Connecticut western news., 1891-04-29
Local News.

Canaan to Norfolk last week.
 Frank Coon and family have re covered from tussel with the grippe
 Isaac T. Emmons moved from East Canaan to Tyringham, Mass last week
 Fred s. Parsons was home oyel Sunday from the New York Dental col lege.
 The Canaan Citizens band gave g very pleasing open air concert Monday evening.
 Miss June Peirce entertained a number of her school friends last Fri day evening.
 Masters Daniel and Teddie Watson were quite ill with the grippe last week but have recovered.
 Secretary R. Jay Walsh has our thanks for the Connecticut State Regis ter and Manual for 1891.
 Sixty calves were purchased at this station yesterday at prices ranging from to cents per pound.
 -Dandelions and field strawberries were in bloom Sunday afternoon not withstanding the ground was frozen in the morning.
 Next meeting of the Scientific soci- ety will be held Tuesday evening, May 9th. Subjects: Light, Habits of Ants, and Geology.
 The Pilgrim church were invited to attend the 15Oth anniversary of the Kent Congregational church, and have sent several delegates there today.
 -Grass is said to be farther advanced this season, than thus early at any time during the past ten years, and the farm CTS everywhere predict an unusually heavy hay crop.-Dsnbury News
 Mrs E. W. Warner is steadily im- proving and can walk from her room to the parlor. She fell on the ice on the hotel veranda Feb 7th and injured one knee SO severely that she has been con- fined to her bed most of the time since that date.
 The line of the street extending from Railroad St. over the hill intersect- ing the back road in front of Charles Gillett's house has been re-surveyed and strengthened, and new street ex- tending past D. L. Peirce's tenement house intersecting this cross street has been laid out.
 The health physician of the State of Connecticut, reports only one death thus far in the State of Connecticut, from Ia grippe. Many deaths are re- ported by the newspapers as having re- suited from various diseases, which originated in Ia grippe,-bat research fails to substantiate said claims.-W1n sted Leader.
 When Edmund D. Lawrence re- turns from his trip to Little Rock, Ark, he will be surprised to find himself the owner of large granite quarry. Stiles Stevens is blasting out the cellar for Mir Lawrence's new house and he has al- ready taken out rock enough to build a fort and yet the cellar is only about three-fourths excavated.
 Many hearts in this village were saddened yesterday by learning of the death of Mrs Geo B. Taft, of Union vile. Mrs Taft won many friends dur ing her residence here when Mir Taft was principal of Canaan high school. MT and Mrs Taft have since been occa- sional visitors to Canaan, their last visit here being made in August, 1889. Our Unionville correspondent gives the particulars of Mrs Taft's death. Un- limited sympathy is expressed in Ca naan for. Mir Taft and his three children in their bereavement.
 Eleven grave stones have recently fallen down in the lower cemetery, and a number are leaning at various angles and about ready to fall. One valuable stone has fallen tbis spring and broken into two parts. The selectmen have charge of the cemeteries, and they should send some one forthwith to erect the fallen stones and straighten up the leaning ones, as the deceased have nc relatives in town to take charge of the graves. The handsome and valuable gravestone of veteran soldier has re gently fallen and it should certainly bs raised before Memorial day.
 -Arbor day will be profitsbly obser we'd if trees are planted alongside thu new streets laid out in this village 4 fine row of trees on any street is tn, best and cheapest way to increase thu value of adjoining land. Let every on do something next Friday to improv the appearance of this village. If 70, cannot find place to plant. trees o shrubs, don't fail to trim the trees plant ed years ago. A neglected and ill shape tree is an eyesore to every one. Trin the trees. Trim them up, up, up; high higher, highest, beyond the reach umbrellas and so that you can see th entire length of the street beneath tn lower branches.
 The Gowanda IN. Y.) Herald C April "A says: On Monday mornin last strange bird walked into the ope doors of the Gowanda Bank. He wa captured and escorted to the grocer store of Taylor & Schaack and provide with neat cage. One of our citizen who is considerable of a bird fanciel pronounced the stranger CAnadia Snipe. He was probably in search ( an indorser or wished to interview Casl