Connecticut western news., 1909-02-25
SAILS B II R Y

l Miss Carrie k. Conklin spent Satur- day and Sunday in Hartford.
 The schools were closed Monday in observance of Washington's birthday.
 It is rumured that Dr. Pike of Lake contemplates leasing the Sellew house.
 Miss Loella Niver, of Hartford, is wis iting her niece, Mrs. w. s. Eggleston.
 Harold and Charles Everts of Bridge port came home to spend Wasl inRton's | birthday. Miss Bessie Everts has returned from visit of several days with her sister in Bridgeport.
 George Williams, of Pittsfield. is visit ing his parents. MT. and Mrs. Anson | Williams.
 Miss Elsie Huntly, of Great Barring ton, visited her friend, Miss Mary Con- kiln, this week.
 Mrs. Robert Applebee and son, Earl, of New Canaan, are visiting her mother, Mrs. Ira Sardam.
 The collection of taxes will probably be commenced, by collector w. B. Perry about March 22.
 i Washington's Birthday with his mother and sister at Mrs. Burtch's.
 The Salisbury Cutlery Handle Co.'S. works were closed Monday Tn observance of Washington's birthday. | Frank Spur has gone to Torrington. having been called there by the illness of his daughter, Mrs. David Jones
 The Junior Guild of St Johns church 1 held meeting Friday D. m. at the resi- dence of Mrs. Margaret Norton. Norman Hicks, wife aud sou of Pough- keepsie were guests of his parents, Mir. and Mrs. W. k. Hicks, last week Nearly all the local ice houses are filled and all would have been, had the rain of Friday come day later
 On Monday evening Messrs. Garrity and Kane held another dance in the Town Hall. the final eveut of its klnd before Lent.
 Mrs. Russell opened the "White Hart Iun" for the accommodation of num- of city people who came to spend Wash. iugton's birthday.
 The matter of the revival of the mi form rank will probably come up for action at the next meeting of the Knights of Pythias.
 Arrangements are being made for Colonial ball to be held in the Town Hall ou March 17th, St. Patrick $ day. It will be given under the auspices of tue Salisbury orchestra.
 John Grlggs and family Of Upper Montclair, N. J. are at their mountain ] cottage (Mount Riga) for few days They have as their guest, Ogden Harri. son of New York.
 The final meeting of the Board of Relief was held Saturday. No impor- tant changes in the assessment roll were made. The roll shows an increase in the grand list of nearly $17, 900 over that of last year.
 The 24th anniversary of the marriage of MT. and Mrs. Anson Williams was observed Thursday by a small gathering of friends at thelr home. Those pre- sent included Jay Underwood of Canaan, Mrs. w. NJ. Raynsford and daughter, May, of Salisbury, Miss Mary Conklin of Salisbury and Mir. and Mrs. E. Ray nsford of Lakeville. A most excellent anniversary dinner was served.
 Three young ladies and their chal- erone brared the clements Friday night and walked to Lakeville to witness the dress rehearsal of the Hotchkiss School play at Roberts hall. Returning. the rain fell in torrents and the wlnd blew a gale. The travelling was @ combn ation of mud, water and ice. In trying to prevent her umbrella from being carrie d away, the one bearing the lantern drop ped it and out it went, leaving them i'll mud, rain, wind and total darkness. After groping about for the lost lantern the owner was soon made aware of its presence by her bare hand coming in contact with the hot chimney. The journey was resumed, now in complete darkness, and but few rods had been traverSed before some of them walked into a pool of water by the roadside up to their knees. Peals of laughter again rang out, for after the first wetting they didn't mind how often it was repeated They finally reached thelr homes about 1l:30 very much bedraggled. wet and muddy but in most excellent spirits and they all pronounced it a regular lark" The play given by the Hotchkiss boys was excellent, declared by many to be the best amateur performance they ever witnessed.
 In 1907 w. P. Everts, of Salisbury and his son George B. Everts of Bridgeport now deceased, were granted patent on a cushion tire for automobiles Sluce the death of his son, Mir. Everts, has done practically nothing with the inven ton, but now proposes to bring 1t to the attention of automobile manufacturers. He has had many offers from concerns who wish to sell the invention for him, but he proposes to deal direct with the purchaser or user of the same and al- ready has several attractive offers from such people. MT. Everts claims many points of superiority for this tire, some of them being that it cannot be punc- tured, that it will not become heated, that the cost for its covering Is 90 to 75 percent less than the rubber "shoes v and inner tubes now in use To attempt to describe this invention from the mechanical standpoint is task which stumps us, but in our own crude way of explanation we will ask the reader to see, in his imagination, a large automobile tire made of wood or fibre, now cut it in two horizontally and between the two sections place a series of coil springs, as many as there are spokes in the wheel. Extending upward through the felloe of the wheel arethreaded rods or set screws by which the tension of the spring is