Connecticut western news., 1899-06-22

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 Look out for Richmond's sale of a gang of Eastern horses at East Canaan on Saturday.
 "A. P. Freeman and wife are visit ing Rev and Mrs D. 0. Stone at Gil bertville, Mass.
 Geo. P. Strong has rebuilt the con- crete sidewalk in front of his premises on West Main street.
 A. Fl. Herriman and wife left last evening for months visit at Ogdens- burg, N. Y. and other places Editor John Rodemeyer of the New Haven Palladium visited relatives ln town last Friday and Saturday.
 Mrs F. E. Nightingale of Negaunee, Mich, is at W. B. Leonard's, 83 Well lington Ave-, Pittsfield, Mass, and will remain there few weeks.
 Letters uncalled for at the Canaan post office are addressed to Julius Browning, Edwin Brightman, William U. Hughes, E. House. Yimskas Storrkey. Clinton D. V. Barnes returned from Newburgh, N. '. last week, where for the past nine months he has been teaching in Siglars Preparatory School.
 The Pilgrim Sunday school held their annual picnic at Twin Lakes yes terday. Sixty-six persons went on the 10.24 a. m. train and quite a number went by teams.
 Miss Catherine and Mir John Adam visited relatives in Pittsfield over Sun- day and then went to Mt. Holyoke Col lege at South Hadley to witness the graduating exercises.
 Last Sunday was the third anniver- sary of the marriage of Mir and Mrs W. Fl. Emmons, and on Monday evening ten of their young friends gave them a surprise party, which was enjoyed by all.
 The Junior Endeavor of the Metho- dist Church held their annual picnic last Friday at the home of their super intendent, Mrs L. J. Root. All had an enjoyable time, there being over forty present.
 Beginning July l, the Southern New England Telephone Go. will make a reduction of toll charges between cer- tain exchanges. After that date the charge between Canaan and Norfolk will be reduced from 25c to 15c.
 Mrs Roots primary department of the Canaan school closed for the sum- mer last Thursday with appropriate ex- ercises, including recitations, singing and the giving of favors. There were number of adults present to enjoy the occasion.
 In the class that graduated at the Robbins School at Norfolk last Thurs day twas Joseph Clinton Roraback of this place who will enter Yale Univer- sity. Dewey Garfield, also scholar at Robbins, wrote an essay which won first prize.
 Marcus Barnes from Williams Col lege and Miss Mary Watson from St. Agnes School are home for the summer vacation. Miss N. Louise Roraback graduated from Mt. Holyoke College yesterday. The Yale boys come home yesterday.
 Many Canaan friends of Miss Jose phine Sullivan will be pleased to read in the marriage column of her wedding to Dr Holihan of Great Harrington. Miss Sullivan was the popul ar tele- graph operator here before her removal to Ct. Burlington.
 A Washington dispatch to the Hartford Courant says:
 The name of Samuel A. Eddy of Ca naan has been sent in for the place of supervisor of the census for Connecti- cut. Senators Platt and Hawley united in the recommendation and the appoint ment will be formally announced in a few days. The supervisor has the nam- ing of the many enumerators who do the counting and is practically respon- sible for the whole work.
 The c. N E. train due here at 40. 24 was over three and half hours late on Monday owing to blockade of rocks at Satan's Kingdom, below New Hartford. A section boss on the .'Canap road dig covered the obstruction and sent two of his men across the river with flags to warn trains from either direction. Over 100 tons of rock had dropped from the ledge onto the track.
 "A pleasant event in the history of the Pilgrim Club will be enjoyed next Wednesday evening, June 28, on which occasion the Rev N. M Calhoun, pastor of the Second Church of Winsted, will lecture before the Pilgrim Club and their guests at the Pilgrim Congrega- tional church at o'clock; subject, ''The Yankee Farmer, a Character study" This will be the last meeting of the club during this season. The Canaan ball team went to Win sted on Saturday to play the Winsted Business College, supposedly of about equal strength, but the Winsted boys had prepared ''cinch" for themselves and strengthened their team with some of the best amateur talent in New Eng land, and the score stood Winsted 31, Canaan 9 when the unequal struggle was over. Should the Winsted Busi- ness College play return game here, it will be wholly unnecessary for them to bring the best talent to have an equal contest with our boys.
 The Julian Comedy Go. presented the neat and pleasing comedy 'fHis Wife's Maid" to a fair sized audience at I T-1