Connecticut western news., 1907-06-27

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 by Rev. H. B. Chown,
 PUPILS PROMOTED
 The following are the grade promo tions: From 1st to 2nd. Ruth S. Ayres, Olive M. Brennison, Gladys Berry. Earl Boyce, Walter B. Latour. From 2nd to 3rd, Ellen B. Alseph, Ernie Burton, Georgiana Berry, George W. Doty, Gla- dys Haskins, Marion J. Latour, Charles E. Latour, Frances E. Pulver, Anna Rice, Bernard Smith, Marie L. Smith, Hervey l.. Wright, Edith Wickwire, Preston E. Ward. The following are promoted to the Hunt school and have earned the following averages: Mary Holmes 95. Donald Stoddard 93, Olive E. Morse 93, Alfred O. Abbe 92, Abram Ostrander 91, Ethel Babcock 91, Sadie Dickinson 91, Charles Holmes 91, David Holmes 91, Ethel N. Boyce 88, Walter B. Dean ST.
 BARN DIDN'T BURN.
 There was considerable excitement for a time Friday morning about o'clock A pile of rubbish in Harry Benjamin s back yard caught fire as the result of spontaneous combustion or something else and communicated to his wood pile Now he cut that wood for the express purpose of burning it up, but inasmuch as he desired to do 1t when the tempera- ture isn't hugging the 800 mark and also desires to do 1t on the installment plan, he called up his neighbor, Fred Egleston. and they extinguished 1t before much of the wood was consumed and in time to preserve the nearby barn for further use.
 A SEQUEL
 Not long since, certain young men, returning from a dance, thought it would be considerable fun to run into Blodgetts' brook, wagon they found alongside the road. so in the wagon went. The sequel to the prank con- sisted of the same young men working from o'clock in the evening until three i'll the morning to get the wagon out of the brook and put it where they found it. The reason there was a sequel to the story was that they were quietly in- formed that legal steps were about to be taken and that if the wagon should be found the next morning in the spot from which they took 1t, the incident would end.
 SOME DEFECTIVE WORK.
 While deputy sheriff I. P. Hornbeck don't lay claim to being a Sherlock Holmes, yet he did clever piece of de- tective work over in Lime Rock the other day. A certain man (we will not mention no names as the incident is closed) reported to MT. Hornbeck that $35. .O0 had been stolen from his grip ill his boarding house. The deputy put on his thinking cap, hit the trial and soon collected from the mans fellow boarder $40.00 of which $35.O0 was to replace the missing money and $500 for expen- ses. And the joke of it was that the guilty fellow didn't realize that he was suspected until he was arrested.
 PEPPERMINT SODA
 Nick Rogers had to grasp the root beer faucet for support when he asked lady what favored soda she desired and she replied that she would take peppermint. And Nick was considerably jolted the same day when a young man and his il- amorata entered the soda water dispen- sary. The young man tried to behave as if buying fizz and f1avoring was an every day occurrence and therefore it was in well-practiced off-hand sort of way that he asked her what odor she preferred. F. s. She took strawberry
 uTDGE DAVIS IS pONDERINa
 You've heard, of course, how Judge Gruber offered to tie the first nuptial knot free of charge and you also know that nothing came of it. Judge Davis now has under advisement the making of an offer to tie these nuptial knots at half price and then give the bride and groom, free of charge, seeing Falls Village trip in his automobile. If this don't induce activity along matrimonial lines some other expedient must be tried.