Connecticut western news., 1899-11-09
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER g. 1899.
Local News.

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 Miss Ethel Strong of Torringtor visited friends in town over Sunday.
 The concrete walk across the Towr Hall lawn was completed last Friday ol Saturday.
 Edwin Fl. Barnes is on the sick list He has been confined to his bed one week, but is slowly improving.
 Six members were received from probation and three by letter into the Methodist church last Sunday, Nov. 5.
 Save place for the Sons of Veter- ans chicken pie supper, Friday the 17th. Musical program and dancing. Look for posters.
 The Episcopal supper and dance at the hall last Friday evening was pat ronized very we'll considering the very stormy evening.
 -Remember lecture by Rev o. D. Ramsey at Methodist church next We'd nesday, Nov. 15, on "Afoot and Awheel Through the Emerald Isle."
 Edward Sheehan, brakeman on the c. N. E. had the fingers of one hand crushed while coupling cars on the weat-end freight last Saturday.
 Harvey Williams of Danbury, na- tive of Canaan, has been in poor health several months and Is now confined to his bed. He is nearly 79 years of age.
 Unclaimed letters at Canaan post office are addressed to Mir and Mrs Basil Hopkins, Mrs J. W. Keane, E. B. Law renee, Miss Ada McOomber, Martin Os- trom, F. M. Peters, W. Ward.
 Patrick Britt contrasts this mild and pleasant November with November l84S by saying: Il landed in Canaan on November IS, 1848 and at that time there was eighteen inches of snow on the ground"
 Miss Jean P. Gordon of Wal, Vest ern India. spoke in the Pilgrim church last Sunday morning and evening on missionary work. In the last issue of the NEWS the Kent correspondent gave 2 short sketch of Miss Gordon and her nine years work in India.
 Judge A. T. Roraback Is slated to ba one of the speakers at the New Hav- en Chamber of Commerce banquet next week. Governor Lounsbury and Presi- dent Hadley of Yale will be among the speakers. The banquet will be given in honor of President Had ey.
 The water supply was shut of from part of the village last Sunday forenoon while the main pipe near the Warner House was being tapped and connected with the line leading to the water tank which the N. Y.N.H. & H railroad com- pany are building. A large force of men were also employed all day laying new ties south of the station.
 Business has increased SO much with the Canaan Lime Go. that great difficulty has been experienced in fill ing orders promptly during the past few months. In order to be better prepar- cd for the spring trade the company is planning to complete its third kiln. A barn with a capacity for "A horses will also be built early in the spring.
 -"Keeping Cows For Profit" is the we'll chosen title of the newest work on practical dairying to come under our notice. We understand that large issue of this little publication is being gratuitously circulated with the com pliments of The De Laval Separator Co.,, "A Cortlandt St., New York, which concern offers to send copy to every reader of the NEWS upon request.
 The Pilgrim Club met with John Hubbard on Tuesday evening. The papers read were instructive and inter esting. The program as announced in the NEWS of Oct. 26th was followed. The next meeting will be held with E. T. Rowe on Tuesday evening, Nov. 2l. Papers will be read as follows: Fred Manvel on ''The difference between tongue dialect and language" Frank Stanton and Howard Biercs on "The authors I love best;" Rev s. A. Burma by on "What constitutes the English language"
 The editor of the NEWS endeavored to do certain young men and boys of this village kindness by publishing an item in the NEWS of October 26 advis- ing them to refrain from playing any Halloween pranks that would be a damage to anyone. Canaan boys are not to be outdone in kindness, therefore they reciprocated by barricading the NEWS office with such an array of wag- ons, barrels and movable property that their labors and the incident have at tracted the attention of metropolitan snd state newspapers and the affair has been published far and near with all the embellishments that reporters imagin ation could devise. The NEWS has thus gained greater publicity and fame, and if it had been required to pay for the many columns of free advertis- ing thus given it by it's contemporaries the price would have bankrupted the proprietor of the NEWS. When the boys barricaded the NEWS office they did the editor greater kindness than they were aware of-as the sequel provss-and the editor thinks they are ct least entitled to thanks for their her culean labors on that memorable night The contemporaries of the NEWS ars also entitled to thanks for generou,