Connecticut western news., 1897-03-11
THURSDAY. MARCH II, 1897.
Local News.

Mrs 0. H. Pease is visiting relatives at Griggsville, Ill.
 This week is the anniversary of the great blizzard of 1888.
 pr H. A. Church, of New York, spent the past week in town.
 -Beniamin Sedgwick has just chang cd his address from New Haven to Cornwall Hollow.
 Lew. Rhoades and Forrest May caught 27 pounds of pickerel on the Half River Monday.
 Miss Minnie Deming has been sui fering extremely with nervousness, but is improving slowly
 The ladies of the NJ. B. Society will have an Orange Tea in the church par lors, Tuesday evening, March 18th. , The Pilgrim Church has been call ed to meet at p. m. tomorrow to act on the question of supplying the pulpit for the ensuing year.
 The golden sunset last Saturday could hardly be called a Mckinley sum- set, for McKinley's sun has just risen for four years journey.
 lI-Miss Emma Coggswell, of Pitts field, Mass. has been spending few days of the past week with friends in Canaan and Great Burlington.
 -Pull-together is a great lubricant for oiling the machinery of public i'm provement Why not apply it in our town?-Dover Plains Review.
 Cecil Miles is now permanently To- cated at Ct Burlington as night tele graph operator A Mir Kilmer took Miles place at this station.
 Canaan stores were to be closed Tuesday and Thursday evenings until April 1st, but the law already seems to be off or has become dead letter.
 D 0. Whittlesey has been confn- ed to the house since Monday with a heavy cold and sore throat. but hopes to come to his office in day or two.
 Sexton Riley encountered about two and one half feet of frost in the ground while digging Abram Ferris grave in the lower cemetery last Satur- day.
 Geo. L. Parsons & Son have made improvements in their store, not the least of which is removing the cornice on the shelving and thus gaining more room.
 Miss Mary Gillette and Mir Edward Gillette, of Hartford. called on friends in Canaan last Monday while on theil way to Lee, Mass, to attend the funeral of Miss Amelia J. Kilbon.
 James Hanlon received telegram Monday that his sister, Mrs Mary Fer guson, had died that day at her home in Adams, Mass. Mir and Mrs Hanlor attended the funeral yesterday a Adams. Mrs Ferguson leaves two o, three small orphan children, Mir Fergu son having died short time ago.
 Rev T. E. Davies, manager of tht ministerial bureau ut New Haven preached in the Pilgrim church las Sunday morning and administered th' Sacrament of the Lords Supper. M Davies preached an excellent and time ly sermon from St. John XIII, z "What do thou knowest not now; bu thou shalt know hereafter"
 Jacob New, father of Jerry s New became an octogenarian last Saturday He is as lively as cricket.and is iu ful possession of all his mental faculties He was born at Ghent, N. Y. and ha always resided in that vicinity until tn past year when he came to Canaan t make his home with his son. Lik Jacob of bible history. Jacob of Chen belongs to long life race and he say that he had two sisters who each live to be nearly ninety-fve years of age.
 The meeting of Mountain Count Pomona Grange at Collinsville the 3 inst. was we'll attended and large clas instructed in the degree of Pomon' Worthy Lecturer l.. G. Humphreyvil had an excellent program, and on at count of lack of time many good paper and recitations were omitted I'll State Grange was represented by tf Worthy Master, Overseer, and B. Pattison. An increased attendance noticeable at these meetings and tho' not attending are losing much.
 The funeral of Dwight W. Leffin, we'll was largely attended at the Meth dist Episcopal church last Thursday 11.3O a. m. Many relatives and friend were present from out of town. Near every sitting in the church was take Rev B Seeholzer conducted the SC vices He preached brief but col forting sermon and paid afitting tribu to the christian character of the depar ed. The choir sang three hymns, viz "Nearer my God to Thee" "There no Night There," Lead, Kind Light" A large wreath of roses, earn tions and lilies, which was offered the M. E. Church, rested on the caske There was also an elegant boquet of e flowers, the gift of the teachers of tl High School where the deceased h been janitor number of years, Fl
 interment was in the lower cemeter The bearers were H. B. Stevens, J. Van Deusen, G. P. Strong. c. W. P
 sons, E. N. Brown, Frank Coon.