Connecticut western news., 1880-11-03
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-Roosters are now in order. --Hurrah for the next President


 The Catholic Church in this place is to be frescoed.
 Sherwood Cummings came home from Norwalk to cast his vote.
 Rev. Hiram Eddy preached in the MetE- odist church last Sunday. -J A. Wilcox of the Danbury Globe made us pleasant call last Friday. Presiding Elder Sanford was in town last Saturday visiting Rev. Mir. Mackey.
 The Methodist ladies' aid society meets at Mrs. Cogswell's tomorrow afternoon.
 Mrs. Dr. Belden is to remove to Goshen, to live with her niece, Mrs. J. B. Thompson.
 The refreshing rain of last Saturday was welcome visitor, and made everybody feel glad.
 What shall it profit man if he shall gain the whole world and his subscription isn't paid up?
 How long will it be before we will know to certainty, which party saved the country yesterday?
 A dramatic entertainment for the benefit of the Canaan cornet band is talked of, to be given soon.
 ID. A. Riker, formerly proprietor of the Stevens House, has been spending a short time here.
 Ed. Prescott has returned from Nauga- tuck, where he has heen employed for few months past.
 The selectmen have made about forty new electors, who are about equally divided as to politics.
 Miss Alice Peirce, who is attending school in Claverack, spent the Sabbath at her home in this place.
 What the NEWS wants is honest money. Honest subscribers, please bear this in mind; we guarantee fair, honest court.
 -Canaan's learned blacksmith and poet John P Shields, came all the way from New Haven to deposit his little ballot for Hancock and English.
 w. B. Camp has hired MT. Merrell Humphreys tenement on West Main st. and will occupy it, with his mother, who removes here from Kent.
 The shortest days occur from Dec. 18th to 23d which will be nine hours and three minutes long, or one hour and eleven minutes shorter than to-day.
 Owing to the serious illness of Rev. Mr. Bostwick, the Rev. MT. Whittlesey officated in Christ Church last Sunday. There was no service in the afternoon.
 Nov that election is over 1t is hoped that the flood of campaign documents into the pa per market will bring the price of paper down where publishers can live.
 w H. Camp, Canaan's new druggist, makes his bow to our readers in another col umn, and does it up brown, too. you want anything in his line you can't do better than to call on him.
 Somebody got buggy smashed near the Housatonic hand-car house last Monday night. The only thing left to tell the story, however, is the remains of the aforesaid buggy in the aforesaid spot.
 A lookup is needed in this place, where such drunken howlers as those from Sand town who made fools of themselves on the depot platform last Saturday afternoon, can be put for safe keeping and reflection.
 The Garfield meeting held in Town Hall last Wednesday night was addressed by E. Emory Johnson of Middletown, and Rev Hi ram Eddy of Jersey City. MT. Case, who was advertised to be present failed to appear The Canaan mountain water IS coming | into favor on Railroad street, Tom. Brown l having just introduced it into his house. It l won't be long befere every house in town will be supplied by the Canaan Water Com pany.
 fife band gave Hon. Geo. W. Peet serenade last Friday night. MT. Peet treated the boys handsomely, and made a neat speech congratulating them on their progress, and
 
 giving them the promise of liberal assistance whenever called upon.
 flour correspondents will send their con- munications to us as early as possible on Mon day it will not only be a matter of conVen' fence to us, but will also insure their appear ance the same week. See instructions follow ing heading Correspondence.
 Rev. Hiram Eddy has been spending few days in this place; he recently attended reunion of the Eddy family at Providence when 100 members of the family celebrated the landing of Samuel and John Eddy at Ply mouth Rock, ip 163o-250 years ago. The young man who took his "doxle' away up to Squire Trescott's, and back to Rov. Mir. Mackey's in this village through fhe disagreeable rain of last Saturday night, looking for somebody to tie the matrimonial knot will probably succeed better next time Ifhe has the forethought to procure the nec' essary license.