Connecticut western news., 1898-04-14
THURSDAY. APRIL II, 1898
Local News.

-MrS DuCudDy lo fiolbihS oo hoh OAU home in Spencer, Mass. this week.
 Miss Elsa Swartz, of Ct. Barring ton, spent Easter with Miss Manvel.
 Adjourned annual meeting of Wan gum Club will be held tomorrow night. Miles B. Ferris caught thirteen trout Monday that weighed 13 pounds. Miss s. P. Norton and Miss Lucy Beebe are spending few days in New York
 A large bow window is being add ed to the dining room of the Warner House.
 Miss Mary Barnett is spending week in Brooklyn, the guest of Miss Laura Gill.
 There was either a snow storm or snow squalls on the first seven days of this month.
 Miss Mary Watson is spending the Easter vacation at home from her studies in Albany.
 Another horse race next Saturday at Riverside track. Entries by O'Brien, Owen and Fitzgerald. -F T. Dean, who formerly ran 0 meat market here, is in the same line of business in Millerton.
 Alfred Evans recently became night  watchman of the P. R. & N. E. steam shovel at Poughkeepsie.
 Misses Grace and Louise Roraback. were home for Easter from Willimantic and Holyoke respectively.
 We presume that Boinay, the Nichols murderer, is dead. He was to have been executed early this morning.
 Mrs Mary w. Ward and daughters have returned from their winter soiourn in the South to their home in New York city.
 The little daughter of MT and Mrs A. P. Freeman has been seriously i'll two weeks or more but is now gradual ly improving. -..
 Mrs George c. Peet has been spend- ing the past week in town and will re- turn to Bridgeport Saturday. George was hero Easter.
 The women of Christ Church Guild will hold a Dime Sociable at Mrs Warne's this Thursday evening. All are cordially invited.
 We are indebted to Secretary of State Charles Phelps for copy of the Register and Manual of the State of Connecticut for 1898.
 Miss Fannie James, of Deep River. visited the Misses Norton and other friends here the past week, or until Tuesday of this week.
 Either the Village Improvement Society or public spirited lady has paid the expense of cleaning up the lawn in front of tue Town Hall.
 -Acel F. Rood has been on the sick list several days. He is better but not yet able to work W. H. Emmons has assisted in the store during Mir Rood s illness.
 MT and Mrs A. V. A. Felten and MT and Mrs Alfred Herriman are in New York buying house furnishing goods to re-furnish the latter's resi- dence.
 Please remember that the CoNNEc- TIcUT WESTERN NEWS office is the place to get auction posters printed. Neat and handsome work done promptly and at reasonable price. A free notice in the NEWS will be given our patrons
 "Wednesday, April 27,will be ''Sun day School Day" at the M. E. church in this village. The meeting will be held under tue auspices of The Connection Sunday School Association There vii be three sessions, commencing at 10 a m., 2 and 7 p. m.
 Engagements announced. These matrimonial engagements are announc ed: Mir Harry Lyles, of Clayton, Mass to Miss Sarah A. Eddy, of Canaan, Ct. Mir Edward c Ward, of San Francisco Gal ., to Miss Black, sister of s Black M D. of San Francisco.
 W. M. Deming has removed hi portable photograph gallery from Wm Canfeld's lot on Railroad street and hai stored it in his fathers barn. Mir Dem ing is now fitting up a photograph gal lery in s. A. Eddy's building on Rail road street.
 There will be special town meet ing at the Town Hall, Saturday after noon at 2 o'clock to see if the Tow will approve of the layout of ney highway leading easterly over Bonnet Hill crossing and extending from near ly in front of the house of James Rec to nearly in front of Whittlesey's cot tage; to see if the Town will vote a appropriation for laying out said pro posed highway. and pay for the Ian taken for said layout and for construct ing highway over the same; to see the Town will vote further appropria tion, to be used with the appropriatio made at the last annual town meetin, in abolishing the grade crossing owe the P, R. & N E R R. Cos. track a Bennett Hill; and, to see if the Tow will authorize the selectmen to mak suitable contract with the railroad com pany for the purpose of abolishing sail railroad crossing.