Connecticut western news., 1906-08-23
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The new store of Hoag, Hotaling & Byron will, without doubt, be the best lighted building i'll town. It Is to be illuminated by electricity furnished by the Berkshire Power Company. In the arrangement of the lights, old methods have been departed from with good effect.
 The St. Bernards church fair will be held on Wednesday afternoon and even ing of next week and the members of the congregation are bending every energy to make it a success. The re- sponse to the call for donations has been a liberal one and there is every prospect at the present time of a successful event.
 The postponed meeting of the Village 1 Improvement Society will be held on the green by the soldiers monument on Saturday next, the 18th. at 5 o'clock. Gustav Schwab, Esq, of New York, and Rev Allyn K. Foster of Sharon are the speakers. The Sharon band will furnish music. If it should rain the meeting will be held in the hall.
 Among those from Sharon who en- listed in the army was Henry Burke. He has since died leaving a small estate, for which no heirs can be found. This information is published in the hope that it may come to the notice of some- one who has knowledge concerning his relatives Communications should be addressed to J. J. Dwyer, ? State street Hartford, Conn.
 Farmers throughout the state are sui fering considerable financial loss as a result of the great rainfall and general dampness that has prevailed during the past six weeks. The great majority of the farmers have dead ripe grass stand ing in the fields to-day which could not be cut ill the brief intervals of sunshine for fear that the sudden rain showers would fall on it and ruin it. What hay has already been placed in the mows is said to be better fitted for fertilizer than it is for feed. An expert opinion Is that } the loss will not be less than % per cent of the crop.
 One of our citizens tells a story of a happening on a train as he was on his way to New York. A lady sitting back of him was crying as if her heart would , break and he being tender hearted turned to sympathize with her and asked what the matter might be; she replied that she had just had the body of her hus band cremated, and after few stations left the car. After her departure a lady opposite him began crying, and wonder , ing what the matter could be asked hel if she had had her husbands body ere , mated, when she replied she had not but was crying because some women hao husbands to burn while others could not get any at all.
 EVIDENCE ALL IN.
 The water case was on again here last week in the Town hall before the com missioners, James P. Woodruff of Litch field, Francis R. Baldwin of New Mil ford, and Rufus Holmes of Winsted The respondents are represented by J. Henry Roraback of Canaan, and Fred Williams of New Milford, and the Water Go. by Leonard J. Nickerson o1 West Cornwall, and D. T. Warner oi Salisbury. The taking of evidence wa' completed Saturday forenoon and ad Ijournment for argument was taken tC August 2S, at New Milford. About l. witnesses were sworn at Sharon.
 ARRIVALS AT INN.
 Mrs. Dunlap Hopkins, Miss E. J Pond. MT. and Mrs. A. J. Delatour, J H. Delatour, Mrs. M. G. Evans, Mrs A. K. Pond, Warren Pond, Miss Glady, Nc Bride, MT. and Mrs. L. G. Mead, Mir and Mrs. T. NJ. Debevoise, H. B. Allen the Misses Allen, MT. and Mrs. J. H Hough, L. Stuart Wing, L. Stuart Wing Jr., s. Bryce, MT. and Mrs. Henry Cop pell, Mir. and Mrs. G. H. Myers, H. P l Nash, Mir. and Mrs. Charles E. Atwater J. H. Pugh, Dr. R. H. Murray, Henr, Fisk, MT. and Mrs. Hans K. Prayet, MT 2 and Mrs. A. c. Stephens, Miss c. A Concklin, New York; Mir. and Mrs. A
 H. Hincks, Bridgeport; MT. and Mrs l, H. L. Camp, Stockbridge, Mass; Mir and Mrs. c. H. Tibbots, White Plains N. Y; T. W. Mallery, MT. and Mrs. R s B. Parker, MT. and Mrs. o. w. Berrew l MT. and Mrs. w. F. Fried, Hartford
 Mir and Mrs. N. B. Arnold, D. G. AT :, mold, Westfield, N. J.; MT. and Mrs. J s H. Boyd, s. H. Boyd, Jr., Mrs. A. P. L
 Dull, Harrisburg, Pa; Rowland Read
 New Rochelle, N. Y; K. A. Holmes r Winsted; J. A. Woodruff, Litchfrld 9 H. E. Baldwin, New Milford.