Connecticut western news., 1900-04-26

HI. B. Stevens has rented the O. M. Deming farm, but not the house and garden.
 Spring has sprung during the past week-and SO has the grass and house. cleaning.
 The Pilgrim Club will meet at Fred Manvel's on May 8. Debate by the young men.
 Mrs Edmund Lawrence has been confined to the bed few days with ill., ness, but is isimproving.
 Harry Sedgwick of Cornwall Hol- low visited his mother and sister here from Friday until Monday.
 When you are in Winsted on circus day just call at Benjamin's repository and see the free exhibition of 300 sty les of wagons, including that elegant pneu- matic runabout which will soon be sent to the Paris exhibition.
 The Litchfeld County Medical As sociation held a meeting at the Boards ley House in Winsted on Tuesday. Among those present were Dr Lee of Canaan, Dr Kendall of Norfolk and Dr Curtis of Cornwall Bridge.
 A grand ball and cake walk by col ored people will be given at Decker's hall, Ashley Falls. Mass, on Friday evening, May 4. Cake walk at 9 o'clock. Prize for the best buck and wing dan- cer, and two prizes for the cake walk. This is your last chance to read Nisbet's advertisement, and next Mon- day will be your last opportunity to buy goods of him. All regret to have Mir Nisbet leave Winsted, but wish him success in his venture at Scranton. Pa. There are number of persons in tkis village and in Salisbury, Falls Vil- lage and Cornwall who are distant rela- tives of John Brown, the old abolition ist, whose centennial will be celebrated at Torrington on May 9 as described | elsew here in this issue of the NEWS -Housatonic Lodge, No. 61, F. X A. M. is doing good work and plenty of it. Last Monday evening the third de- gree was conferred on three persons, and the lodge was in session until after one o'clock Tuesday morning, Several persons are waiting to ride the goat, and still there's more to follow.
 That esteemed citizen and ideal soldier, John Rodemeyer, has fought his last battle The struggle has lasted five weeks, and for the past two weeks has been pathetic and forlorn one. With part of this issue of the NEWS already printed the press is stopped and forms unlocked to change the wording of this item and give notice that MT Rodemeyer died at g 30 o'clock this "Wednesday evening.
 For public convenience the Post Office Department is furnishing the two-cent denomination of postage stamps in small bound books of l2, 24 and 48 stamps respectively. They are sold at an advance of one cent on the stamp value of each book to cover the cost of manufacture. The pages of stamps are interleaved with parafne paper to prevent premature adhesion. The books are now on sale at the Ca- naan post office.
 At the annual meeting of the Citi- zen Printing Company, of Win sted held last Saturday even- ing. R. R. Noble was elected editor of the Winsted Herald. MT No ble is no novice in newspaper work and will prove capable of acceptably filling the editorial chair; nevertheless the NEWS congratulates Mir Noble on his preferment, for it is great honor to be selected to take the chair which has been occupied by such men as the late Stephen A. Hubbard. Thomas Clarke, Theodore Vaill, and by Joseph Il Vaill, J. H. VanKeuren, John Rodemeyer aud other intellectual and witty writers. Frank Hitchcock, who owns the old Douglas store building at the lower cor ner, is transforming that ancient struct- ure into dwelling house to be occupied by James Rodemeyer and family. That old building is one of the landmarks of this town. The writer cannot tell when it was built. but at one time it was oc- cupied as store by Beckley X Tanner. Afterward it was used as town hall and home for the Douglas library for many years, or until the town was di- vided and town hall built at the cor ner of Main street and Granite Ave. For many years the Roman Catholics held their services in that old store building, or until St. Joseph's church was built.