Connecticut western news., 1896-05-21


 Decoration afternoon.
 Albert Barnes has been running the iewelry store while F. R, Collins has been taking his vacation.
 Mrs John Nicoll is at Warren Me- Intyre's for a two or three weeks visit. John is expected next week.
 Linen dusters, feather dusters, and those who can wield feather clusters are in demsnd-and so is rain. but dust reigns triumphant
 William Shields has bought the old hose cart building and moved it onto his own lot where it will be con- verted into tenement house.
 The summer express trains between New York and Pittsfeld will be re- sumed on the Berkshire division of the Consolidated road June 14th, and will run on the same time as last season.
 -lS96 will go on record as the year when there was short spring and long summer. If there was hotter spring ever known we have not heard of it.-New Milford Gazette.
 Mine tickets were sold at this sta. tion Saturday for the P. R X N. E. ex- cursion to Albany. The train passed through at o'clock in the morning, arriving here on the return at about II p. m.
 The strawberry festival and dance given by the ladies of Christ Church last week Wednesday evening in the basement of the Warner House was quite successful. The receipts were $2l.
 The horses of Jules Roster, a char coal teamster. ran away last Thursday near the furnaces. Roster was thrown out and had one of his legs broken above the knee. Dr Church set the leg and Roster is doing nicely.
 w. G. Cargill started Monday on his western business trip. He will be absent about six weeks. and will make his first stop at Buffalo, then Chicago, but will go no further south than Mem phis, Tenn., this hot weather. Rev Henry Utterwick and Rev c. D. Milliken exchanged pulpits last Sun- day. MT Utterwick preached grand and thoughtful sermon from Galatians vi, 2. Bear ye one another's bur. dens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. ? Mir Robert Marvin has been in poor health long time, and has not ven- tured out of the house since last fall. He sits up, reads the newspapers and occasionally receives callers. All hope he will soon be able to appear on the street.
 The chance of lifetime to secure carpets. rugs, window shades, oil cloth, cloaks. dress goods, etc., etc., at half their value. Don't fail to read the spe- cial administrators announcement of the retail sale of the stock of E. Hollis ter & Son.
 Thomas Richards, of Stevensville, N. T.. in renewing his subscription to the NEWS takes occasion to remark as follows: "In almost every issue of the paper read the death of some old friend and acquaintance. There are few left who started in life with me-"
 The services of Memorial Sunday will be held in the church at Ashley Falls, Mass. May 24th. at p. m. The sermon will be preached by the Rev l.. c. H. Adams. David s. Cowles Post and the Woman's Relief Corps will at tend in body, and the public arc cordially invited.
 T -Dr H. l.. Ross has hen setting or some eggs of ring-necked pheasant This bird Is cross between the En glish and the Mongolian pheasant. Whel the birds are large enough, if they eve are, the Dr. will set them at liberty il the woods, and perhaps shoot some O
 them some time.
 Louis, the barber, has been wear
 ing a somewhat lacerated probocis tn, past few days, the result of livel, , header from his bicycle, on Sunday, ol , the Ct. Harrington road. The fall als, } broke up his eyeglasses, and Louis wa in peck of trouble. He smiles natur , ally again now, however. |
 Jerry McEwan, who assisted tn
 Norfolk Minstrels in their recent enter , tainments, has left Norfolk and ha , joined Pauline Parker's Wild Ros company as advance manager. Jerr
 is at present in New York organizin , the company, which will tour the Adj r rondacks this summer. Rev W. R. Stocking, missionar
 born in Persia, and the son of a mis
 sionary, will give an object lesson e Turkish Life," with fourteen impel d sonations. Much information abor |. Armenia, where he labored, will accon h pany the lesson. It is earnestly hope l. that this novel entertainment will dra e full house as MT Stocking is perso1 A ally known as an interesting speake |. Town Hall, Wednesday evening, Ms q 27, at o'clock. Tickets on sale, I and 15 cents.
 1t Reuben H. Smith, the new editt D of the Religious Herald, was in Canas ,e last Thursday. MT Smith is we'll know n in Connecticut, having been for fl le years editor of the Waterbury Amer
 can, three years editor of the Sprin :. field Republican and ten years edit
 of the Newtown Bee. He has recent
 returned from three years sojourn