Connecticut western news., 1898-07-21

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 Here is the record of the mercury for the past week: Thursday SS0, Fri day S7, Saturday s4, Sunday S7, Mon- day SS, Tuesday 80, yesterday 93.
 Mrs H. Wilcox of West Stock bridge is making short stay with her daughter, Mrs Frank Peet Later she intends to return for a much longer stay.
 Mrs O. R. Camp returned Tuesday from her three months sojourn in Rox- bury where she has been visiting her mother who is 92 years of age and as lively as cricket.
 A special train passed through here over the P. R. X N. E. road last Thurs day afternoon about 4.3O with several officials of the Ontario & Western rail road on board special car of their line.
 -Kneeland J. Munson and daughter, Miss Della, of Millerton, N. Y, are wis., | iting relatives in New Haven and Dan- bury this week. Quite an undertaking this hot weather for Q man nearly S9 years old.
 Invitations have been issued to the marriage of Rev Ulysses Grant Warren of Hamden, N. Y. and Miss s. Pearl Hamm of Canaan, Conn. at the Metho- | dist Episcopal Church in Canaan on Wednesday, Aug. 3, at 6.30 F. m. Among the new guests who are stopping at the Warner House for the summer are the Misses Martha and Susie Heber and Reginald Heber of Brooklyn; W. R. Osterof of Boston, Mass, and Everett P. Jones of New York city.
 -Dr H. l.. Ross, W. H. Camp, H. B. Ives, l.. 0. Rhoades, B. A. Peirce, R. | Collin, W. D. Lawrence and Louis Roys will start for Bakers Mills in the Adirondacks August 13 to camp out there and fish and hunt deer. Frank VanDeusen says he will join the party | if possible.
 The Pilgrim church Sunday school their picnic over at Twin Lakes yester- day There were about fifty that boarded the 1O.24 train and many others drove over. All report good time at the Grove and the majority re- turned on the 404 train in the after | noon.
 The people of Ashley Falls had jubilee last Thursday evening in honor | of the surrender of Santiago. They | had bought fine stock of fireworks for the 4th of July but did not use them on that evening because many were attend ing celebrations in other places, so last Thursday evening they shot off the fire works.
 A patriotic memorial service will be held in the Methodist Episcopal church next Sunday evening at 7 o'clock David s. Cowles Post No 60 G. A. R. will attend in body and par ticipate by ritual service. The services are with especial reference to the sol diers who have died during the present war. All are cordially invited.
 The attendance at the fair Satur- day evening was much larger than the evenings preceding it and a large num- Der danced until near midnight. Last i evening they had supper of which many people partook. They also danced until an early hour this morn ing. The tickets for the different arti- cles sold very well indeed and the prizes were distributed.
 The young men of Christ church will give lawn party on the church grounds Thursday evening, July 28, to which all are invited. Ice cream, cake, etc. will be served and there also will be sale of fancy goods made by the Children's Guild. In case of rain the party will be at the Town Hall;no post ponement Further particulars next | week.
 We are sorry to record the death of Erwin l.. Brand, superintendent of the Citizen Printing Co., of Winsted. He has been in the newspaper business in Winsted about nine years, coming from G sersvilir, N. Y., where he had been working in the same business many years. He leaves among other relatives a wife and an only daughter, Mrs Ed ward B. Hill in Winsted.
 The Norfolk Chimes of July 13 is very interesting and valuable number. Among it's contents are: Historic Homes in Litchfield County-with views of the houses in which Henry Ward Beecher and John Brown were born ;Mr Pembroke's Studio; Winsted Edition; Editorials; Society Notes; Local Hap penings; Hotel Arrivals, etc., also pie ture of Highland Lake in Winsted and of the Veranda of Eldridge Gymnasium.
 The Chimes (Norfolk's summer pa- perl in it's issue of the 18th inst. says: We should be pleased to correspond with NJ. D. z. The clever article en. titled "Wonders Near Home' which ap- peared in last Thursdays issue of the CONNECTICUT WESTERN NEWS amused and entertained us very much. The Chimes is always on the lookout for what is bright and original, and if MD. z. could be prevailed upon we should be only too glad to give space in our colums from his facile pen.
 At meeting of the Town School Committee held Wednesday afternoon the following teachers were hired for the fall term: East Canaan upper room, Charles A. Beaujon; lower room, Miss Nora A. McCaity; Canaan, Miss Roraback, MrsP Preston, MrsRoot andMiss | C.B Finnegan: Sodom. Miss Frances