Connecticut western news., 1897-10-14
THURSDAY. OCTOBER IA, 1897.
Local News.

-Wanted-A correspondent for the NEWS at Sharon.
 Hon. N. B. Stevens, of Winsted, was in town on Saturday.
 About twenty young people danced at the Town Hall Friday night.
 Miss s. P. Norton spent few days in New York last week, buying mil linery.
 Henry M. Adams, of Warehouse Point, was in town from Thursday till Saturday.
 Miss Fanny Brown. of New York, is spending a short time with Miss Bridges.
 A drag drawn by four dark bays passed through this village on Mon- day, going south.
 The Lakeville Journal has changed its form to six column "patent in- side" eight-pag paper.
 -CharlesF Fish and wife, of Saratoga Springs, N. r., are visiting at William A. Miles at Twin Lakes.
 Miss Prentiss, who with friends has been occupying s. A. Eddy's house this summer. returned on Tuesday to her home in Brooklyn, N. Y.
 Rev William Wake, of Ashley Falls, Mass. officiated at the Methodist church Sunday morning and delivered an ex cellent discourse on III Tim. 2:3, 1.Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ"
 Louis Harmon Peet and Miss Nel- lie Marvin Perkins. both of Brooklyn, N. r., will be married at noon today in the South Congregational church, Brooklyn. MT Peet is we'll known in Canaan. The NEWS tenders best wishes.
 Hon. John Greer Walsh, an uncle of Mrs B. B. Bartram, recently died in Japan. MT Walsh was U. s. Consul at Nagasaki in 1859 and was one of the first Americans to go to Japan after the country was opened up to foreigners. At the time of his death he was mana ger of the paper mill at Kobe, Japan.
 Conductor Dudley Paine. of the P. R. < N. E. road. left Hartford on Sat urday on the Putnam Phalanx excur- sion. They will be absent about ten days, during which time they will visi. Gettysburg, Cincinnati. Louisville, Nashville Centennial Exposition, Oak, land Park. Harper's Ferry and Wash ington, D. 0.
 Rev H. I. Bodley lately of Topeka Kans, gave at Christ church Sunday morning to Canaan people an excellent sermon on the text. "Wherewithal shall young man cleanse his ways By the way. on his departure from Topeka Mir Bodley was presented by his friends with beautiful gold watch with z gold cross and chain.
 Last week Tuesday the Winste6 Gas Co.,, which had had trouble witl dts sluice-way gate, which could not b, raised or lowered, employed two deeI water divers to investigate. The diver found that the sluice-way was clogget with sticks and refuse. Capt. c. A Smith and George M Evans, of Bridge port, were the divers.
 Governor Cooke last week Frida, appointed Willard A. Roraback, of Tor rington, to be the judge of the borougl court of Torrington to fill the vacanc, until the first Wednesday of February 1899. the vacancy having been caused by the promotion of Gideon H. Welcl to the court of common pleas for Litch field county, in the place of Albert Roraback, promoted to the superio court bench.
 Judge Curtis of the court of com mon pleas has found F. A. Jewell, Esq. guilty of contempt in not delivering the probate room in town building t Smith and Mum, and sentenced hir to pay fine of $150 and costs. Judg Jewell's attorneys have given notice ( an appeal to the supreme court. Select man H. J. Tucker, who was tried join ay with Judge Jewell, was acquitted New Hartford Tribune.
 Our neighbor. Millerton, is to b congratulated. Not content with tn flame it has won by giving to the worl the only and original Brown -Georg Brown, to be exact. and the equally fa mous Duchess County Sausage, it ha now presented to the country at larg the first colored woman who has eve entered the College of Liberal Arts z Boston University as g regular cand date for the degree of A. B. Miss Id Estella Hill is the young woman name. May she gain the coveted pri2 and make Millerton still prouder! Lakeville Journal.
 We publish to day Farragut Da supplement containing program the day as it is to be observed in liar ford and and also story of that ''ht morning" in Mobile Bay, entitled "Fal ragut's Fight" The supplement surely good reading and trip to liar ford on that day will be pleasant or as the promoters of the celebration e: pect to make it the biggest time in u history of the city. On this suppl ment we also publish the full page a. vertisement of Ira B. Manvel, the e terprising manager of the Red Mills Ashley Falls, Mass. This page tells story in a few words and Manve buckwheat -four is becoming as wt known in this part of the country
 the fame of the great admiral.