Connecticut western news., 1898-09-08
R.les ef Publication.
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 8. 1898
Local News.

-h- D oiHoo hnS o00h oPohuih6 week in New York.
 Robert Ellin of Yonkers, N. Twas in town Saturday.
 Miss Flora Cogg~well of Pittsfeld is visiting at Dr Lees.
 Misses Elsie and May Adams have returned to Goshen where they are teaching school.
 Louis E. Holt is at present occupy ing the position of bookkeeper for the Canaan Lime Go.
 Elmer Avis and wife of New Hay, n visited his brother, Dr Avis, from Fri dsy till Wednesday.
 -J. F. Bradford of Cornwall Hollow visited his sister, Mrs Ferdinand Beck Icy. here the past week.
 Mrs Weeks of New York, who has besn visiting her sister, Mrs Samuel Dutchsr. returned to the city on Mon- day.
 Mrs John G. Beckley has been con- AAed to the house for week with an agravated case of mercury poisoning in the face.
 John Decker did not ride at Spring held on Monday but will ride in tho bicycle races st Manhattan Beach on Saturday.
 An excursion train from Rhineoliff. '. Y. passed through Canaan Labor Day enrouts to Hartford. The train vas in charge of Conductor Collier.
 -Oswald Vosburgh, the busy clerk st Jackson, Eggleston < Co.'S. is enjoy : ing weeks vacation and with Mrs vosburgh will visit tho old home at ,Philmont. N. Y.
 Miss Ruth Langdon returned to her duties as stenographsr in New York on Monday after two weeks visit at her fathers, Calvin Langdon's, in Wes- togue district.
 The Labor Day parade in Canaan oonsistsd only of the two bands of Ma son & Downs 'Uncle Tom" .Co. The day WAS not observed by any of tha business places.
 --Letters remaining uncalled for at Canaan post office are addressed to Nim Della Casey, Mrs F. J. Oornelisse, Rev J. s. Graham, A. M. Hewitt, Mrs Ruth ". Robbins, Mrs Emma Warner. '- John Rodemeyer went to New Hav- on Tuesday to spend few days with his son, John -Rodemeyer, Jr. of tLs New Haven News. MT Rodemsyer. Sr. attended the G. A. R. re union in Bridgeport on Wednesday. The 3 per cent annual guarantee to tho stockholders of the Connecticut Western Railroad, which is being run under lease by the receiver of the Phil adelphia, Reading < New England Rail- road, was paid last Thursday.
 John Doten and wife of Clifton Park, N. T., and William Baldwin, wife and child of Cleveland, O., visited J. A. Underwood on Tuesday and went yesterday to MT Doten's farm in New Marlboro whore they will spend . week.
 Mason < Downs' Go. gave a good presentation of '.Uncle Tom Cabin" al tho Town Hall Monday night to a good sixed audience. The colored part o the company were especially good and rave m after concert after the regular performance. There were 9 perform sFs in the company.
 Jane. wife of John T. Bond, Sr died at Kingston, N. Y. Sept. 2, ages 77. 6ks VAS ill long time, but . fev months ago had fall from which sh' never entirely recovered. She was { native of England, but had lived ir Kingston thirty years. She is survived by her husband and several children among them being Rev Thomas Bono of HilleEton. N. Y.
 Mrs Frank Sackett died at Winstet on Tuesday of consunption. The flu neral will be held tomorrow afternoon ct the house in Winsted. Mrs Sacket vas formerly Miss Nettie J. Dcsn daughter of James E. Dean, the coa dealer in Winsted, and was . cousin t. Mrs Wallace Roberts. Mrs O. Fuile and Miss Lillie Root of this place. M Backett also has number of relative here, lie being . cousin of Merritt s 6paulding.
 Last Friday evening there wa another grand electrical display durin, tho showers which lasted from 6.30 p m. to 10 p. m. On Sunday eveninl thssss was also . grand electrical dis play, but neither showers did the dam ags in this vicinity that the ones c Aug. 1Sd did, nevertheless the shove tAat passed through Egremont an Hillsdals lsst Sunday evening sppeare to be terrific one as viewed from tn hilltops of Canaan.
 The past week has been . remarka bly torrid one notwithstanding shove has occurred every day or evening eI cept Monday. The humidity has bee fully e unbearable aa the heat an, with many persons life has been bur den. Even the mercury has appeare, languid and did not develope ambitio enough to travel more than seven dc grees and has loafed among the nine ties. Here is the mercury record fc the past week: Thursday 95', Frida 9l, Saturday 93, Sunday 9l, Monda 89. Tuesday 8S. yesterday 90, droppe