Connecticut western news., 1899-06-15
Will Riley of Hartford visited friends in town last week.

Mrs A. w. Osborne or Everett, | Mass is visiting at M. l.. Osborne's. , Read that item on the fourth page headed Drought In New England" Rev N. s. Boardman of Canaan oe- cupied the pulpit in Christ church on Sunday.
 Theodore Coggswell of Pittsfeld,
 Mass. is visiting at Geo. P. Strong's
 and Dr Lees. ..
 Last Friday III tickets to Buffs'o
 Bills Wild West at Winsted were sold at this station.
 Thomas Abbe's family from Far mington have arrived at ''The Grove"to spend the summer.
 A. D. Wait of Cohoes, N. |. was Tn Canaan over Sunday, visiting his family who are staying here awhile.
 1.-The Bullard farm has been sold to the Estate of Judge Granger, possession to be given the first of next April.
 Carl Herriman and little daugh- ter of Ogdensburg, N. '. have been visiting his brother A. H. Herriman.
 Franklin N. Brown of New York is spending his vacation in Canaan. His family arrived here about month ago.
 Irving J. Messenger was home from Waterbury from Thursday till Satur- day and attended the commencement exercises.
 Mrs James Quinn returned last week from five weeks visit with her daughter, Mrs Minnie Mackie, in Wor- cester. Mass.
 Mrs w. J. Thomson and son H1go have returned from Boston for the sum- mer, where Hugo is studying in the Boston Dental College.
 Mrs S. J. Hamm, Mrs G. Willis Parsons and son Nelson went yesterday to Cairo, N. I. to make two weeks visit with Mrs U. G. Warren. William L. Brown of New York Is taking his vacation. He and his family have been in Winsted several days but are expected in Canaan today or to- morrow. Miss Anna Rudge went to Brook lyn, N. '. last Saturday to visit her sis ter, Mrs William Douglas. She will re- main two or three weeks if the weather is favorable. Ovid Gillette, the younger, from Danbury visited relatives and friends here the fore part of the week. Ovid is on a wheel trip via. Cornwall, Tor rington, Canaan and Lakeyille.
 Alfred H. Herriman and wife will | leave town next week for a months visit to Messina Springs and Ogdens- burg, N. '. and points of interest in Canada.
 Postal service is once in awhile slow right here in this thickly settled region. Our New Marlboro correspondent mail ed us a letter at Sheffield which was re- ceiyed in that office at 2 p. m. June and was not received in the Canaan post | office until g a. m. June g.
 Prayer was held at the house of D. | F. May over the remains of Mrs Will liam Barnum, Rev s. A. Burnaby off ciating, on Friday at 9 o'clock. The body was taken to Monterey, Mass. where funeral services were held in the | church at 3 p. m., Rev Mir Dooley off, ciating.
 Frank Van Deusen and family will | move to Aurora, Ill. next fall to remain | there an indefinite time with Franks | father, Peter Van Deusen, who is quite an aged man and wishes Frank to man. age his farms and other business Frank | does not intend to sell his real estate in | Canaan, but will rent his houses here. |
 The drought is getting to be seri- | ous matter. With the exception of gentle little shower at 1.3O p. m. yes terday and shower on the evening of May 28 no rain has fallen since May 9. Previous to May 9 there were only five showers after April 16. The mer- cury record at noon during the past seven days is as follows: 91-73-70 .75- 75-83-9l
 The 1899 "Manual of Summer Re. sorts on the New York, New Haven < Hartford Railroad, in the Western Di- vision," containing list of hotels, boarding houses, and other information has just been issued. The Manual will be mailed to any address on receipt of two cent stamp, by 0. T. Hampstead, Genl. Passenger Agent, New Haven, Conn.
 An evening of merriment tomorrow night at the Town Hall when will be presented the Imaginable comedy His Wifs's Maid' by the Julians. Ben Dil lon, for past two seasons the funny Irish butler in the New York Casino Company's production of "The Tele- phone Girl, will introduce singing and dancing specialties. Dillon is the man WuO uhS nauc lhuOu5 tudt song "Nancy Hogan's Ball, and Dillon is one of the best dancers in the pro- fession.
 | Mrs D. L. Freeman has received the sad intelligence of the death of her nephew, Winfred Shoemaker, at Griggs- vile, Ill. May 24th. Several weeks be- fore his death MT Shoemaker was ter ribly injured by the accidental dis charge of rife in the hands of an ac quaintance while the two were hunting on the Illinois river. The ball entered from the back, penetrated the spinal canal, shattered the bony wall and lodged in front of the spinal column, producing paralysis of the lower limbs,