Connecticut western news., 1898-06-09

Warner House.
 The Mcfarland boarding school at Cornwall wilfclose the 15th inst. ,and in n Mir and Mrs Mac Farland will re- move to Newtown where Mir Mac Far land will open a day school next fall.
 After so or more days of rain Ca naanites commenced to agitate the ques- tion of sprinkling the streets. No won der that Canaan Is no license place when its people love water so much.
 Mrs John c. Roraback and Miss s. J. Roraback took possession of the Briggs place on Granite Ave. yesterday. That ought to answer the many inquir- les as to who has bought the property.
 pr Ross has given Mrs Geo. R. Wilcox setting of pheasant's eggs which she proposes 10 hatch out and then iberate the young pheasants in the vicinity of Pine Grove camp ground.
 The 9 40 train going east on the P. R < N. E. road Monday morning was 35 minutes late. The engine got out of order at Chapinville and the train had to wait for the switcher which was sent from here.
 -E R Doup and family of Brook lyn, N. Y, arrived last Thursday and took possessi on of Mrs Thomas Bon- ner's house for the summer. Mir and Mrs Bonner are boarding at George H. VanDeusen's.
 Mrs Hiram Eddy is removing all her farm buildings from the south side of East Main street. Some of said buildings will be located on the north side of said street, but number of rods further east.
 Rev H. I. Bodley and family of Stamford are expected to arrive in Ca- naan to-day. Mrs Bodley and daugh- ters will board at Mrs Williams during the summer, and Mir Bodley and son will camp at Twin Lakes.
 -Wm. A. Beattie of Ware, Mass, has purchased Hughes & Co.'S marble and granite business at Ashley Falls, Mass. He will arrive at Ashley Falls in week or two and then his advertise ment will appear in the NEWS.
 P c. Cummings has been afflicted more or less with rheumatism for three weeks and during the past week has been confined to his room. His sons wife, Mrs s. C. Cummings of Norwalk has been taking care of him since last Thursday.
 A large band of gypsies were camp ed out on the Ashley Falls road about a mile out of Canaan on Sunday night. They have eight or ten wagons, some of them fine ones too, and the party num- Der about thirty-five. They have also lot of nice-looking horses.
 About dozen prominent men in this village have joined The League of American Sportsmen, an organization whose object is to cooperate with any state or local organizations for the pro- lection of fish and game and song birds, also to see that the laws are en- forced.
 -Children's Day at the Pilgrim church next Sunday. A sermon will be preached to children by the pastor at 1C 30 a. m. and consecration of children in baptism. The front seats will be reserved for children. Parents will please have them present. At p. m. there will be concert given by the Sunday school.
 Several Canaan young men are get ting things in shape preparatory to put ting mp cottage over at Twin Lakes on the point near the spring and the old camp grounds. It will be a two- story building, with four bedrooms up stairs and kitchen and front room down stairs, together with large ve- randa around the front of the building. Mrs Esther s. Dunning has been boarding with her sister, Mrs Bronson, in East Canaan but has now gone to E. M. Rood's near Clay ton to remain un- til September or while Mrs Bronson's house is filled with city boarders. Mrs af ct er1, to endure the noise and excitement con- nected with summer boarding house, and Mir and Mrs E. NJ Rood's quiet home is just the restful place Mrs Dun- ming needs.
 HI. M Adams, Supt. Hartford County Temporary Home for Dependent Children, kindly furnishes the NEWS a record of snow storms during the past winter. For number of years Mir Adams has contributed similar records. We always find them interesting, and we gladly publish them. By the way, in letter accompanying the record of snow storms, MT Adams writes: "We are all well today. and our children number 88-between ages of three and thirteen years"
 Last week Tuesday man named Wright was at the depot buying calves at 7c pound, the highest price for years. This week farmers came from all around, there being very large number here, but Wright did not turn up. The best price that they could get was 5sc and the majority of the stock sold at 5c. As it was H. B. Stevens and H. R. Bunnell bought up about 65 calves and ten or twelve men had to leave without being able to sell their calves.