Connecticut western news., 1909-03-18
s SALISBUR R Y

Marion Eggleston is reported to be quite i'll.
 Mrs. Addie Bushnell is visiting in Willimantic, Conn.
 Fred Wachter of Riverton is visiting at G. A. Selleck's.
 Houses to rent and some to sell may found ill town this spring.
 Robert Ashman and wife are visiting at his fathers, Lewis P. Ashman.
 Fred Callahan and Edward Farrell of New Haven are visiting friends in town
 Mrs. Hunter is about to improve and enlarge her home by building an addl- tion.
 M. B. Strong is papering and painting the new portion of Mrs. l.. Ashman' house.
 Rev. Jas. Starr Clark, who has been very i'll is reported as quite comfortable at this writing.
 White Hart Inn has been thoroughly cleaned and furnished for the coming season, which opens April 1st.
 Little Marion Eggleston was very sick last week with bronchitis, but we are glad to state is greatly improved.
 Sam Bushnell is doing a thriving bus mess among the neighboring woodpiles by means of gasoline engine and saw.
 The interior of Mrs. M. Washburne g house is being re-papered and painted. Messrs. Scribner and Dexter are doing the work.
 "A Gentleman From Mississippi" is one of the best serial stories ever writ ten. It is running in THE NEWS. Sub scribe.
 Local folks will be interested to leaI n that Lucien F. Burpee, of Waterbury, we'll known here, has been made supe- rior court judge.
 William Clark of Baltimore. Md. and his sister Miss Anna Clark of New York are home owing to the illness of their father. Rev. Jas. Starr Clark.
 Mrs. Peabody, widow of attorney Pea body, who took part in the Thaw trial is planning to build a cottage on the hill south of the residence of Mrs. Hunter.
 It is reported that Mrs. Hunter has contracted with Beers & Trafford, of Millerton, to move the location of the barns on her property and build in place a new horse barn.
 Mrs. Ella Garfield and little grand uduRub0ES OUAoebOAA VI ASeUoO Sah- naan visited at w. P. Bishops and w. P. Stone's last Friday.
 Charles Mclean, who was shot in the knee last October returned home from the Winsted hospital where he has been ever since the accident. He Is slightly lame but is looking fine.
 Salisbury Grange holds its regular meetings at the Knights of Pythlas Hall on every second and fourth Friday of each month. The subject for the lecturers hour for March 18th was "The Farm and Garden" Many interesting and helpful thoughts were exchanged.
 MT. and Mrs s. O. Miner were called to Black Hall by the sudden death of Mrs. Miners mother, Mrs. F. M. Peck ham Mrs Peckham has spent much of her time since her husbands death seven years ago with her daughter in Lakeville. She was sevety four years of age.
 Wilson Hicks is the possessor of two miniature steam engines that cause the eyes of the mechanically inclined young sters to glisten. One is of horizontal design and of about one-eighth horse power. It was built, years ago. by Geo. Sherwood, father of Mrs. George Par sons. The other engine Is somewhat larger and is of the upright, walking beam type. This was at one time owned and used by Ernest Pease, an engraver in the United States treasury depart ment, who spent considerable time ill this section. At the time MT. Hicks son, now an engineer on the Central New England road, was i'll knicker- lockers, these engines furnished much amusement for him and for the other boys in the neighborhood.
 We take the following, relative to the death of William T. Joyce, from the Register and Leader of Council Bluffs, Ia. "Mr. Joyce, though only forty eight years of age, has made great success in life, and was an important man in his line of business. His authority and opinions on all questions pertaining to lumber, were considered beyond criti- clsm. A property of estimated valua- ton of twenty millions of dollars, he leaves to his family, of wife and two sons. MT. Joyce was president of twenty seven> different lumber corpora tons. Until recently, president of the First National bank of Lyons, Ia. One of his gifts to Lyons is the beautiful memorial chapel at the Lyons cemetery, which he erected to the memory of his father and mother. who rest in the beautiful cemetery at Lyons, in the grounds that were given to Lyons by MT. JOyce's father, Mir. David Joyce. MT. JOyce's body was brought to Lyons from Chicago, ill special train of three parlor cars and diniug car, accompanicd d