Connecticut western news., 1907-12-05

ENTERTAiNMENTWI WILL BE PLENTY

ENTERTAINMENT WILL Be PLtNlT
Thanksgiving Retrospective Meet
ings at the Post Office Those Old
Fashioned New England Suppers,
the Potatoes Baked in Ashes and
the Mug of Orchard Tea-The En-
tertainnent Course Replete With
Good Things Hotels Open.
Thanksgiving of 1907 is no more.
But we are thankful that we have
enjoyed q comfortable degree of health
and strength, and by it been enabled to
attend to our various occupations and,
on the day set apart, to join our friends
and neighbors at the place appointed.
and listen to a short address and then
return to our respective homes where
our friends and children (if we are
blessed with any have been able to
Join MS on this day of thanksgiving
With others. perchance, their children
could not find time to just drop in and
see the old folks, or duties may have
kept them at their own homes with
otherfriends. What are the old folks
to these great people-stately men and
women grown? They seldom come to
see US but they II come along some day,
long enough to lay US in the church
yard.
With the falling of the leaf, the COM
ing of the chilling winds and frosts and
the falling of the snow, the migration of
the singing birds. there are also gone
from us our summer guests. Indeed,
Sharon in many places has dark and
dreary appearance. The dim electric
lights have disappeared from many Of
the windows, and at many times from
our streets, and then again shining but
udimly.
But we should be thankful that we
have any lights It should ever remind
us that we should keep our lamps
trimmed, (kerosene lamps of course.)
But this trouble has been unavoidable
because of recent floods at the power
plant at Canaan.
But no corporation can fight against
the elements. The water also carried
out the dam at the Sharon plant and is
we are told never to be rebuilt.
The farmer complains because the
sound of the grinding is low at the old
stand 1.-The Benedict Mills
~
! Three nights in each week our mer-
chants close at SIX O'Clock. But we
should be thankful for this, it gives the
clerks an opportunity to drive or walk,
to 20 to the post-offioe and meet nearly
the entire population of the town, espec.
tally the young people, and more partic-
ularly the young ladies. This is in.
deed very pleasant for the postmaster
and his assistants to have from three to
six from the same family ask if they have
any mail This may at some times nettle
Postmaster Baker but Miss PerLee al
WAYS pleasantly answers Yes" or "No'
as the case may be. But after all we
are thankful that we have such fine
class of young people in Sharon.
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The Sharon Inn, The Bartram and
the Taghkanic are open for the winter
so that our city friends can return and
enjoy the crisp mountain air. the fine
skating upon our lakes, and the sleigh,
rides over our hills. and to get taste OF
the country turkey, and chickens that
have not disappeared, to enjoy the old
fashioned New England suppers, the
roast pig, the potatoes baked in the hot
ashes and the ham broiled over the GOALS,
or q meal cooked entire in the old fire
place and, what was always indispensa-
Bile, large mug Of orchard tea.
Everybody seems TO desire Sharon.
cheerful, bright and attractive Our
young ladies have organized basket
ball club that is very interesting to them.
We are informed thak the young ladies
feel very grateful to car efficient town
clerk Herman @. Rowley for permitting
them TO use the town hall for practice
Then again. drama was splendidly
given on Wednesday, December the
fourth, by local talent, entitled 1.-The Do
nation Party. Then on the tenth
Sharon entertainment association open
their lecture course for the winter with
a lecture by Evelyn B. Baldwin the Arc.
TIC explorer who will accompany his
lecture with stereoptican views. He
will be aided by two assistants.
The next entertainment is on Decem
Der thirty first by Springer. the grea,
magician, and Mr.. Clark, the noted
singer. Come and hear Springer tel
you how many barrels of apples
you have shipped to the city and the