Connecticut western news., 1895-06-20
Local News.


 Watson Hardenbergh is spending few days in town.
 Miss Noble, of New Milford, is visiting at Judge Grapger's.
 Miss Grace Roraback has returned from school for the summer vacation.
 William l.. Brown and wife, of New York, are in town for two weeks vaca- ton.
 The frame for Norman Lawton's new house on Church street has been raised. Flag Day was observed by display ing "Old Glory" in many parts of our village.
 Tue ball game last Thursday on the Academy grounds resulted Sheffield Il, Canaan 21.
 The young ladies of the Hawthorne club went on 6 picnic to Twin Lakes last Thursday.
 Mrs Frederick Spaulding and daughter, of Norfolk, were guests at J. L. Bragg's over Sunday.
 Calvin Blodgett is cleaning up tho g ove at the toll bridge and transform ilg it into picnic ground.
 Samuel A. Eddy and family began to occupy their cottage at Twin Lakes last Monday for the season.
 -Messes E. D. Lawrence and H. c. Barnes returned from Saratoga Springs, N. Y, last Thursday evening.
 -E. P. Hunt & Go. will hold sale of jackets, capes and suits at Warner House parlors, June 27th and 18th.
 Miss Mabel l.. Watson returned on Thursday after an absence of several weeks in Bridgeport, Newtown, New York and New Haven.
 The graduating exercises of the Ca naan Academy will take place at the school room this afternoon at 30. The public cordially invited.
 For the first time in eight years, Otis Julian, the favorite comedian, will appear with the Julian Comedy Go. in Fanchon" on the 18th.
 In our news columns will be found reports of two notable events; the open ing of the Harlem ship canal and of the great Baltic-North Sea canal.
 Farmers attention! You are invited to call and examine tae many points of merit found in the Good Luck" cook stove for wood. J. H. Alvord, Winsted, Ct.
 A recent visitor at our office is the Connecticut Eastern News, of Mantle. Our contemporary is very bright and promising youngster not yet one year old. .- For the month of June, Deming the Photographer will make you doz cabinet photographs and 16x20 crayon for $4 5O These are genuine crayo not process prints.
 It is rumored that 0. M I4awler General Manager of the P. R. & N. B road, will give all the employees of the road free excursion from Hartford tt Twin Lakes on Sunday.
 Samuel G. Beckley, of New Yorl and Brooklyn, came to Canaan Monda. evening. On Tuesday he attended thu funeral of W. c. Kellogg at Falls Vii lage, and then returned to New York
 The many friends of Mrs Loani' Norton Smith, will be pained to learl of her death, the result of fall througl trap-door into a cellar which occurred at Loup City. Neb., May 29th. Sh seemed to be getting along as we'll 8 one could after such terrible accident . and had written few hopeful. cheerfu words to her sisters. But there was sudden change for the worse and on th 14th of June came the dispatch bring ing the sad pews that she had passe, away. To her family the loss is ire parable.
 We have been requested by one c the officials of the North Canaan Wate Go. to publish the following clippin from the New Britain items in tn Hartford Courant of the 18th, inst, ''fc the enlightenment" as he says, "e some of our citizens, who think ths when they pay their water rent, the are thereby entitled to all the wate manufactured by the Almighty" Tn board of water commissioners has d, cided to secure list of those persor who are in the habit of keeping a streal and sometimes far into the night, an those wasting water in this manner wi be charged double rates.
 We have been requested to sugge that it would be great convenience the public of this place if some be would quietly sell on the street ar deliver at the houses one or more of tl New York Sunday morning papers. is very disagreeable to be obliged to at the train Sunday mornings and compelled to join in the struggle ones paper. Now, we are inform, that there is boy here whose fath has been trying for several weeks pa to have his son supplied with one of u Sunday morning papers, but so far has been thwarted in one way al another by parties working in the inte est of the newsboy on the train. I does not wish to break up the railro newsboy's business. but lle thinks 1 son ought to have chance, both f his own sake and those of the pub who do not care to be compelled be at the train, wait for it, if it happe to be late, and join in the rough al