Connecticut western news., 1908-04-16
Breezy Point" April 21.

nOD1nS are no longer d nOVelsy'
 Janrary, February, April, March.
 Village Improvement Society benefit, April 21. .-. The vail of the whipped carpet is heard in the land. Mrs Emma Wheeler has arrived home from Waterbury. e .l
 G. B. Klebes has orders for 5000 hot Cross Buns Friday. James Quinn, of Tuokahoe, N, Y., IS working for F. I. Peabody. ...,.. School opens Monday April 19 for the spring term of eight weeks.
 Several farmers in this vicinity have commenced spring blowing. ."~ Vegetation will shortly be an impor- tant subject for many people. .s Miss Hazel Peabody spent last week in Amenia with Mrs. H. Burch.
 N. l.. Jackson and Frank Anson of Canaan, were in town Tuesday.
 Miss Laura Wilcox has been visiting Mrs. Gibson Gillette in Lime Rock.
 w. R. Hotaling and family are spend ing couple of weeks in New York.
 Leap year has not. as yet, caused any unusual matrimonial activity in Sharon.
 R. M. Bray, of New Milford, preached afternoon and evening sermons Sunday in the Adventist chapel.
 Painters and paper hangers are at work at David Darling's house and ex- peet to finish by May st.
 We wish to draw attention to the hedge down King Hill MT. Smiths mau has made great improvement.
 On Friday evening the girls basket ball teams of Sharon and Amenia will play a return game in Amenia.
 Mrs. Robert Grey, of Millerton, and E. l.. Benedict. of Wellington, attended Miss Benedicts funeral last Friday.
 Good Friday services ill the Episcopal church will be held in the morning at 1O:3O and in the evening at 500 o'clock. Charles Miller, has returned from Hartford, where he has been at school, and will be employed at E. F. Gillette's busy store.
 A Republican caucus will be held in Town Hall, Saturday afternoon at two o'clock. to choose delegates to the state convention in Hartford, May and 6, and to elect town committee.
 Besides digging ditches for the sKten- sion of the sewer pipes, the Italians are to dig up the four-inch water mains in the lower part of the village in order that six-inch mains may be laid.
 Some of the base ballists are discuss ing the prospect of commencing practice this week and arrangements are being made for organizing team as soon as the Sharon boys get home from school.
 Rev. Page requests us to say that the office of the acting School Visitor will be closed April 18th. Beginning April 25th it will open every Saturday from 2 to 4:30 until the end of the school year.
 On Friday evening meeting of the executive committee of the fire district is to be held and at this time it is ex- pacted arrangements will be made for the purchase of chemical fire engine. When 1t comes to original methods of advertising, E. F. Gillette occupies 8 position near the head of the class. The recent special sales and various other thew wrinkles are evidence of this.
 A garden rake is all implement that is doing good service at this time of the year in the work of cleaning up yards, the fact being denoted by the odor of of burning leaves and other refuse per. meating the air.
 A young married woman in Sharon recently remarked to her iege lord "We are told to cast our bread upon the waters" "But don't you do it," re plled her husband "A vessel might run against it and get wrecked.
 The Sharon farmers who were bitten ill the milk company s failure would wei come the proposed York state law whicl would require that concerns which bu, milk furnish proof of their ability to pay promptly for the milk or cream they con tract for.
 The question of road working is stil unsettled. No one has been found wh' will take the large contracts, althougl there are several who are ready to con tract for small stretches. It is under stood that:Mr. Bierce's soniwill work DOT tion of the stretch for which his fathe had the contract.
 There is most excellent prospect fo, a s'full house. at The Sharon Inn thi: summer, There is already considerable