Connecticut western news., 1893-03-09
Local News.


 Irving Curtiss, of Clayton, has hired out to Judge Granger to work on the Judges farm.
 Master Marcus Barnes was sick all last week with the grip but has now nearly recovered.
 Two boilers and the smoke stack for the works at the Clayton claybed arrived here last week.
 Jesse c. Benton, who has lived in Montana six years, arrived home last Thursday. The past two months he remained in Lansing. Mich
 About Az. 900 feet of lumber have been hauled from this station to Clayton within the past few days to be used in building the new kilns at that place.
 The annual meeting of the Village Improvement Society will be held at the residence of B. A. Peirce next Sat- urday evening at 7.30 o'clock. The members of the society, and all inter- ested in village improvement. are re- quested to be present.
 Fifteen car loads of Barnum < Bai- ley's circus horses, that have been win tered at Pine Plains, N. Y., were taken to Bridgeport, Monday. The train passed Canaan at l0 15 a. m. for Win ko1 x,ha ha Naugatuck road.
 Last Sunday the passenger train from Bridgeport to Pittsfeld was stalled in snow banks between Lenox Dale and Pittsfeld and reached the latter place over four hours behind time. On the return trip the train reached Canaan about 3a hours late.
 v On Monday the P. R. x N. B. train due at Canaan at 12 38 p. m was nearly two hours late. Upon enquiry we were told that the engine lost off two driving wheels somewhere between Hartford and Canaan. We don't see why such a little incident Deed delay train.
 
 Geo P. Strong has just enlarged the cooking capacity of the Warner House by putting in large double "Perfect" range Landlord Warner is very proud of his new acquisition. He declares that he now asks no odds of the Fifth Avenue Hotel or any other in the coun- try.
 Auction posters of all sizes, and pos ters and programs for entertainments of every description, all printed neatly and quickly at the NEWS job printing rooms For those favoring us with their pat ronage we will gratuitously publish in the NEWS reasonable notice of the date and place of auctions, entertainments, etc.
 The Housatonic Valley Methodist Ministers Association will meet at the M. E. church in this village on the 14th inst. At the morning session, which begins at O.15, there will be sermon by Rev I. T. Stafford (Rev H.. F. Brown. alternately At the afternoon session Rev L. A. Robbins will read an essay on Sunday school temperance work. "
 Eight families on the island Dogs Misery" are dependent for water on Charles Gillette's we'll, which has been their sole supply since Jack Frost seiz- al khn nHo This we'll ranks next to the reservoir for quantity of water furnished during the entire year, but it surpasses the reser- voir in quality of water either for drink ing or washing purposes.
 / The trains On both roads were late last Thursday morning on account of snow drifts. The P. R. & N. E. train from Hartford, due at Canaan at 12 38 p. m., was delayed about 2a hours at East Canaan owing to the breaking of a tire op the engine. During the fore noon car of freight train on the Housatonic road was derailed near Falls Village, causing delay of about two hours to the passenger train due ut Ga naan at 12.38 p. m.
 The great blizzard in March 1888 did not demoralize the railroads as much as the recent snow storms here In 1888 the Housatonic road was block aded only four days and the Connecti- cut Western road little over week. In 1888 after the snow drifts were once dug out they remained clear, but since the 2Oth ut Old Boreas and the snow have been playing "an open and shut game with the railroads and it has been almost daily occurrence for trains to get stalled somewhere on the line.
 MT E. T. Blodgett, of Mill River, Mass, had quite an adventure in driv- ing from his home to Canaan last Mon day morning. The snow drifts were almost impossible, and the cutter was overturned several times. The last time the cutter tipped over, the horse became frightened and ran away. The cutter struck against 1encc ana was someWna' scratched and broken, but no othes damages resulted. MT Blodgett is di rector in the Electrolier Manufacturing Go. and he has started South on busi. ness trip for the company. He expects to be absent about month.
 In addition to the case for birds given by the Canaan Book Club to the DouglasLibrary there has nowbeen added revolving book-stand, of polished oak with the following books of reference The International Cyclopedia, 15 vols. Lippincott's Biographical Dictionary Haydens Dictionary of Dates and Lubkes History of Art. These are not to be taken from the library, but vii certainly be found very useful and con