Connecticut western news., 1898-06-09

-1ne tune expired NeStSfuay uOOu for receiving bids from contractors to do the excavating and other work at Bennett Hill crossing and on the high way east of that point The selectmeu have received bids from three coutrac tors. aul will send the bids to Highway Commissioner McDouald at Hartford for Inspection There is suck differ euce i'll the bids (some higher on one class of work, and lower on others) that the NEWS does not feel justified in pub fishing the figures at present. Bids were received from M J. Burke of Tor riugtou, The B. D. Pierce, Jr. Go. of Bridgeport, and H. G. Nicoll of Canaan. of which the Bridgeport firms were the lowest.
 Some very good time was made in the races at the Riverside track last Saturday. There were not very many horsemen present or very many specta- tors. w. w. Warner took a race, win ming two out of three mile heats, mak- ing in the last heat some very good time.
 NJ. Decker, "Mule" 8 8 8 w. Braym, "Grove'' 2 l W. W. Warner, "Warner Boy" 1
 Time 1.26, l %, .21.
 The proposed ball game between Ca naan and Sheffield did not come of as Sheffield failed to materialize. This Saturday there will probably be few brushes between local horses, but the most of the horsemen will wait until the Fourth when we will have prizes. There is no ball game at present on the docket for Saturday.
 Mrs Sarah Kilmer, wife of John H :. Kilmer, died at her home ou Railroad street in this village last Sunday after noon at 30 o'clock, aged 70 years Mrs Kilmer had been great and pa tieut sufferer for many weeks with an internal cancer or tumor. All through her long life she had been an industri-
 
 large family of children, six of whom survive her, viz: Milton J Kilmer, Charles E. Kilmer and Mrs Emma Cud- ney of this town, Mrs Hannah Adams and Mrs Alice Curtis of New Haven, Mrs Mary Hart of Sheffield. Mass. She also leaves a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The funeral was attended at the house on Tuesday at 2 p. m. Rev F. " Barnett con- ducted the services. Iuterment at lower cemetery.
 We certainly have plenty of talent here in the hand organ business. Yes terday afternoon man came along with hand organ and monkey in front of Judge Roraback's office. He let the monkey go into the office where Fred NJ. Williams of New Milford, J. H. Roraback and Samuel A. Eddy were talking. They all were at once taken with the desire to go on the road play ing the hand organ and collecting stray pennies. But to do this they had to have the monkey as some of them could not very well chamber up the trellis work to get into the second story win dow or through some trausom to get those pennies. Mir Eddy might get through the trausom all right but we are afraid Mir Roraback would stick. Mir Williams turns tue hand organ so well however that several took him for the Italian who was the proprietor. During the struggle for the possession of the monkey he escaped and for quite awhile Mir Eddy, Mr Williams and NIT Roraback were off over potato gardens, climbing tIees and backyard fences and rumagiug barus and chicken yards looking for his monkeyship. At one time Mir Eddy thought he saw the mou- key up an apple tree and up he went after it, while Mr Williams was in such hurry to help that he had to slide down from the top of large haymov in Judge Roraback's baru. Mir Rora- back in his efforts to get to Mir Eddy to help him, got stuck on high board fence in back of his office and lay there balancing himself on the top of the feuce and calling for help, The Italian finally secured his monkey after a hall hours search.