Connecticut western news., 1894-12-20
Local News.

Mrs Harriet Sisson, of Hartsville, Mass, is visiting friends in Canaan.
 Miss Tuckerman of Jamestown, N. r., is visiting her sister, Mrs s. A. Eldy.
 Mrs J. J. Bailey and her daughter, Miss Hettie, of Rockville, are guests at E. $ Roots.
 w. N. Rogers has opened tea and coffee store in the basement of the Pequigney house.
 James McCarty. who has the ty- phoid fever. is getting along as well as could be expected.
 The Canaan Academy cl osed yes. terday for the holiday vacation and will reopen Jan. 3, 1895.
 Special Sale-Unusual bargains Thirty parlor Stoves at cost at J. H. Alvord.s, Winsted, Ct.
 J. Fl. Roraback and his mother and sister moved into their new house on Prospect Ave. last Thursday.
 Invitations are out for the we'd ding of Mir Frank H. Langdon and Miss Mary F. Lewis for Thursday eve ming, December 27th. at 8 o'clock.
 The Social Assembly met at Town Hall, Tuesday evening. Dancing was the order. Music by Baldwin's orches- tra.
 The election of officers of Housa- tonic Lodge, No. 61 F. & A. M will be held at the lodge room on Saturday evening Dec. %. Refreshments will be served.
 The building destroyed by the fire of Sunday morning was something of 8 landmark, having been the law and pro- bate office of Judges Granger and Har- denbergh.
 James Madden, of Waterbury, and his son are seriously Ill with typhoid fever. Yesterday reports, however. were more hopeful. especially as regards the sons condition.
 Just at present the freight traffic is booming on the P. R. & N. E. and frequent and long trains with tive locomotives go east. A large amount of grain is being hauled.
 The schools in district No. 2 will close on Friday for weeks vacation. There will be exercises by the children in Mrs Roots room to-day, and in Mrs Pease's on Friday at p. m.
 Mir Stalker and family have moved away from Miss Weltha Ann Beckley' s farm. Miss Beckley Is staying at Will liam Brayen's for awhile or until anoth- CT family can be found to occupy her farm and care for her.
 John Fitzgerald. who has been living in the West for several years and most of the time at Valparaiso. %Nebr. is expected home to spend Christmas Perhaps he will not go West again. as he is thinking of remaining in Canaan an indefinite time.
 The Holiday reception will be held at Town Hall, Thursday evening, Dec 27. Many invitations have been sent and large party Is expected. May B banjo quartette, of Bridgeport, will fur nish music. R. J. Steele, of Pittsfeld, will prompt
 Joseph l.. Shipley, who, until about two years ago, was editor and principal proprietor of the Springfield Union. died suddenly of heart disease at his residence in Springfield, Mass, early Monday morning. aged 5S years. His wife survives him.
 Newell c. Benjamin, aged 37 years, ajeweler by trade, committed suicide by shooting himself at his home in Pittsfeld, Mass, on Monday morning. The cause was insanity. MT Benjamin was native of Egremont. He leaves a widow and three children.
 Mrs s. Stoddard fell on the stairs at the residence of Joseph W. Peet. on Tuesday, while slightly dizzy. She was considerably jared, but sustained no serious injury and will sit up in a day or two. Her granddaughter, Miss Fan ny Bostwick, of VanDeusen, Mass, came here yesterday to be with her.
 Frank O. Andrus, aged B years, died at his home in Pittsfeld, Mass, on Monday morning after long illness. MT Andrus was born in Sheffield, and lived there until six years ago when be removed to Pittsfeld. He was engaged in the monumental business. He leaves widow, and one daughter by his first wife.
 Cards have been received here an. nouncing that the marriage of Ml Joseph L. Parsons, of Lincoln, Nebr., formerly of Canaan, Conn, and Miss Clara, daughter of MT and Mrs I. E Baldwin, of Des Moines, Iowa, vii take place at the First Methodis Church in Des Moines on Wednesda, morning Dec. 26, at 10 o'clock.
 James Quinn is lucky man; luck, because the stock in his harness shaI was not destroyed by fire last Sunda, morning. For sixteen years Mir Quinn has carried an insurance on his stocl but last Monday morning he discover cd that by an oversight his policy of in surance expired Nov. 3 and had no been renewed.