Connecticut western news., 1897-12-09
Local News.


 visiting in town.
 Mrs Hiram Eddy is recovering from an attack of grip.
 Mrs Mary Kellogg returned yester- day from her trip to Chicago and Peru, Ill.
 Several gentlemen in this village are trying to organize chess and checker club. .a. The festival of the Immaculate Conception was observed at St. Joseph's church yesterday morning.
 Miss Belle Lorrain went to New York yesterday to visit Mir and Mrs Franklin N Brown an indefinite time. Salmon Barlow has put up wind mill near his residence on Barlow street which will pump up water from drive we'll
 The subject of the evening sermon at the Pilgrim church at 7p. m next Sunday will be: 1.-The Sin against the Holy Spirit.
 The case of Stevens against Decker was on trial before Justice Roberts all day Monday An adjournment was taken to Dec IT. ... Mrs Reuben Stewart has been quite ill for several days but is improving. It was feared at first that she would have pneumonia.
 Charles Emmons has been off duty for several days on account of giant eczema Meanwhile his place at the railway crossing is taken by Joseph Riley.
 M, l.. Osborne. Jr went to Boston, Mass :, last Monday to take charge of the ineotype machines in the printing establishment of Milton W. Bradbury < Go, l33 Oliver street.
 Mrs Freeman. sister of Rev s. A. Burnaby, started for her home in Ban gor, Me. last Monday. Mrs Burnaby also started at the same time to visit relatives at Spencer, Mass
 Harry Sedgwick, of Cornwall Hol- low, visited his aunt Mrs.W. w Welch, at Norfolk, the latter part of the week and on Sunday and Monday visited his mother and sister, Mrs Eliza Sedgwick and Mrs Tracy, at Canaan.
 -E. A. Armstrong. assistant secre- tary of. the Lafiin & Rand Powder Co.,, and W. G. Ramsay. New York manager of the Repanno Chemical Go, both of New York city, were in town last week on business and were the guests of H. G. Nicoll.
 John Curtiss and family have nov ed from the "pound house," East Ga naan, to the Maloney house on Bennett hill, while the Bonner tenement honse at the foot of the hill is occupied by Jas. F. Sheffield and family from Amesville.
 -"The New England Home" played to small house Tuesday evening but the performance was first class and Mir La Marr and company were irresistably funny The show was not properly advertised which accounts in some measure for the small attendance.
 The Junior Christian Eudeavor Society of the M. E. Church will give a Peanut Social at the parsonage Friday evening. Dec 10, from 7 to g o'clock A cordial invitation is extended to all their friends. No admittauce fee will be charged but free will offering will be taken
 The Litchfeld County Association of Congregational Ministers will hold c meeting on Tuesday, Dec 14th, at the Pilgrim parsonage in this village, be ginning at 10 m. A public service will be held in the church at p. m There will be brief addresses by severa able speakers from out of town. Int public are cordially invited to this ser vice.
 Last Monday night two Frenchmen said to be from Colebrook, were driv ing up to this village from the south 1T 8 single wagon with newly purchased horse fastened by the side of the one drawing the wagon. When opposit, John c. Richmond's the gentleme, were thrown out and the horses ran taking the raiiroai track when the, came to the crossing and eventual, falling off the railroad bridge below thi village. One of the horses was so bad ly injured that it was shot the sam night. The names of the. gentlemen could not be escertained
 State Highway Commissioner M Donald was in town Saturday and il company with First Selectman Va Deusen inspected the work which ha been done in lowering the grade of tn highway at the top of Bennett hill an expressed his approval of what ha been done. Civil Engineer Starr, ( Bridgeport, was busy all day yesterda and will be to-day, making surveys i order to prepare plans and specifics tions of the work of taking the highwa under the railroad and also changin the lay out of the highway. The cor tract to do this work will be given t the lowest bidder. A notice calling fo bids will appear in our next issue.
 -Saturday noon the voting contes which has been going on for som weeks, to decide what the name of tn new hotel, which is b, ing built at Vii sted by George l. Lilley of Waterbur, should be was decided in favor of Hot, Winchester. The whole number votes cast was 6. .621, of which % wei rejected and not counted This le 6,592. Of this number 4,100 were fc