Connecticut western news., 1899-04-13
THURSDAY. APRIL 13. 1899.
Local News.

Miss Helen Louise May is visiting in Monterey, Mass.
 Mrs Augusta Scott is spending month in Norfolk. @.-
 Charles Dodge is home from Bridge port for months stay.
 Tho road machine smoothed up tht village streets on Tuesday.
 w. H. Emmons opened his store for business Monday evening.
 Deacon David N. Fuller of Ct. Bar rington called on his son George S here on Saturday.
 Mrs Charles Rood has been sick about ten days with muscular rheuma' tism but is improving.
 Mrs Hiram Eddy is making changes in the size and arrangement of some oi the rooms in her residence.
 The first three days of this week were samples of spring weather but yesterday was rainy and chilly.
 Mrs A. P. Freeman and Mrs B. A. Peirce have been visiting Mrs A. D. Wait at Cohoes, N Y. since Saturday
 Miss Anna Rudge returned to Ca naan from Brooklyn last Thursday and is now assisting Miss Norton, the mil liner.
 Oswald Vosburgh moved yesterday from the rooms over Camps drug store int Mrs Scott's house on West Main street.
 There will be missionary meeting at the Pilgrim church on Saturday afternoon at o'clock. Miss Kyle is expected from Boston to address the meeting. Everybody is invited.
 Seneca B. Strong will be employed by Mrs Hiram Eddy during the six months which commenced April 1st. Lorenzo Lawrence has been employed by Mrs Eddy for number of years and will still be retained.
 Gospel concert at Town Hall, Tues day evening, 18th, by MT and Mrs B. L.. Coffin and jubilee singers. Mrs Coffin studied vocal music in Paris, and Mir Coffin is known to be an excellent per former on the guitar.
 The Connecticut Magazine for April is at hand. The current number is brighter and newsier than ever. Among other interesting topics is the second article of the series on "Iron Mining in Connecticut.
 The Pilgrim club met at the Manse on Tuesday evening of last week. Be- ing ladies' night large number was present. The program consisted of literary and social exercises, and a lunch was served. The next meeting will be held next Tuesday evening at Fl. B. Holt's-
 Attention is called to the fact that this town is provided with public dumping ground where all garbage and rubbish may be disposed of. It is on the back road to Ashley Falls nearly opposite the trotting track. It is misdemeano1 subject to fine to throw any garbage in any stream, or to dump it beside public highways; and an effort will be made to enforce this law.
 Saturday afternoon between 4 and o'clock freight train approaching Canaan from the west met with an acci dent between the Housatonic river and the Blackberry river bridges. A jour nal on car loaded with trolley rails broke and derailed the car of rails and the caboose. The 5.05 passenger train west bound was delayed here three hours and were that much late on the return trip.
 There will be an auction at the residence of the late Henry Belden in Falls Village on Saturday, April 15, al 10 a. n. Eight COWS, heifers, yearlings, shoat, horse, wagous, carriages, cutter, moving machine, horse rake, harness, ensilage cutter, flaming mill, root cut. ter, blows, harrows, cultiyators, house hold furniture, etc will be sold by Sid ney Reed, auctioneer; Walter Kellogg, administrator.
 -Dr Ross has liberated eight pheas ants within the past week. This makes over 50 pheasants English and Mongo lian-that he has liberated during the past three years. Dr Ross is the only person who has raised and liberated pheasants in this section, and he is cer. tainly entitled to much credit for his public spirit in trying to stock this vi cinity with these most beautiful of all game birds. They are protected by 2 fine of $50.
 Mrs P. K. Brown of Brooklyn, N Y. is making some changes and i'm provements of the interior of the resi dence that she recently bought of Frank Hitchcock Mrs Brown did not pur chase the large barn and sheds. on the premises, and MT Hitchcock is remov ing them to his farm south of there The sheds have been taken apart in sec. tions and moved, but the large barn will be moved entire and the prepara tory work is now in progress. Charles Carver of Pittsfeld, Mass, will move the barn and he expects to cross the railroad track with it week from nex Sunday. When this barn is joined tc the others already on Mir Hitchcock farm he will have row of building. 1se feet long, with stable room for 21( hssd ef ssttls.