Connecticut western news., 1892-05-05

Calves on Tuesday 65; price to 5i cents.
 Henry Abbott's condition is report ed to-day Wednesday, as very encoura- ging
 -Canaanites should read the letter entitled, Suggestions about Shade Trees"
 The backbone of the drought was bent Sunday evening. and broken Mon- day evening.
 Our Ct Darlington. correspondent unintentionally gets off a huge joke on Ed" Barnes.
 At this writing "Wednesday after noon) Harlow Root is still confined to the bed, but is doing we'll.
 The Bohemian American Glass Blowers are drawing fair sized audiences at the town hall this week. Judge Sedgwick returns this week from his winters sojourn in New York to his summer residence in Cornwall.
 -Arbor Day will be observed in the schools in this village tomorrow after noon by singing and recitations and by setting out shrubbery.
 Herbert Allyn, of Hartford, clerk in Auditor Watson's office at Hartford, was guest at MT Watson's home in Canaan from Friday until Monday.
 Last Tuesday consignment of IT horses arrived at this village for H. K. Bloodgood. They were stalliens, hackneys and mares imported from England.
 Arthur P Freeman is convalescing from his seven weeks siege with typhoid fever He is able to be dressed and sit at the table with the family but he does not yet eat solid food. He has rode out several times.
 J. E. Skiff has resigned his position as organist in Salisbury, given up his pu- pills for the time being and is studying in the Metropolitan College of Music in New York city. He will return to his work about Sept 18th.
 The meeting of the Agassiz society at o. M. Humphreys on Tuesday was we'll attended and interesting Miss Bragg discoursed on the clements of botany and 0. M. Humphrey made quite hit with his paper on an old tomatoe can.
 Mrs Mary A. Lawrence. who has been visiting in town and vicinity since February. returned Tuesday to her home at Ormel, N. Y. She was accom- panied by Miss Flora Spaulding who expects to make her home there with her sister, Mrs Henry Stevens. ] Mrs Lewis, widow of Mark Lewis, returned to Bridgeport yesterday. For the past ten years Mrs Lewis has lived with her son, George M. Lewis, at Bridge port. She came to East Canaan last week to attend the funeral of her son, Frank w. Lewis, who died April 26th.
 For two weeks or more Stevens X Garvin have been receiving milk at their creamery in this village and trans porting it to their East Canaan cream cry but now the cooling vats and other equipments of the Canaan creamery are completed and all departments or pro- cesses of creamery are conducted here.
 And now we are told that Mir Gar field, student of theology at the Yale Seminary, preached in the Pilgrim church, April 24th. The NEWS of Apl 18th said MT Ludovick Harrison preach ed there on the first mentioned date. We want to see the man who can prove that he saw the NEWS staff at church April 24th. See?
 70. l.. Smith, the popular manager of the Twin Lakes picnic grounds, an nounces that the present season will open about May 20th. and that no efforts will be spared to make the present sea- son remarkably enjoyable one. MT Smith has already laid out new road to the picnic grounds which will avoid the steep hill which it has been neces- sary for teams to scale in the past.
 The closing exercises of the Canaan Literary society at the end of it's third season were quite novel and very enter taining. The meeting opened by MT. Roraback giving brief but concise his- tory of the society during the past two and one-half years, and it's hopes for the future. The guessing contest was then the order, in which the members of the society, by their costume, or some device upon their person, repre- sented the title of some book. Mrs J. G. Root won the prize for the greatest number of correct answers. Some of the most striking costumes were those worn by s. A. Eddy who represented "A Tramp Abroad" and W. H. Camp who represented "Sir Isaac Walton's Complete Angler" All of the devices were unique and it required some little thinking to solve any of them. A DOT tion of the banjo club were present and played few selections. The society is good thing for Canaan young people and it is hoped they will renew their regular meetings in the fall.
 POINTERS.