Connecticut western news., 1899-03-16
THURSDAY. MARCH Is. 1899.
Local News.
St. Patrick's Day tomorrow.

office: R. w. Rice.
 Walter G. Hoag was home from Dsnbury over Sunday.
 Frank Van Deusen arrived home Saturday from Aurora, Ill.
 Mrs F. B. Young of Pittsfeld, Mass, visited over Sunday with the Misses Norton.
 Peter Kisselbrack, who has spent the winter with M. J. Kilmer, has re- turned to Lakeville.
 Michael Madden is building 32x A it. livery barn on his lot next to his house on Church street.
 Arthur Barnes and Julius Nye, both of Ashley Falls, are now employed at Hotel Miller in Great Burlington.
 Henry H .Beardsley has been strick- en with psralytic shock at his home in East Canaan, and is seriously ill.
 Newspapers for shelves just the right size-or to put under carpets, ten cents per fifty at the NEWS office.
 Andrew Riley, formerly on Conduc. tor Paine's train, is now braking on the Naugatuck road between Waterbury and Bridgeport.
 Elisha M. Rood's Health is quite poor and Mrs Rood is very lame. but we hope both will be better when the weather improves.
 -E. M. Rood and wife of South Manchester were at Elisha M. Rood s all last week, but returned home on Monday of this week.
 Emil 0. Marggraff. deputy coll ecto of internal revenue of this division was in town Tuesday, making his monthly visitation of towns in the 4th division.
 The Canaan Local Telephone Go. held meeting last Saturday afternoon and voted to increase their capital stock $1, 900. with the intention of an o ther increase in the near future.
 Mrs Miles B. Tobey has been in poor health all winter and for the past three weeks has been steadily failing. At this writing 6 p. m. Wednesday, it is thought she can survive only few hours
 There will be an auction at the Eddy farm house on Saturday at 10 n. ct which. Lawrence Yorker will sell horses, cows, wagons, etc. See adver- tisement in another column for com plete list.
 Calvin Langdon will move away from the Russell place near Butchers bridge on April 1. William P. Russell. son of Mrs Margaret Russell of Sails bury, will run the place tho coming year.
 A. H. Owens and Michael Madden locked wheels on Monday on the lower road to East Canaan and Madden's wheel was completely crushed. The accident occurred by Madden's wheel sliding in rut.
 Miss Kate Lawrence has been in poor health about month and is prac tically confined to her bed by lameness. Miss Mary J. Peck is now taking care of her at D. D. Walters where Miss Lawrence has boarded since last fall.
 Edward Hawver, Jr. was home from Germantown, N. Y. to attend his sisters wedding yesterday. Ed. will remain several days before returning te New York state where he is employ ed by . contractor putting in artesiar wells.
 The March number of the Connec ticut Magazine contains a most excel lent article on early Milford and another on work for the blind in Connecticut Other articles are: An Historic Bible Constitutional History of Connecticut Fifteen Love"-story, Sketch of Susar Benedict Fairfield Hill.
 March continues to be lenient The mercury during the last sever mornings has respectively and respect fully registered the following degrees above zero: 5-25-32. .49- -33-24-3O. Thsr, was mild thunder shower Gn Sunda, evening, and a mild storm of hail O sleet began yesterday noon but at p m. had not produced sleighing.
 Mrs Marietta H., wife of Johl Greer the engineer on the 0. N. E steam shovel, died at her home in Win sted on Monday night of paralysis. Sh' had been ill a few years. The funera was held yesterday afternoon in Win sted. She is survived by her husband and two sons, Edward and Samuel, al railroad men. The Greer family for merly lived in Canaan in the house no, occupied by Dr Camp.
 John G. Beckley will go to Brook lyn, N. Y. this afternoon to attend tn funeral of Robert R. Leitch, retired Chief Engineer of the Un1ted State Navy, who died at o'clock Tuesda, morning in the Brooklyn Hospital iron shock after an operation for appendi citis. Mir Leitch was about 50 years o age. On Aug. %. 1892 he married Lizzie M. Beckley, eldest daughter o the late James Beckley of Canaan, wh' was residing with her mother at 5 South Oxford St.. Brooklyn, N. r., an, where, when not on active duty in th navy, Mir Leitch has boarded. an where the funeral will be held at o'clock this evening with burial at Bal aansss, xd ssnssssw.I