Connecticut western news., 1908-09-10

Layette Soule is visiting at Robert Harris.
 The elecrtic lights in our town are on the blink.
 Don't blame the paper, lady, blame the correspondent.
 Miss Harrison is visiting at the home of Charles Rhynus.
 Mrs. o. Swan Sedgwick gave whist party last Thursday.
 Miss Eva Landon has been engaged to teach in the Gay Street District.
 Mrs. Elmer Hitchcock has been visit ing at Unionrille for a few days.
 Miss Harriet Peck spent Labor Day with friends at East Litchfield, Conn.
 Swan Sedgwick has been making i'm provements to his driveway and lawn.
 Arthur Daniel Harris, born September 4. 1908. Weight II pounds. Congratu- lations, Arty. -
 Miss Kathryn Hotalin4 has been spending week with friends in As bury Park. N. J.
 MT. and Mrs. Hawley .Bartram and daughter Edna, spent Labor Day with Walter Bartram.
 Miss Daisy Landon goes to Brooklyn this week. where she will engage i'll the mllhnary business.
 Clarence Eggleston and Miss Elizabeth Gillette made . very pleasant auto trip to Pittsneld last week. '..'4 z-
 Harry Hamhn of New Britain. Conn.,. spent Labor day with his parents, MT. and Mrs. F. B. HAmlin.
 Tho latest report from Miss Emma Hazard, who is soriouSly ill In Water bury, Conn. h not very encouraging.
 Charles Brown was tho successful bidder for tho work to be- done on the Sharon Station road and will begin work st o1oo. ...
 Tbs square tower on the Methodist snuruh is being repaired by cutting out the defective brick and replacing them with new ones.
 ET. Gillette and wife. Rev. c. l.. Forte and Miss Daisy Landon, spent Labor Day by taking an enjoyable driv- ing trip to Great Harrington.
 I observe that the Water Go. have again rushed into print to demonstrate Tar-On- Water w hioh. Put on your fighting togs Taxpayer" and get into the game.
 Miss Sadie Marsh has returned home from Danbury and New Milford, where she has been staying. Miss Marsh has been engaged to teach the Whites Hol- low School. N
 MT. and Mrs. G. s. Kirby spent part of last week in New York City. Mrs. Kirby is an enthusiastic ''Fan" and at tended a couple of games played by the American league. x
 At the golf tournament at Norfolk, Labor Day, for the county championship, Norfolk qualified ill the morning but ill the finals in the afternoon was beaten by Norfolk, I2 to 3.
 Prentiss Shethar, summer guest at the Inn, won the tennis championship last week, defeating Mir. Kisch in tho finals. MT. Shethar is proud of the sil- yer cup trophy and, also, of the fact that he can now write TT. O. after his name.
 Mrs. Keator of Kingston, N. Y, a sister of Willard Baker of this place and her son Harold, are visiting at Mir. Baker's Harold, who is now a young man, used to spend part of nearly every summer in Sharon and has many friends and well wishers here.
 Mrs Baldwin Reed, widow of the late Baldwin Reed, and Philip T. Mace, of this town, were married recently at Hartford, Conn. Philip has many friends in this section who considered him confirmed bachelor, but who now wish him all the happiness his belated entry into matrimony entities him to.
 Miss Barbara Kerley celebrated her eighth birthday last Saturday by giving a party at Hilltop, her summer home, and inviting over twenty little folks to help make the occasion an enjoyable one. Games were played, lunch such as children appreciate was served, and all who attended report a splendid time
 The Sharon League nine played the Salisbury nine at Salisbury on Labor Day and were beaten 8 to '. Your scribe has heard no details of the game, but, as "Doc" Knight and w. Klebes kept right on from Salisbury to Savin Rock and Roy Klebes went to Pittsfeld, it would seem safe to assume that these three players, at any rate. were ashamed to come back.
 The public schools of the town and village open Monday, September IA. The village staff is as follows: High >I,l ,~g