Connecticut western news., 1882-05-31
Clear out, Mayl Walk in June.

Maybe this month hasn't been Marchy
 Thanks to Dr. J. D Clemans for. low, papers.
 -Geo s. Cunning of East Canaan. is under the weather
 --Barber Ryan's family will occupy room. over Union depot soon.
 --Mr. and Mrs Bell of Chatham, NY are visiting at J. 8. News.
 Miss Eva Warner of Durham, Ct. t visiting friends in this place.
 Friends from New Haven have been visiting at Rev. Mr Barnetts
 -will. Adam of East Canaan has secured position as clerk in a store m Roxbury
 Blacksmith Draks's boy was a girl, last weeks NEWS to the contrary notwithstand ing.
 The ladies of the Methodist church will have supper in the basement tomorrow night
 Mrs. J. A. Macdonald will furnish Canaanites with ice cream during the warm season.
 Miss Ida May Mcdonald is afflicted with rhe humps. Master Waltie Warner is afflicted the same way.
 Conductor Sid Spencer is the happy father of 8 bouncing boy, who will no doub, some day be . rallroader.
 Miss Lille Fuller of Gt Harrington Is spending . few days with her cousin Miss Frances Fuller in this place.
 -Ths Methodist congregation is con stantiy increasing. Rev Mir. Phillips is de, servedly popular in the community.
 w. H. Camp has fired up bis soda foun. tain for the season. Billy Humphreys has bsen sizzling for the past two weeks.
 Miss Bena Rodemeyer, for the past four years compositor in the NEws office goes to Bethel as compositor in the Ledger office.
 lowing to the storm last Sunday night, the missionary concert in the Methodist church was postponed nntil next Sunday evening.
 -'Winthrop" talks right out in meetin' in his article on Canaan's Possibilities in this weeks NEws, but who shall gay he fires wide of the markf
 Brakeman Billy Spencer of conductor Clark Lane's passenger train is of on va- cation. Look out for big fish stories when he gets back to his post.
 -Gardner's business has increased since he put in that big safe, and now he keeps bigger stock of jewelry, sells moro watches. and gets more work than ever before
 -P. P. Gilmore of Lime Rock, formerly of East Canaan, has erected a large found,y h Unionville, and begins operations there at ones. He will move h1s family there this week.
 Butts ts Ion the section" again at the Warner House. and transients again rest easy in the happy assurance that their horses are well cared for, for Butts has no peers in that line of business
 Editor Cheney of the Bridgeport Eagle spent the Sabbath in town and went to church in good company. Brother Cheney says Canaan has just cause to be proad of her Aethodist minister-and 90 she is Rev. D Phillips oficiated at the funeral of Mrs. Solomon Knlckerbocker at Sheffield last Wednesday. Mrs. Knickerbocker was formerly resident of this place, and died in Hartford last Sunday, at the age of TO years lowing to some disappointment, St. l Joaeph's church was not dedicated last Sun. day. Solemn high mass is to be celebrated | next Sunday, by Right Rev. Bishop McMa. hon. at half.pass ten; then, alss will take place the ceremony of re dsdlcating the ehurch. -The band's concert last Friday night was aat attended by ss large an audience as it | The band acquitted themselves with crsdis and the vocal and instrumental 'sleetions were well rendered, most of them i1 sing enthusiastically encored The boys E7 lsaxsd about fifteen dollars, f, -Postmaster General Howe, with akesn appreciation of the sgreat expense and vsx- tious anneyancss incident to publishers of swspapers and magazines, very properly | abolishing the postage on all t econd class matter We never bet, but will Ii cnture to suggest that his name will be fa- ' orably mentioned in the evening supplica- ons of the halE.million down trodden knights the quill, and whose posterity will rise up h n ean hin blssssd.-BpI. Eagle, le