Connecticut western news., 1893-09-21

-Cargill sells the best $65.00 top carriage in New England
 George 0. Peet and wife returned from the Exposition, Monday night.
 pr Byrns and wife, of Washington, D. O., are visiting at Judge Grangers. Miles o. Briggs, of St. Paul, has been visiting relatives and friends in town.
 Harnesses from $4. 50 to $500 set at Cargilrs. A hand made harness for BIO. %.
 Miss Bridges has returned from the seaside and is occupying her house on High street.
 Mrs Edward Warner and son, Wal ter, returned from the Worlds Fair on the 18th inst.
 pr G. l.. Hurd will be absent from his office in Lakeville from the 25th to the 30th of this month. Twenty seven names are on the list of voters to be made About half the number will probably qualify. MT Calvin Barnes, of Winsted and Naugatuck, is visiting his nephew, S. w. Barnes, and other relatives ln town. -Dr Ross returned yesterday from his hunting trip in the Adirondacks. He shot and killed two deer, and the party got five.
 zEdward O. Ward, who has been in town through the summer, is with Aud itor Watson in the P. R. & N. B. office at Hartford.
 The Poughkeepsie club will play ball at Winsted Saturday and the Win steds have been engaged to play at the Great Harrington far next Wednesday. The Canaan Academy opened last week with all the pupils the school can accommodate. MT and Miss Clute have been engaged another year as teachers. -Adelbert Weaver and two sons, who have been sick with typhoid fever, are improving. The fever has left them and they are gaining little all the while.
 The Briggs family held q reunion at Twin Lakes last Monday, and you can bet they had good time if "Al' was one of the committee of arrange | ments.
 A tail end collision at Po'keepsie Jun ctiop, on Friday between two freights, delayed the east bound 12.38 passenger train about three and half hours.
 Permanent booths for election pur- poses have been erected in the lower hall of the town hall building, and the room will also be used as court room . whenever needed.
 The Canaan Citizens band, which has not been rehearsing for some weeks past, held rehearsal Tuesday night and will probably continue bATOuSu bu0 WlubOI. Willis Parsons returned last week from his trip to St. Louis He visited his brother. Joe, in Lincoln, Neb., and spent few days at the Worlds Fair in Chicago on his return trip. By order of Judge Warner the Oct. term of the Court of Common Pleas will not come in for business at Falls Vil- lage till the second Tuesday of Octo- Der, (Oct 10tb) at 10 o'clock a. m. / The Barnum Richardson Go. will blow out the furnace that they have been running at East Canaan, about Oct. 'lst. The business will remain idle several months. It is reported that 0. O. Briggs, the efficient bookkeeper of the company, has secured position with the P. R. & N. B. Go.
 MT Walter B. Gates died at his home in New Hartford last Sunday, af- ter long and painful illness. His fun eral was attended on Tuesday. For many years MT Gates had been lead ling merchant at New Hartford and was one of the survivors of the railroad dis aster at Tarifville a number of years ago.
 Mrs Clarissa Minor Bennett died at
 Middletown, Conn.,, last Friday, aged 84 years. Her remains were brought to Canaan last Saturday evening, and on
 Sunday at g. 30 p. m., funeral services
 conducted by the Rev T. s. Bond, were
 held in the Methodist Episcopal church. Interment at the lower cemetery. Mrs
 Bennett was born at Colebrook, Conn.,, and was the daughter of the late John and Mary Minor. In early life she mar ried William Bennett, of Canaan, from
 whom she was afterward divorced. She leaves daughter, Mrs Bonner, now
 residing in Canaan.