Connecticut western news., 1894-03-08


 March is the month when snow and mud struggle for supremacy.
 Mir and Mrs J. G. Root are visiting relatives at East Chatham, N. Y.
 R. D. Peirce & Go. have leased the tobacco warehouse of B. Grotta & Son for year.
 Jack Soules and family moved into the Hardenbergh office building on Rail- road street last Friday.
 During the past week there has been considerable talk of changing the name of West Main St. to Water St., Lake St. or Venice.
 We have received copy of Dick sons Up-Town Weekly for Feb. 24. con- taining an admirable sermon on George Washington. preached by the Rev John G. Oakley, D. D., of New York city.
 During the past week Madame Rumor" has stated that another passen- ger train and freight train were to be discontinued on the P, R. & N. E. road. Diligent enquiry fails to confirm the rumor.
 Mir Edward E Bartram, late of Bis- sell & Bartram. Lakeville, has become associated with the Canaan Lime Go. and will take the place of the late H. P. Tracy as secretary and treasurer of the company.
 The NEWS still receives suggestions. and even poem, in regard to changing the name of the village of Canaan. We cannot publish them because the case has been given to the jury who are now having monkey and parrot" time if not an actual deadlock.
 MT s. B. Robbins. of Great Falls, Mont, formerly of Lakeville, Conn.,. gives us glimpse of Montana farming as follows: MT Robbins says that Charles King lives at Laurel, Yellow stone county, Mont, and in the year 1892 raised 1915 bushels of potatoes on one acre. with irrigation. Without ir- rigation he could not have raised 50 bushels
 The announcement that the Rev Robert Hunt is certainly improving win bring joy to many hearts. MT Hunt is now able to sit up and converse with visitors, He eats we'll, is gaining strength daily and will soon be able to dispense with the services of his nurse, who, by the way, is Miss Hattie Ensign, one of the most gentle, skillful and faithful nurses in the world. Since January 14th it has been im- possible to go by rail from East Canaan to Falls Village and return the same day. It Is suggested that an OK express team be run between said points daily, starting from East Canaan in the morn ing and passing through Canaan and South Canaau to, Falls Village and re- | turning via Amesville or Sandtown. Flaw. geel Clear the track for the prarie schooner
 MT and Mrs John D. Seacord, of Lee, Mass, arrived last Thursday and will remain few days while Mir Sea cord, who is principal of the Lee high school is taking an unexpected vacation caused by the fire which destroyed the school building at Lee on the morning of Feb. 2lst. Ten porary quarters for the school are being fitted up and it is expected the school will open again about the middle of this month. James Fitzgerald was too ill to ap- pear in the court room last Thursday, but Justice Roberts accompanied by Mir John F. Simmons and Attorney w. B. Smith, of Winsted, went to Fitzgerald's E house and condemned the liquor which was seized Feb. 2lst. The "A cases brought against Fitzgerald for actual sales were adjourned until to-day March 9th, at II 8. m., and the $500 % bond given by Fitzgerald was continued.
 MT Edward K Watson, of Warren, Pa.. arrived in Canaan on the B p. m train last Saturday, too late to attend the funeral of his father, the late Ma than w. Watson, which was held or Saturday at 2 p. m. It is good many years since Edward, who is contractor and builder, visited Canaan and he finds
 but few old acquaintances here. In fac
 he and his brother Theodore had no
 met in over 20 years until last Saturday
 Tt is admitted that the 24th day O
 last month was the coldest day in New
 England during the past thirty years
 In Canaan the mercury registered 15
 below zero at a. m. and 10 below at
 8. m. with the wind blowing gale
 One below zero at noon with higl ] wind. Six below at p. m. but n
 wind. The sleighing was good. Thi , is quite different from the weather an, travelling on Feb. 24, 1859 when tn mud on the south road to East Canaa , was nearly up to the hubs of wago r wheels.
 Mir Milton H. Robbins, of Lake vile, and his son, Mir s B. Robbins, wh : lives at Great Falls. Mont, called at tn NEWS office last Thursday and exhibite . specimens of silver and copper ore 3 from Montana. also specimens of sand t stone and clay found as Great Falll They exhibited numerous photograph
 of Great Falls, showing the growth ( } the place and its industries in the pas r six years during which time the plae
 has grown from settlement of 200 C e 300 persons to about 12.500 persons, an ,, the boom still continues. ! | @f q .1l