Connecticut western news., 1886-12-01
Local News.

Local News.
 Winter.
 May it be mild one.
 See notice of annual meeting of tho Housatonic railroad company.
 Henry c. Warner of Great Barring ton visited friends in Canaan last Mon day.
 You have waited four weeks for Fuller X Peet's new advertisement. Now read it.
 Read the warning which Deming, the West Winsted photographer, gives you thls week.
 A thunder shower visited this place at 5 p. m. yesterday, an unusual wind up for November.
 Charles Gillette is building Q good sized ice house on the premises occu- pied by W. H. Camp.
 -Jeweler Gardner expects to locate in the jewelry business at Coxsackie, N. Y., where he formerly resided.
 Samuel F. Adam of the Berkeley divinity school at Middletown was home during the Thanksgiving vacation.
 Have you heard from New York state? If not, then read the figures in c. F. Hawley < Co.'S announcement. Lawyer Roraback of Torrington and Judge Bartlett of New Haven shook hands with their Canaan friends last Friday.
 Arthur and Ila Freeman, Joseph and Mary Parsons and Charles Barnes are home from Wilbraham for the two weeks vacation.
 George Benedict and family have moved back from New Marlboro and now occupy part of the Cogswell house on Church street. Mrs. Edwin Barnes. has been se- riously ill for ten weeks and goes to-day to the Hartford retreat, to be treated fo1 nervous difficulty.
 -Comical Brown never gave better entertainment in Canaan than he gave last evening and the hall was we'll filled notwithstanding the rain and darkness. Steinway and Mathushek pianos, Els tey and Mason & Hamlin organs rented or sold on instalments by Capewell, the jeweler and music dealer, West Winsted, Conn.
 While the approach of Christmas makes you look happy let Van Platter take your photograph. When in his gallery don't fail to examine his collec ton of Berkshire views. Read his new advertisement.
 Extra trains will run this (Wednes dayl afternoon or evening on the H. c. w. railroad both east and west at ex cursion rates to accommodate thos wishing to attend the Choral Union con cert at Winsted.
 -E s. Chapin, a native of Canaan but for many years resident of Brook lyn, N. Y, and salesman for Clark Holley & Ketcham of New York, was il town yesterday and sold Fuller < Pee bill of groceries.
 Bounds should be established fo the Canaan calf buyers, same as for tn school children, otherwise they will 500 be running foot races and meet the farm CTS half way to Ashley Falls-neverthc less competition is the life of business The second annual exhibition of tn Central Berkshire poultry, pigeon an pet stock association will be held i Memorial hall at Lee December ', and g.. There will be about 1000 entries comprising all the leading varieties c poultry, with fine exhibition of dog and other pets.
 Patrick Finnegan, formerly of thi place, but recently section foreman O the H. & c. w. railroad at Red Hook NY, has moved his family into I Foot's house and accepted the positio of foreman of Canaan section on tE same road, made vacant by the death ( Thomas O'Neil.
 M. E. Tobey, the Great Barringto jeweler, says he is now giving 'fgran' free exhibition of the most comple and desirable collection of holida goods ever offered in this section" HI new advertisement received too late f. this weeks issue will tell you all abo' his exhibit next week.
 Quite number of the merchan wanted their advertisements changed t day. but some of them sent their coI too late. Suffice to say all of them ha an unusually attractive line of holid goods and special bargains. w. B. H' < Go of Bridgeport have sent us rousing advertisement, which will published next week. In the meantil if you want seal cloak they will sell to you at a bargain.
 Connecticut Western railroad sto sold at 45 last week in Hartford, a the tendency is still upward. A go Hnancier recently said there was no r non vAy the atock ahould not sell Y sz