Connecticut western news., 1897-05-20
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THURSDAY. MAY 20, 1897.
Local News.

Mrs s. A. Kemp is improving.
 Mrs AT. Roraback spent last week in Hartford.
 Patrick Finnegan's house, corner of Gillette and Reed streets, is being painted.
 During the past week bicycle path has been made from this village to Riverside Park.
 Mrs Ellen Fitch, of Sheffield, Mass, has been visiting Mrs l.. A. Caldwell the past two weeks.
 -George l.. Parsons is having his house painted a lily green shade with straw color trimmings.
 The ladies of the Methodist Church cleared about $33 at their strawberry tea Tuesday evening.
 Editor Rodemeyer. of the staff of the New Haven Palladium, was in town last Friday and Saturday.
 -R. R. Smith, of New Hartford, was a guest at Robert Little's from Satur- day afternoon to Sunday afternoon.
 Mrs Hotchkiss, mother of F. A. Hotchkiss, of Millerton, N. Y is in very poor health and is gradually failing. She is boarding at the hotel in Sharon.
 -E J. Lorrain is having a severe at tack of quinsy. He has been ill about 8 week. The swelling in his throat has broken on one side and now appears to be gathering on the other side.
 Miss Jennie Evans celebrated her fourth birthday on Tuesday by giving a party to number of her little girl friends. All enjoyed the good supper and the games. Miss Evans received many handsome presents.
 -J. M. Cornell and two of his grand children, from Lakeville, visited Ca naan Tuesday. MT Cornell attended the Grant monument dedication at New York and can give an interesting and enthusiastic description of what he witnessed on that occasion.
 MT A V. A. Felten. formerly of the Summit Knitting Mill, is straight ening up Jackson & Eggleston's dry goods stock and purchasing new goods. Hereafter the people of Canaan and vicinity will find at this store more complete line of dry goods. dress trim mings, ribbons, faces, etc., than ever before.
 A delegation from David s. Cowles Post will attend the ceremonies which will be held at the grave of General Sedgwick in Cornwall Hollow on Mon- day, May 31, when a bronze Greek cross will be placed on the monument by the organization of the Sixth Army Corps.
 On Memorial Sunday, May 30, patriotic services will be held in the Congregational church at East Canaan at p. m. Rev Henry Utterwick will preach the sermon. David s. Cowles Post and the Woman's Relief Corps will attend in a body, and the public are cordially invited.
 Some persons think that the rain. bow in the east at sunset on the 10th inst. was the most beautiful and perfect one they ever saw. One nearly as gor geous appeared at sunset on the 18th inst. On both occasions the sunset was a golden one. not excelled by the far-famed Italian sunsets.
 The east bound passenger train or the P. R. & N, E. road was four hours late on Sunday. The delay was caused by the work of putting in new iror bridge at Gallatinville. One of the trusses for this bridge passed through this place one day last week. It was SC long that three flat GETS were required to transport it.
 The hunters interested in the prop agatlon of the pheasants in this neigh borhood have been attempting the ex termination of foxes on the bird pre- serve. The sportsmen are pretty cer tain that willy Reynard has been dining off the carefully reared birds whicl were liberated few weeks ago. Or Monday extensive operations were in dulged in to make MT Fox come out o his hole but we are unable to learn tha the scheme was successful.
 James Finch, the Millerton mer chant who was stricken with paralysi the 3d inst, is steadily improving an, 1t is expected that he will fully recover MT Finch is great uncle of F. R. Col lin, of Canaan, and as soon as Mir Col lin learned of MT Finch's illness h went to Millerton and has since bee assisting the clerks in Mir Finch's store However, another clerk will soon b permanently secured as Mir Collin can not much longer be absent from hi jewelry store in Canaan.
 Rev B. Seeholzer made the famine stricken people of India the subject an earnest and eloquent appeal at tn Methodist church Sunday morning He depicted the sufferings of those poo people in such vivid way and argue, so convincingly in their behalf that tn sum of $98. .75 was raised by subscrip tion among the members of his congre gation in the next two days. It 8 happened that SIT had already bee forwarded for the same object by on or two members of the congregation thus making the amount contribute by the Methodists for the relief of th starving people 9116.75.