Connecticut western news., 1897-04-08

--Dodge's meat market has changed it's name and is now known as the Ca naan Public Market, with Mir G. A. Dodge as manager. It is rumored that & new market will soon be built.
 Henry J. Gillette, the city evangel- ist. of Hartford, fell from his bicycle and badly fractured and sprained his ankle while attempting to avoid team in the city of Hartford last week.
 The funeral of Mrs John Dugan, who died at East Canaan last week Monday after long and painful illness with cancer, was held at St. Joseph's church Friday morning. The burial was in the Catholic cemetery.
 Frank Roberts has taken the place of Fran kiln N. Brown, resigned, as clerk and ticket agent for the P R. X N E. road at this place. and Frank McCarty, Jr has taken Frank Roberts place as baggage master for the same road.
 -Bicyclers are interested in ma chine recently invented for the purpose of making bicycle paths. It is claimed that with one machine bicycle path can be made, where the ground is con- paratively free from boulders and roots of trees, for two dollars a mile. e.-Pawl- ing Chronicle.
 The Methodist Episcopal church at Cheviot- on-the- Hudson. the Rev E. H. Roys charge. was destroyed by fire Saturday night, March 27. This was 8 very neat new church. built by the Rev w R. Webster during his pastorate there. It was fully insured and will be rebuilt at once. Origin of fire my stery. -Millerton Telegram.
 N P. Loomis, who had been clerk of the Warner House for several years, left there last Thursday. He will spend the next few weeks visiting his relatives and friends in Sufield and Hartford and in Pittsfeld and Dalton, Mass, after which he will return to Falls Village. As clerk of the hotel here Mir Loomis was efficient and obliging and won the esteem of all the patrons of the house.
 The selectmen have posted notices forbidding the riding of bicycles on certain sidewalks in this village, under a penalty of from two to seven dollars for disobeying the order. The select men promise to make bicycle paths on some of the streets that are posted. Bully for theml Inasmuch as they have posted the walks all fairminded people hope they will immediately full fill their promise to make the paths.
 MT George Bradley. aged about 50 years, died Monday afternoon at the home of his sister, Mrs Cullen B. Hol- comb, in this village. MT Bradley had suffered more or less for the past eight years with diabetes which had so un- dermined his constitution that he fell an easy prey to pleurisy which attacked him a few days ago. The funeral was attended yesterday at the house at 12 m. Burial at Cornwall Hollow. The natural condition of our roads and the prohibiting to the wheelmen of inc use of the sidewalks make bicycle paths necessity; and to meet this necessity it is very much desired shat all those interested in wheeling and in the furthering of this cause meet in the Town Hall, Friday at 7.45 p. m. for the purpose of devising some means or effecting some organization whereby the present difficulties may be over- come and permanent paths established.
 The Southbridge (Mass.) Journal of the 1st inst. says: | Rev s. A. Burnaby has closed bis pastorate of three years and half at the Congregational church and he will move next week to Canaan, Conn, his new field of labor. A council of churches will meet here at 10 o'clock next Tuesday morning to complete the separation of pastor and people The Journal wishes Rev and Mrs Burnaby a large measure of happiness and pros- perity in their new home among the reautiful Litch6eld hills. The people of Canaan will find their new pastor Q scholarly sermonizer, forceful preach CT and companionable Christian gen. | tlamap