Connecticut western news., 1898-07-21
Local News.

Miss Edna Cogswell of Pittsfeld, Mass, is visiting at Dr Lees.
 Rev Mir Graves and family of New Britain are now at Pine Grove.
 Miss Hattie Evans of Bethel is the guest of Dr and Mrs H. l.. Ross.
 An advertised letter addressed to Mrs John Potter is at the post office.
 Miss Catherine Burton of Middle town is visiting at Mrs M. T. Changers.
 Miss Mabel Hayes of Winsted was 0 guest of friends in Canaan Monday morning.
 -Messrs J. H. Roraback, J. 0. Rich mond and s. A. Eddy were in Winsted Tuesday. z
 MT and Mrs John G. Beckley re- turned from Brooklyn, N. Y. last Mon day evening.
 -G. Willis Parsons of the firm of Gao. l.. Parsons & Sons, is in New York buying goods.
 Marcus Barnes has passed his ex- aminations and he will enter Williams college this fall.
 Mrs Mary s. Bowen and her daugh- ter Mrs Otto Grouse of Jersey City, are the guests of Mrs Dr Eddy.
 Frank Bradford of Winsted was in town a short time Monday. He was upon his way to relatives in Albany.
 Miss Clara Hotchkiss of St. Pau who has been here for the past three weeks, will to her home within few days.
 Contractor Burke of Torrington will on Monday next commence the work of eliminating tue grade crossing on Bennett Hill. ...
 Miss Grace l.. Plumb of New Hay on has been the guest of Mrs J. E. Bierce and of Mrs Dwight Manvel dur ing the past week or so.
 A wordy war occurred "calf day" in the morning, between well known characters about town. It came to nothing worse than some pretty hard words.
 Thomas Abbie's family from Far mington are spending few weeks at "The Grove" MT Abbe was with them from Friday until the fore part of the week.
 There was little brush between the colts of Ed. Fitzgerald and Wm. O'Brien last Saturday afternoon. Fitz- gerald drove O'Brien's colt and Jack Finn drove Fitzgerald's which won the race.
 The Canaan ball team expect to go to Norfolk Saturday to play ball with the team of that place. It is quite probable that good game will be had as both teams will be stronger than ever.
 We would suggest to Norfolk's board of strategy that it try the experi- ment of fertilizing the Konkapot river instead of the Blackberry river. Nor folks sewage could be conveyed across Whiting river fill to Sodom, but per haps Sodom and Ashley Falls might ob- ject.
 Mrs s. A. Humphrey has returned from short visit with relatives at Wor- cester, Mass. She was called there by the serious illness of her brother who had the rheumatism, but we are glad to say that he has recovered quite good deal and Mrs Humphrey came home Friday
 We are in receipt of booklet en titled est. John, N. B., and Vicinity" It is issued by the New Brunswick Tourist Association of St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, and is sure to be of use to anyone intending to make a tour in Eastern Canada. Copies will be mailed free to any intending visitors to that section upon receipt of their address.
 Pine Grove is now rapidly filling up and the cottages will soon be filled by the different owners. It is very fine down there and one can thoroughly enjoy themselves under the large pine trees as it is cool there during the warmest of days. The tennis ground has been put in trim by some of the players, it having been rolled and marked out on Friday and Saturday of last week. On August 1st there will be @ tournament in which several very fine players will take part
 During the Lenten season of 1898 series of addresses were given by the laity of the Universalist Church of Hud- son, N. Y. The second address of the series was delivered by Mrs Lucia Dcwd Smith, and was entitled "The Value of the Church, from a woman $ point of view. Charles H. Van Deuse n of Hudson, N. r., has published 50C copies of this interesting lecture in pamphlet form and will devote the net proceeds to the "Maine" Monument Fund
 The Junior Christian Endeavor So. ciety of the M. E. church, through the efforts of several kind friends, went last Thursday on picnic near Shef field. They intended picnicing on the Pine Knoll, but upon hearing that il was closed and that they could not go there without getting permission and Q good deal of other trouble they decided upon the generous invitation of MI Cande, to hold their picnic at the Big Elm. All who went had very pleasant time and when they came back to Ga naan late in the afternoon, there was { great blowing of horns and cheering fol there were about 30 in the party.
 -About $6O was raised by the senior