Connecticut western news., 1898-09-22


 Winsted next Monday evening.
 Frank Miller and MT Setzler have closed their cottages at Twin Lakes and returned to their homes in Bridgeport.
 Another child of Engineer George Austin died at Hartford yesterday, and at this writing Mir Austin is himself just alive.
 Mrs E. T. Lorrain went to Pit ts- field last nigls to attend the funeral of her little niece. baby daughter of William Aus tia.
 --Iuvitati ons have been issued to the marriage reception of Miss Lila Ward and Mt Robert Lawrence McLain, on Sept 18th in this town.
 Engineer Wm. Flood of the P, R. & N. l.. road, who had been sick with dysentery at Hartford, died there Mon- day morning. aged about 40 years.
 -Is it always necessary to advertise? No! The man who lost his balance on the tight rope found it on the ground without the aid of an advertisement.
 The lower cemetery was moved again last week and it looks very neat and tidy. Its condition is credit to the town, to individual lot owners and to the sexton.
 -S. W. Barnes and sen Marcus went to North Adams, Mass. on Monday, Marcus going on to Williamstown where he entered the freshmen class at Williams college.
 The weather has been delightful the past week and the mercury has ranged as follows: Thursday "A, Fri day 72', Saturday 82, Sunday S2, Mon- day 75, Tuesday 65, yesterday 62.
 Mrs Mary Prentiss Smith of Cleve- land, o. and Miss Mary Prentiss of Brooklyn, N. r., who have spent the past two months at R. c. Newton's, have returned to their homes.
 The greatest list of fast horses that ever met in Berkshire county have been entered in the "Free for Alp' class at the Ct. Harrington Fair The names of the horses are mentioned in our ad- vertising columns today.
 Mrs Myron E. Bunnell and two Hattie and Dorothy of Dan- bury, have been visiting Miss Lillie Root. Mrs Bunnell's maiden name was Lottie Lee and she visited her child hood home in South Canaan where she had not been in twenty years.
 Alfred Herriman's pacing mare Friendship won first money in the 2 37 and in the S5C0 stake race at Can lon, N. Y. last week. She paced the 3d heat in the 2.37 class in 2.18f. At Pottsdam, N. Y. on Tuesday "Friend- ship" won the 237 race in straight heats, best time 2.20.
 Clarence Cook of Lakeville, known by number of young people here, re- turned last week from trip to France in company with Hotchkiss School friend. P. G. Darling. They worked their way to Liverpool on cattle steamer and then went direct to Paris where they had a delightful time, the trip costing them about S100 apiece. They were furnished free transporta- ton back, as is the case with all who cross on the cattle boats.
 The NEWS has been requested to agitate the subject of fire proof vault for the town records, the probate rec ords and other invaluable local records. It would naturally seem that such a subject did not need agitating, but that every elector in town would be anxious to vote an appropriation for the pro- tection of said records. If tue Town Hall should be destroyed by fire it could be rebuilt, but if said records were burned they could never be re- produced. It needs no argument to prove the necessity of fire proof vault in this village, but perhaps 1t requires a vote at the next annual town meeting and instructing the select men to construct such vault.
 George Brewer of Ashley Falls met with an unfortunate accident at State Line, (Mass.) Saturday night. He had arrived there with a carload of cattle which he had bought in northern New York and Canada and unloaded at State Line from where he intended to drive them to Ashley Falls. It was about dark when the cattle were un- loaded and MT Brewer rented pasture there for the forty or more head of cat tie he had. During the night the drove, excepting four, got out of the pasture and stampeded, some of them going six or seven miles in different di- rections. Twelve of the cattle got on to the B. & A. tracks and were struck and killed by night train, entailing loss of about S400 to Mir Brewer.
 -"Down in Porto Rico with Kodak" is the title of 8 profusely illus trated and neatly bound volume of 1O2 pages written by Lieutenant Governor James D. Dewell, of New Haven. On a business trip to Porto Rico last Jan- uary MT Dewell took with him his Eastman Kodak. The views presented in said volume were taken by Mir Dew ell and accompanying them is very interesting and instructive &C., count of his journey and of the Porto Rico of today. The NEWS acknowledges with thanks the receipt of copy of this souvenir volume.