Connecticut western news., 1907-07-04

Soda water and ice cream are actual necessities of life nowadays. Both are pure and plenty in Sharon.
 The children are enjoying an eight weeks respite from study, the shortest weeks of the year for them.
 When MT. and Mrs. Henry Hoag ar rived home they were welcomed with serenade by the calithumpian band.
 Sharon views with satisfaction the ex- cellent record Senator Charles w. Bar mum is making in the legislature.
 At the school meeting of the Sharon district Friday 28th. it was decided to keep the same committee as last year.
 Several Sharon people attended an old fashioned barn dance at s. Mills on Thursday evening at Coleman's Station.
 Peter Kinney was quite badly brused from being thrown from wagon last Saturday. His horse was frightened by an auto
 Keep your screen doors and windows | ClOSCu tO-udy 1udhy Q 0AodSkAooo NOh- fagration has resulted from stray piece of fireworks
 Miss Bessie Page and Mr. and Mrs. William Brazee and daughter, Naomi, have been visiting Mir. and Mrs. Will liam Mesick
 The Ladies' Aid Society of the M E. Church held an ice cream festival on the church lawn last Friday. The sum of $18.50 was cleared
 Uncle Sam said that beginning with July 1, incoming and outgoing mail must be weighed at the postoffices until December 31
 On Sunday morning next and every Sunday morniug following until further notice, at 11.15, mass will be held at St. Bernard's church.
 Mrs. A. E. Barrett. who has been vis- iting at her parents home. Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Hazards, has returned to her home in Pleasantville, N. Y.
 Mrs. Lawrence Van Alstyne, of this village who has been ill for some time with pneumonia, though still unable to leave her bed, is rapidly recovering.
 Cyrus Mitchell had the misfortune the other day, while peeling posts, to cut his leg. The doctor was called to attend the wound and he is doing nicely
 George Blohm of Allegheny, Pa, and Miss Mary Flanagan of Sharon were married Tuesday morning at St. Der nard's rectory by Rev. Father T. B Smith.
 Miss May and Esther Colt and brother Harold of Hartford and MT Fred Upson of New Britain arrived al w. w. Peck's on Saturday evening in g large auto and returned on Sunday talk ing Miss Harriett Peck with them.
 The following pupils passed their en trance examinations in the Sharon school. The list is only partial, how ever,s as the acting school visitor has g number of the papers, looking them over Lester Turberg, Fred w. Paul, Mary McCann, Amelia Gresset, Clayton Wal ter, Elias Palmer, Harold Stevens, Cora Winans, Lena Wiley, Edna Leiner Edith Landon, Frank Stahovec One of the main difficulties which confronts most of the farmers at the present time is the scarcity of help for al kinds for farm work. Not only farmers complain but there are others who are trying to get help here and there, an6 do not succeed. AS one farmer said the other night: "We are going to have one of the biggest crops of hay we eve1 cut. but the next thing will be to get il in the barn. I wouldn't be much sur prised if many meadows will not be cut at all.
 METHODIST CHURCH
 There will be no prayer meeting or Thursday night this weeek.
 The Communion of the Lord s Supper will take the place of the regular preach