Connecticut western news., 1898-09-22
Local News.

Quite frost yesterday morning.
 Rev Fr. Bannon of Lakeville wal in town yesterday
 The equinoctial storm is due. The eouinoctial sto, m Is not dew.
 Judge Roraback will preside at tho opening of the Superior Court in New Haven on Friday.
 MT Aaron l.. Gorham is 78 years young today. Mir Martin K. Belden was 86 last Friday.
 We are now taking orders for ad- yertising calendars for 1899. Beauti- ful designs and large assortment.
 Mrs Gustave Frohman and son, who have spent the summer at ID. F. Mays, returned to New York yesterday.
 w. R. Baldwin and family oi Cleveland, o. left here Saturday for short visit in Westfield, Mass. before returning to their home.
 William Phelps, formerly of Nor. folk, has taken up his residence in Ca naan and will hereafter live with Will liam H. Merrill in this village.
 MT and Mrs Thomas Abbe and children, who have been spending the summer in town, returned to thelr home in Pennington on Tuesday.
 Miss Mary B. Landon returned last week from Narengo, Iowa. She will remain in East Canaan short time and then go to her home in West Goshen.
 Wallace Garfield and Edward R. .Lorrain, delegates, and B. 8. Roberts, member of the state central committee, attended the Democratic state conven- ton in Bridgeport yesterday.
 Letters remaining uncalled for at the Canaan post office are addressed to Miss A. M. Carroll, Mrs William Kirke, Jr., pr B. T. Read, Miss Vir- ginia Robinson, Mrs L. J. Roster.
 Frank A. Coons started last Friday to drive to Westfeld, Mass, where his wife has been visiting her father, D. l.. Pratt, the past month. MT and Mrs Ooons will return some day this week.
 John W. Russell. who went from this place to Seattle, Wash. last spring, has been ill there the past three months. He is now convalescent, but will be obliged to defer his plans of prospect ing in that state until another year.
 The Winsted Evening Citizen says: Rev J. Spencer Voorhees,, chaplain of the First Regiment, Conn. Vols, now stationed at Camp Meade. Penn, and formerly pastor of the Second Congre- gational church, is reported ill with ty- phoid fever. He is now with his mother at Rocky Hill, N. J.
 -Dr Clemans and Mrs Clemans re- turned Monday evening from weeks pleasure trip to New Haven, Newport, Block Island, and Moves Beach which is in the town of Westerly, R. I. Miss Ada McComber of Moves Beach accom- panied them home and will be their guest for about two weeks.
 Tt is reported that Frank Dunbar of Ashley Falls, Mass. has temporarily taken up his abode here as the result of liqnor raid made 'by officers at his Ashley Falls home last week. About t1O0 worth of liquor was seized and prominent people of that region are mentioned as being implicated.
 Seaman Frank W. Gillette. son of Evangelist Henry J. Gillette, a member of the Second Division, Connecticut Naval Battalion, came home Saturday from Philadelphia, where he has been stationed on the United States monitor Wyandotte, having been discharged from the service. Hartford Times.
 "A tressel on the F., R. & N. E. near Pine Plains, N. Y. sank to near the water's edge on Saturday last, and trains on that line were run over the N. D. < o. road to State Line On Sunday work train was repairing the tressel and the Sunday east bound train was about four hours late going through Canaan.
 The Sunday school of the Pilgrim church will observe next Sabbath as "Rally Day." when it is hoped that all the members of the school will be pres ent. A special program has been pre- pared and g cordial invitation is extend cd to all to be present during the Sun- day school hour. whether members of the school or not.
 The Rev Archibald Geikie D. D.. L. l.. D. died at Sidney, Australia, July g, 1898, aged Y years. He was the oldest brother of Mrs George Adam of Canaan, and father of Mrs H. O. Ham, mond. The next issue of the NEWS will contain extracts from Australian papers relating to his life and work as he was very much beloved.
 Mrs Charles Emmons was quite seriously injured last Friday. She was crossing the road from her house to the home of her son Will and carrying a parasol when she was accidentally run over by George Wilcox's team driven Leighton Bradley, boy who works in Mr Wilcox's blacksmith shop. Mrs Emmons was carried home and the boy ran for doctor who found that she was not dangerously injured but it was feared one rib was cracked, and she has been confined to the bed since then. The boy could not explain the accident