Connecticut western news., 1896-05-21
THURSDAY. MAY 21, 1896.
Local News.


 Get up and dust.
 Band meeting tonight.
 There was good shower here Tuesday.
 -Dr Camp has just bought hne span of bays.
 Mrs Dr H. L. Ross is visiting rela- tives in Bethel.
 Mrs John B. Reed is staying Tn Lime Rock for few days
 Daniel L. Pierce and Edward Fitz- gerald are having their houses painted. Don't forget the Strawberry tea at the Pilgrim church parlors tomorrow evening.
 ID. L. Pierce walked from his resi- dence to the post office on crutches Saturday.
 Mrs Cleveland. wife of the presi- dent, will spend part of the summer at Tyringham, Mass.
 -Nordica is to sing at Pittsfield the evening of June 1, with the Boston Festival Orchestra.
 A man sold about s15 worth of patent medicine on the street Tuesday evening and gave free dog circus. -Mr and Mrs Frank Miller, of Bridgeport. occupied their cottage at Twin Lakes from Friday until Monday. There was quite lively fire in the swamp below Pine Grove station last Saturday, but 1t was finally e1tin- guished.
 -WARNNel Every tax due to the town of North Canaan should be paid before Memorial day. H. NJ. ADAMS. collector.
 A neat and substantial Scotch gran ite monument has recently been erected in Albert P. Briggs lot in Hillside cemetery. at East Canaan.
 MT and Mrs L. Augustus Caldwell and Mrs Minnie Evans went to Pough- keepsie on their wheels and returned Tuesday after stay of day or two. Bishop Tierney will visit St. Jos eph's church on the 9th or possibly the 18th of July to administer conirma- ton. The service will be at Il a. m. Miss Carrie Loucks was called to MIllerton. N. Y, last week by the i'll. ness of her brother-in-law, Albert Ham mond, who died on Monday and was buried yesterday.
 Edward s. Riely andMissPolly Hal were married at Pittsfeld, Mass, Sat urday night Alter learning the bar ber's business in New York. MT Riley will open a shop in Hartford.
 -Luther Hicks, who was arrested last week at Ct. Harrington on charg' of picking the pocket of William John son. of Ashley Falls, was discharged b. Judge Sanford the next day, Thurs day.
 sN The condition of the Hon Freder ick Miles has not improv ed during tn past week. He is still confined to th bed. Mir and Mrs William A. Mile and Miss Miles, of Poughkeepsie, N r., are at present at Mir Fredericl Miles home at Twin Lakes, and vii remain for some time.
 Rev W. H. DePuy. D. D., of Ney York city, has purchased cottage ol the Camp Ground. and will occupy with his family this summer. Dr De Pay spent several weeks on the Cam Ground last summer. He is the edito of the Peoples Cyelopedia, and wa formerly assistant editor of the Chris tian Advocate.
 The hot dry weather has not in th least retarded the arrival of the winge lbut not feathery) songster, the mo- quito. He is here again this year wit countless numbers of his asst ciates, and he is not of th weak. falsetto voice variety either. million, and probably more of then have been in town for few days, an they are the big, lusty. aggressive fe lows, tout for blood" Sunday nigl they congregated and led by dee baritone sang. We Meet Again." I'll mission of the mosquito has never bet ascertained, unless it IS to prove u Christianity of protesting Christians.
 There have appeared at differel times in the Norfolk column of Il Winsted Citizen reports of gre games of whist between Atwood ar Whitney versus Perkins and Edd This same Whitney came to Canaan th spring with a record of only one defe as whist. and with anxiety to at Canaan victims to the list. He W just the meat the Wangum whist fen were after, and he was easily ensnar into their club rooms. He secured good partner and proceeded to exE rience some aw ful defeats. This W repeated several evenings and now 1t impossible to get Mir Whitney to vi the Wangum Club on a whist evenin Mir Whitney is undoubtedly go whist player. but there are some soI second hand plays iu the system of wangum clubmen that MT Whitn was not onto. and the thirteenth truI was factor which would turn the Ii contrary to that gentleman's reconir CAvendish or Hoyle are not In 1t wi the Wangum clubmen's system whi is explainAble as to every play or con 6er.