Connecticut western news., 1890-01-29


 Improvement hall
 Local News.
 -Dr H. L. Ross visited friends in Bethel over Sunday.
 -J. B. Reed is steadily recovering from his recent illness.
 Samuel A. Eddy had quite pain. full attack of rheumatism last week.
 P. 0. Cummings visited his son Sherwood at Norwalk the past week.
 Behold how great 8 matter little polo kindleth, with frey governor
 Mrs NJ. W. Ward and daughter. Lila, of Hartford, are visiting at Hobart Watson's.
 James Quinn's children who have all been sick with scarlet fever, are improving.
 Owing to sickness only about one quarter of the scholars are now attend ing our schools.
 Mir Jay Underwood was away for g few days last week visiting friends in New Haven and Danbury.
 MT Theron Snyder, who has been seriously Ill with pneumonia for the past two weeks, IS improving.
 Thirty -four tickets were sold at this station Thursday for W. B. Hall S Co.'S excursion to Bridgeport.
 Patrick Carrigan and family have moved to Bridgeport, where they e1- pect to find steady employment.
 MT Foster Silvernail, had 8 severe tussel with the grip" which confined him to the house for two weeks or more. The farm situated in Weatogue, town of Salisbury, known as the Averill farm, will be sold at auction on Satur- day, Feb. 9th, at o'clock, p. m. ' The train due here at 7.21 p. m. on lhe 0. N. E. & w. road, was nearly two hours late Saturday night, owing to a CT being derailed west of Poughkeep. sie.
 & A meeting for the purpose of organ ixing a literary society will be held ai the office of A. T. Roraback. in this village, this Wednesday, evening a So'clock.
 MT Chas Adam, Sr-, Is very feeble from complication of diseases, anG being a man S3 years of age, his recover, is doubtful. as he is steadily failing 8 this writing.
 The High school room has beer secured by the Canaan Choral Unior for its future rehearsals. The cantat' of the Hsymakers will probably b' given by them in April
 Charles B. Capron, who has bee1 in the employ of his uncle at Bridge port, for . short time, returned to thi village last week and is again at worl for MT Collin, our enterprising ant popular jeweler.
 The Grippe, or epidemic, has no loosened its hold as yet on our com munity, as one after another succuml to it. Mrs T. H. Baragwanath, MT Jacob Schamerhorn and Jessie Cargil are on the sick list.
 -F. F. Stevens, H. D. Reed and l. J. Root, of this place, won premium : on fowls which they exhibited at G Harrington last week. Lawyer Taft, c Unionville, formerly of Canaan, won number of prizes on his Polish birds.
 We wish to call attention to tn creamery recently started in this tow by N. s. Stevens, which gives tn farmers long desired outlet for thei milk product, and we hope they wi not be slow in availing themselves of il
 The Madame Fry Concert Compan gave their second concert in town hal last Saturday evening under the ausp ces of the V. I. A. It was we'll enjoye by q good audience. The selections C vocal and instrumental music wer particularly fine and we'll rendered.
 If you notice 8 scarcity of editoris matter this week it will have to b charged up to "La Grippe" as tn dreaded disease got "grip" on tn editor which caused him to loose hi "grip" on the editorial shears, but d this writing, (6.l5 p. m Tuesday, ou devil reports him as on the gain, an no doubt with proper care he will b able to occupy the editorial chair an his favorite pipe within day or two
 Canaan seems to be the scene ( nearly all the railroad mishaps whic have lately occurred. The latest accider happened yesterday morning. As th "hog" which draws the freight inter ded to leave here for the west at 8:5 a m. was making running switch wit . car of calves, the whole eight drivin wheels jumped the track and the Ct ran into the engine, derailing that als' and twisting the rails considerably. TIL $40 east bound passenger was delaye here one and one-half hours, and tt vest bound passenger for few minute before the car could be got on the trac and new rails put in. The hog was ID onto the switch track, and 1t was n until l:3O o'clock that it was again g onto the rails.