Connecticut western news., 1894-05-31

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 The ladies of the Pilgrim church took in a little more than S43 at theil strawberry tea last week Wednesday night.
 MT Minot Bridgham, of Arlington Heights, Mass, is now teaching at the Canaan Academy. Mir and Mrs Hols have gone,
 | The roof of the town hall leaks like sieve; and J. L. Bragg can tell you why it leaks, yea, verify, can tell you why this is thus.
 Mrs R. O. Ware. who has been with her father, MT Lyman Dunping, for several weeks, returned to her home at Wayne, Pa, on Friday.
 MT and Mrs George Owen, of New York, are expected this week at MT k c. Newton's, to make visit. Mir Owen is brother of Mrs Newton.
 -Rovs H. Utterwick and c. D. Milli- ken exchanged last Sunday morning. Mir Utterwick preached an excellent sen mon from Psalms CXIX. 32. A bunch of sweet peas in each room, renewed each day, will kill every fly in the house, says au exchange. If this is so, lettuce have peas! The more the better.
 James Cowles, of Norfolk, began running au express wagon between Norfolk and this village on Tuesday. The wagon arrives here in time for the 9. 40 a. m. trains.
 Rev Dr Hartley, of Great Barring ton, will preach the annual sermon to Canaan Academy at Christ church on Sunday evening. June 10th. The public cordially invited to attend.
 The marriage of MT Howard F. Landon. law partner of Hen. Donald T. Warner, of Salisbury, to Miss Juliette W. Landon, of Salisbury, is announced to take place on the 9th. prox.
 All interested. both ladies and gentlemen, in improving the town hall lawn are requested to meet on the lawn st o'clock on Friday evening and de- eide said question of improvements.
 -Theresre fifteen hundred doctors in Connecticut, and President Edgerton of the State Medical society makes the assertion that the majority of them have not diplomas. as.-Danbury News. Don't find too much fault with She present condition of the Main St. cross ing on the P. R. & N. E. road. Section Boss Tierney said. "I am trying to do something with nothing to do it with".
 The wheelman do not not think that the dirt sidewalks on West Main street have been improved by the work recently laid out on them, but they are thankful for the improvements made in the walks on Railroad St.
 "A son of Newton Beebe has the scarlet fever, but is doing well Messes Funk and Beardsley have each had a little daughter sick with the same disease (they are convalesoent) and their houses are now quarantined.
 On May 25 few of the young people of Canaan Valley spent the eve ming with Miss Abbie Stevens in honor of her twenty first birthday. All had good time and enjoyed themselves very much for Abbie Is good hostess.
 Mountain Country Pomona Grange will met with East Canaan Grange, June 6, at tho town hall. The lecturers hour will be open to the public at l p. m. All are invited. J. H. Hale is ex- pected to take part in the discussion of taxation.
 The United States supreme court has recently decided that local taxes or licenses levied on peddlers, when they come from other states, are uncon- stitutional No state can levy tax or interstate commerce in any form" !" says the court.
 -"Business Is quiet here and money hard to collect but can't get along without the Conn. Western, so writes gentle man in Eastern Massachusetts, as he banks down his two dollars. Our subscribers constantly drop into that style of language.
 Please do not grumble because the NEWS is somewhat late to press this week. The composltors are musicians and their services were required by the G. A R. on Memorial Day, consequently not line of type was set in this office on Wednesday. Furthermore 1t be- comes necessary to defer some com munications until next issue.
 Judge Fenn has decided the suit of E. D. Lawrence, Adm. vs. The Canaan Savings Bank and Thomas Dahill, tried before him last week. The court de- cides that there was no valid gift of the money on deposit by the wife to the husband, as was claimed, but that the husband is statutory trustee of the original deposit during bis life and absolute owner of the income which accrued on the deposit during the marriage. The original deposit is S350 % and the income amounts to about $500.
 Intoxicated men are frequently seen on the streets and some of the singing and shouting heard during the night is caused by beer or liquor. When the Rev 0. D. Milliken was going home from the village last Saturday evening he found drunken man asleep on the railroad track. He hardly had time tC drag the man of the track before { freight train passed. There is no reason to think that liquor is sold in ever.