Connecticut western news., 1897-04-22
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THURSDAY. APRIL 22, 1897.
Local News.

-George P. Strong's house is being painted.
 -Hymen Jacobs and Mrs Jones a' @ still on the sick list, but are improving. John Nicoll and family will occupy Mrs Louise Halls house on Grove Ave. Fight hard times with good roads; wherever they are built prosperity fol- lows.
 The Misses Norton are having concrete sidewalk laid in front of their house.
 Mrs w. A. Mackey and daughter, Miss Mary, are visiting at Mrs J. s. Corbit's.
 -J. G. Root has been sick week withthe humps. He is improving but does not venture out.
 Lawyer Henry E. Burton and Miss Burton, of Middletown, spent Easter at Mrs M. I. Granger's.
 John Rodemeyer has improved his premises by building piazza on the main part of his house.
 The North Canaan Water Go. is ex tending the two inch pipe from Gran ite avenue to Bragg street.
 Mrs Partridge, of Thompsonville, has been visiting her brother, D. l.. Freeman, since last Friday.
 John D. Seacord and family, of Lee, Msss., visited friends in Canaan from Friday until Monday evening.
 Blessed is the man who has s'got the rocks" for he may crush them and build macadam road.-L. A. W.Bulle- tin.
 Mir and Mrs Ellsworth Ross, from Bakers Mills in the Adirondacks, are visiting Mr Ross brother, Dr Ross, in Canaan.
 HI. B. Stevens yesterday re-captur- ed calf which had been out in the wild for two weeks. It was four weeks old when it escaped.
 -One of the selectmen has solved the problem of what to do with the band stand. He facetiously says "hoist it upon the roof of the Town Hall and make cupola of it.
 There are fifty-six subscribers on w. H. Can6eld's Canaan local tele- phone exchange, and connection can also be made with host of offices in Norfolk, Winsted, Torrington and Falls Village.
 Mrs Sarah Smith. of Smith Hill, (Salisbury) has been in very poor health but for the past two weeks or more has been resting at the home of her brother and sister, Frederick and Mary Gillette. in Canaan and has greatly inn proved.
 For the benefit of New Workers wishing to spend the Sabbath in Berk shire the Consolidated railroad will soon put on a special which will leave New York city every Saturday at o'clock and returning leave this city Sunday evening. The special will stor bU RtAACAP0A ouuACI IO0OI hlOuk bue route. Pittsfeld Call.
 Twenty two people from this towr heard the concert by Sousa's band al Winsted Tuesday afternoon. There were also good sized delegations from Salisbury and Norfolk. Everyone re ported the music as grand, being spec ially impressed by the solos by M Frank He'll, feugel horn, Arthur Pryor trombone, and Miss Martina Johnstone violin. A large audience was presen at the Opera House.
 A quiet home wedding took plac, at the home of TsF. Bigelow on tn East Canaan road yesterday morning the contracting parties being William Jamieson Thomson and Miss Bessie R Bigelow Rev H Utterwick oficiated Only the immediate relatives wer present. The happy couple departe' on the 10 o'clock train for Springfield Mass where Mir Thompson is employ ed. We wish years of happiness t "Jim' and his bride.
 The cold wave struck Canaan abou o'clock Monday afternoon, and o Tuesday morning the mercury register ed only sixteen degrees above Zero These are remarkable figures for tn 2Oth of April but it is not thought ths the fruit crop in Litchfeld county wi be injured as the buds are not very ia advanced. In Hartford county it thought the peach crop is greatly dan aged and that fruit of all kinds is injul ed, and even tobacco plants have sufiel ed. This Wednesday afternoon tn temperature is mild and pleasant.
 A number of people, who are keel ing their lawns in good shape, thu adding much to the beauty and attra' tiveness of our village, are much anno ed by men and children running aero these lawns. We have the lawns Christ Church and Junius Rhoades pa ticularly in mind. We trust this pra tice will be discontinued. It would we'll if parents and school teache would caution their children and pupi not to do so any more and the grow people can caution themselves. Ar right here we would suggest that if ol town fathers, the Honorable board Selectmen, would lay out the lot front of the town hall as nice law and keep people off the grass publ opinion would cordially sustain ther Al it is now that lot is an unsightly Q jeos.