yice-pres.; NJ. Rood, sec'y.; A. P. Freeman, treas; A. ". Nicoll, c. D. Milliken, H. D. Reed, executive committee.
 Mrs Charles Morris, 47, formerly of East Canaan, died at her home in Win sted Monday morning from the effects of the grippe. Her funeral was held yesterday from her late residence. Burial at East Canaan.
 -J. Fl. Alvord, heating engineer and sanitary plumber of Winsted, has the contract for placing Richmond Water Heater in the new residence of Mir J. R. Ensign, Simsbury, Ct, also the plumb ing for same residence.
 -Ex-Judge A, T. Rorabock was one of the 100 guests at the luncheon given by John Addison Porter at his residence in Hartford on Tuesday in honor of Governor Mckinley, who was Mir Por- ter's guest during his visit in Hartford.
 We noticed on old hen-hawk Mon- day proudly celebrating the defeat of the hawk bounty bill. He seemed. like his distinguished cousin the Ameri can eagle, to be "soaring and soaring till he could get no sorer," as some- body says.
 Mrs Ellen Mullin. 23, wife of Michael Mullin, died at her home in this town on Sunday of consumption, after prolonged illness. Her funeral occurred Tuesday morning at St. Jo- seph's church. Burial in the Roman Catholic cemetery.
 Last Friday the ice on Twin Lakes was about twenty inches thick-some- thing unussl for April but just what might be expected for April 1895 when we consider what winter proceeded it and that at one time during the winter the ice was three feet thick on said lakes
 HI. M, Adams, who was appointed local agent to forward all money con- tributed for Nebraska farmers, under special plea of Fl. Fl. Bristol of Sher- man. Co.,, informs us that the total amount sent up to date is $l9 25 as fol lows: Canaan $13.5O Epworth Lea gue, Falls Village 3.75 Chapinville s. s. $2.0O.
 Rev Marvin R. Lent. who las been critically i'll at his home in North Highlands, N Y. has partially recovered his health. After serving for several years in the Protestant Methodist Church he served in the Methodist Episcopal Church fer fifty-one years without break, and has now asked to be relieved from active work. Rev Lent formerly lived and preached in Canaan, and was instrumental in build- ing the M. E. Church ediice here. With his own hands he helped raise the frame of the building, and he labored faithfully in every way for the temporal and spiritual welfare of the little flock here.
 With genuine surprise and regret we read Editor Harry Douglass an- nouncement in the Berkshire News last Saturday. We are surprised that the Berkshire News has been absorbed by the Berkshire Courier, and we regret to part with one of the most interesting of our exchanges. We are glad, however, that genial Harry Douglass can now take vacation, which his health de- mands, and which it seemed impossible to secure in any other way. We have feared that he would "hold the fort" until his health was shattered beyond recovery. He has done the greater share of the editorial work of almost everyone of the 2S6 consecutive issues of the BERKSHIRE NEWS during the past five and one half years. That work has not injured his remarkably good dis position. but it has injured his health. Mir Douglass is a writer of marked ability. We wish him speedy restora. tion to health, and may he be. success full in whatever field he may hereafter find himself.
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