Connecticut western news., 1897-06-24
THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1897
Local News.

day and Tuesday mornings.
 Mrs Ella Carter, of Bridgeport, is visiting at w. McIntyre's.
 A. c. Brainarj, of St. Augustine, Fla and New York city, is in town.
 Miss Florence Thomson, of New York, is with her mother at Mt. Elm for the summer.
 The Almira Yorker place at East Canaan has been quit. claimed to the town.
 Samuel A. Eddy has rented his house to Mrs Prentice. of New York, for the summer.
 MT and Mrs George l.. Parsons spent Sunday with their son. Dr Par sons, in Thomaston.
 The long and short of it: It is long way to winter. nevertheless the days are growing short.
 The work of rebuilding the roof of the Town Hall was begun yesterday. B R. Lorrain has the contract.
 -S. c. Beckley has accepted the agency for Heating bicycles, and the sample wheels arrived yesterday.
 Mrs D. L. Peirce and daughter. Miss Alice, went to Glens Falls, N. Y last week to remain an indefinite time
 The case against Henry Neeland for delivering liquor in no license town was adjourned to July 10th at 10 o'clock.
 Harold Fry was at the Warner House several days this week with his father. Prof. Fry. The young man has been in school at Tarrytown, N. Y.
 Mir and Mrs s. A. Eddy and son Lawrence are visiting Mrs Eddy's un. c!e, J. B Tuckerman, at Cassville, N. Y. They will be gone about one week longer.
 The postponed temperance meet ing that was to be held at the Pilgrim church Sunday, June 20th, at 7 p. m., will be held at the same hour on Sun- day, June 27th.
 Deacon J. l.. Bragg was elected as delegate to accompany the pastor of the Pilgrim church to Cornwall on June 28th to sit in the council called to dis miss the Rev John Pierpont.
 The foundation of a monument for Mir and Mrs Chauncey Yorker in the Hillside cemetery at East Canaan has been laid. Temple Bros. will erect the monument about July 18th.
 A fire which started in the waste basket in the freight office of the P. R. & N. E. road yesterday afternoon made things lively for few minutes but the blaze was extinguished before any dam age was done.
 The water company at Sheffield, Mass, commenced laying pipe the 10th inst and are pushing the work at the rate of about 1000 feet per day. The reservoir will be located about three and one half miles east of the village.
 The Watertown Journal says: Dur ing the past three or four years there has been great exodus of Swedes back to their native land, where wages to- day, in all branches of labor, it is said, are higher than they are in this coun- try.
 J. E. Rhoades has built porch 12 feet wide on the east side of his resi- dence by enlarging the piazza, on that side to that extent. The marble stairs, over which the porch extends, will be walled up and the entrance to the house will be reached by walk,
 There will be two interesting trials of speed at the Riverside Driving Park Saturday afternoon, June 26, at 2 30 o'clock. The entries are as follows: 2 45 class, Geo. w. Halls s. g., Dr c w. Camps b ln., Mir Hurlburt's br. m. 300 class. Myron Decker's b. g Wal ter Warmers b. g., Mir Peck's s. m., Ed. Fitzgerald's b. n. J. M Benjamin, of Falls Village, will start the horses and Mike Madden will be the time keeper.
 -Children's Day services were held at the Methodist Episcopal church last Sunday evening, instead of morning as was first intended. The evening ser vice at the Pilgrim church was post poned in order that all might attend the M. B. church, consequently every permanent sitting in the latter church was filled and over 50 chairs placed in the aisles were also occupied. The service was entitled "Jubilee with Flowers" and consisted of singing, re- sponsive reading. recitations. and an address by the pastor. A pleasing feature of the service was the "temple building" by eighteen children who represented foundation stones, and stones of the temple" eacl child reciting verse on diff ferent topics, like "Love, Charity" "Gentleness, etc. and ther taking his or her position on the step. of double step ladder (the ladder be ing constructed like letter Al witt little Clara Seeholzer standing on the topmost step. Each child carried { banner corresponding with the title O the verse recited. The processional ol children singing 1.-The Shepherd Song was also pleasing feature. The chil dren never acquitted themselves bette than on this occasion. The church wa elaborately decorated with ferns, dai sies, laurel, white peonies and othe beautiful flowers.