Connecticut western news., 1900-03-01

tamlly here over sunday.
 A H. Herriman has sold bis little mare "Risewood" to Dr F. H. Lee.
 Miss NJ. A. Walsh of Philadelphia has been visiting ner sister, Mrs E. E. Bartram.
 Among the more recent cases of measles are the two daughters of H. D Humphrey.
 -C. Vim and Miss Jennie Vim of Philmont, N. |. have been visiting their sister. Mrs Oswald yosburgh.
 The annual meeting of the Village Improvement Association will be held in the Town Hall building on Saturday evening at 8 o'clock.
 Terrence Kelley of Hartford is re covering nicely from severe illness with typhoid fever MT Kelley is half brother of William and Dennis Ahearn of this place.
 --Dr Heath, the we'll known veteri- nary surgeon, is very ill at his home Id Winsted where he has been confined to the bed several weeks. His condition offers no encouragement
 w. H. Hoy ysradt will on April l move from the Wm. P. Russell farm to Robert Little's farm, both in Westogue district. and MT and Mrs McCone will move from George Bartholomew's in Ashley Falls on to the Russell place. Fire broke out in John Scutt's house at Miilerton. N. l., occupied by Mir Scott, on Sunday afternoon and for awhile there was a lively time One portion of the house was considerably burned before the firemen got the flames under control.
 -Thirty-fve people from this place went on the special train to Lakeyille yesterday to hear the concert given by the Fadattes woman's Orchestra of Boston. The concert was pronounced most excellent and the performers played to a crowded house.
 The late George Washington's birthday anniversary was not particu- larly observed in town. The schools closed for the day, and the barber shop was not open in the afternoon. Other wise the day was ss similar to any other day as one day is to another ip the month of February.
 -Mulford Wheeler < Go. last week decided to go out of the mercantile business at Mil.erton, N. |. and they sold out their stock of goods to Hawley and Hotchkiss < E.gglestoa who began closing out the goods last Friday after noon at such bargain prices that they retaiied over s2,000 by Saturday night
 Geo. W. Hall is elated over the success he Is meeting with as agent of The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. He has written s num- Der of large policies for New Milford people and has made arrangements to spend one day or portion of day in each monsh in every town in Litchfield county.
 On Monday the Probate Court for the District of Canaan appointed George s. Fuller administrator of the estate of Michael Madden, deceased. MT Mad den made will a number of years ago and named as his executor Alberto T. Rorabaok, but Judge Roraback declines to accept. therefore Mir Fuller is ap- pointed administrator.
 The Henry J Mead farm, so called, at Canaan Valley will be offered for sale at public auction on Friday, NJ .rch 16. at II a. n. Seven COWS, 40 head of poultry, household furniture, crockery, stoves, etc, siI carriages and wagons, a lof of farming utensils and blacksmith tools, seasoned lumber. and great va riety of articles will be sold. Posters and advertisement tell the story. Twenty head of cattle, three horses, large lot of farming machinery and tools, creamery articles, carriage, wag ons, sleighs, harness, household furni ture and articles too numerous to men, ton will be sold at public auction at Geo. A. Brewers farm one mile west of Ashley Falls. on Saturday, March 10, at 10 a. m. This will be & large auc- ton and will draw crowd Posters already printed describe most of the property. l "A hearing before Justice Garfield in the matter of Reuben Nettleton oi this village placing an attachment on g team of horses owned by Frank Holt oi Norfolk was held in the court room
 Monday. John Simmons of Winsted appeared for Nsttleton who had placed the attachment for wages. Attorney J.
 H. Roraback appeared for Holt and en
 tered a demurrer, claiming that Kettle ton had made . previous attachment
 and in point of law was satisfied. Jus
 tice Garfield sustained the demurrer. ! David Catlin. who died in New
 Haven Feb. 15 had always been engag
 ed in the printing business. He wa
 on the Litchfield Sentinel during th,
 greater part of the time that that pape
 existed and WAS also connected with tn Enquirer. Enquirer. M Catlin was compositor on the CoNSEc ucUr WEsTEsN NEWS thirteen years az from November 1886 to April 20
 1887. He was faithful, conscientiou , man and was esteemed by all who kney him. His health was poor at that time and in fact he had spent several pre- vious winters in Florida to escape tn