Connecticut western news., 1899-12-14
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THURSDAY. DEoEM BER 14, 1899.
Local News.

Matthew Kane is recovering from 8 recent severe attack of pneumonia.
 The Social Assembly met Tuesday evening. The next meeting is on the evening of Dec. 26. ~..
 -Dr W. T. Owens of East Canaan has opened an office in this village over Camps drug store.
 Tho Social Circle of the M. E. church had very enjoyable meeting last Friday evening at the church par lors.
 The annual chicken pie supper given by the ladies of the M. E. church last evening was largely attended and certainly enjoyed.
 The Winsted Citizen says that G. H. Spencer is in a New York hospital for the purpose of having an operation performed on his leg.
 The Standard Oil Go. have. now got us where the days are shorthand the nights long and we must have kerosene even at the company's price.
 --The water tank and stand pipes of the N. Y, N. H. & H. R. R have been completed several days and some en- zines now take water at this station.
 -Alvena Roraback, the few weeks old daughter of Mir and Mrs Duane Roraback of Winsted, died at the resi- dence of her parents in that borough last Friday o, Saturday and the funei al was attended on Sunday.
 The schools in this village will close tomorrow afternoon for a two weeks vacation. The children in Mrs Roots room will receive favors. and quite number of adults have been in- vited to attend this pleasant occasion.
 Francis A. Cummings. a brother of the late P. 0. Cummings of this town, was last week elected commander of Tyler Post, G. A. R., of Hartford. F. A. Cummings enlisted from North Ca- naan, Oct 3l, 1861 in Go. I, 11th Conn. Vols. He is now hay and grain mer- chant at Hartford in the firm of Cum mings & Garvan.
 Four young men visited at Fred J. Carey's at Ashley Falls on Sunday. They were Messrs 0. Kellogg, IA. Smith, of Winsted, and J. Thurlough and E. Cobb of Norfolk. The party drove from the latter place. Mr Carey press ed them to stay over night. but they wanted to get back in order that some of the young men could make Sunday night call on their lady friends. As the train to Winsted was four or more hours late that afternoon Fred is eager to know if the girls sat up and waited for them.
 We congratulate MT George W. Hall of Falls Village on his preferment in being selected by The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York as their representative for Litchfeld Coun- ty. Mir Hall will prove to be 8 worthy successor to the late Henry J. Allen of Torrington who for a number of years represented said life insurance com pany in this county. Some facts in re- gard to the company. as we'll as the an nouncement of Mir Halls intentions will be found in the advertising columns to day.
 Canaan merchants have artistically decorated their stores with holiday goods and are justly proud of the va riety and extent of their assortments It is safe to say that never before were there so many beautiful Christmas ar ticles in this village. We wonder where we are at when we compare the present bewildering assortments with the meagre stock of holiday goods here 4( years ago. At that time no one here except the late Griswold Humphrey sold any holiday goods, and his assort ment consisted principally of few small toys. dolls, cheap picture book, and china cups and saucers; or as tht late Billy" Humphrey said, Penny books, two-cent books, zoo zoos and candies" Nevertheless the childrer were just as happy then and just as wei satisfied with few cheap presents a they are today with legion of costly presents"
 -Lucretia Austin, wife of Edwir Stnrges, died of pneumonia at her hom, in East Lee, Mass, last Saturday, aget 78 years Mrs Sturges was born il East Canaan. She was the daughter 0 the late Seth Austin and Lucy Root Austin, and was sister of Orson Aus tin who at one time kept hotel at Clay ton, Mass. and in later years was pro prietor of the Eagle Hotel, afterward called the Austin House, at New Haven Conn. In early life she married Rod ney West and for number of year lived iu Ashley Falls, Mass. After th  death of Mir West she lived in Canaal and New Haven. About 20 years ag she married Mir Sturges of East Le who survives her at the great age of g. years. Her only child, Dwight l.. Wes resides at McMillian, Mich. The flu nt ral of Mrs Sturges was held at he late residence on Tuesday and the bod, was brought to Canaan on the afternoon train and laid to rest in the lower ceme tery beside her first husband. MT Sturges had for many years been an ac tive member of the Methodist Episco pal Church, and vas highly esteeme, by all who knew her. She was cous fin of Mrs Edmund D. Lawrence of Ca