Connecticut western news., 1899-09-28

| -Ine supper ab tne M E4. CnuIcn
 parlors last Friday evening netted about SIP.
 Irving J. Messenger of Waterbury
 is making weeks visit with his par
 ents here.
 -Mrs W. J. Thomson and son Hugo
 returned to Boe ton on Tuesday after spending the summer at their home here.
 The Young Mems Pilgrim Club will hold business meeting at The Manse next Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock.
 -Mr and Mrs o. T. Roberts of Hart ford have moved from their rooms at D. D. Walters into rooms at Dr Camps residence.
 Mir and Mir, R. l.. McLain and Miss Bessie Franklin of San Francisco, Cal, have been in town a few days on business.
 Samuel G. Camp, Albert and Clin- ton Roraback have gone to Yale. John Adam returns to the medical college at Toronto, tomorrow.
 Charles Rodemeyer will take weeks vacation commencing on Satur- day and will visit relatives in Bethel and take in the Beantown fair. Mrs E. A. Butler of Northampton, Mass, and Mrs I. Alena Hennick of South Hadley Falls, Mass, and Mrs A. J. Ballow of Holy oke, Mass, are visit ing Mrs Ballow's sister, Mrs Merritt Hayden.
 The R publican caucus for nomina- ton of candidates for town officers will be held at the Town Hall on Saturday afternoon at p n. The Demo cratic caucus will be held at the same hour in the same building. Miss Clare Lepyon is taking va cation and went to New York on Tues day to remain about a week. Miss Marcella Lepyon, who has been home from Brooklyn, N. Y. on visit, will re- turn to BrooklJn today. James Tierney of East Canaan has served an injunction on the Town of North Canaan to restrain the town from changing water course at East Canaan. The injunction will be heard at the No vember term of the Superior court.
 Mrs Rawson and son of Brooklyn, N. Y. arrived at the homo of her broth CT. Dr Clemans, last Saturday. Mrs | Rawson will remain about two weeks. Her son went back to Brooklyn on Sun- day evening but will come to Canaan again next week.
 Frank Hitchcock is making exten- sive improvements on his house. He has shingled the exterior from the stills to the caves. changed the shape and ar rangement of the rooms and will equip | the house with steam or hot water heater.
 Word from Monterey. Mass. says the water in Lake Garfield which is controlled by Birmingham concern is being drawn off to help run the mills along the Housatonic river. The lake is lowering at the rate of about four inches's day which means that hun dreds of thousands of gallons of water are being used.
 -Mrs s. A. Coggswell of Great Bar rington, widow of Hiram Coggswell, called on friends here last week and on Friday attended the soldiers reunion ut Winsted. It is thirty years since her first husband. George Wooster, was killed in the battle of Fishers Hill. These reunions awaken sad memories for Mrs Coggswell, but she attends them because she meets there old friends from Worthwhile, New Milford and vicinity and it is pleasure to meet those friends and visit with them.
 For the first time in more than twenty years the post office department has ordered general weighing of mails. Postmasters have received orders from the postmaster general, directing them to weigh all mail matter that passes through their office between October and November 5, and to send report to the department. Daring the period since the last weighing of the mails by the government the railroad companies and other carriers have weighed the mails themselves. The department could ouly estimate their weight, and the government may have been over- charged for their transportation.
 The NEWS regrets to announce that Thomas Richards of Jersey City has been quite ill, but it is pleased to state that he is. improving. The following note written from Jersey City, Sept 24, by W. s. Richards to the NEWS is self explanatory: "My father, Thomas Richards. wishes me to write you and say that he has been confined to his bed since Monday last with an attack of heart trouble and will not be able to furnish anything for the NEWS this week but will take the writing up just as soon as he is able. He is resting much easier today and we hope to have him on his feet again in few days"
 Last Saturday forenoon when Night Operator Michael Joyce arose from his slumbers he felt as though he would like to play ball. Michael hadn't played ball since he was Q school kid, but he thought he would probably do as we'll as some he had seen. He hus- tied around, picked up @ team, and challenged Norfolk, but they were wary