Connecticut western news., 1883-07-18
LOCAL NEWS.


 Arthur Freeman is the happy pos sessor of an elegant new bicycle.
 MT T B Fanton's family from Dan bury arrived at Pine Grove camp meet ing ground, July Il.
 Mrs Irene Church visited Canaan last Thursday and Friday. She will be here again this week.
 MT Michael Goodwin has received the $50 prize offered for the best sec tion on the Housatonic railroad.
 Christ church will build rectory on Granite avenue. The work will soon be commenced as $045O have already been raised.
 Rev Elisha Whittlesey's family are spending few weeks at their old home (the grove) near this village. MT Whit tlesey's duties are such that he can be with them only part of the time.
 Until further notice, the Sunday even- ing sermon at the Methodist church will be dispensed with, and prayer and praise meeting substituted, which will be held in the basement of the church.
 MT George W Cowdrey received a telegram, last Friday, stating that his aunt, Miss Davis, was very sick at Itha- ca, N r. He started immediately for Ithaca. Telegrams have been received from him saying his aunt is better.
 Editor Addis of the Windsor Locks Journal has recovered from his recent illness He and his sister called on us just before we vent to press. He step- ped up to the case and put in type, in a jify, that article about the masons.
 Pedestrians will thank MT D l. Peirce for trimming the trees on the side walk in front of his residence, and if his neighbors will follow his example, they too will deserve the thanks of the community. No trimming, no thanks. Last Saturday afternoon the H < O W railroad ran special train from Hart ford to the Catskill mountain summer resorts. The train left Canaan ontime, about PM and was well filed with passengers. Supt Jones and other off cers of the road accompanied the train.
 Mrs George Williams and daughter, Sarah, were visiting in Canaan last week. They resided here many years and now live in Brooklyn. They had visited two weeks at LakeYille, and expected to re- turn to Brooklyn last Saturday. Mrs Williams son, George, is in New Mexi- co.
 Last Friday afternoon, the main rod on the engine Bloomfield, draw ing the H c W milk train from Hart ford broke while the train was near Winsted. This caused short delay and the train did not reach Canaan in time to connect with the Housatonic train for Bridgeport.
 James Knickerbocker, native of Canaan, but for many years merchant at Springfield, Ill, arrived here last Fri day evening and is visiting friends and looking over the scenes of his boyhood. He loves to recount his school days with the late H W Franklin, J W Peet, the Beckley boys, Fred Foster, Henry Will Hams and others.
 Representative of W H Whitte- more & Go, Providence, R I, visited Ca naan last Saturday. They had an ele- gant wagon loaded down with whips, harnesses, halters, hankerchiefs, cutlery and notions which they sold at auction during the afternoon and evening. They were jolly good fellows and the auetioneer's tongue exceeded the wagon tongue in length, it was wagging , rapidly for several hours.
 We kindly, but unwisely, as the re. suit shows, lately consented to publish school report from 9 neighboring town, and now almost every pretty school marm is sending us for publica. tion list of their little cherubs who dc not whisper or chew gum. We will publish next week another school report and then give our readers vacation from school reports. The teachers in our own high school did not presume to ask us to fill our paper with a list oi their pupils, and yet they have very many worthy of special mention.
 History repeats itself Large COT. porations frequently run out or buy out small ones and thus control a certain line of business E w Warner of the Stevens house has bought out G E Gardner's lunch counter at Union de. pot, and closed up said cooky-stan Last Saturday he offered MT Gardner $1O cash down if he would close up his lunch counter Gardner immediately accepted. Mir Warner paid over th' cash, and just to show Warner what { splendid stroke of diplomacy he hat made in purchasing and closing up thi lunch counter, and what rival he hae acquired possession of, Gardner coolly informed him that the entire gross re ceipts of the lunch counter since it wa! opened had been just 45 cents. Gard ner now says he would willingly sel Warner the job of sexton of the Metho dist church if he will pay the same ratio for 1t as for the lunch counter.