Connecticut western news., 1898-11-17

Mrs J. D. Seacord and son of Lee, Mass. are spending week in town. We will send the NEWS to new sub- scrihers from now till Jan. l, 1900 for two dollars.
 Clinton Roraback will attend the Yale Harvard football game at New Haven on Saturday.
 Last Thursday was very rainy day, and Friday was clustering one but Saturday was pleasant for Novem- Der.
 Miss Minnie Deming win leave to- day with Mrs H. o. Deming for South Greece, N. Y. and will make her home there.
 If to-day proves pleasant Mrs Mary c. Corbit and Mrs. 8. 0. Beckley will take bicycle trip to Smithfeld, N. Y., returning on Friday.
 The bankrupt sale" and the 'sspe- cial sale" of shoes now in progress in this village make prices so low that you can afford to wear shoe on each foot. A stranger standing at the foot of Bennett's hill and looking east under and over the railroad bridge and at the highway up through the rock cut would think he had struck the Chilkoot Pass. | Mrs Sperry Sisson of Hartsville, Mass, Mrs Pritchard of Waterbury and Miss Caroline Bailey of Canaan visited their brother, J. J. Bailey, in this will lage over Sunday,
 Bankrupt sale of new goods. Rood Brothers entire stock of fresh groceries will be sold, by the trustee, without re- gard to cost. The sale commences this morning. Come early and get the best bargains.
 The east bound evening train on the F., R. & N. E. road, which former ly reached Canaan at 6.35 p. m., now reaches here at 7.05 p. m.-too late to connect with any train on the Housa- tonic road.
 Saturday and Sunday nights were cloudy and unfavorable for viewing the meteors, but Monday night was clear nevertheless the only meteors observed by the writer were bicycle lamps Hit ting about the streets.
 There will be Thanksgiving ball at Town Hall on Thursday night, Nov. "A. The price is $1 per couple inclnd- ing supper. Decker's orchestra will furnish ..music. The managers are Louis Waldecker, DanI Sweeney, Joseph Owens, John Mara, Wm. O'Brien. Miles B. Ferris of Ashley Falls, Mass. was before the District court at Great Harrington on Tuesday for abus- ing his wife. He was fined $5 and costs and sentenced to 30 days in jail. He appealed and gave bonds for his appearance in the Superior court. Next Wednesday evening (the night before Thanksgiving there will be sociable at the Town Hall for the benefit of the Episcopal church. Coffee and cake will be served by the ladies of the Guild. The admission to the hall will be 10 cents, and there will be an extra charge for dancing.
 The Winsted Evening Citizen on November 10 issaed special edition printed on nice paper and containing half tones of prominent men and busi- ness places of Winsted, Norfolk and New Hartford with consise descriptive matter about the people and industries of these places. The eight pages of the Citizens special are valuable ref erence.
 U. s. New returned from Albany, N Y. on Monday with his daughter, Mrs H. D. Humphrey. Mrs Humphrey had been about four weeks at private hospital in Albany where she had an operation performed to remove hemor- rhoids. The operation was successful but Mrs Humphrey was in very weak condition when she arrived home Mon- day, but is now improving. Locomotive No. 27 of the 12.10 ex- press on the Berkshire Division broke a key on the connecting rod while com ing into the station here on Monday and was not able to draw the train fur. ther. The coaches were sidetracked for half an hour and were then coupled on to the 12.38 passenger train and ear 1 ried along with it. The locomotive left for Pittsfeld about o'clock. ,.Aas. Marcus Barnes was exposed to the measles at Williams college, and .not feeling well last Saturday he decided to come home and await developments He arrived home about p. m. and by bedtime he manifested unmistakable symptoms of measles. He has remain ed in bed since Saturday night witt genuine measles. Of course he is quite sick at present, but he is getting along as well as can be expected. Mrs Melissa Benedict, aged 84 years, widow of Burr Benedict, died O pn eumonia about 5 o'clock Monday
 morning, Nov. ', at the residence of he
 son, George s. Benedict, in this village
 Her husband died in 1885. The funera
 of Mrs Benedict was attended from he,
 late residence on Thursday last at 2 p
 m. Rev k. w. Barnett conducted tn,
 services. The interment was at tn,
 lower cemetery. The bearers were 1 A. Underwood, J. l.. Bragg, J. S.New
 Cullen E. Holcomb.