Connecticut western news., 1897-08-12

Heating bicycle.
 Alfred Moon and wife, of New York, were in town Monday.
 Louis E. Holt returned Monday to Eastman college, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
 M Callahan and family, of Holy oke, Mass, were at Wm. Shields over Sunday.
 Miss Grace Yorker and Robert Ren- free. of Winsted, spent Sunday at Law renee Yorkers.
 IN. s. Stevens, of E. st Canaan, who has been ill with catarrhal pneumonia, is able to be out.
 The Connecticut Sunday School Association will hold an all-day session at Pine Grove Camp Ground, Tuesday, August 31.
 Frederick Goodrich, wife and daughter, of New Britain, have been spending the past week at Charles En- mons.
 Ed. Adams has recently built very fine tandem cycle at his repair rooms. It is the first wheel ever built in Canaan.
 Jared Bradley and wife and MT Braman drove from Ct. Burlington Sunday and spent the day with J. J. Bailey and family.
 Mrs Ellen Dodge, mother of George A. Dodge, was taken to the Bridgeport hospital Monday, where she will be treated for paralysis.
 Rev Fr Powers, of Boston, officiat- ed at St. Joseph's on Sunday. His dis course was an argument for the cause of Catholic journalism.
 Our town hall building has been painted during the past week. The colors are light fawn for the body and dark green trimmings.
 We have been informed that Con- ductor Flank Smith, of the P. R. & N. E., was married last Friday to Mrs datClo TarSOnS or W1nSGeQs
 A very interesting article on sub- scription management appears in News paperdom, Aug. 5, written by Charles A. King of the Berkshire Courier.
 The Misses Anna and Florence Becker, of Seneca Falls, N. r., school mates of Miss Mary K. Watson at St. Agnes, Albany, N. r., are visiting at Junius Rhoades'.
 A camping party consisting of H B. Ives, B. A. Peirce, W. D. Lawrence. l.. Rhoadcs, Jas. Hanlon, D. F. May, N. l. Jackson and the cook, are enjoy ing life on the shore of the south lake at Twin Lakes this week. / The P. R. & N. E. road will com- mence rapid transit over the Pough- keepsie bridge this week, running a train every hour from Poughkeepsie to Pratt's Mill. The dummy engine and cars to be used in the service passed through Canaan yesterday.
 The selectmen have had the sluices near James Reels cleared out. It is reported that they are to have the bushes cut along the sides of the high way near the Anchor Lime Go. kiln and we devoutly hope the report is true. At present the chances of any pedestrian to be run into by some bicyclist are good.
 William O. Phelps, of Winsted, was in town last week on his way to Ohio. Mir Phelps will be ninety years old Sept. l. It took MT Phelps thirteen hours to go to Ohio the other day. Eighty-six years ago he first went to Ohio and it took him forty days. He went with his father and mother in wagon drawn by two oxen and horse. Mir Phelps taught school in Canaan ffty-six years ago.
 "A quiet wedding took place at the home of Reuben Stewart Saturday night when his daughter, Ella, was married to Franklin N. Brown, former ly in the railroad office here but now in the office of the Calledonian Insurance Go, New York. Rev B. Seeholzer per formed the ceremony. Mir and Mrs Brown went to New York Sunday after noon. and were sent off by salute of railroad torpedoes by Franks railroad friends.