Connecticut western news., 1898-10-27

house and barn painted.
 "A. Fl. Herriman and wife spent a few days last week in New York.
 ID. F. May returned last Friday from business trip to Geneva, N. Y.
 -George B. Robbins of Jersey City was at the Warner House over Sunday.
 We will send the NEWS to new sub scribers from now till Jan. l, 1900 for two dollars.
 Robert w. Adam and his grand daughter of Pittsfeld, Mass. visited relatives here last Friday.
 A load of young people will go from here to the dance in Sheffield to- night. Tickets 5Oc per couple.
 The foundation for the addition to the school house is completed and the carpenters have commenced their part of the work.
 J. s. Now has moved his scales from in front of 0. H. Pease's building to above Ives & Peirce's store on the opposite side of Railroad street.
 Mrs James Beckley and her daugh- ter Mrs Robert R. Leitch of Brooklyn, N. Y. arrived in town last night to at tend the funeral of Miss Kellogg to-day.
 There is not much change from day to day in Chester M. Demi9g's condi- ton. Mir Deming is quite weak and nervous in consequence of the serious injury to his foot, and his condition is serious.
 Mrs Mary Geikie Adam will deliver . lecture at Kent tomorrow evening, Got 28, under the auspices of the Ladies Aid Society of the Congrega- tional Church of Kent. Mrs Adams subject will be "London."
 -Photogrspher K. T. Sheldon of West Winsted has recently taken four different views of the falls in the Housa- tonic river at Amasville. He has also taken view looking north under Dutcher's bridge, showing the Tagh- kanick mountains in the background. Mir Sheldon will send one or all of the views postpaid to any address on re- ceipt of 25 cents for each view.
 The sale of season tickets for the Canaan Entertainment Course has been very good. And, though not so many as could be wished, yet sufficient to ss- sure tho success of the enterprise. Sea- son tickets will be on sale at MT Col lin's store next Tuesday, Nov. lst, at 10 .. m., giving any who may not yet have done %, an opportunity to secure them. As the complete list of entertainments is not yet completed it is easily seen that the moro tickets there are sold the better the course will be, since every resource will be used to this end.
 Benson Brothers have raised some large and queer potatoes this season. They left one as specimen at the NEWS office last Saturday. This pota- toe weighs two pounds and two ounces, and consists of one large potatoe to which are attached five smaller ones. Benson Brothers think each smaller po- tatoe sprouted from the larger one after some heavy rain occurred the past sum- mer. Some of their larger potatoes had dozen smaller ones attached, and each cluster must have weighed several pounds.
 Last Friday morning the residents of the Scoville mansion at Chapinville were surprised to see three deer pass over the lawn about one hundred yards north of the house. It was about nine o'clock in the morning and the animals, consisting of buck and two does, ap. peared to come from the lake, passing in the rear of the barn and thence over the lawn and garden. MT Robert Sec. vile and his men followed for short distance, and the last they saw of the animals they were lost in the woods and travelling west. It is difficult to account for their presence in this re. zion. Journal.
 The dramatic critic of the Balti more Sunday Herald writing of "Unde, the Red Robe" says of MT Morris, who spent last summer in Canaan and if now playing 'Ds Berault" in the piece
 Somebody said that William Morris put him in mind of Charles Fechter- to my thinking the greatest of all TO- mantle players. So he does. He has Fechterisms, numbers of them, because he is heroic, classic, scholarly, whole some and legitimate. MT Morris is mol Fechter yet; but, upon my life, be- lieve he can come pretty close to be- coming one if he will. He is entitled te the credit of giving a conscientious, in- telligent interpretation to composite role, and of doing so without resort tt anything but fine art; and will say fo his qualification that 8 more interesting swashbuckler the stage has not seer since Fechter's death.
 The veterans of the gallant 128tl N. Y. Vols, the heroes of Sheridans ia nous Shenandoah Valley campaign, me in annual reunion at Tivoli, N. Y. tn, 18th inst. to celebrate the anniversar, of the noted battle of Cedar Creek Notwithstanding the day was rain, one 125 veterans assembled. Dime was served in the basement of Masoni Hall to the veterans, their guests an, wives and daughters. About 45O wer fed. The street parade of the veterans and fire companies and different organi zations of Tivoli was an imposing one A fine program of exercises in the hal occupied the afternoon. The next re union will take place st Hudson N. Y
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