Connecticut western news., 1891-11-12
MT and Mrs Frederick Reel visited in Hartford and Waterbury last week.

MT and Mrs Frederick Reel visited in Hartford and Waterbury last week.
 MT and Mrs Geo c, Peet are board ing at the Warner House. Mrs Peet arrived in Canaan last Saturday.
 The limited express trains on the Housatonic Railroad will run daily to and from Brooklyn next season.
 It is rumored that Charles Parrott, whose body was found in the woods at East Canaan last week, leaves wife in Torrington. Parrott was about 50 years old.
 Mrs Lewis Corbit and Mrs c. G. Griffey, who have been visiting in Canaan, Springfield and elsewhere, re- turned Monday to their homes at Me- gaunee, Mich.
 The personal property belonging to the estate of the late David Gilbert will be sold at auction in Chapinville on Saturday, Nov IA, at 1.3O p. m. In the list is one COW, three wagons, oEe sleigh, harnesses, a few tons of hay, and large lot of carpenters tools, mason's tools and a variety of farming implements, also five cider barrels.
 Charles H. Gillette. native of Ga naan and formely an engineer on the Housatonic road, has for several years been chief engineer of the waterworks at Manistee, Mich, where the Holley sys- tenn is used He recently resigned his pos iton and has secured employmet as To- comotlve engineer on the Chicago & West Michigan railroad. His run is from New Buffalo to Travers City, His family will remain at Manistee for the present.
 We congratulate ourself and our readers that MT David c. Whittlesey has joined the staff of the CONNECTICUT WESTERN NEWS, as associate editor and bookkeeper. Master Lester Hoag has answered our advertisement for boy to do devil work. If we may be allow ed little pleasantly we should remark that inasmuch as the CONNECTICUT WEs- TERN NEWS is now equipped with saint and with devil it ought to give satis faction to all
 Mir c. Benedict Crofut died at his home in East Chatham. N Y Oct 26th, aged 78 years. He was brother of MT Joel, K. Crofut who died at Canaan Val- ley, Conn.,, Oct Is, aged S3 years. Only one of the late trio of brothers is now living, viz ', MT s. P. Crofut, of Canaan Valley Conn.,, who now is 72 years of age. Is somwhat remarkable that Joel aud Benedict should live to good old age and then both die within an in- terval of eight days.
 On Monday:last, MT D. L. Peirce gave us a sample of beet sugar which was recently made at Norfolk Neb. where the largest plant in the world for making beet sugar. has recently been established. The sample was sent to MT Peirce by his neice, Miss Fanny Peirce, who resides at Norfolk Neb Said sugar is as white as the finest gran ulated sugar ever made from sugar cane Paradoxical as it may seem, 1t is beet sugar but it cannot be beat. We trust that the sugar beet industry will sur vive and not be beat by the sugar trust. See? "Take your time gintlemin, take your time.
 At George Thompson's cider mill in Canaan Valley, Trenton press with parallel screw is used. On Tuesday of last week both arms of said press broke simultaneously and several pieces flew with great force in all directions One piece struck Frank Slater on the head, making bad scalp wound. Samuel Brinton, the nine-year-old son of Ward G. Brinton, was struck on the leg by one piece. Another piece struck pull ley weighing 100 pounds and shattered the pulley to splinters. A number of bystanders had narrow escapes from the flying pieces of iron. MT Thompson went to Grove Yale's in Norfolk and borrowed arms to replace the broken ones and commenced making cider again on Friday.