Connecticut western news., 1906-09-06

COnUneu lO HIS uOlle lOI ~ uuuhDoA ol days by illness. He is now somewhat improved however.
 On Friday evening, Aug. 24, MT. and Mrs. Frederick Carter invited number of friends to meet MT. Bolin at their home. Rev. Allyn K. Foster gave 2 number of dialect readings.
 The Sharon Golf Club defeated the Litchfield Golf Club, Saturday, by the score of 25-3. The surprise of the game was the defeat of R. D. Sanford, cham pion of Connecticut, of the Ltchfeld Club by 0. G. Jackson of Sharon.
 Sharon will probably wiggle through to the cold weather without oxperienc- ing an ice famine. c. M. Prindle 6 Son have sufficient quantity of the Crystal lake crystal cubes to meet all demands. All Litchfield county villages are not so fortunate.
 Mrs. Wilkinson of New York city, a city guest at the Per Lee boarding house, died Wednesday, her death being due to heart trouble with which she had been afflicted for some time. On Friday the remains were taken to New York for interment.
 c. W. Brown sold Saturday. to R. H. W Whitford of Canaan, fine pair of matched bay driving horses, standing 161a hands high, and with ability to turn the mile circle at a 40 clip. MT. Brown delivered them to MT. Whitford Satur- day at Falls Village.
 The rain and the cardboard signs on the automobile slow boards have not gotten on we'll together. When the rain got on the signs got off. Better give sharon painter a job this winter and have some signs ready to put up in the spring that will stay put through the entire year.
 w, J. Hotaling, who for some time has conducted a grocery store and bicycle repair shop in "the red brick store," and who is now a member of the new firm of Hoag, Hotaling & Byron, has discontinued the bicycle repairing branch of his business. Who his successor will be in this line is not known.
 Included in the furnishings of several Sharon houses owned by the city people are miniature reproductions of the old fashioned hall or grandfather" clocks. Most of these are of foreign make but some of the Connecticut clock concerns have begun their construction. They are about 12 inches in height and are for mantle use.
 A. J. Bostwick's invention for keep ing the reins above the tail of the family horse, never fails to attract the strangers attention. It consists of a rod of iron extending in semi-circular form from one shaft to the other above the horses back, and on this rod the lines rest un- disturbed by the switching of the caudal appendage in an effort to dislodge an objectionable fly.
 The Sharon school will reopen on Mon- day of next week. The faculty will con- sist of Prof. Newell in the high school; Miss Rixy Sherman, fourth room; Miss Maud Landon, third room; Miss Martha Wilber, second room, and Miss Nellie Kelsey, first or primary room. All are instructors of well-known ability and the prospect for a successful school year in Sharon was never more encouraging.
 It is natural that city people should look at the Perkins place, one of the most elegant in this vicinity, with GOV etous eyes. Some of them who have desired to purchase the property have made offers that ran away up into the thousands, but the owaers refused them all for the combined reasons that they did not consider them adequate and that they are not anxious to part with the premises.
 DExTERoUs DARLING.
 When 1t comes to delivering mail on the fly, Stage Driver David Darling is entitled to the hot roll. He has &C., quired that degree of dexterity where, with his team clipping off the miles at 8 three minute gait, he can, by dexterous twist of the wrist and turn of the hand, cause copy of the SHARON NEWS or a souvenir postal card to describe graceful curves and circle in the air and enter, with unfailing accuracy a three-inoh hole in roadside mail box a dozen or more feet away from the stage.
 FAIR RECEIPTS $700.
 The receipts of she fair held by St. Bernard's Church last week amounted to $700, and, as stated in our last issue, the event was a success in every particu- lar. The prizes offered were won by the following well-known Sharonites: The gold watch by Mrs. P. J. Kenney, clock by Arthur Harris, gold pen by Joseph Hinckley, hand-painted French coffee pot by Lyman Rhoades, salad dish by Bernard Mcdonald, table by Rev. Father Smith, 5 gold piece by Olef Norlen, framed picture of Rev. Father Smith by Harold Winnings, doll by Eva May Landon.
 FORMER sHARoNITE'S LOSS. The many Sharon friends of Mrs. A. W. White of New York city, formerly Miss Florence Dakin of Sharon, will sympathize with her in the loss she sustained when the fiat which they occupy was burglarized a few days ago in the absence of her husband and herself The burglars obtained six rings, gold watch, chain, pins and brooches belonging to her, also Mir. Whites watch and wedding suit. Detectives are at work on the case. They think it the work of amateurs and have suspicious as to the identity of the parties, although positive evidence Is lacking.
 A PAY-BY-CHECK TOWN.
 THE NEWS correspondent observes that Canaan is agitating the bank question. The Sharon business men would gladly see a like institution established here, but the project is, of course, not to be considered for the reason that there would not be sufficient business except during part of the year, and the addi- tional reason that banking institutions are located in Millert-n, Lakeville, and other nearby villages. As we say, Sharon hu SinasS mon xvou1d xualcou,a if haoanSa