Connecticut western news., 1897-09-16
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER Is, 1897.
Local News.

school in Colebrook.
 Levi Emmons, of Bridgeport. has been visiting his brother Charles the past week.
 -Dr H. l.. Ross, Lewis Rhoades, F. R Collin, H. B. Ives and W. D. Law renee started for the Adirondacks on Monday.
 Any cyclist of old standing must have observed the remarkable and rapid improvement in the general appearance of women riders that has taken place in the last year or two.--Exchange.
 -The eastern half of the middle road running east and west in the lower cemetery has been closed and will be divided into burial lots. Eugene T. Rowe has already selected lot and made some improvements upon it.
 MT and Mrs J. O. Storms, of Park Ridge, N. J., were in town yesterday. Mir Storms is the editor of the Park Ridge Local and the Westwood Chroni- ele and has been spending short time with his wife's relatives in Colebrook.
 Draining desert sounds paradoxi- cal, but that is just what has been done in thorough workmanlike manner by Section Boss Finnegan and his men in the case of the desert near the Union depot. A good tile drain has been laid from the southeast corner of the desert across the P. R. & N B. tracks. So the next time we have big freshet the desert will not be transformed into a lake.
 Miss Miles and Miss Corbin. of Spencer, Mass, are visiting Rev and Mrs s. A. Burnaby. These young ladies are gifted musicians and on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings a number of people of this village, who are lovers of music, called informally at the parsonage, on the invitation of Rev and Mrs Burnaby, and listened with great pleasure to music rendered by Miss Miles and Miss Corbin.
 -Dr H. l.. Ross has been presented with curiosity of more than usual in- terest and one which is somewhat in his line as dentist. It is the skull of a woodchuck recently shot by the Brinton boys, in which the front teeth have grown out so long as to form near ly complete circles. The two lower teeth had pierced the animals nose and one of the upper teeth grown through the roof of the mouth. When shot the woodohuck was feeding by forcing grass into it's mouth with it's paws. Strange to say it was in fairly good flesh.
 Andrew J. Spur, of Chapinville, expects to go West in few weeks tafter the fall fairs) and will make his home with his son, Ernest O., at Correction vile. Iowa. Mir Spur has lived in Chapinville forty-six years and is one of it's most esteemed residents whose departure is regretted by his friends and neighbors. MT Spur has been subscriber to the NEWS since its initial number, and besides that is the oldest contributor tin years of service) on our staff of correspondents. His present address is Lakeville, where he is spend ing few weeks previous to his depar- ture for Iowa.
 Mir John G. Beckley, of this village, and Miss Mabel E. Johnson, of East Canaan. were married in Christ Church (EpiscopaD at Poughkeepsie, N. Y, at five o'clock last Monday afternoon. September 13. The rector, Rev Samuel A. Weikert, performed the marriage ceremony. The bride and groom remained at Poughkeepsie until Tuesday and then sailed down the Hudson river to New York. They will also visit other places on their bridal tour and expect to arrive home early next week. For the benefit of distant readers of the NEWS we will state that the bride is the only child of MT ard Mrs Charles H. Johnson, of East Ga naan, and that the groom is the only child of Mir and Mrs s. 0. Beckley, of Canaan. Inasmuch as the groom be. longs to the NEWS staff, it is hardly necessary to extend congratulations notwithstanding the young people stole march on all the force except the proprietor.
 George William Brown, whose se- were illness at the house of Mrs Angus ta Scott this summer has been reported in these columns, died at the House of Mercy in Pittsteld, Mass Sept. 3, at the age of 26 years. The deceased was graduate of Y, le University and was studying theology at the Yale Divinity school and would have graduated ir 1899. Born in poverty in Boston he was at an early age placed in county home, then bound out to Vermont farmer and afterward in the employ o Pr Rand, of Munson, Mass. He owed his attainments entirely to his owr push and perseverance. He defrayet the expenses of his college course by coaching other students and acting as { waiter. Although wealthy lady hat offered to assist him with money, h. never availed himself of her offer. M Brown was engaged to marry Miss Jen nie M. Mann, of Munson, very esti mable young lady. who took care o him during his illness here. The flu
 neral was held in the college chapel a
 Munson. The attendance was larg
 and the floral offerings were unusuall
 beautiful and abundant.