Connecticut western news., 1898-07-14
Judge Roraback is holding court in New Haven this week

Judge Roraback is holding court
 in New Haven this week.
 Miss Minnie Spaulding has accept
 ed the position of bookkeeper for Geo.
 l.. Parsons and Sons.
 James Reel and his men commenc-
 ed work last week on the west end of
 the new highway east of Bennett Hill
 crossing. Thomas Butler and John
 Miller are working on the east end of
 the new highway. Several horses and
 dump carts are used on the job.
 During the course at Prof. Wm.
 Pitt Rivers normal school of dancing in Brooklyn, N. T., John G. Beckley is especially fitting himself for the teach ing of children in the art of dancing, department, and easy and graceful car riage. Mir Beckley hopes to have quite business in juvenile classes the com- ing season and hopes to interest par ents in the fact that grace in movement and ease of manner should not be the least consideration in their primary education.
 John Brooks and wife of Torring- ton stopped at the NEWS office to call Saturday. Mir and Mrs Brooks came up on the P R. X N. E. train at 5.05 from Torrington. When they reached Canaan they rode on their tandem to Ct. Bar, ington MT Brooks is very enthusiastic wAeelman and belongs to the l.. A. ". state board and has been appointed delegate to the national meet of the l.. A. W. at Indianapolis. He is also president of the l.. A. W. wheel club at Torrington, one of the foremost wheel clubs in the state.j
 The Catholic fair opened last Sat- urday evening with fair attendance. Dancing filled the evening. Last night there was much larger crowd and the different ones present were asked to buy tickets for the various articles on sale by Miss Annie Sheridan who had clock, and Miss Mary Murnane who had tea set, and Miss Lizzie Colligan who had barrel of four There is also contest for a doll by the little ladies, the Misses Maggie Collins, Nell lie Kane and Nora Flynn. Dancing al- so filled the time as the Saturday even- ing before The fair will be held also on Saturday evening and on next We'd nesday evening.
 We have discovered that in writing up the Fourth of July celebration at Canaan we forgot to mention the new flag pole that was erected on the Town Hall lawn on the evening of July 2d. The pole stands 90 feet out of ground and is remarkably fine one. It is in two sections, the lower section being about 50 feet tall and the upper section 30 feet. The entire pole is painted white and is surmounted by gilded ball. It was very difficult and dan- gerous task to raise the upper section but Mir Samuel Dutcher, linsman of the s. N. E. Telephone Co.,, proved equal to the emergency. He climbed to the top of the lower section and performed the feat of fastening the two sections together after the upper section had been hoisted up to him. Some have enquired why the flag has not been displayed the past week. We will an- swer that guy wires have been placed on the pole to make it as straight as an arrow, and after the pole gets seasoned the flag will be raised again. The weight of the large flag on such tall slender and unseasoned pole would be liable to bend the pole, but that dan ger is lessened when the pole gets seasoned.