Connecticut western news., 1897-03-25
Local News.

LOCdl NeWS.
 George l.. Parsons is gradually im- proving.
 Edmund D. Lawrence is slowly im- proving.
 MT and Mrs John b. Seacord are spending week or two at D. l.. Free mans.
 Charles Kilmer is painting the ex- terior of his new house on Orchard street.
 Call at the NEWS office and get the free garden seeds. A few packages re- main
 MT and Mrs H. B Mac Farland, of Cornwall, were in town Saturday and Sunday.
 Thomas Abbe left town on Monday for Hartford, leaving there for Kansas tomorrow.
 George Bradley is quite poorly again, and has been confined to his bed about @ week.
 Miss Rosa E. Bailey, who is teach ing school in Goshen,is visiting friends in town this week.
 The equinoctial storm during the past week came in installments or homeopathic doses.
 Now begins the tariff debate. If you have ears, prepare to shed them now-Danbury Dispatch.
 --Dr F. s Parsons, of Thomaston, visited his parents. MT and Mrs Geo. L.. Parsons, here over Sunday.
 MT Chatteld moves from Ashley Falls to house on Belden street near Pine Grove camp ground.
 Jerome G Root is clerking for c l.. Parsons ,& Son, and we are told he has agreed to remain there six months. Tt is reported that Dr H. A.Church will soon locate in Syracuse, N Y., where he will form 8 partnership with another surgeon.
 Mrs E. R. Lorrain was in Pittsfeld, Mass from Friday until Monday taking care of her mother. Mrs Milo Crocker who is now recovering from an attack of pneumonia.
 Rev Sidney A. Burnaby and Mrs Burnaby. of Southbridge. Mass. will arrive in Canaan on Saturday of next week and MT Burnaby will preach in the Pilgrim church the first Sunday in Apsil.
 sThe Southern New England Tele- phone Go. has force of men at work transforming the upper part of the north wing of Union depot preparatory to removing the central office from Falls Village to this place about the first of April.
 Spring visitors. Last week a fsck of wild geese was seen going north over Canaan. Mud turtles, frogs and woodchucks were seen here last week, and on Monday two focks of wild geese crossed Twin Lakes going north. Bully for theml
 Now friends, please do not get alarmed and imagine that bicycles are going to monopolize the sidewalks here. We are told that limited mum Der of wheels will be permitted on the walks until the mud dries up in the streets. That is fair play; just remem- Der that the teamsters and equestrians have destroyed the bicycle paths in Canaan.
 The Winsted Evening Citizen of March 10 said that the report that Ed ward Williams. near Clay ton, had been assaulted was "big fake." l. J. Stewart had that day telephoned from Norfolk correct version of the affair to the Citizen, but after the Citizen pronounced the re- port "big fake" Stewart came to the conclusion that "the wild man" must have been at the Winsted end of the line.
 The horse attached to George Dodge's meat cart started to go home without it's driver Monday. It was up on the bank near the residence of Mrs F. A. Peet and in turning the sharr corner to go down tue hill to the bridges, the cart was tipped over and pieces of meat, saws and knives wert scattered all the way down the hill The equine's progress was arrested al the foot of the hill.
 The first of April will witness sever al changes in this place. Miss Odel will then occupy the apartments recent ly vacated by the National Iron Bank at Falls Village; H Wellner, the tailor moves into the rooms over H. D. Hum phrey's drug store now occupied by Miss White; Frank H. Smith move. from E W. Warner's house opposite the town hall to the apartments ovel his store on Railroad street, also-occu pying occasionally the Dr Smith house Dr Avis will move into the house vaca ted by Frank H. Smith, meantime be ing at the Warner House; Fred Callen der moves from Mrs Dr Adams tenan house into A T. Roraback's tenement o S.Warne takes Mrs Thomas Bonner cottage on East Main street, and N O Briggs of Lime Rock will occupy hi own house on Granite avenue recent, occupied by Mir Warne.
 A railroad wreck on the P. R. & N B. road occurred in the yard at Wes