Connecticut western news., 1896-12-31
THURSDAY. DECEMBER sl, 1896.
Local News.
Goodbye 1896.

to her bed With the grip.
 Major Bennett was home from New York over Christmas.
 Mrs Hamm was threatened with pneumonia last week but is improving rapidly.
 Harry Holt is slowly recovering from pneumonia and pleurisy but is do- ing as we'll as could be expected.
 Owing to the big snow storm Dec. 23. the dance that was to be given that evening by David Curtis did not mater alize.
 The frame for Charles Kilmer's new house on Orchard street has been raised this week. The cellar was completed long time ago.
 Judge Whittlesey is sick with the grip and has not been at his office since last Thursday. but he hopes to be on deck b. fore long.
 The stores were closed Christmas day, and the day seemed like Sunday. We might say there were three Sundays from the 2Oth to the 27th both dates in- elusive.
 James Roraback, who lives on the Weltha Ann Beckley farm, is struggling with slow fever and has been confined to his bed over two weeks. At present he appears to be improving.
 Miss Weltha Ann Beckley is suffer ing greatly from dropsy. Her limbs and body are badly bloated and she cannot breathe when she lies down, consequently for several days and nights she has remained in her chair
 The recent failures of banks and business firms in Chicago and other western cities leads Canaan man to remark that Horace Greeley's famous advice, "Go West. young man, go Vest" better be changed to Go East, young man, go East
 Yesterdays Winsted Evening Citi- Zen says: Mrs J. F. Hedden, wife of Chief Train Dispatcher Hedden of the P. R < N. E. railroad, died at her home in Pottsville, Penn, this morning. Mir Hedden has the sympathy of many friends in his sad bereavement.
 Tt is stated on the highest authority that the United States express company will close all its offices in the states of Massachusetts,, Rhode Island, Connec- ticut and number of offices in New York to day, as the business handled cannot be made to pay expenses. The Adams express company will sue ceed the United States express company on the P R. & N. B railroad.
 Rev T. E. Davies. of New Haven, preached in the Pilgrim church again last Sunday morning and delivered another grand and encouraging sermon. This time his text was from Haggai, II, 2. "The desire of all nations shall come." Mir Davies sermon was appro- priate to the Christmas season. From the Old Testament he proved that Christ was ''the desire of all nations" and that they believed that Christ would come. From the New Testament MT Davies proved that Christ had come.
 There is man in our town who is 72 years old and has never ridden on the cars. John Pitcher, swho lives just south of North East Center. MT Pitcher is not much inclined to roam would rather stay by his own fireside than to go away on journeys for fun. He went to New York, however, some years ago, but drove across to Pough. keepsie. thence by boat to the city. It is not because of fear of accident oI anything like that but simply because he does not care to ride on the cars and allows that he never will ride on them. -Millerton Telegram.
 -CHR1sTMAs GUESTS. Among the many guests in town, we observed the following: MT and Mrs Jared Bradley of Great Burlington, at J. J. Bailey's MT and Mrs J D. Seacord, of Lee Mass, at D. l.. Freeman's; Fred G. Capron, of Danbury, at John Hoag's Fred B. Young. of Pittsfeld, Mass, a the Misses Norton's; R. c. Newton, Jr and Miss J. E.. Newton, of New York at R. c. Newton Miss Florence Thom son, of New York, and A O. Brainard of St. Augustine, Fla. at Mrs Wm. J Thomson's; Theodore Cogswell ant Miss Rebecea Cogswell. of Pittsfeld Mass, at Geo. P. Strong's; Dr Parsons and family. of Thomaston, at Mrs Mary c. Corbit's.
 MT John c. Bates, aged 69 years died at New Haven last Thursday. H, was brother of the late Mrs Adelin Beckley who resided in Canaan man, years. Mir Bates lived in Norfolk
 number of years. but moved to Lee Mass in 1861 and engaged in bushes there for few months and then bough drug store in Sheffield. From Shef field he went to Johnstown, N Y, an; conducted drug store several years and then moved to New Haven wher
 he has since resided and has been em
 ployed as bookkeeper. He is survive,
 by two sons, Leman and John, and b an adopted daughter. The remains c
 MT Bates were taken from New Havel
 to Lee, Mass, last Saturday and burie,
 alongside his wife who died . fe,
 months ago.