Connecticut western news., 1898-03-31
Rules of Publication.
THURSDAY. MARCH 31, 1898.
Local News.

-Wangum National Bank would be a good name for bank at Canaan.
 Mrs s. A. Eddy has been quite ill during the past week but was better yesterday
 The Orange Tea at the M D. church parlors last Friday evening net ted about $20.
 A letter addressed to Miss Emma Stanton was advertised at Canaan post office March 29.
 Three or four new coaches will be put on the P. R. & N E. railroad in about two weeks.
 Henry c. Warner, of Great Bar rington, visited friends in town last Thursday and Friday.
 Mrs Levi W. Beckley will board at the Warner House for short time before leaving Canaan.
 R. D. Peirce & Co.'S. sash and blind factory closed last Friday for an indefi- nite time for lack of orders.
 Rev James s. Ellis, of Sheffield, Mass, will preach in Christ church this evening. Service at 7.30
 The Barnum. Richardson Go. ship ped GOO tons of pig iron to the rolling mills in Altoona, Pa. last week.
 Gay Hallock, of Goshen, who gain ed prominence in recent cattle deal, is very i'll at his home in Goshen with appendicitis.
 Tt is rumored that signal station and search light will be placed on Prospect Hill in the near future Lakeville Journal.
 The NEWS has received from Con- gressman Hill 8 quantity of garden seed. for free distribution to those who desire them. Call and get package.
 Alfred Herriman has bought match for his fast pacer. It is young mare and arrived last Thursday from Ogdensburgh, N. r., in charge of Thomas Herriman
 According to Superintendent Mar tin, of the old Connecticut Western, now the Philadelphia, Reading & New England road, work on the Tariffyille extension to Springfield will begin in six weeks.
 Please remember that the CoNNEc- TIoUT WESTERN NEWS office is the place to get auction posters printed. Neat and handsome work done promptly and at reasonable price. A free notice in the NEWS will be given our patrons
 A man who says he was shooting at tin can in his back yard caused con- siderable excitement in his locality last week because some of the bird shot travelled quite distance and came un- comfortably near another man who was standing in his barn door.
 The N r., N H. & H. R R. company will soon publish their Book of Hotels and Boarding Houses along the line There is no charge for having descrip- ton of your hotel or boarding house in this book and if there is anyone near here who wants to board summer peo- pie, hand in your name to the station agent before April 10.
 -Dr George Beebe was not in town last Thursday as usual. The evening previous at his home in Salisbury, while buckling the girt to his horse, the strap broke and the force of the doctors pull ing suddenly drove his thumb into his eye. The injury was very painful and Doctor Wm. Bissell of Lakeville was called and relieved Doctor Beebe's suf-. fering. It is not thought that any per- manent injury to the sight will result.
 -The NEWS office is now equi pped with local and long distance telephones. For two or three years it has been con- nected with Canfeld's 8 line which reach. es all parts of Canaan and extends to Twin Lakes, Ashley Falls, Clayton and Konkapot and connects with Norfolk, Winsted, Torrington and Falls Village. Last Thursday Southern New Eng land Co.'S telephone was also placed in the NEWS office. Now, from far and near. whenever you want an advertise ment placed in the paper or want job printing done with neatness and dis patch, just ring up the NEWS office.
 A movement Is on foot to establish bank at Sharon, and more thsn 20 persons have already endorsed the movement. Canaan needs bank more than any other place in this section ;and, by the way, the subject is being quietly talked up. Besides local depositors, the people of Sheffield, Ashley Falls. Clay ton, East Canaan and Norfolk could transact their banking business more conveniently at Canaan than at any other point. A good large bank vault could also store the town and probate records A convenient building lot can now be secured before other par ties purchase it. Now is the time to act. Don't delay and in future say 'It might have been.p If Sharon isix miles from anywhere and everywhere, and without railroad facilities) can es tablish bank, then certainly Canaan at the junction of two railroads ought to have enterprise enough to establish bank and build vault large enough to accommodate the town and probate records, the savings banks records, and valuable papers, documents, iewelry and silverware which individuals would be glad to store in safety deposit