Connecticut western news., 1898-11-24
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER a4. 1898.
Local News.

LOCdl NCWS.
 E-Thanksgiving ball tonight, $l pel couple.
 -F. J. Abbe and family have moved to Sheffield.
 IN. s. Stevens loaded car of apples here yesterday.
 Several persons will take advantage of the excursion to Hartford to-day.
 Robert DeForest and family will occupy the Chester Deming place this winter.
 The schools in this village closed Wednesday for the remaining part of the week.
 The road machine has this week put the streets in this village in shape for the winter.
 -Letters advertised at Canaan post office arc addressed to John Benway, Aiss Mary Deloy, F. Oliver.
 The post office will be open to-day between the hours of 7.30 and Il a. m., and 6.30 p. m., 6.30 and 7.30 p. m.
 The Episcopal social at Town Hall last night was we'll attended. Dancing was the order the latter part of the evening.
 John Miller fell down stairs at his homo on Sunday and aislocated his shoulder. He is getting along all right.
 Ives < Peirce's gasoline engine proved defective and the parties from whom they purchased it have replaced 1t with new one.
 The Ashley Falls Marble Go. have commenced quarrying. One channel ing machine is in operation and the switch track is about completed.
 The Harvest social" at the Pilgrim church last Friday night was well at tended. The entertainment was fur nished by tableaux and recitations by the young people.
 John Russell of this town has par tially recovered from his long illness in Seattle, Wash. and has gone to Los Angeles. Cal, hoping by change of climate to fully regain his health. 
 -E l.. Holcomb emphatically de- niss that he is the person who drove on the tracks at East Canaan on election night. He has means to prove that he was not in that vicinity at the time.
 The Canaan Local Telephone Go. have finished the work of setting poles from Ashley Falls to Sheffield and they are now stringing the wires. Soon we shall be able to shout "Hello, Hello, Frank Dunham."
 The newly elected officers of Wan gum Club arc W. H. Camp. president; L. O. Rhoades. vice-president; J. G.. 9sckley, secretary; 0. H. Pease, treas urer; B. A. Peirce. H. l.. Ross, H. B. Ives, executive committee.
 The insurance business of F. J. Abbe & Go. will be continued in this place by D. O. Whittlesey and 0. s. Adam. Mir Abbe will establish a new agency at Sheffield and confine himself to his Massachusetts business. Thanksgiving service will be held in Christ church to-day beginning at 10 30. In the Pilgrim church preach ing service will begin at 1O.45. In the evening at the Methodist church there will be preaching service at 7.30. The express train on the Berkshire Division due here at 12.1O p. m. on Monday struck and killed an old lady who was walking on the track near Kent. It is supposed she was deaf as she did not heed the warning whistle. The body was taken to Kent station.
 The little folks from the school which is in charge of Miss Walsh sent Thanksgiving box to mission school in Philadelphia this week. The box contained nuts, apples and various things for Nature work which had been gathered with much care. The little people have done we'll.
 The Upton Club, consisting main- ly of young married people in the east end of the village, was organized on Monday night at the residence of A. P. Freeman. The club vii, meet to play whist and other card game on Monday evenings through the winter until the Lenten season.
 -Francis Pequigney, . native of Ca man, is playing center rush on the strong St. Joseph's team of Thompson vile this year who will play game of football on their home grounds with Yale law school to-day. The Yale law team contains Dudley, Durston, Beard and Townsend of the regular Yale eleven and the game will be 2 hard one.
 Why was steel railroad bridg e not erected at Bennett's hill last Sun- day? Because the bridge did not ar rive. By the way, one man says the ore is not yet dug to make the bridge from. Others say the F., R. & N. E. will soon erect four steel bridges on their line, one of which will be erected over the Blackberry river in this will age,
 -Ovid Gillette, Jr. of Danbury visit cd his aunt, Mrs Harriet Brown, the past week. Ovid is job printer ir She ofice of B. E. Hamilton, Danbury and reports that Teddy" Durham, who