Connecticut western news., 1899-02-16
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY Is. 1899.
Local News.
Lent began yesterday.

Lent began yesterday.
 Lincoln Day was not observed il town on Monday.
 The venerable Aaron Gorham Ii still severely ill with the grip.
 The weather since Feb. 2 moves us to say: "Wise Mir Groundhog."
 George Rood and family of Soutt Manchester are visiting in Clayton.
 -"The man who whispers down well
 About the goods he has to sell,
 Won't reap the cleaning golden dollars
 Like one who climbs tree and hollers.'
 -Chauncey Hall will sell at public auction at Mill River on Feb. 4 at 9 a. m. household goods and other proper ty. See posters.
 Tuesday was the dullest day sirce the great blizzard of 1888. No train passed Canaan until 8.45 p. m. Even on Sundays four trains pass Canaan.
 With deep frost in the ground, thick ice in the rivers and the heavy body of snow on the ground sudden thaw would produce destructive flood.
 The man who sells 2ic milk and buys 200. steak, pays $1.8O per lb. for the meat on the principle of relative food values. IA. R. Wadsworth, Con necticut.
 The Hill Comedy Go played to small audiences all last week. Friday night they gave no performance on ac- count of the cold weather and very slim attendance.
 We were somewhat in error in re- porting the case of Daniel Blow last week as in fact Blow pleaded guilty to rape, for which there is a penalty of from twenty years to life in,prisoumt nt.
 Representative Holt and Clerk of Bills Eddy were unable to reach Hart ford on Tuesday or Wednesday, owing to the snow blockade on the 0. N. E. railroad. On Tuesday there were only two senators aud six representatives at the capitol.
 The Pilgrim Club met with John Hubbard on Tuesday evening. Sam Holt read paper on the Government of Connecticut, Albert Barnes on the School System of Connecticut; John H-L .oA cL okak 1f No Hale, and Frank Stanton sketch of Benedict Arnold. The club meet with Eugene Rowe on February 28.
 Rev George E. Taylor, field secre- tary of Doane College, Creek, Neb., oc- cupied the Pilgrim church pulpit Sum- day morning and evening. His morn ing sermon was on the subject of Christ and the rich young ruler. In the even ing he addressed the young people on the topic for the day, particularly re- ferring to ''the Lost"
 Mrs J. Sherman Mars tcolored) oi Ashley Falls died at her home last Thursday from paralytic shock with which she was stricken the afternoon before. She was about 75 years old and is survived by her husband. The funeral was attended at her late resi- dence Saturday, Rev l.. c. H. Adams of Sheffield M E. church officiating The burial was in the afternoon at Sal isbury.
 Bishop Tierney of the Roman Catholic Church has issued his annua Lenten pastoral advising his people how to observe the season of Lent. Int concluding paragraph of the pastoral Ii as follows: ''You will exert every effort to inspire your people with a peniten tial spirit, urging them to fly from sir and its occasion, particularly to abstain from intoxicating drink, and to conse crate this holy season to prayer, charity works of piety, and the frequentatior of the sacraments, without which thu observance of the fast would be of ittl, profit"
 Weather record for the past week Thursday, to 10 below zero in thu morning, below at noon, cloudy, below in the evening; Friday, 10 to Il belew in morning, clear and windy, above zero at noon; Saturday, 16 below in morning, sunshine, ab we zero a noon, just zero in evening, cloudy Sunday, 5 below in morning, showing above at noon, showing fast, just Fer, in evening, cloudy, 12 inches of snoy fell today; Monday, 6 below in morning showing fast, 3 above at noon, showing just zero in evening, showing ant blowing, II or 12 inches of snow fel teddy; Tuesday, just zero in morning clear, 20 above zero at noon, 10 abov in evening; yesterday, 12 to 15 beloy zero in morning, clear, 31 above ger at noon, 24 at 6 p. m. and cloudy wit south wind.
 The George A. Hill Comedy Go which played here last week are sho v ing at Norfolk this week. MT and MT Jos. J. Winter Cora White) and M Winters father, J. P. Winter, close their engagement with the company O Tuesday night and are in Mancheste this week rehearsing new company t be known as the Lyceum Comedy Go M r Hill has filled the vacancies of tn Winters and both the Hill Go. and th Lyce um Go. will number ten peopl and the routes will not conflict. Tn Hill Go. up to few weeks ago was tt Minnie Lester Go. but Miss Lester le the company at Matteawau, N. Y. IT Lyceum Comedy Go. will make wee stAuds and havs two new war plays hsls tspsstsiss.