Connecticut western news., 1896-03-19
Local News.

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 Charles Rodemeyer. of South Nor walk, was in town over Sunday.
 The dancing class was postponed from Tuesday until this evening, Thurs day.
 -Townsmen, prepare to meet Col lector Adams! Read his tax notice again.
 -Acel F. Rood has traded of one of his horses and now has matched team.
 Mrs George Oles. of Tryingham, Mass. visited friends in this place from Friday till Monday.
 The Weaver family are all recover ing from scarlet fever except little Ray mond who is still very sick.
 A pale rainbow was visible in the sky yesterday afternoon. The sun was shining through thin clouds at the time.
 IN. L. Jackson salesman for Hotch- kiss { Eggleston, NJ llerton N. r., was in town Monday on business for the firm.
 Mrs A. W. Nicoll entertained the young married people Friday night by . sleigh ride to Falls Village and sup per at the Inn.
 The ladies of the M. E Church will serve an orange tea at the NJ. E. church parlors Wednesday evening, March 25th. from to o'clock.
 Albert French is very ill with complication of diseases at the home of his father, F. W. French. Albert is very weak and his case is hopeless.
 Mrs Frank Hitchcock has the measles. Johnny Kemp is recovering from measles. and now his sister Leither is sick with what will probably prove to be measles.
 Rev E. Fl. W. Barden. who was pastor of the NJ. E. church in this v1l- , lage about 15 years ago, died very sud- denly of pneumonia at Croton, N. r., two weeks ago.
 Rev Nathan Hubball, D. D., of Brooklyn, N. r.. delivered his lecture on "What saw in Palestine" at the NJ. E. church Tuesday evening to a fair sized and appreciative audience.
 Mir Lyman Dunning had two con- vulsions Monday morning. but rallied partially and was brighter on Tuesday. Yesterday he was not feeling quite so well, although not decidedly worse.
 -Temperature at Camps drug store in this village at 6 a. m. each day dur ing the past week was as follows: Fri day above zero; Saturday below 1; Sunday above; Monday 20 above; Tuesday 22 above; Wednesday above. At South Norfolk last Friday morning the mercury was 1S below Zero, and l5 below on Saturday morning. Ten be- low at Clayton Saturday morning.
 Charles Nickerson and family will move this week from this village to the Parks farm between Ashley Falls and Chapinville. and John Fl. Pulver and family will move from said farm to D. w. Manvel's farm about two miles west of Sheffield. The Nickersons have bought span of horses and will con tfnue to attend church in Canaan and purchase their supplies from Canaan merchants.
 In spite of the severe snow storm Monday about twenty persons, mostly ladies, attended the meeting of the Monday Evening Club at s. " Barnes. The program consisted of ' piano duet by Mrs Bierce and Miss Genie VanDeusen, a paper on ..Tele graphy and Telephony" by H. M Adams, a solo song by Mrs Bierce, z reading, Talking through the. tele. phone," Mark Twain, by Miss S. w Adam and two solo songs by A. W Nicou.
 MT Murray G., Hoag celebrated yesterday the S5th anniversary of hi birth, and he thinks that he carrie4 more years than any other man in towI nevertheless he is remarkably we'll ant active. His eyesight Is good; he shave himself twice a week and frequentl, walks to Ashley Falls and return. NJ Hoag was born at Dover, N. Y., Marcl IS, 1911 and came to Canaan in Nov ember 1843. He says that in choler times in 1882 he voted for Genera Jackson We hope he will celebrat many more anniversaries of his Dir. b
 A snow storm commenced here a 2 p. m on Sunday and continued unti II o'clock Monday evening. About l inches of snow fell and in some place drifted badly. Trains on the Housa tonic road Tuesday ran nearly ol schedule tune but during tn forenoon the trains on the R. & N. E. road were demoral ized, the train leaving Winsted at 7.3 g. m. being stalled over an hour in drift about two miles west of Winste but during the afternoon all trains wer nearly on time. It was the heavies snow fall of the season, and made ez cellent sleighing.
 Rev T. F. Bannon officiated at S Joseph's church Sunday morning an preached very useful sermon on th text "Thou shalt love thy neighbor 8 thyself.n He also announced that was expected that the bishop woul visit this station and administer confil nation to the children on one of tl Sundays of May. The reverend gentl