Connecticut western news., 1899-08-31
THURSDAY. AUGUST 3l. 1899.
Local News.

Miss Bessie Riley of Hartford is stay ing in town.
 Miss Mary Bell of Chatham, N. Y. is visiting friends in town.
 MT and Mrs c. H. Gillette of Joliet, III. are visiting relatives in this village. John Flynn and family are moving Thursday on the lower part of Main street.
 Mrs Mary Reinoke of Lakeville has been visiting her brother, Cyrus Brad ley, here during the past week.
 Rev Mason Noble of Lake Helen, Fla arrived in New York on Tuesday and will soon visit friends in Canaan. Judge Roraback and family will some day this week close their cottage ct Twin Lakes for the season and return to their residence in Canaan.
 Charles Gillette has abandoned his we'll which was dug over 100 years ago, and will connect his house with the main of the North Canaan Water Go.
 Here is the mercury record at noon for the last seven days: 7982-79-75 79- 8l 8l. There was mild thunder shower about 10 o'clock last Friday evening.
 Miss Margaret Flynn of this place has just returned from . visit in Salis- bury and at Loto's Lodge, Mt. Riga, and is going to continue her work at Mrs Burnaby's.
 Rev George A. Parker of Philmont, N. Y. preached in the Methodist Epis. copal church last Sunday morning; and Rev Nj. B. Snyder of Millerton, N. Y preached there in the evening.
 Miss Lillie Root started Tuesday for Boston and Stoneham, Mass. to re. main two weeks before going to Spring field and Hartford to visit friends. She expects to be away from Canaan about Q month.
 Rev J. H. Lane and Mrs Lane of Elizaville, N. Y. attended cam 7, meet ing last week and called on old friends in Canaan and Clayton. Mir Lane WAS pastor of the Methodist churches at Ga nsan and Ashley Falls in 1872, '73 and "A.
 Edmund D. Lawrence suffered an- other sudden attack of illness on Mon day and for awhile was almost totally blind. His physician and his nurse, Miss Hattie Ensign. were summoned. Mir Lawrence is improving but his nurse will remain an indefinite time.
 Rev and Mrs J. E. Crane of Scho- dack Landing, N. Y. and George Moor and family of New York have been wis iting Mrs Augusta Scott. Mrs Scott will return to New York with George tomorrow and goes from there to Long Island where she will live this winter with an uncle and niece.
 Miss Grace Roraback will not re turn to Willimantic where she taugh last year but has secured position il the Winchester Avenue school in New Haven where she will live with he brothers who will be at Yale, Albert a' junior, and Clinton as freshman Miss Louise, who graduated from Mt Holyoke College in June has secured the position of principal at the D. NJ Hunt School at Falls Village.
 The work of constructing fir, proof vault in the Town Hall building is progressing rapidly. The outsid dimensions of the vault are 9 feet { inches by Il feet inches. The insid dimensions are 6x8 feet. The height i feet. There are nearly seventy ton of stone in the foundation. The stee doors are furnished by the Mosler Saf Go of Boston. The walls are construct ed of four courses of brick with fou inches air space between each tw courses. The mason work is beinI done by Messrs W. H. Stevens and A Van Deusen of this town.
 The funeral of Mrs J. J. Bailey who died at Great Darlington on Mon day will be attended at the Methodis Episcopal church in Canaan today at .. m. The interment will be at Eas Canaan. Mrs Bailey's death was grea shock to Canaan people, many of whor were not aware of her illness. Tn passing of such an esteemed person de serves more than brief notice and W trust that suitable sketch of her Tiff will soon be prepared for publicatio in the NEWS. Mrs Bailey is survived b her husband and by three sons an three daughters; also by her brother Lyman Hewitt of East Canaan.
 Many of our readers will remembe Sculptor Sam Kitson who spent sun mer at the Warner House some yeal ago as the friend of Ellin, the granuli ted milk man, and an acquaintance ( A. W. Nichol now of Canaan. Kitso had at that time designed the figure for tho memorial arch at the entrance the Capitol grounds at Hartford. recent item in the Springfield Republ can says:
 "The Christ room is the name 8 tached to one of the art galleries at th Omaha exhibition. Its distinction Samuel J. Kitson's statue of Christ, figure of heroic size, standing wit hands outstretched in invitation, whic occupies an alcove and has palm around it. The walls contain painting of . religious character. We belie1 that MT Kitson's is the first statue Christ since Thorwaldsen' which wit the IA apostles was seen with profoun interest as the New York crystal pala' sf 1063.