The Newtown bee., 1897-05-28
In Fairfield County.
SHERMAN.
DIR AND SENATOR WOODRUFF.

Waterbury American is very shrewd course of a spicy letter in Saturdays American he makes this reference to Senator John M. Woodruff of the Eff teenth district, who is one of the most level~headed, conscientious and reliable members the general assembly has ever had.
 The correspondent says: "One of the liveliest men in the Senate comes from the little town of Sherman, representing the Fifteenth district. Everybody throughout western Connecticut knows Dr John N. Woodruff. He has attained considerable fame in his profession and at the same time, apparently, no small competence. But the hard life of the country physician hasn't told on him much, probably because he has always taken 8 warm interest in something out side of powders and pills, so that at 61 he is still fresh for a score or more years of the comfortable living he has earned. | His chin whiskers, trimmed in the good old Yankee style, are somewhat gray and his hair is frosty, yet there isn't nerve in his body that isn't as responsive as it was when as a boy he roamed the hills of the old town where he was born and which is still proud of his citizen ship.
 Some say he's cranky They say that of about every man who takes par l To ip+a sY1T 1haf is around him, whether it directly affects him or not. Dr Woodruff has an idea that he has come up here to legislate, not for Sherman alone, but for all the state, and it's part of his business to keep his eyes and ears open. It isn't safe for anybody to count on bills going through without his knowing it, and he's as likely as not to make sug- gestion or two about it kindly to say SO.
 As chairman of the committee on public health he has had opportunity to drive the lance of common sense through several airy creations of overWrought | imaginations, but least among them the pure-milk bill this week, which was at best wretched understudy for the law now on the statute books. Then, as familiar from infancy with the senti- ments of the better class of farmers, he has been prominent at many of ihe hear ings which affect their interests. Several times in the tubeI culosis hearings sug- gestions were made which struck a layman as exceptionally reasonable till question or two by Senator Woodruff let daylight through them. He has the advantage, too, of freshness at .legis- lation. He isn't so frightfully bored as not few of the veterans appear to be and there's mighty little doing that doesn't have some element of interest in it for him.
 The senator is 8 married man, like every one of his colleagues, except one, Senator Plimpton, who is widower. He remains here every week and is rarely absent from his seat.'
 We have known Dr Woodruff since the days when, as 8 school boy, we looked forward with pleasure to his semi-annual visit to note the sprogress of the scholars and the effectiveness of the teacher. We can heartily endorse all that the Waterbury American cores pondent says concerning his worth and the sterling attributes of hIs charac- ter.
 Dr Woodruff is a man fully equipped intellectually and by experience for any office is the gift of the people of Con- necticut. His home is in one of the smaller towns of the state, but his mind is as broad as that of the lmost progress l i've citizen who has dwelt continuously amid more bustling surroundings. He has always been close student Of public affairs and has kept in touch with every progressive element of the age. He is a man of the most exemplary character, 'shonest as the day is long,o absolutely fearless and independent, one who can be relied upon to do what is right no matter who is hit.
 As the Waterbury correspondent says, Dr Woodruff is one of the most able and one of the most respected members of the general assembly of 1897.--[ New Haven Leader.
 MIR MCKNIGHT's SISTER MARRIED. l 4 wedding of interest on Wednesday of last week at Hope Congregational church in Springfield, Mass, was that of Miss Rosa o. Mcknight and Frank E. Fuller of the Guy Furniture Co, of that city. At high noon the wedding party. consisting of the ushers, William B.