Connecticut western news., 1897-07-15
Rules of Publication.
THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1897.
Local News.

Labor Day Will be the next legal holiday. Senator Herman, of Winsted, was in town last Friday.
 Mrs Eugene Bill, of Hartford, was in town over Sunday. Mrs Emerson, of New York, is the guest of Miss s. w. Adam.
 Miss Fannie Bailey. of Jamestown, N. r., is visiting at Mrs H. Eddy's.
 Mrs F. W. Barnett and young children visited in Newtown the past week.
 Mrs H. B. Ives is making few days visit with relatives in Monterey, Mass.
 -Messrs T. and F. w. Richards, of Brooklyn. N. r., are at the Warner House.
 Mrs Elizabeth Loomis has recently returned, improved in health, from a visit in Winsted.
 Lawyer Henry E. Burton and Miss Burton, of Middletown, are visiting at Mrs M. T. Granger's.
 Tt is reported that g Norfolk man recently caught 14-lb. landlocked sal mon in Lake Wangum.
 Miss Eva Morgan, of New York, is spending few weeks at W. J. Fergu- sons at Clayton. Mass
 Miss Fanny Halsey, of Orange, N J., is spending week or two at Mrs J. N Fox's at East Canaan.
 Mrs Charles Ruggles, of Bridge port, visited her aunt, Mrs Levi Beck ley few days last week.
 R l.. De Lamater and family, of Hartford, are now at their cottage at Twin Lakes for the summer.
 Tt is reported that A. H. Owens, ,lof New Jersey, will purchase the Eyerar- dus Ives farm at East Canaan.
 Henry s. House, of Hartford, is at Mrs Hams. He is canvassing the town for the Connecticut Quarterly.
 Miss Minnie Peirce went to Glens Falls, N. Y, last week, where Mrs Peirce is spending the summer.
 The slate and cornice have been re- moved from the Town Hall roof pre- paratory to making the new roof.
 Mrs Julius Dean has been visiting her daughter, Mrs Geo. Skidmore, of Chatham, N. r., the past two weeks.
 The publication of the Dover Plains (N. Y Review, s. s. Deacon, editor, ceased with the issue of July 9. Augustus Nicoll, s. c. Beckley and Louis Holt were prostrated by the heat Friday but no serious results followed any of the cases.
 Miss Bridges has returned from a sojourn of week or more on the Long Island shore. Miss Estes, of Brooklyn, N. Y. is visiting her.
 There will be partial eclipse of the sun visible here the 29th inst. con- mencing few minutes before o'clock and ending at II o'clock.
 A barty numbering about ''ten or a dozen" more or less of our giddy young people went on straw ride to Sage's ravine Friday fternoon.
 Mrs Helen A. Van Deusen, of Great Burlington Mass, is making ten days visit at Edmund D. Lawrence's while Miss Emma Lawrence is at Alfred Adams
 The evening preaching services in the Methodist church have been discon- tinued for the remainder of the sum- mer. Christian Endeavor services are held Sunday evenings at 6.45 o'clock.
 The remains of Theodore Isham, aged 68, were brought here from Saug- critics, N. Y. Saturday for interment in the lower cemetery. Undertaken Hum phrey had charge of the burial.
 Jackson X Eggleston have hung their banner on the outer wall, or, in other words, they have put up sign over the front of their store, on which the firm name is emblazoned in letters of gold. ...
 Mrs Mary c. Corbit was taken sick last week Wednesday night as the re- suit of becoming overloaded while working in the cemetery that after noon. She was quite ill for several days, but is now much improved
 Canaan is to have base ball game tomorrow afternoon. The game will be played on Railroad street in lot near the handcar house. The visiting club is to come from Lakeville, and we have no pointers to give on which way to lay your money as the merits of either club are not known to us.
 Celia Katherine, the three-year- old daughter of John Foley, who lives be- tween here and East Canaan, was taken sick on Thursday with indigestion and doctor called. She improved and ap' peared to be we'll until Sunday evening when she ate too much fruit and the attending doctor, who was going by, was called in to look at the child. He administered remedies After his de. parture the child lapsed into uncon- sciousness, and the parents being un. able to get the attending doctor, who had gone out of town, Drs Avis and Kendall were called, who worked at the child all night, but she died at 30 the next morning without regaining con. sciousness. Funeral was held at the house and burial in the R. c. cemetery yesterday.