Connecticut western news., 1908-11-05

Blacksmith Wilcox is doing business ill his new shop.
 Mrs. G. V. Capron has been spending a week in Bridgeport.
 MT. and Mrs. Lea F. Dean have re- turned to New York after spending the summer here.
 Only few days more will be re- quired to complete the vault in Grassy Hill cemetery.
 $. w Morris and wife attended the wedding of Mrs. Morris sister in Tor rington last week.
 Miss Robinson, who has been spend ing the summer here. has returned to her home III Bridgeport.
 Miss Hubbard. who has been visiting Mrs. T. F. Watson, left Saturday for visit ill West Cornwall.
 Miss Belle Hanchett has returned from a two months automobile trip to Orange, N. J. with her uncle, M. A Hanchett.
 Railroad carpenters arrived last week and made several repairs to the station previous to the painting of the building.
 The whist party ill the library Friday evening under the auspices of the Will lage Improvement Society netted $13.75.
 Stone steps have been placed at the approaches of plots owned by Dr. Skitf and John Belden in Grassy Hill cem- etery. ...
 The recent rains have raised the water in the river somewhat although not enough to make much of q showing on the falls.
 The Congregational church will be re- opened Sunday morning. The recently called pastor, Rev. MT. HaZleton, will conduct the service.
 D. H. Casey was taken to Pittsfield hospital last week. He was taken i'll ill the hotel and his physician thought he would recieve better care i'll Plttstield hence his removal. He returned Tuesday. Under the auspices of the Epworth League, on or about the 24th of this month, the young people will give variety entertainment consisting of operetta, fancy drills and doll show, in the Citizens Hall. Program will be an- nounced later.
 c. k. Frink saw deer run across his lawn Friday morning, jump into his chicken yard and then jump out again, disappearing across the track and be- hind the old creamery building. It was doe and both gambrel joints were bleeding From this fact and the further fact that the animal was nearly exhausted it was thought that it had been attacked by dogs. '.
 The following pupils were present every day during the month of October at Beebe Hill school: Ruth Ayres, Gladys Berry, May Boylan, Leroy Beau jon, Willie Carroll, Edward Doty, Mary Gould. Minnie Gould, Elizabeth Hickey, Ellen Hickey, Byron Latour. Grace Morrison, Harry Ostrander, Rosa Silver nale, Cora Silvernale, Henry Smith Winifred Smith, Julia Surdam, Sadie Surdain, John Wright. Mary Dean, Viola Gould, George Latour, Ennis Silvernale missing one day only on ac- count of illness. l The men folks have noticed a very per ceptible falling off since election in the amount of mail received by them. Pre- | vious to Tuesday, every mail brought pasters, ballots, circulars denouncing of these fellows behind the circulars seemed to care a picayune about the election of Bryan or Taft. Lilley was the fellow they were after. But people here as well as i'll other parts of the state believe in clean contest consequently this villifcation or Lilley made much local sympathy for him.
 In the superior court at Litchfield last week Harry Johnson changed his plea of not guilty to the theft of $70 from Benson Brothers of South Canaan and was sentenced to one year in jail. Two of the witnesses were Shakers from the Shaker settlement at Enfield. Johnson went from Canaan to Hartford, then to Enfield, after the theft was committed, and borrowed $S from these people, tell ing them that he had had $70 the day before, but it was stolen from him at a cheap boarding house in Hartford. They came on to testify to this, but when Johnson saw them in court he pleaded guilty.
 THE NEWS story of the marriage i'll the wrong town was copied by the Win stead Citizen, without credit as usual, and then it found it's way from Winsted to the New York papers after being duly garbed. Here are parts of it: "Rec- tor Griffith, of the Episcopal church, had to hustle yesterday to overtake Harold R. Beeman, of New Preston, and Miss Margaret T. Hotchkiss, of Cornwall, whom he had married at Lime Rock. Hurry before it is too late,' hollered the witnesses, after the mistake had been discovered. The couple were by that time we'll on their way to hotel at Lime Rock. The rec tor sprinted to a phone and called up Miss Julia Goodwin, who lives on the road, half way. She stopped the couple and neld them till the minister arrived" "
 The above was dated October 30 and the incident was chronicled as having taken place October 29 when, as a mat ter of fact it occurred October 17th. Hurry before It is too late." hollered the witness. The witness "hollered'' no such thing because the rector dis