Connecticut western news., 1897-03-04

Lent does not prohibit the pleasure of reading tax notices.
 Wallace Jester. of Millerton, N. r., has entered the employ of Jackson & Eggleston.
 Alfred J. Adams, of Plymouth, has been a guest of bis brother, H. N. Adams, during the past week.
 Get your auction posters printed at the NEWS office, and notice of the vendue will be published gratis in the NEWS.
 -Messrs O. F. Hawley, of Millerton, N r.. and George R. Bull, of Kent, were the appraisers of Fuller & Peet's stock of goods when the inventory was taken last week.
 John Rodemeyer, Jr., is collecting and preparing the reading matter for "book of Canaan" soon to be published by Pease, with numerous illustrations. It will be historical and reminiscential in character
 The Winsted Citizen says: "Con- ductor Frank Smith of the P. R. & N. B. railroad has rented the Goodnow house on Meadow street. His mother, who is now resident of Canaan, will move to Winsted.
 MT and Mrs ". H. Camp very pleasantly entertained 8 number of friends on Monday evening. Cards, games. music and little dancing amused the party for several hours. Nice refreshments were served. A large auction sale will take place at the late residence of Amos O. Water bury, in Cornwall, Conn on Tuesday, March 16sh, at 10 a. m. Cows, horses, farming implements, carpenters tools, wagons, sleighs, harnesses, household furniture and various other articles will be sold.
 The regular edition of the NEWS of Feb. 25'h and nearly two hundred full size extra copies. did not supply the demand. Notwithstanding the fact that most of our type had been distributed, we were compelled on Saturday to print large quantity of half sheet ex- tras to supply calls for them. The moral is. viz, subscribe for and pay for the NEWS and you will be sure to get a copy every week and not be disappoint- ed. The new firm of Jackson X Eggles- ton unlocked their doors yesterday morning and soon the store was crowd ed with customers, each one anxious to grab the bargains which the new firm offer in order to close out $l9. 900 worth of goods before March 10th. that recent ly belonged to Fuller & Peet. The goods flew like leaves before wild hurricane, and they will keep flying until the 18th inst. -Anson A. Lawrence, of East Ca- naan, met with serious accident Sat urday night. He was cutting corn stalks with his new horse power fodder | cutter and in attempting to clear away an obstruction, where the fodder had got slogged, his left hand came in con- tact with the rapidly revolving blades, with the result that two fingers and the | thumb were taken off and the hand badly lacerated
 Rev Sidney A Burnaby, of South bridge, Mass, supplied the Pilgrim Church pulpit last Sunday morning and preached an extemporaneous but grand sermon from St. John VI. 12-13. Mir Burnaby remained in town until Tuesday morning He made very favorable impression not only as a preacher but as a sociable and agreed ble gentleman. We think he possesses the elements of success, clements that are essential to success in any profes- sional calling or in business pursuits.
 Now is the time to congratulate Judge Roraback. The House yesterday
 passed the resolution appointing Judge
 Roraback, of North Canaan, judge ot
 the Court of Common Pleas for Litch.
 field County for the next four years.
 The Senate being unanimously repub-
 lican, there can be little doubt that ii
 will concur with the House iu this action
 The whirligig of time brings changes
 and has restored our Canaan friend te
 the position from which he was remov.
 ed by despicable methods few years
 ago We shall have more to say on thii
 subject next week
 Geo. M Hanchett, the veteran pos tai clerk on the Berkshire division o
 the Consolidated road, has been elected
 one of three delegates to represent Con necricut and Rhode Island at tn,
 twenty second annual meeting of tn United States Railway Mail Servic
 Mutual Benefit Association to be helt
 at San Francisco, Cal, March Is. M
 Hanchett and wife will leave New Yorl l city March 6 by the Pennsylvania rail road in order to catch the special trai that leaves Chicago March g, arrivin , at Sau Francisco on the afternoon C , March 15. Returning via. the South : ern Pacific, they will leave San Francis : co March 21, arriving at Chicago, Sal 8 urday, March 27, at l p. m. There wi 5 be 300 people on the special train. l Under the Good Roads law tn : towns of Torrington. Litchfeld, Thom : aston, Plymouth, New Milford, Watel t town and Bethlehem have expende
 S11, 1000 on road improvements I'll g nineteen other towns of the county di 7 not feel able to take advantage of th l. law. It is now claimed that count e tax must be laid to pay one-third of tt l total expense of road improvements