Connecticut western news., 1894-06-07
Local News.

LOCdl NEWS.
 Mrs. Mary Allen, of Bridgeport, is visiting at Maitland l.. Osborne's.
 The annual reception at Canaan Acad- emy will occur next Thursday evening. Mrs A. D. Wait and two daughters, of Cohoes, N. Y., are visiting relatives in town.
 Rev. F. Thompson has sold build ing lot opposite the Maloney place, so called, on Bennett's hill.
 The cellar walls and underpinniug for J. H. Roraback's new house have been completed this week.
 Be sure to read and comprehend Captain Jones' Memorial Day address; and then keep it for reference.
 -"Uncle Daniel" four act drama, will be played by the Julians at Town Hall, June 15. Benefit V. I. A.
 -"Old Sol" will put in just 15 hours work tomorrow. He will rise at 4 29 Q. m. and set at 7.29 p. m. He is not an eight hour chap.
 Several members of the Cowles Relief Corps attended the meeting and dinner of Palmer Relief Corps at Win sted on Tuesday.
 -E. P. Hunt & Go. will have . sale of ladies' and misses jackets, capes. suits and shirt waists at the Warner House. June 18th. 14th. and 18th.
 The annual meeting of the supreme and superior court judges, held in Hartford Monday. re-appointed James Huntington. of Woodbury. state attor- ney for Litchfield county.
 The Litchfield Northwest Sunday School Union will hold it's Thirty-frs anniversary in theCongregationsl church at Falls Village on Wednesday. June 2Oth. commencing at 10 a. m.
 A new time table, including several additional trains, will go into effect on the P. Rs4 N. E. road next Sunday. Elsewhere we publish skeleton time card of the trains which pass Canaan.
 There are wheelmen and wheel women enough in town to give a bicy- ole parade. Let's have parade by all means; it will be enjoyed by all, bicy- clists and spectators. Agitate the subject and set the date for the parade. The live stock and farming inn plements belonging to the Estate of Silas O Beers, deceased, will be sold at auction on Wednesday, June 20th. at 10 .. m. on the premises known as the East Street Farm in the town of Corn wall.
 Prof l.. W. Harvey, of Hartford, formerly of Canaan. has written and composed beautiful and charming piece of music called "The Lullaby. It is published by Pond of New York, and is on sale at Wander's Sons in Hart ford.
 It showed in Goshen. Saturday, and hail stones, as large as robins eggs, fell near the Brooks farm in Colebrook No damage done to crops.- Winsted Citizen. Tee, and hail storm also visited the vicinity of Barnes lime kilus in Canaan.
 Two postponed games of ball will be played this week on the Canaan Academy ground, viz; Sedgwick vs Academy this afternoon; Robbins vs. Academy Saturday. Rain prevented the game with Robbins last Saturday after one inning had been played.
 The June meeting of the Housa tonic Valley Methodist Ministers Asso citation, will be held at Lakeville. Tues day morning and afternoon. June 12 , The sermon will be delivered by the Rev. Berthold Seeholzer of Canaan. The essayist is the Rev. George H. Smith of Sheffield.
 -Ohildrens' Day will be observed on Sunday at the Methodist and Pilgrim CuuIOnOo bs lO oO h 1u6Ic VIII Dt appropriate exercises and addresses by the pastors and collections will be taken mp, in the Methodist church for the educational work of the Church and ir the Pilgrim church for the Church Publication Society.
 The Canaan Academy will give ar entertainment in Town Hall, next Tues day evening. Mrs Isabelle Hodgson elocutionist, of New York, will giv, recitations; Howell's farce. "The Reg ister" will be given; and the students O the school have prepared minstre performance. See the advertisement il another column for particulars.
 In reading our exchanges and ob serving their reports of Memorial Da. exercises in their respective towns ant vicinity we noticed that in some place simply ''a detail'' was sent to decorat the soldiers graves. Of course it Ii better to send "a detail" to perform public duty than to entirely neglect th duty. But that is not the way Nortl Canaan remembers her patriot dead This town does not send "a detail" t, strew flowers on the graves of her sol diers. To the credit of the town be said that the G. A. R. Post turns out il 8 body. and accompanied by tn Women's Relief Corps, and by goodl. number oi citizens, visits every cemeter. in town and at Ashley Falls ard decorate the soldiers graves. At each cemeter, the column is met by men, women ant children in waiting: and all py thei