Connecticut western news., 1900-07-26

Eugene hOVe ls cierklnB Iot leW days at Parsons < Sons store.
 R. s. Frary of Winsted was in towu on business Tuesday of this week.
 Mrs Lila W. McLane is now so iourning at Mountain Lake Park, Md.
 Miss Katherine H. Rorsback is re- covering from an attack of the humps.
 A. P. Freeman and family returned Saturday from a three weeks outing at Grove Beach.
 Mrs Stratton of Sufield, an aunt of Miss Ethyl Strong, is stopping with Mrs Hamm for few weeks.
 Mrs Bert Baldwin of Winsted is the guest of her brother, Edward Smith of Reed street.
 Rev Dr Wing of Brooklyn, N. Y. will preach in the Methodist Episcopal church h gre next Sunday morning.
 Elisha Gillett killed rattlesnake on Canaan mountain last week that measured three feet and six inches long.
 The will of the late Samuel R. Flaw ley will be probated at Sharon August 4. as more fully appears by legal mo- tice.
 The Misses Jane and Nettie Lester of Mill River visited their sister Mrs W. H. Emmons from Thursday until Monday.
 Otis Turner is recovering from the attack of lumbago and was able to drive from Canaan mountain to Falls Village on Tues day.
 -F. F. Stevens and wife left yester- day for Ty ringham, Mass. where they will remain a week the guests of Mrs Stevens parents.
 Otis Turner's Big Shows will ap- pear at Salisbury on Friday afternoon and evening of this week and at Lime Rock on Saturday evening only.
 -Sam1. I. Holt, who recently grad uated from the Albany Business Col lege, is now employed as bookkeeper by W. NJ. Whitney & Go. of Albany, N. I.
 During the past week the evenings have been so dark that the street lamps could not be seen; however, we hear of no pedestrians colhding with lamp posts.
 Congressman Hill of Norwalk aud Postmaster Marigold of Bridgeport were in this village a few hours Saturday en route to Sharon where they remained over Sunday.
 The school committe have engaged Miss Ly dia Merwin as teacher in place of Miss Katherine Finnegan who is to take years course in the State Nor nal School at Willimantic.
 Miss Anna G. Bartlett of New York city, who has a summer cottage at Twin Lakes, sailed for Europe last Saturday She will make q1ite an extended tour and also visit the Paris exposition.
 -Georgs ". Greene of East Canaan has sold between fifty and sixty bicy this season, and the season is not hall over. Guess his investment of SIC. 0C worth of advertising in the NEWS paved the way for some of his sales.
 Miss Amber Granger, who has been caring for her aunt, Mrs Wm. Sardam, for the past two weeks, has returned to her home in Winsted. She was accom- panied by Mrs Sardam who will remain in Winsted until her health is some. what restored.
 Mrs F. Van Deusen will sell hel furniture and household goods, crock cry, cooking utensils, washing machine etc., also one set heavy double harness three cider barrels, two barrels O beans, also garden tools, at auction il Clemans Block next Tuesday at p. m See posters for list of articles.
 Rev s. O. Curtis, pastor of St Johns church, New Rochelle, N. T.. was at Pine Grove last week. He say that the camp meeting this year, whicl commences August 20th and closes tn, 27th ult., will be unusually interesting The meetings will be in charge of D Clarke Wright. ..-.. -Tuesday's Winsted Citizen gays Twenty five of the neighbors an, friends of Mrs Gardner P. Barnett o Sucker Brook district turned out yes tsrdsy and did the having on her farm As Q result her entire crop of 26 load is now safely housed in the barn. Ther were thirteen horses employed and fou teams were engaged in drawing the ha to the barn.
 On Wednesday next Mrs Fran Van Deusen and children, Harold an Catherine, will start for Aurora, Ill. t join her husband and daughter Inc gene, who went to Aurora June 21st The whole family intend to remain i Aurora as long as Franks father, Pete Van Deusen, who is 88 years of ag' lives and needs Frank to manage hi
 business affairs. Canaan people wi miss the Van Deusen family, but unde
 stand that duty calls the family hene
 for an indefinite period.
 -Asaph Hall of Goshen started la
 Monday morning from home to wis
 his son in Michigan. He drove to No folk and from there came to Canaan ( the 8.11 train. While waiting to z
 north on the g. 40 train he called at Il
 NEWS office and enquired which houl the late A. N. Beach resided in when Canaan The editor told MT Hall tn