Connecticut western news., 1899-06-22
THURSDAY. JUNE 22, 1899.
Local News.

James E. Dean and family of Win. sted arrived at Pine Grove last week.
 Rev c. D. Pond of Winsted occu- pied the pulpit at Christ church on Sunday.
 Miss J. J. Jackson of Sharon visit ed her brother, N. l.. Jackson here the past week.
 Miss Julia Wendell of Niverviile, N. Y. visited her sister, Mrs J. G. Root, over Sunday.
 Mir and Mrs H. E. Lyles returned last week from their wedding journey of carriage drive through Berkshire county.
 -HighwayC Commissions Macdonald and Surveyor Starr of Bridgeport, yes- terday inspected the road improvement at Bennett's hill.
 B. H. Hull, civil and hydraulic en- gineer of Bridgeport, was guest of S. 0. Beckley last Monday. Mir Hull was on his way to St ckbridge, Mass, on business trip in the line of his profes. sion.
 Lightning struck the cave trough on the wing of Dr J. D. Clemans' resi- dence during the shower of Tuesday and split several siding, knocked of some plaster in the stairway but did no practical damage.
 Charlie Dupee, one of our old Academy boys, has been selected as one of the Yale athletes who will compete with the athletes of Greft Britain in England, July p. Dupee will run the 100 yards and quarter mile.
 Judge Roraback, Mrs Roraback, Clinton and Catherine attended the graduation of Miss N. Louise Roraback at Mt Holyoke College on Tuesday and Wednesday. Miss Grace and Mir Albert Roraback were at Mt. Holyoke over Sunday.
 MT and Mrs G. B. Gardner and son Ivan returned to Coxsackie, N. Y. last Saturday after having visited week at Warren McIntyre's. John Van Wormer of Coxsackie, who came with them and who visited at George Dederick's, also returned with them.
 -Junius and Lewis Rhoades, W. Fl. Camp. Joseph s. Adam, Fl. B. Ives of this place and George Futile of New ark return today from fishing excursion at Big NJ pose, Skilton's Camp on Twitchell Lake in the Adirondacks, Or Sewart Webb's game preserve. ) The party left here Saturday night,
 Last Thursday party of surveyors were at work on Main street. It is sur missed that they were taking levels and measurements for the Consolidated" road to ascertain the feasibility of eliminating the grade crossing by build ing highway bridge from Camps drug store to point in front of the Town Hall.
 The mercury record at noon for the last seven days is as follows: 91-64 TO- 80 83-86-70. Last Thursday three heavy thunder showers occurred between l 80 p. m. and 30 p. m. On Tuesday of this week two heavy showers occurred between p. m and 6 p. m. Last Fri day morning the mercury registered 50 degrees, and yesterday morning 55 de- grees.
 During the thunder shower last Thursday, an Italian working in Peirce & Freeman's quarry stood with his foot on rock and received 8 heavy shock of electricity, which tore off the sole of his shoe and singed the flesh on his heel and on his hip. The electrical bolts were particularly frequent in that locality and one struck the ice house on the P. < F. company's farm but did not fire it.
 w. H. Hill of Pittsfeld, Mass. call ed at the NEWS office yesterday morn. ing on his way home from Winsted where he had been visiting his married daughters and his grandchildren. Thirty years ago MT Hill published the Cen tral Berkshire Chronicle at Lee, Mass In 1871 he moved the plant to Sails bury, Conn. and for year or more printed the CONNECTICUT WESTERN NEWS on contract for it's founder, the late Joseph L. Pease He sold the outfit o presses, type, etc. to Mr Pease and afterward established job printing office in Pittsfeld. The first of the present month he sold his interest il the job office to his partner.
 Thomas Richards of Jersey City, N Y, former resident of East Canaan Conn.,, kindly offers to furnish thu NEWS, if his health permits, from tim to time some "reminiscences of East Ca naan and its early industries Tn first installment is published today ,ant MT Richards will in subsequent issue follow the Blackberry river from tn Norfolk line to the Forbes forge il Forge Alley" and try to give brie description of the manufacturing inter ests that were located on that stream MT Richards sketches will be entirel from memory, as he has no mem oranda They will interest Canaan people not withstanding MT Richards says h writes them because he feels the nee, of something to occupy his mind, an calling up mem ories of the old home il Canaan affords him great amunt C pleasure. The home of his boyhoo and early life is ever green spot in hi memory.