Connecticut western news., 1893-11-30
Local News.

Local News.
 -Dr Ross and wife moved into their new house Tuesday.
 The frame for the addition to the town hall building has been raised and covered.
 Last Monday morning the mercury ranged from l2 to 15 degrees above zero in Canaan and vicinity,
 The Winsted Citizen says: Mir and Mrs E. D. Ives, of Canaan, will spend few months at the Beardsley House.
 Rev. Dr Eddy's illness continues. We hoped to report improvement this week but do not learn that there has been any as yet.
 The Cantata, "Queen Esther, ," which proved so popular here, was giv- en by Prof Harvey at Granby on Tues day and Wednesday nights.
 Please give us list of your Thanks giving guests; or if you were guest yourself, tell us where. In the next issue of the NEWS we wish to mention Thanksgiving guests.
 Chicken thieves are plenty at South Canaan. One farmer has been ont night after night with double barrelled shot gun. and said he travelled l2 miles one night trying to get one Ia thief for breakfast.
 We never offer any .gewgaw pre- miums with the NEWS. We offer some thing desirable. For $2.00 new sub scribers can have the NEWS mailed to any address from now until 1895. Chew on this offer.
 The Agassiz society will meet on Tuesday evening Dec. ) at 7.45 p. m. st Prof H. M. Adams. Topics: The Radiometre, Tides and Scientific Mis- cellany. All cordially invited, whether members of society or not
 Railroad street was miniature lake last winter. and will be again this win ter unless ditches are opened to permit the water to flow into the brook in Dr Camps meadow. It will be better and cheaper to open ditches now than after the ground is frozen hard.
 The roaring fire in the swamp north of Pine Grove station last Sunday was started on purpose to consume the piles of brush left there by wood choppers. No damage was done, but some persons from this village went down there think ing the fire was in the standing timber and that their help would be needed to extinguish it.
 -Going to move, going to have any weddings in your family, are you in business, going to have an auction, or get up a dance? In fact, are you going to want any printing? If so remember us. Come and see our samples of pos ters. tags, envelopes, bill and letterheads, statements, wedding invitations, dance programs and invitations, cards, tickets, etc.
 A social club has been organized in the village with present member ship of over sixty. The club are to have cards and other games the first part of the evening. followed by dan cing. The program is subject to varia- tion. Ten assemblies are to be held the next one being, on Tuesday evening Dec. 12. It is desired that more people join the club and make the organization as large as possible.
 It is rumored that Superintendent 0. M. Lawler of the P. R. & N B. road is to become ''super" of the New York & New England road and that Mir l. D. Barton, late ''super" of the New York & New England road. is to become trainmaster on the P. R. & N. b road and that Mir W. 8. Page IS to be made sssuper." We wish the P. R. & N. E. would not change superintendents and general passenger agents so often. It makes all the newspapers too much work in changing names on their mail ing lists.
 The trial of John and James Pen dergast for assault on John Langdon. all parties of Canaan Valley, was held be- fore Justice Roberts at the court room Tuesday. The disturbance took place at dance at the Valley on the 17th inst Nearly three-fourths of the pop ulation of the Valley were subpmned. Lawyer J. Fl. Roraback appeared fol plaintiff, and Lawyer Nickerson, of West Cornwall. for defendants. After little testimony had been taken the defend ants settled the case by paying $2 aad costs each.
 A fire broke out in the floor in Ror aback's tenement house about 9.30 Mon day night. The tenement is occupied by MT Rosenburg and family, and sev- eral other families. Mir Rosenourg' $ son, Frank, was the only one awake as he was reading and discovered smoke coming up through the floor. He aroused the occupants of the building and with the assistance of neighbors the fire was extinguished. The fire was burning between the basement ceiling and the floor of the first story and the only cause to account for it is that rats had secured matches and set them afre chewing them.
 Mrs Charlotte s. Green kindly sends to the NEWS the following quotation from the letter which her daughter Edith wrote her from Ct. Darlington Mass under date of Nov 26th:
 s.On Friday evening last, while VI were attending social at one, of oul neighbor's, Mrs s. A. Cogswell went tt set q pail of milk, as she supposed, II