Connecticut western news., 1895-02-21

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 -E. E. Bartram and family moved into their new house on East Main St. on Monday.
 Special ten days salel l2qt. galvanized pails l4c. Alvord's, Win sted, Conn.
 The closing hop of the Social As sembly will be held in Town Hall, Tues day evening. Feb. 26.
 Ladies attention Special sale of granite ware, low prices. at J. Fl. Alvord's, Winsted, Conn.
 Mrs Jansen and her little daughter, of Bridgeport. are spending the week at August Anderson's on Tobey Hill.
 Nils, Mary Joyce IS presiding at the "ticker" in the telegraph office during the absence of Miss Murnane.
 A party of sixteen persons from this village drove down to Lime Rock Tuesday night to see the play "Betsey Bobbett."
 MT and Mrs John Fitzgerald end two children, who have been visiting at Patrick Fitzgerald's, returned 10 their home in Valparaiso, Nebraska, on Mon- day.
 -Mr Nicoll has had to postpone his ballad concert till Saturday evening, Feb. B, when it will be given in Town Hall. Doors open at 2, performance at 8 o'clock.
 -Lent-welcome Lent-which calls . halt on the dissipations of the winter season, will arrive next Wednesday, but in the meantime there Is full quota of entertainments.
 Louis W.Arnold, of Braintree, Mass, joined the faculty of the Canaan Acad- emy on Monday. MT Arnold is grad uate f93) of Tufts college and has studied Tn France and Germany.
 Harry Sedgwick. of Cornwall Hol- low. by special invitation delivered his lecture entitled "Good Citizenship" be- fore the Y. P. s. c. E. in the Congrega- tional church at New Milford last Sun day evening.
 If you are going to have an auction tbis spring remember that we print the best bills at reasonable rates and furnish . good notice in this paper free, which, with it's large circulation, does as much good as the bills.
 The annual Academy entertainment will be given in Town Hall, Monday evening. Feb 25 Songs by the Glee Club and couple of good farces are the main attractions. Twenty-Five cents to any part of the Hall.
 .r An exchange says very few people know how to cook canned peas and string beans. In order to make them palatable the brine should be poured of and the contents of the can thoroughly washed with clean water.
 Harry Nicoll took the scholars oi the East Canaan school to Lime Rock Tuesday afternoon in a sleigh with four horses. They drove through thls vii lage in great style. screaming and way. ing large American flag.
 An there, Sunny South! A foot and half of snow fell at New Orleans. La, last Thursday. Business was suspended entirely. and it is thought the early fruit and vegetable crops are rnined and the loss will be great.
 A big hog was slaughtered at the Brick Block Hotel in Millerton las Thursday. Some small bets were made on the weight of the hog, some estimat ed it to weight not over $50 pounds The hog tipped the scales at 631 pounds
 Charles E Darling. now in advance of the New Orleans Speciality Go. wa. in town last week. He says Canaan seems very familiar to him, he having been here II years ago with the Guy Family, again with Stenson's r. T. Co and also with Pat Murphy. He take Mir Little's place with the Silvernai show.
 The annual meeting of the Win sted Christian Endeavor Union will b held at Winsted, March 18th, afternoon and evening Meetings will be held il the Baptist church at 15 p. m. and a the Methodist church at 2 p. m. Specis efforts are being made to make tn meeting grand success. All delegate desiring to stay over night will be CD tertained free by local endeavorers.
 The evening whist clnb met at tn residence of Frank Van Deusen last Err day night. There was the usual larg attendance, ten tables being occupied and the occasion was much enjoyed b all. The first prizes were elegant, th second ones funny, and the ice crear and cake delicious and abundant. Tn :. next meeting. which will also be th last of the series, will be held at tn Warner House tomorrow Friday )nigh Mrs Warner entertaining.
 -Tidings were received in this vi laRe on Monday that Mrs William ! Noble, Of New Milford, had died at he home in that place on Saturday, ( pneumonia. Mrs Noble, nee Minnie I Henry, was born in Morrisania, N. Y about 30 years ago. Her father. th late Alexander Henry, was brother-ir law of the late Frederick Watson, ( this place. and Mrs Noble, in formt years, often spent the summer at NJ
 Watson's. having large circle of friend in this town. In 1883 she married N William N. Noble, the well known Ne