Connecticut western news., 1909-01-21
SALISBURY

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 sonaI Notes and Jottings.
 James R. Harrison is among the sick.
 J. R. Melvin was on the sick list last week.
 Mrs James Melvin was in Millerton Friday.
 H. H. Scutt, of Canaan, was in town Saturday.
 Miss Rose Middleton, of Goshen, is guest at Charles Miles.
 Mrs. James Bird has been visiting in Great Burlington. =
 Mrs c. F. Wanger as been spending few days in Hartford.
 Miss Twyeffort spent few days in New York city last week. Mrs. Conklin and Mrs. Wilson Hicks spent Friday in Millerton.
 Henry Pratt, of Chappaqua, N. Y, spent Sunday with his mother. Alexander Surdam is i'll and Dr. J. s. Chaffee, of Sharon, is attending him.
 Adam Ostrander has gone to South l
 About 20 Salisbury people have be- come members of this years Salisbury choir.
 J. w. Ball went to Poughkeepsie last week and owned a new horse when he returned.
 0. F. Wanger is gazing on the auto mobiles exhibited at the New York show this week.
 John Travis, on account of illness. has returned from Albany to his home ill this village.
 Mrs. Horton, who has been living i'll Great Harrington for some time, has re- turned to this village.
 Mrs. William Conklin gave a dinner party Wednesday and it proved to be a most enjoyable event.
 Mrs E. M. Ball has returned from Great Burlington where she has been keeping house for her son.
 Miss Carrie Parsons has arrived home from Torrington and is devoting her un- divided attention to an attack of chicken pox.
 The many friends Of Howard Landon sympathize with him in the death of hls mother which occurred last week at her home in Sharon. A 38 horse power boiler has just been installed in the plant of the Salisbury Cutlery Handle works to r. place the one which has outlived its usefulness.
 Rev. David Kirkby, Miss Norton, Mrs. Bert Selleck and Miss Henrietta Pack ard went to Winsted Saturday to attend Sunday School teachers convention.
 Waiter Loucks, who now resides on Town Hill, is to move to the O'Hara farm, now occupied by Mrs. Woodin. The latter has not made plans for her future residence as yet. 1 A number of Salisbury people will go to Lakevllle tomorrow evening to see home talent play Nevada" They will witness the novel spectacle of three men playing ladies parts.
 Edward Kane, carpenter in the em- of Raynsford 6 Son, has rented the 1T, R. Melvin tenement and has resumed from New York state few days ago.
 One of those good, old-fash1oned kitchen dances was held Friday even ing at the home of Samuel Bushnell A good sized crowd attended, there was plenty to eat and everyone had a good time.
 OOuu u0lu III GIl0 IOWu hall Wednesday evening but owing to the unpleasant weather the attendance was not as large as it would otherwise have been. Fifteen couples were in at- tendance.
 Rev. J. O. Goddard and D. J. Warner represented the village of Salisbury at the mid winter meeting of the Litchfield County University Club in Canaan Fri day evening, MT. Goddard acting as tOastmaSter.
 On Saturday afternoon last two men of Hebrew persuasion were in town sell ling matches and it is estimated that at least two dozen people bought at a re- duced @ price "the last two boxes we have on the wagon"
 Fridays Hartford Couraht said in it's legislative notes:
 Among those present at yesterday $ session was W. B. Perry of Salisbury, tax collector of the town for more than generation, and duty sheriff of the county"
 The remains of Hiram Surdam, aged 78, who died near Falls Village. were brought here Saturday. and the funeral was held in the Congregational church, Rev. J. 0. Goddard officiating, The rC- mains were. inferred in the Salisbury cemetery. Undertaken I. P. Hornbeck, of Falls Village. was ill charge of tho funeral.
 During the latter part of last week Mrs. Peter Bozzolo received wireless message from MT. Bozzolo who was on his way to Italy. It was sent from the . ship on which he took passage and , stated that he expected to land January ] 18th. It contained ten words and the , freight charges" on it amounted to $3 20 or 32 cents word.
 There was a considerable drop in hen fruit one day last week in this village. , George Davis, driving Lakeville team out of the yard of Mrs. Moore, turned , too sharply, the sleigh overturned and about six dozen eggs were more or less seriously fractured. You know what you have been paying for eggs. Figure out the loss. There was no insurance. : The fellow who invented the saying Talk is cheap'' would never have gone into the inventing business had tele-