Connecticut western news., 1893-10-12


 pr. H. l.. Ross bagged fox We'd nesday morning.
 The frame for Lyman Howe's new house has been raised and sheashed.
 The owner of the Valkyrie is done ravin' about the superiority of his Eng fish yacht.
 Apples are being harvested. "Cider berries" are plenty but good winter fruit islscarce.
 HI. D. Humphrey, wife and daugh ter went to New York yesterday to re- main over Sunday.
 Mrs Alice Lowery and her daugh- ter. Amy, of-Pottsville, Pa, are visiting st Mrs J. s. Adams.
 The Canaan Lime Go. started up it's second kiln this week. The third kiln is notquite completed.
 George F. Strong is putting ima new boiler, Furman, for the steam heating system at the Warner House.
 Chester Deming has been on the sick list about a month. He is improv- ing but is not yet able to work.
 The average date on which the first killing frost has occurred during the last twenty years is October 9th. |, I-Section bosses along the line of the P. R. x N. B. road have been notified to discharge one or two men each.
 The duck of which the sails of the yacht Vigilant are made was manufac- tured by the Greenwoods company at New Hartford.
 The cellar for Mrs Wallace Rob- erts' new house is completed. The lumber has arrived, and the carpenters will soon commence work.
 w. H. Camp, the druggist, has been appointed postmaster at this viii lage. MT Root, the retiring postmaster, has furnished us efficient mail service.
 The Falls Village correspondent of the Berkshire News says: MT O. w.. Daley, of Hartford. who is 61 years of age, rode from Hartford to this town on bicycle distance of 60 miles in se1 en hours.
 While in playful mood one day this week, Dr. Ross placed 8 stuffed crow on fence back of his house and thus, as he assures us, drew the fire of one of our ardent and most successful local sportsmen.
 Always keep matches in an earthern or metal receptacle. There was fire in Huge & Lundhal's supply store in Bridgeport short time ago. The fire was started by rats nibbling in matches. The loss was about $15,000.
 We notice by our Lakevilie corres- pondence that that much busy man, Col. Card, editor of the Millerton Telegram, has gone to the Worlds Fair. Neigh Dor Card deserves trip like this and may he enjoy his vacation. We pre- sume that Reyes of the Entertainer has charge of the Telegram during Editor Card s absence.
 The residents in the annexed dis trict Barlow street) are very anxious to have our selectmen reconstruct the sluice across Church street south of the railroad and make it large enough to carry off the water which collects at this point during the thaws in winter and makes the sidewalks impossible foi pedestrians, and now is the time to dc it.
 The name of our post office and railroad station should be changed from Canaan to North Canaan The confus ion arising from the use of the same name to designate two different an6 adjoining towns would then be avoided Why not present petitions to the pos office department and the two railroad compan1es asking them to make these changes?
 | A number from this place and sur rounding districts attended the Danbur, fair last week. Thursday and Frida, were the big days of the fair, there be ing over l6,000 present Thursday ant about 10000 Friday. The exhibit were more than usually extensive ant there was some good trotting on tn track. Tuesday, wheelman's day, wit messed some good bicycle races. Ol Thursday and Friday the fakirs reape' rich harvest of shekels, and the suck CTS were plentiful and bit rapidly at tn bait offered by the man with "skil game"
 The Millerton Telegram of Oct. gives the following particulars in regar, to the illness, death and burial of MT J. J. Landon:
 Sarah A. Kelsey, wife of James J Landon, died at her home near Chapir
 vile on Monday, the 2d inst. aged 5 years. She had been great suffere for many years with a cancer. Las July an operation was performed bu ; her case was so serious that recover
 was impossible. Besides the husban
 three sons survive her. The funers
 service was held at the home yesterday Interment in the family plot in. Salil ) bury cemetery.
 A few of our public spirited cisizer
 have contributed the necessary none 
 to pay for the flags and so we are 5 have a weather signal station in tn 5 village. W. H. Camp is the sign officer and the flags are hung over u street between the Cummings block an Camps drug store. The reports al . received by telephone every mornin . from New Haven. Cards explainin ? the signals can be had at Camps dru ] store. For all practical purposes or | paoJ op1u boor in wind kbok tbo low