Connecticut western news., 1897-04-01
Local News.
trout law is off.

The trout law is of.
 Now for big fish stories.
 Beware of the S1O reward offered by the Rod and Gun Club.
 The fish and game laws do not ap- ply to land sharks, but do apply to fish and game pirates.
 --Geo s Fuller's family are spend- ing few days at Dwight Allyn's in Ohapinville.
 Mrs Gidman and son Werner, of Norfolk, visited friends here Tuesday and yesterday.
 Several large catches of suckers have been made the past week in the Blackberry river.
 pr and Mrs H. A. Church will leave for their new home in Syracuse, N. Y.. on Saturday.
 Hon. N. B. Stevens and Mrs Ste v.ns. of Winsted, visited friends in Canaan last Saturday.
 Mrs George Pratt and daughter Gladys, of WestReld, Mass, visited at Frank COon's last week.
 Mrs Frederick Thompson's house has been rented to Walter K. Lan- don and family, of Norfolk.
 The mud in the streets and the privilege of riding bicycles on the walks dried up simultaneously.
 The terrace between the sidewalk and the road in front of Christ church and J. E. Rhoades' is being graded.
 MT Seeholzer and family, of Pough- keepsie, N. Y, visited bis brother. Rev B. Seeholzer,a couple of days this week.
 William Ahearn has moved into H D. Humphreys house on West Main street, formerly occupied by Joseph Owen.
 Rev Howard s. Clapp, of Lime Rock, will preach at the Lenten service in Christ church this Thursday even- ing at 2 30.
 A certain man in this vicinity in- structed his daughter that Easter will occur on the fifth Sunday after the big prize fight.
 Charley Seeholzer, son of Rev B. Seeholzer, has been on the sick list and was confined to his bed for week but now ventures out doors occasionally.
 Mrs Col. Hardenbergh and her sons. Watson and George, have arrived from New Haven and will occupy their house on Granite avenue this season.
 The Pawling Chronicle says:
 The Methodist ministers are getting on the anxious seat as conference will soon convene and they are wondering where they will be at"
 James H. Drake has sold out his blacksmith business to Almon Huggins, of Falls Village. About June l Mr Drake will remove with his family to some point on the Sound in the vicinity of Stamford.
 Engineer Owen sprained his ankle last week Wednesday night in the rail road yard here by stepping on round stone as he was getting down from his engine. He is able to be about with out crutches. .
 Reporter James Grady, of the Winsted Citizen, called at the NEWS office last Thursday on his way to Sheffield. Mass., where he had. been summoned by the death of his uncle, the late John Connor.
 Burton A. Peirce had the misfor- tune to sprain his ankle very badly last Thursday by stepping on stick of wood, which rolled over as he stepped on it while climbing down from pile of wood. He still goes on crutches.
 Irving Curtis, who has been at Mrs Changers for the last four years, has left there to take position in furni- ture store in Waterbury. Wallace Mansur. who has been with Dr Camp, takes Irvings place at Mrs Granger's
 The infant daughter of Rev B. C. Warren has been seriously ill for the past week, and it was feared that she could not recover at one time but we understand that the little one is pro- nounced better at this writing. .-Pawl- ing Chronicle.
 Tt has been quite interesting dur ing the past week to watch the experts erecting the poles, stringing the wires and equipping the s. N. E. central telephone office in this village. Fifty wires have been pat up and the office is nearly ready for business.
 The representatives of the differ ent lime concerns in town presented F. N Brown with very handsome pin this week as an evidence of their regard for his services while connected with the F. R & N. B. Frank went to New York yesterday to accept his new position with the Caledonian Insurance Go.
 Martin x Affords auction sale of Canada horses, held in this village yes terday afternoon, drew crowd of near ly 200 persons but none seemed anxious to buy horses and the animals sold at a loss to their importers notwithstanding the auctioneer, Col Card of Millerton, labored long and earnestly to get req sonable bids on the horses. A credit oi three months was offered, therefore lack of ready money was not the reason for