Connecticut western news., 1897-10-14
NORFOLK.

The installation services last week Wednesday were we'll attended and ex ceedingly interesting. The Rev W. F. Stearns, the new pastor. is native of Boston, graduate of Amherst college and of Hartford theological seminary After completing his theological course he married, and with Mrs Stearns spent two years in Europe. After their re turn he was settled in Hartford. Vt. ,and later in Marlborough, Mass, being dis missed from each place at his own re. quest His health failing at Marl year with his wife, and now, with re- stored health, commences his work in Norfolk with every prospect of useful, happy pastorate. We trust it may be long before another change is necessary Miss Ida B Geer and Miss Clara Allen are visiting Miss Geer's sister, Mrs Ed ward Sheldon, in Branford. The invitations are out for the mar riage of Miss Ellen Loomis Whiting and
 Stephen Allyn Seldon on Thursday, Oct.
 21, at 3:30 o'clock in the Humphrey
 Chapel.
 E. J. Trescott's rattIesnake was sold
 to man in Winsted, who exhibited it
 at the Harwinton fair last week. While
 in Mir Trescott's possession one man l came from Goshen to see it. It was es-
 timated that 500 people went to see it
 the first day he had it.
 Part of the Appalachian Mountain | Club returned to their homes Saturday
 and the remainder went Monday morn
 ing. They told your correspondent
 that they had enjoyed their week here | very much.
 Philo Bailey, resident of South Nor folk, started to walk home from the
 center about noon last Friday on the railroad track instead of the highway. About half mile from the station he I lay down to rest so near the track that
 when the noise of the approaching 10 train east reused him, he lifted hls head just in time to be hit by journal.
 His head was terribly cut and the skull fractured. The train brought him back
 to the station where he renamed un- conscious until the 4:30 p. m. train came. Dr Kendall was immediately summoned and did not leave him until
 he was placed on the train in charge of
 W. A. Thurston, to be taken to the Hartford hospital. He died Saturday morning and was buried in South Nor
 folk Monday. The Rev E. H. Todd ofaciated at the services which were held in the chapel.
 A. B. Hurst, who was for several years physical instructor at the Eldridge gymnasium, is now teacher of calis-
 thenics in the Y. M. o. A. gymnasium in Toronto, Canada.
 G. W. Scoville and wife are spending 2 week at their old home in Darien. B. F. Marvin killed a hen hawk in
 his poultry yard Sunday with hoe. Joseph Hollister, of Great Burlington,
 Mass, spent Sunday with his parents. Prof. Pupin, of Columbia college,
 New York. who recently purchased the Egleston farm, bas also bought of Wm. l H. Cooper 40 acres of adjoining land,
 and is making many improvements pre- paratory to building handsome resi-
 dence on it later. Norfolk is becoming
 very popular with the professors of
 Yale and Columbia Many of our cot. tsgers are connected with those colleges
 and the number constantly increases D. s. Johnson has set up about 100
 poles for the electric lights and the wire
 is to be strung this week. The power | house is directly in the rear of his own
 residence. One dynamo is already in
 position and the foundation is laid fol | another.
 B. D Ives and wife expect to occupy
 their house the coming winter. U