Connecticut western news., 1896-09-03
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 8. 1896.
Local News.

visiting at 5. w. barnes'
 Dr. J. D. Clemans is sick in bed with catarrh of the stomach.
 Mrs Goodwin. who has been very Ill since last Friday, is improving.
 Mrs s. A. Eddy and son, Lawrence, are at York Cliff on the Maine coast. FOUND. A watch. H. D. Board man. agent Grand Union Tea O., Ash ley Falls. Mass.
 Judge Roraback recently purchas- cd fine sail boat for use of himself and family at Twin Lakes.
 Major Henry Romeyn. D. 8 A., of Fort McPherson, Atlanta, Ga, IS Vlslt- ing at D. l.. Freeman's.
 Misses Alice E. Selleck, of Norwalk, and Estelle T. B. Storm, of New York; are at the Warner House.
 -. G. Root is acting as clerk Tn d l.. Parsons & Sons store this week. Eugene being in camp at the lakes.
 Ed. W. Adams is spending vaca- tion of several days at Burlington Vt'' and other places on Lake Champlain. Francis Barnett will attend school st the Housatonic Valley Institute, at Cornyall, this fall. School opens on 23d inst.
 WAITED, to tutor pupils in high school branches or in college prepara- tory work. Address GEo. H. CHUTE, Canaan, Conn.
 Judge Bradstreet and wife, oi Thomaston, and 0. H. Briggs, of New York, were at Clamp Solitude" Twin Lakes, over Sunday.
 The annual reunion of the members of the 128th Reg't., N. Y. Vols, (Col' Cowles' regiment) will be held at Pine Plains, N. r., Sept. IS.
 Mrs B. R. Abbe and daughter, Miss Marion, of Hartford, visited at Rev B, Whittlesey'a4over Sunday, leaving yes terday for Falls Village.
 -Ex-Judge Roraback's patriotic speech, delivered at the Republican State Convention in Hartford yesterday is published on the first page.
 We should have added to our no ticaof the David M Hunt school las week that the tuition in the primary de partment is $7.5O per quarter.
 Rev B. Fl. Burch and family re turned to New York this week. The have been occupying their cottage a Pine Grove camp ground sewers weeks.
 Ninety mine times in the hundred will be found that the man who abuse the newspapers is the man who owe most to their arance.-Bridgepol Farmer.
 Rev U. s. Warren preached an ad mirsble sermon iu the M. B. churc Sunday on "The duty of showing kint ness to others" The sermon is we spoken of by those who heard it.
 Tt is reported that the health ( Bishop Williams is improving. He hi been confined to the house the greatt part of the summer by severe illne' with rheumatism, but of late he is ab to ride out occasionally.
 Main street, not far from the eel ter of the village. was the scene of lively time Sunday evening about o'clock. The appearance of an ofic' spoilt an item, and all interested clai . that nobody did anything"
 Mrs Henry Clay Hammond, daug ter of Rev Archibald Geikie, D. D., l.. D., left Canaan Sept. 1st for We Chester, a suburb of Philadelphia. Sl has assumed the position of associa principal in Holyoke Hall, a seminar for young ladies in that city.
 -Dr H. l.. Ross left on Saturday his three weeks outing in the Adiro dacks on Saturday. AS he stepped o to the train he held 8 gun in one hal and was leading pointer, so t chances are that he will kill somethil before he returns. We'll, good luc Docl
 Rev Fl. P. Thomas, pastor of t Colored church of Torrington, inten to visit the colored people in N Guinea (Shefield) on Friday of u week and endeavor to make arrane ments to improve the condition of t colored people there. Rev Thomas from Jamaica, W. I. He has been Torrington 13 months and organized church there and will soon build house of worship. He has been in u country IA years and has many tes monials for his christian character a his work among the colored people.
 Mrs Clara E. Sumner Belts, W of Frank Betts, of Bridgeport, a daughter of the late Col. Sumner, Bridgeport, and formerly of Great B rington, Mass, and sister of \ George 0. Peet, of this place, died her home in Bridgeport on Sund after an illness of several months lung trouble and also from the effe of an operation for appendicitis P formed last winter. The funeral ' held on Tuesday. Mrs Betts of visited her sister here and will be pie antly remembered by many of our p pie. She leaves husband and . lii daughter.