Connecticut western news., 1908-08-06
LIME ROCK

Miss Mary Duggan, from Bridgeport, is visiting at John Lows.
 Mrs. Patrick Hollerhan, from Norfolk is visiting at Martin McCarty's.
 Thls afternoon Aug 9th there will be a cake and ice cream sale at the home of Miss Hazel Patterson.
 Those street sprinklers running con- stantly on the new state road give the village a real citified appearance.
 We can't help feeling that Saturdays game at Lakeville was ours. Chapin was certainly safe home in the eleventh.
 James Flynn and Miss R. Raymond were in Millerton last We tuesday, MT. Flynn said he went to buy load of hay.
 Miss Edith Colby and E. Doty were recently married in Millerton. MT. Doty's home is at H. Goodwin's and Miss Cobby's home is in Goshen, Conn.
 Business in this industrial Eden, as The New York Herald not incorrectly styles the village, is improving. The demand for the product of the foundries is good and the outlook is favorable.
 The Barnum, Richardson Company cannot be classed with the ''soulless cor porations." Out of consideration for the men, who are compelled to work ln the intense heat generated by the molten metal, the foundry has been closed for a few days. And the men appreciated 1t
 A concrete retaining wall is being constructed along the edge of Milo Richardson's lawn. It was made neo- essary by the cutting down of the hill when constructing the state road. The men who are building it appear to be doing good job and the wall promises to be both serviceable and ornamental.
 Car wheels, made of Salisbury iron, and which are returned here to be re- melted and made into other wheels, are arriving at the station more rapidly than they can be drawn to the foundries. 1t is estimated that there are 19,000 of them on the B. R. Company's storage grounds near the depot. When they are melted, small quantity of new iron is added and perfectly sound and serviceable wheels is the result.
 A reception and dance was held in MT. Barnum's S barn last Thursday even ing. James Flynn and Miss Raymond. of Winsted, led the grand march. The music was by the Alphen's band. It was popular reception, being invita- tion affair. A very old country two steps was danced by Miss Nora Rouch and Miss Margaret Fox, both of New York city. A dance is to be held every Thursday evening during the summer months for the benflt of city people who are employed at MT. Barnum's.
 The homely fare upon which life is sustained by the Italians who are at work on the state road was a revelation to Lime Rock people. These men re- ceive, in large quantities, from one of the cities down the road, stale bread, which is totally unstable and which no native workman would for moment, think of eating. This bread they smear with thick coating of oleomarRarine. Milk or water completes the meal. These men live on this fare day in and day out and are able to accomplish as much work as the men who have a variety of nourishing foods.
 It is unfortunate that no provision has been made for extending the state road from the large bridge to the station. There is a sand hill near the bridge which imposes hardship on the horses when heavy loads are drawn. This short stretch of road is in the town of Canaan, however, and no provision has been made by that town for improving it's condition. This provision will no doubt, be made later. The building of state roads must, of necessity progress slowly, inasmuch as it is costly and it IS needed in this section as we'll as in almost every other part of the state. The editor of THE NEWS feels that an apology is due the Lime Rock sub scribers because the village has not been regularly represented in the core spondence columns since the death of the lamented w. H. Barrett, who so faithfully and so capably served in this capacity. Dihgent effort has been made to obtain a successor but without satis- factory results until now. MT. Athoe shipping clerk for the Baruum, Richard. son Company, has kindly consented to act as THE NEWS representative in Lime Rock. Residents of the village desiring news items inserted in the paper are requested to give the same to MT. Athoe who will forward them to the office of publication.