Connecticut western news., 1898-02-24
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 24, 1888
Local News.

Whipped again-the sleighing.
 Mrs Miriam Parsons is improving John Nicoll is working in Pough- kespsie. s. W. Barnes is serving as jury man at Litchfield this week.
 --Alonzo Mallory has been appointed postmaster at Bulls Bridge.
 The diphtheria scare is over, and the schools opened again on Monday.
 We hope that someone in Sharon will soon volunteer as correspondent of the NEWS.
 -"Here we are again" says the NEWS, and this issue is printed at its new home.
 Mrs Edward Bullard has been seri- ously i'll during the past week but IS now improving.
 Yesterday morning G. l.. Parsons A Sons began adding plate glass front to their store.
 Michael Joyce and Michael McCor- mick, the two diphtheria patients, are doing we'll and were sitting up yester- day.
 Capt. Bartle of Ore Hill says: Successes and failures depend on leaders; helpers will get there if the leaders do."
 Philip Ham & Go will open store in Cooks block at Millerton, N. ' to- day They did large business while they were in Canaan.
 Preaching service Sunday evening at Pilgrim church at ' o'clock. Sub iect: The Mission of the Church, or. why Love the Church.
 The star spangled banner was dis played from many buildings in town on Washington's birthday and the stores were closed very early in the evening. The Winsted Citizen of Tuesday says: Mortimer Rice. colored, of Ca- naan, was brought before Justice Bene- dict Monday morning on the charge of intoxication. He was found guilty and fined total of $15 38, which he paid. Weather record for the past week Thursday, just zero. clear; Friday. 16 above zero, cloudy; Saturday. B above, fog and rain; Sunday, 30, rain and hail and then an ice storm; Monday, 32, cloudy; Tuesday, 32, light snow; We'd nesday, 32. light snow.
 MT A. V. A Felten, who has been employed for the past year by Jackson & Eggleston, has been admitted as a partner in the business. Name of the firm from this date will be Jackson. Eggleston X Go. The old firm was strong, but the new firm will be strong or
 The sale of pictures and supper at the Methodist church Tuesday evening was largely attended and most of the pictures sold. Clinton Roraback i'm. personated George Washington. and Mrs John Nicoll represented Martha, A number of. others were dressed in old colonial style. The young people amused themselves with games.
 -The CONNECTICUT WESTERN NEWS of Canaan this week moved their office from the Parsons building to the Nor ton block. We sympathize with brothe, Beckley for we know what an amour of hard and particular work it is tc move a newspaper plant and at th' same time we extend our congratula tions to him in his new ofice.-Lake @ vile Journal. -Neighbor Jones, you sympathy is needed and accepted. w, appreciate it and your congratulations Notwithstanding the fact that Ed ward M. Stevens gives public notice through the columns of the NEWS, tha his wife has left his bed and board, ant that he shall pay no bills of her con tracting, the NEWS has been informed by Mrs Stevens that the bed which sh left was her own bed and that she lief it in order to nurse sick person in thi village, and later she went to Hartfor' on similar errand of mercy but not a housekeeper for P. R. x NE rail road man. Mrs Stevens had returne, to Canaan before her husband posted her, although she had not returned t, her home. Of course the columns o the. NEWS are open for legal notices an for items which it is desirable to pub fish, but shey are not open for the pun pose of adding fuel to the flames c domestic troubles which would subsid themselves were they not famed b publication and by gossips.
 One of the happiest men in Ne, England is Mir Ira E. Manvel, proprie tor of the Red Mills at Ashley Fall, Mass. He writes that trade has bee nearly double this winter from last The rush keeps up still in spite of las weeks blizzard Mir Manvel is hustler, and maker of low prices. H has built up very large trade in a kinds of flour, feed, grain, meal. mic dings and in fact every thing to | found in grist mill and feed stor, His buckwheat flour has gained an CT viable reputation and is sold far an near; in fact it makes he buckwhes cake, and no wonder that ''it takes tll cake" Mir Manvel's success verite the old song which begins with th words:
 Happy Is the miller,
 When he lives by himsef
 A tho wh- el rolls around,
 He ls eaipine wealth.