Connecticut western news., 1878-04-04

second birthday was celebrated on Friday evening, March 29, by 8 social gathering at her residence. Prof. Butterly furnished the music for dancing. Misses Slingland and Blodgett regaled the company with some choice vocal selections......G George u. Peck IS very Ill with hemorrhsge of the lungs...... Colepaugh. the barber goes fishing..... J .R. Hurlbut. the insurance agent has removed his office to South Canaan......W Where are the rest of those weddings we have been anticipating SO long, Hurry ups boys! Who's going to furnish the next installment ?......E. c. Storm and lady have returned from their wedding "tower." and are spending the honeymoon at P. 0. Storms on the hill......E. l. Howe drives g fourth hand. ..... Now is the time to fix up the sidewalks. Isn't it about time we had Village Improvement Association and what has become of the funds raised to improve the sidewalks......George M. Han chett has an awful hard cold. Lemons and sugar" George.."..G. V. Capron sells fishing tackle. Don't forget it, ye anglers. Fred Wooster was the recipient of daugh- ter on Sunday...... Geo. Savage has gone to Fort Wayne, Ind. to "railroad it"......G. w. Hall has closed his Amesvlle stole Deacon John Belden may be found behind the counter in MT. Halls main store in Cit- zen's Hall block...... Mrs. s. M. Wheeler removes to Water street this week......So long! "EPHRAHIM. Catarrh.-Mskes the breath smell bad, but It's owner frequently don't know it. It's disgusted many a sweetheart and driven off many beau. Dr. Liston's new method is ! totally unlike any other and never fails to perfect cure. He may be consulted at the Warner House, Canaan, April sth. on Deaf ness, Blindness, Catarrh, Throat and Lung Diseases, free of charge.
 | Horrible case of Catarrh cured-Hoes eaten through the roof of the mouth-Rot- ten bones from the nose Great stench and discharge of fetid matter.
 EDWIN RosK ESQ Wolcoltville, Ct., was Q sufferer for long time, and expresses great. gratitude at his cure, closing late let. l ter thus:
 'I am feeling better than I have for years; owe you debt of gratitude l can never repay"
 Deafness -Winsttd, Ct., H. Eu- sign writes:
 'I am greatly ben, fitted by the operation on my ear. Since tn, u have heard ae well with that ear as the other"
 The Presidents Report. was our purpose to publish in connection with our remarks last week concerning the doings of the Village Improvement Association, the report of Mir. Reed, the president of the or ganization, as read by him at the meeting some time s:nce, but the manuscript, by a series of movements savoring strongly of legerdemain, and which were as mysterious to us as they could possibly be to anybody else, managed to dodge the issue" at the time it was wanted to put in type. Below is the report:
 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN In presenting for your consideration our second annual report. we regret that more has not been ac complished the past year in village improve 1 ments. Dr. Camp has done good thing in the way of concrete sidewalks, s. C.. Beckley has taken good care of the trees planted by this association on School street, and we are now lighting with street lamps nearly mile of streets in this village. beg leave to call your attention to the nec- esslty of increasing our number of paying hnra pl a mora uonproI nd oot;va ;, telest in this work. Religion and temper ance demand your time and money; you cannot devote it to better cause. do not ask you to do less for them, but do not for get your village improvements. An All-wise Providence has removed by death two of our most worthy and esteemed members, Mr. J. R. Fuller and MT. Austin S. Adams To the village of Canaan the loss is irrepa- rable not only in the home circle is there . vacancy. we miss them in the business, the social relation we mourn their loss. take pleasure in calling your attention to the fa- vorable condition of our finances as shown in the report of our treasurer. Our debts are paid in full and small balance remains in the treasury. With many thanks for your kindness and cooperation, remain,
 Yours Truly,
 J. B. REED,
 President Canaan Village Improvement As sOciatiOn.
 Van Deusenville. The other day while in Van Deusenvlle on business, we improY ed few moments spare time ''do;ng the city," as tourists say when going through London, Edinburgh or Paris. Of course it didn't take us great length of time to ''do" the place, for it is not as large as London or Paris. but we shall not complain of it's size. We saw nothing that interested so much as the residence and grounds of John Cofing Esq ., who, as all the older inhabitants of Salisbury very well know, never does things on the halfway plan. Everything about the place bore unmistakable evidence of what unquestionably is fact, that Mir Cof- fng having determined to make that particu- lar spot his home, has built up the place and it's surroundings, and made it not only fit abode for man. but for a man with refined and cultivated tastes and instincts. Not on- ly has attention been given to the beautiful in the building up of his home and sur roundings, but that it shall be strong and durable, and to the eye of many, and it is very good eye to have, the solid, sound, strong, useful and durable, are vastly more beautiful than any other feature in the con- struction and building of things. Nothing pleased us more than the provision he has made for tue comfort of his cattle and hor- ses. for when a man is found who careR