Connecticut western news., 1899-10-12

Rev E. H. Todd of Norfolk will ex change pulpits with Rev E. J. Kelly next Sunday morning.
 Il will be absent from my office from October If till November l.
 DR H. l.. Ross.
 Willard Burghardt went to Great Harrington Monday where he entered the shop of the Stanley Instrument | Company to learn the trade of machin. ist.
 Il. l. Johnson and wife of New town spent Saturday afternoon at W. H. Camps while on their way to Great Harrington to visit their son Lee John son.
 IN. s. Stevens wants to buy 10,0 ,000 bushels of apples. See posters for prices of evaporating stock and cider apples. Winter fruit according to quality.
 Henry O. Barnes and wife of this place, accompanied by Postmaster Hin- man and wife of Great Harrington went Monday to Washington, D. c. for l stay of week.
 | Edward E. Bartram arrived home Sunday afternoon from Kobe, Japan. He went to Japan over year ago to settle an estate. His health is good and he has enjoyed the trip.
 -Wm. T. Weaver and John Cudney have iseued posters announcing that they will butcher hogs at Sl apiece, ,and they will take the hogs to their premis- es for killing and return them. -"The Xeudochy Club" is the name of a club at Millerton, N Y. Wonder if in this instance the letter "X means what some people intend when they write Xmas instead of Christmas. THE NEWS today publishes another letter in regard to the Bennett hill job. If there are any errors in said letter of course the columns of THE NEWS are open to anyone to point out the errors. Henry s. Rood of Benton Center, N. '. arrived Tuesday at the home of his sister, Mrs Edmund Lawrence. Mir Lawrence is gradually growing weaker but MT Rood found him less feeble than he expected.
 Mrs Tnplett and Miss Ella Shoe maker, sisters of Mrs D. l.. Freeman, have returned to Illinois. Miss Shoe maker has been East about two years, and great part of that time her health has been very poor.
 Many of the state papers claim there is an unusually large crop of wal nuts, chestnuts, butternuts and hazel nuts this season. It is great under taking to open all the chestnut burrs in | the state, but Jack Frost can do it.
 Miss Lillie Root writes us from | Stoneham, Mass. that the lady she is caring for did not have an operation for peritonitis, but Q successful operation | for an obstinate case of periostitis. Miss Root will probably stay with her till | December.
 pr Ross goes Saturday on hunt ing trip of two weeks to his old homo at Bakers Mills in the Adirondacks. Will Lawrence and Louis o. Roys of Hartford and Walter Hayes of East Ga naan will also spend two weeks at Bakers Mills.
 Rev Mason Noble of Lake Helen, Fla, who has been delegate at the International Cou neil at Boston, arrived at Mrs Mary G. Adams on Friday morn- ing and left for Flor ida Saturday after noon. While here he visited with his son, Macon, and many friends.
 A big auction will take place at the late residence of Henry Howe, deceased, at South Canaan on October IA, at 10 8. m. There is everything you can think of, except real estate, to be sold and you will find partial list in our adver- Using columns and in posters around the neighborhooa.
 The freight traffic is heavier on the Harlem than it has been before in years. There is big increase in all lines, msr- chandise, stock, ore. etc. One hundred and fifty tons day is the average ship ment of ore from Amenia alone. Extra freight trains are running almost every day.-Millerton Telegram.
 A mothers meeting was held in the kindergarten school room yesterday afternoon; the subject: 1.-The Kinder garten, it's Aim and Purpose. The work which the kindergarten children are doing this fall was explained to the mothers and in spite of the uncertainty of the weather, many mothers were present.
 1.-The new steel railroad bridge which the Central New England railroad will erect over the Blackberry river arrived here several weeks ago, and for num- Der of days force of bridge builders have been putting up the temporary woodwork to support the bridge while it's parts are being assembled. It is thought that by the 18th or 22nd inst. the bridge will be ready for use.
 Governor Lounsbury was at Win sted on Friday and said that he had offered the chairmanship of the commis sion to revise the Connecticut statutes to States Attorney Donald T. Warner of Salisbury, and that MT Warner has accepted. The commission will report to the General Assembly of 1901 and the revised statutes will be published soon after.
 -Dr Stark of Aberdeen did not go to Graat Barrin pton last week Wednesday