Connecticut western news., 1900-01-25
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at Sharon and at Lime Rock.
 Herbert Hill, a wholesale grocer of Bridgeport. is visiting his auot, Miss Prudence Belden, in this village.
 Clerk Will Ahearu has been absent from Jackson < Eggleston's store about two weeks on account of illness,
 M. L. Osborne. Jr. of Bost n ar rived at his parents home here Satur day and returned to Boston yesterday.
 It has been an unfavorsble winter for the sale of sleighs and hand sleds, but we may reioiee st the scarcity of double ripper accidents.
 Miss Charlotte Beckley has been i'll with the measles at Miss Mary Brad. ford's in Cornwall where she went on a visit. She is getting on nicely.
 Miss Jennie Vim of westford. N. I. is visiting her sister. Mrs O. T. yos- burgh. Until this visit these sisters had not seen each other in ten years.
 Invitations have been issued to the first annual ball of Col. Hsrdenbergh Camp, 8. of " to be held at the Town Hall next week Thursday evening. Baldwin's orchestra and Prof. Beckley prompter.
 William E. Barnett of New Haven, third vice-president of the Consolidated road, was stricken last week with par tial paralysis and was for few days in a critical condition. but is now slowly improving under the care of his brother Dr Johu Barnett
 A January thaw commenced las. Thursday forenoon and lasted until early Sunday morning, The snow and ice which had covered the ground rap idly disappeared and on Saturday there was plenty of mud and the Blackberry river nearly overfowed its banks.
 Mrs Della Beers Randall died at the home of her daughter. Mrs Leverett Castle. in Roxbury, Jan. IS at the ad- vsnced age of 94. Mrs Randall was the grandmother of ". H. Camp of this place with whom it was her custom up to few years ago to spend the summer months. She will be pleasantly re membered by many of our village peo. pie.
 An exchange says the next year we may expect to read something like the following in the daily papers: About 10 o'clock this morning horseless wagon loaded with eowless milk eollid- ed with brainless rider on chainless wheel. The luckless wheeler was bad. ly injured and being homeless he was taken in horseless cab to the h me of the friendless.
 P. J Kane is the new clerk at C.. l.. Parsons < Sons. Mir Kane is na- tive of Sheffield. For three years he has been in the employ of Mir Murray A. Brown, the leading grocer of Lepox. Mass. from whom he brings the highest recommendations Eugene Rowe, who has been with Parsons < Sons for a number of years will sever his connec- ton with the store on February l.
 Game Warden H L. Ross went to Lakeville last Thursday where he ar. rested Harrison Suy dam of Mount Rigs for catching piekerel through the ice on Round pond, Mt. Riga, which is prohibited by law. Ross also arrested James B. Scott, Edward Saunders, Al. bert Brizzie, and Benjamin Wilder. all of Millerton, for catching pickerel less than l2 inches long in Long pond near Lakeville. The men were given hear. ing before Attorney Hubert Williams and the Millerton men fined sl and costs. amounting to Sl1 each, which they paid. Suydam was fined g and costs, amounting to S23.
 The funeral of Edmund D. Law renee was held at the late residence o the deceased on Granite avenue last Thursday at II 8. m. The house wal completely filled with relatives, friends and neighbors who assembled to pay tribute of respect to the memory of tn, departed. Rev S. A. Burnaby reaG passages of scripture and offered pray CT A quartette composed of Miss Minni Peirce, Miss Anna Rudge, Mir R D Peirce and MT A. V. A. Felten san, Lead Kindly Light" Rev Henr, Utterwick made brief but comforting remarks and also gave short sketch o the decsased, and then offered prayer The quartette sang .'Abide with me.
 The interment was in the family lot a
 Hillside cemetery in East Canaan. Tn
 bearers were Geo, s. Fuller, DC. Whit
 tlesey, Louis Holt, G Willis Parsons
 Frank F. Stevens, Seneca B. Strong.