Connecticut western news., 1899-09-07
Jack Frost was in town Tuesday


 on Tuesday after few days stay in town.
 | Franklin N. and William l.. Brown of New York visited relatives here over | Sunday.
 MT George l.. Brooks aud Mrs Brant of Belleville. N. J. visited at S. W. Barnes from Friday until Tuesday. | Miss Minnie Deming, who has been spending the summer at South Greece, N Y. returned last Thursday and Is stop Jing with MT anl Mrs Geo. R.Wil- | COX.
 The Rev M. H. Mill, recently of St. Johnsbury, Vt, who has accepted the call to become rf ctor of Canaan par ish, will preach in Christ church next Sunday.
 Miss Minnie Spaulding has resign ed her position as bookkeeper at c. L. Parsons < Sons and has gone home, as her sister, Miss Bessie, has gone to Nj antic for her health. | Frank E. Beach, formerly editor of the Berkshire Courier, has resigned from the Bridgeport Telegram and &C., cepted position as associate editor of the Bridgeport Standard.
 The family of Rev H. I. Bcdley, who have been spending the summer in Canaan, went to New Britain last Fri day. It will be remembered that MT Bodley recently became the rector of St. Marks parish in New Britain, but his family could not join him there un- til the rectory was ready for their oc- cupancy.
 The offering of prizes of agricultur al fairs for the yokes of oxen drawing the heaviest loads, with the accompany ing whipping, yelling and strain on the unfortunate animals, is almost as bar barous as tho Spanish and Mexican bull-fght, and ought to be denounced by every humane man, whether he claims to be Christian or not.-Our Dumb Animals.
 A meeting of the incorporators of The Berkshire and Canaan Electric Railroad Company was held last Thurs day at Mill River. The act of incorpo- ration was accepted. and directors chos- en. There is to be directors meeting on Friday, Sept. 8, for the purpose of electing executive officers, and perfect ing the organization, after which books will be opened for stock subscriptions.
 Attorney Wellington B. Smith of Winsted wishes us to state that he is in receipt of several unsigned letters from Canaan urging him to do something about the liquor violations in our town. The writers of the letters do not seem to know that Mir Smith is no longer prosecuting agent, but he has no other means (than by this paragraph of noti- lying them, as he don't know who they are. The prosecuting agents are Attor- neys Fred. Williams of New Milford and William W. Bierce of Torrington.
 Mrs Dr Haskins and daughter, Elizabeth 0. Haskins, and Mrs George Zaneis of Chicago, Ill. arrived at the Warner House on Wednesday evening of last week. Mrs Haskins, nee Libbie Elliott, and Mrs Zaneis, nee Harriet Elliott, are daughters of the late Charles Elliott who was native of East Canaan but for many years was a passenger con- ductor on railroad leading from Chi cago. These ladies have never visited Canaan before. They came here to see Mrs Lyman Dunning. who visited them at Chicago in 1893. Mrs Dunning came to the Warner House early last week to receive them, and has since shown them points of interest in Ca- naan and neighboring towns. Mrs Haskins and daughter proceeded to Saratoga Springs last Saturday, and on Tuesday of this week Mrs Zaneis and | Mrs Dunning also departed for Sarato- ga Springs.
 There were hand painted, elabor- ately illustrated posters up around town | last week announcing ga game of base | ball to be played on Labor Day be- | tween the Canaan base ball team and a | gang of buns, hoboes and bas-beens managed by Fatty Rhoades and Chap | pie Pierce.' That is, the two named | sporting gentlemen were to manage the team of degenerates. The poster artist was Frank Benedict and his cartoons were some of them scandalously hfe- like. Well, to proceed. The game came off on Labor Day and one of the provisions was that neither team should have out-of-t town players. This barred Risley, the Williams College player, who has played with the Canaans for the past six weeks. Tue game was memorable, as it's like was never seen before, nor will it be right away again. The game started sat about half past three and ended at dark in little over three hours, and the scorer-whose sympathies were with the Canaans- acknowledged the score to be in favor uf the Has Beens" by 30 to 27, but it is an uncertainty how many over thirty runs the hoboes had, as our reporters saw Will Joyce and Chick Rodemeyer both make a run in the sixth inning, whereas the score only shows one tally. The reguiars need not feel ashamed of the defeat as there are some pretty good ball players among the degenerates who had Glenn Kegler behind the bat in his stocking feet, and Clem has got child ren big enough to play pretty fair game of "one old cat" Harry Dodge