Connecticut western news., 1899-06-01
GREAT HARRINGTON.

The Berkshire County Woman's Christian Temperance Union will hold q convention at the Baptist church in North Egremont next Wednesday. There will be a morning, afternoon and evening session. The chief speakers are expected to be Mrs Mary A. Ruberg wife of former Baptist pastor at North Egremont, and Mrs Katherine Lent Stevenson, state president of the W. 0. T. U. Mrs Stevenson will be re- membered as Katie Lent, daughter of Rev M. R. Lent now deceased but dur ing his ministerial life 8 we'll known preacher of the New York conference From 20 to 25 years ago, more or less, Miss Lent was known through all this section assthe woman preacher. About that time she applied for license to over it bat the bishop decided that it was against the doctrines and discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The bishop knew that we'll qualified woman could and would preach, | if they wanted so to do, license or no license, and therefore there was no necessity for granting an ecclesiastical parchment to the female sex.
 Paul Lorraine, who has been clerk for | Frank Burch at the news room, resign ed last week and has taken position with the Stanley Instrument company. Berkshire circle companies of the Forest gave dance at Grand Army hall Friday evening. A number were pres ent from out of town and supper was served.
 | Daniel B. Childs and family of New York city arrived Friday at the Class cottage on Church street for the season. O. K. Cushing, an attorney at law. of SanFrancisoo has been stopping for a few days at the Hotel Miller. MT Cushing, who is on his wedding trip, is a grandson of John D. Cushing who founded the Berkshire Courier in 1884.
 Friday afternoon, memorial exercises were held in Kellogg hall, Searles high school building. Several recitations were given by the students and patriot ic songs were sung. A number oi members of D. G. Anderson post were present and H. O. Joyner delivered an address.
 Edward B. Barnes, who has been in the grocery business for a quarter cen tury or more has sold out to Charles J. Burget, late of the hardware firm oi Burget & Lewis. MT Burgett will take his son John 5. of New York city into the business.
 Edwin A. Leland, who has invented g hygienic filter, has sold his patent to Postmaster w. O. Hinman. A company has been organized for the manufacture of these filters which will be known as the Leland Filter company. the first | k<, 11 a1l
 Mrs Sarah church, who fell more thar year ago and broke her hip, died Sat. urday evening at her long time place ol residence on Maple Avenue. She was the widow of Alanson Church and wal born March Is, 1901. She was the oldest person in this town.
 "Arrow Cliff'' the country home oi the late Daniel W. Marrison, has been sold to Charles Wethersby of the Buck ingham Hotel. New York for S20.0O0.
 After slowly failing since early spring Tunis Proper, father of John P. Proper died Saturday at his home in the west part of this town, aged about 83 years and four months. He was grandfath CT of Mrs Joseph Beardsley of East Ga naan, Conn. His funeral was attended yesterday at 9 p. m., Rev U. T. Cooper of the .Egremont Methodist church officiating.
 Memorial Day was observed by D. G Anderson post and other veterans witf the public in general in the usual be fitting manner. The chief speaker a the exercises in the town hall was Gil man O Fisher superintendent of schools A dinner was served to the veterans a | noon in Grand Army hall
 Union Methodist church at Afford, gav' an able address Sunday morning. Hi subject was "The Perils aud the Safe guards of the nation"