Connecticut western news., 1916-12-28
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To make Billy Wright write right. The icy condition of our sidewalks highways, and we would suggest that Elm street change its name, tempor- arily, to "Slippery Elm"
 MT. and Mrs. Edward Bates spent the week end and Christmas with rela. tives in Pittsfeld.
 Roy Smith spent Christmas with MT. and Mrs. David Roger in SCuthbury.
 MT. and Mrs. Allyn Fuller spent Christmas with MT. and Mrs. George Hall in Ashley Falls.
 Miss Louise Trieschmann is home from Danbury Model school for the holidays.
 Harold Schoonover spent Christmas at his home in Old Mystic.
 Garrett DeHart and daughter Gladys spent Christmas with relatives in Win sted.
 MT. and Mrs. G. M. Brewer of Pitts. Lindell's.
 Miss Edith Hatmaker is home from Morse Business college in Hartford for the holidays.
 MT. and Mrs. Albert W. Krouse and daughter Genevieve of Litchteld and Misses Margaret and Mary Roger of Winsted were Christmas guests at Norman W. Moore's.
 Those not members last year who wish to join the Choral Society this year should hand their names to the secretary, J. L. Parsons, at once, or not later than January l. The open ing rehearsals will be conducted by a young man from New York who is MT. Mees' assistant.
 Samuel J. Banks, formerly an editor. ial worker on The News was in town and made friendly call at The News office on Tuesday.
 Bordens started to blow their ice pond yesterday but the storm drove them off. The ice was about eight inches thick.
 Miss Annie Sweeney of Winsted was Christmas guest at Joseph Smiths.
 Miss Catherine O'Brien of Hartford spent the weekend at the Fitzgerald farm. a
 Miss Bessie Fitzgerald of Hartford spent Christmas at her home here.
 The town was in darkness Friday night due to the high winds. The stores and offices closed early as the stock of lamps and candles failed to furnish sufficient illumination!
 Miss LeMoine Gookins left Friday for Schenectady, N. Y., where she will visit before going to her home in Po1 Leyden. She expects to be absent about two weeks.
 Come to the Parish House next Tues day afternoon to help make surgical dressings for the wounded soldiers.
 Harold A. Preston of Melrose High. lands is visiting his mother, Mrs. N. A. Preston.
 Mrs. Ida M. Fraleigh was married to Charles Henry Quick of Poughkeepsie, Christmas day at o'clock in the after. noon at the home of her son Roger on West Main street. Rev. A. B. Crich- ton performed the ceremony.
  Hermon school for the holiday vacation.
 Miss Elizabeth Newton of New York is a guest at R. D. Peirce's.
 Miss Ella Considine, manager of the local telephone exchange spent the hol- iday with her sisters in Passaic, N. J.
 The topic for the Brotherhood Glass at Pilgrim church. next Sunday is "It had my life to live over." The lead CT is George W. Ford.
 A. A. Hubbard was assistant at the Fuller Hardware Go. during the holi- day trade.
 Misses Caroline and Alice Lee, sis Eers of Dr. F. H. Lee, of Plainfeld, N. J., were his guests over the holiday.
 Several of the local firemen went to Ashley Falls last Wednesday night in response for help aG the Hillyer house fire.
 Christmas guests included Rev. and Mrs, A. E. Roraback and son of Brook lyn at A. T. Roraback's; MT. and Mrs. E. s. Roberts of East CanaaL at E. l.. Roberis'; MT. and Mrs. George F. Scott of New Haven at Frank Goodwin's MT. and Mrs. Albert Barnes and child ren at Mrs J. B. Rhoades'; MT. and Mrs. Vernon Smith of Hartford al James Hanlon's.
 MT. and Mrs. H. B. Ives spent Christ mas In Torrington, Mrs. George Roger in Lakeville, Miss Lillie Brown with her sister Mrs. Weston Barnes in Clay ton, MT. and Mrs. George Hall in Falls Village, Thomas McClelland with his family in North Adams, Miss Mattie Manvel in Sheffield and Kenneth Rob erts in Torrington.
 Miss Catherine Finnegan is spending the week with her sister, Miss Mary Finnegan, on Long Island.
 John Fuller is home from Boston Forbes Adam from Exeter, N. H. Louis Welner from Hartford.