Connecticut western news., 1898-09-08
School begins in this district Mon-

School begins in this district Mon- day, Sept. l2.
 George Porter of Texas and Okla homa, l. T. is in town visiting relatives and old friends.
 -Only six persons from here took advantage of the Labor Day excursion rates to Hartford.
 -Selden Downs and wife moved to Tyringham on Aug. 29. Our item last week was incorrect.
 -Fiye men in Garfield Bros. lime quarry at East Canaan had to stop work on account of the heat, Saturday.
 Saturday is Circus Day. Sig. Sau- telle's aggregation will exhibit on Gil lette's lot that afternoon and evening.
 William Newton, wife and child of New York visited at R. D. Peirce's from Thursday of last week until yesterday when they left for Vermont.
 Frank Hoag found the $75 roll of bills that Louis Waldecker lost last Tuesday near the Warner House and returned it to Louis on Friday.
 Frank Miller, who has been ill with pneumonia at his home in Bridge port, returned to his cottage at Twin Lakes Saturday, where he is convales- cing.
 Richard Rick ards of Summit, N. J., was in town Friday and returned home Saturday with his little son "Dick" who has been staying few weeks at Rev F. w. Barnett's. MT Richards told "Dick" that he had two new little brothers at home. Mrs Richards was formerly Miss Bessie Sims of Canaan.
 William, the six-years- old son of George Flames, president of the Wheel CT $ Wilson Co.,, Bridgeport, died at A. Gardner's at Twin Lakes on Friday. The child was sick when the family came to MT Gardner's to board and seemed to be recovering, but had re- lapse. The body was taken to Bridge port Saturday.
 -The Democratic electors of the town of North Canaan are hereby neti- fed that caucus will be held in the Town Hall, Canaan, Thursday, Sept. 8, at p. m. to nominate delegates to the following conventions, viz: State, Con- gressional, Senatorial and County; and to do any other proper business. Per order Chairman, Town Committee.
 The Pilgrim Club will hold its first meeting of this season at the Pill grim Manse next Tuesday evening. There will be election of officers for the next six months. Essays will then be read upon the life of Tennyson; the basis of his poem 'In Memoriam;" ex tracts from the above poem will be read and quotations made by all the members, from his works.
 Last Thursday while the mercury was trying to crawl out of the top of the thermometer, the writ or remarked to MT Cullen E. Holcomb that some years the hot test weather occurs during September. Mir Holcomb replied that either the first or second day of September 1852 was the hottest day he remembers. He forgets just what the mercury register ed but he we'll remembers walking from West Cornwall to Cornwall Hollow and he never has suffered so much with the heat as he did that day.
 On account of the lack of room in the school house in this village it will be impossible to make any promotions at the opening of the fall term next Monday except from the primary room. Pupils quail fled to do SO will pursue an advanced grade in the same rooms occupied by them at the last session of the school. Children attending school this fall for the first time who cannot read should be taken to the lower room in the Town Hall where kindergarten will be con- ducted from a. m. until noon with no afternoon session.