Connecticut western news., 1903-07-23
THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1903
LOCAL NEWS


 from visit in Pine Plains, N. Y.
 Miles E. Briggs of St. Paul, Minn., is visiting his brother, A. P. Briggs.
 The Misses Ferguson returned Mon day from a two weeks vacation trip. Henry J. Gillette, the city mission ary of Hartford, will occuy the Pilgrim church pulpit next Sunday.
 Il. J. Wanamaker has resigned his I position at Borden's creamery and has secured position in Hartford. | Mrs. Glendenning returned to her home in Delhi, N. Y, on Monday after & weeks visit at Grant w. Laidlaw's. Miss Lena Gardner, stenographer for the New England Lime Co.,, is spending the week at her home in Cromwell.
 Misses Annie and Etta Kelly of Jer sey City, who have been visiting their cousin, Miss Mabel Dempsey, returned to their home Monday.
 Harvey White and family of Wal ton, N. Y., moved into A. L. Higgins house yesterday. MT. White will work for the Borden company.
 Henry Killmer of Holyoke, Mass, has been spending week with his father, M. J. Killmer. This is Henry's first visit home in seven yerrs. l Prof P H. Kelly. the dancing teacher from Shelton, attended Prof. Beckley's carnival on Tuesday evening, and spoke in glowing terms of the party.
 Frank Holmes and family of Mt. Yer non, N. Y., are camping at Twin Lakes near M. l.. Osborne's hotel. MT. Holmes was formerly in the milk business in Canaan. l John P. Shields of Danbury, William G. Shields of Hartford and their sisters, Mrs. M. Callahan of Holyoke, Mass, and Mrs. Eugene Bill of Hartford were in town over Sunday,
 | Superintendent and Mrs. H. M. Adams of the County Home at Ware l house Point, are s,ending vacation at Saratoga. This is the first real outing they have had together in seven years. Attorney John Hillard and friend of New Haven were i'll town Tuesday. They have been canoeing on the Farm ington and came across the hills by train to take paddle up the Housa- tonic.
 Edward s. Clark of Waterbury has rented Mrs. George Porter's house (the Luman Foote place. on Main street and will reside there with his family. MT. Clark has been in the employ of Johnson, Lindell & Go. for some time.
 Norman Moore, baggage clerk at the c. N. E. station, is having a two weeks vacation, Austin Joyce ''subbing" in his place. Norman has been doing Waterbury, Hartford and New Haven, and spenc few days at Lakeville visit ing Miss Lizzie Cole of Buffalo. Nor man is in New York today.
 The citizens of New Marlboro, Mass, are to hold an old home picnic at Gibson's grove, Lake Buel, the 3Oth. The committee of arrangements is: J. D. Adams, chairman; H. Reyes, secre- tary; Rev. s. V. Stryker. treasurer; H. D. Sisson, W. 0. Underwood, H. W. Palmer and L. P. Reyes.
 It is reported on good authority that syndicate has bought the Bash ! Sh FollC nd Mount Washington. There were over 800 acres in the Douglas estate, so the purchase is a large one. The Bash Bish place has been for some time in the hands of H. M. Flagler, the Stan. dard Oil man. It is thought that the extensive place will be developed more as summer resort.-Berkshire Courier
 Editor Henry R. Jones of the New Hartford Tribune has carried a Con federate musket ball in his right shoulder ever since the battle of An tietam on September IT, 1862. The wound has troubled Captain Jones these forty years and last week became more annoying than ever and one night as he was dressing the wound he felt the ball and procuring pair of pinchers he ex tracted it with no trouble The wound is now healing.
 On Wednesday, July 15, 1903, al Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada, Christene Trebilcock, second daughter of Paul C. Trebilcock, Esq, was married to John | Cn;l ;l>a Al of U. s. A. The wedding was at four il the afternoon at the brides home where few intimate friends and relatives were present. We wish the bride ant groom life full of the sweetness ant sacredness that characterized theil quiet home wedding. Dr. and Mrs Adam returned to their home i'll tn, States after short trip on the Grea Lakes.
 The Hartford Courant says:
 A Chicago capitalist" Francis Xa vier Schoonmaker, was looking around at Pike's Peak last Friday. It is saiC that he represents a syndicate of ricf fellows who think there may be some thing for their pockets in Professor A G. Whitney's scheme for procurin, electricity from the ether by means O coiled-wire magnet for commercial use, and that he is inclined to thinl Pikes Peak just the place for the mag net.
 Canaan people will remember MT Schoonmaker as the lame little man wh sat in a chair on the Town Hall stag and delivered the best Republican cam paign speech ever heard here, durin the Standardization campaign i