Connecticut western news., 1900-05-24

A total eclipse of the sun will oc- cur next Monday, but in this section only about half of the suns face will be eclipsed.
 The meeting to organize a cemetery association was adjourned ton account of the weather) to next Saturday at 3 p. m. at the Town Hall
 The selectmen placed several men aud teams at work yesterday building 8 new road from The Peirce X Freeman Oo's oil kiln to the highway.
 Mrs George M. Bullock and Ed mund Harrington of Hillsdale, N I were at A V. A. Felten's over Sunday, Mrs Bullock remaining this week,
 The household goods and shoe makers tools of the late John Rode meyer will be sold at public auction on June 9. See posters for lists of articles.
 The Hawthorne Club gave recep' ton and luncheon to Miss A. O. B. Cunning and Miss s. W. Adam at the home of Mrs A. P. Freeman on Friday afternoon.
 The Winsted Citizen says: R. P. Christian, formerly passenger conduc- tor on the Central New England rail- way, is now employed as freight con. ductor on the Central railroad of Yer mont.
 The Grand Army members and the Sons of Veterans will attend the Epis- copal church on Sunday evening in uniform, when Rev M H. Mill will de- liver memorial address to them. The service will begin at 2 o'clock.
 With the retirement of John Beck. ley from our office force we close uI the News Employment Bureau and will receive no more registrations for helI or for employment, but will handle this kind of business as pure advertising.
 The April number of The Book Keeper has arrived at our office and II it is very interesting and instructive article on ''Double Entry Book keeping for Retail Merchants" by J. s. Tracy oi Falls Village, member of The Book Keeper Literary Club.
 Enough interest has been manifest ed in the project of organizing nation al bank in this place to practically iu sure the raising of the necessary capita for it's organization. Some of the de tails as to management, location. etc. must be determined before subscrip tions to the capital stock can be called for.
 -E. Fl. DeMars has accepted the DO sition at the assistant editors desk II the NEWS office. MT De Mars comes from similar position on the Winstei Evening Citizen. John G. Beckley who has been the assistant editor of tn, NEWS, retires from our office, and be yond few weeks rest his plans are no definite
 The new time schedule on tht Berkshire Division of the N. T., N. Fl & H. railroad went into effect at the be ginning of the week. Passenger trains now run as follows: Going south-S.2 9 and g. 40 a. m., 2.41, 2.47, 4.37 and 5 0. p. m. Sundays at 19 and 7.26 p. m Going north-9 40 a. m, 12.03, 12.32 437, 6.29 and 7.04 p. m. Saturdays a 4.25 p. m. Sundays at 9 40 a. m. Alexander Elliott, who had been { railroad man for nearly 50 years, diet ct his home in New York on the 16tl inst, aged 67 years. For many year he was baggage master on the Harlen road, preferring that to higher posi- tions the company had often urged hin to accept. He was general favorit' among railroad men and had host O friends the entire length of the Harlen road.
 Daniel Sweeney, car "knocker" il the local yard of the Consolidated road is demonstrating the fact that he ha considerable talent as a landscape gai dener as an inspection of the little plo of ground enclosed within the depo platform will demonstrate. He has al ranged several symmetrical flower bed within the enclosure where he has plant ed variety of flower seeds and bulbs and he did it all without the sssistanc of a civil engineer.
 | Mrs Caroline Warner, who no lives with her son Edward at the Wa
 ner House, says that after John Brow
 contracted for his pikes at Collinsvill
 in April, 1857, he came through Ea' Canaan and stopped at a number {
 houses in East Canaan including tt
 home of Mrs Warner, and that h
 topic of conversation was negro slayer. He also attended prayer meeting { East Canaan in the evening and spol
 powerfully on the subject of slavery.
 A project is on foot in this sectic to secure a crowd of excursionists to g to Norfolk, Va, to view the eclipse the sun which will occur the 18th ins Several Winsted and Torrington pa
 ties have agreed to go and if suficiel number can be induced to go rouu trip rate of S26 can be secured. , will be most delightful trip to ss nothing of the eclipse. Any who a interested should communicate vii James Allis, Torrington.
 The Litchfield County Choral f ciety, composed of the best mus ical t. ent of Norfolk and Winsted, which wi
 render ssThe Holy City" at the latt