Connecticut western news., 1899-06-08
THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1899.
Local News.

The strawberry tea at Pilgrim church Friday night was we'll attended.
 Rev Gideon D. Pond of Winsted preached at Christ church last Sunday
 The Canaan Local Telephone Co. finished setting poles to Southfeld. Mass. on Monday.
 Next Wednesday will be Flag Day. Don't fail to display the stars and stripes on that day.
 Miss Mary Curtis of New Marlboro, Mass, has sold her farm in that place to MT Henwood of New York oity.
 The Litchfield N W. s. s. Union will hold it's annual meeting at Kent, Wednesday, June 2S. A fine program has been arranged for the occasion.
 Letters uncalled for at Canaan post office are addressed to Dean Knicker- booker, Miles l.. Whitcomb, Russell l.. Hall, Louis Griebel, Nelson A. Beers.
 Among visitors in town the past few days were George c. Peet and. wife of Bridgeport, Miss Tuckerman and Ed ward Bailey of Jamestown, N. Y.
 Marcus Barnes rode home to Ca- naan from Williamstown, Mass. on his bicycle last Saturday. The next day he went by cars to Pittsfeld and from there rode his bicycle to Williamstown.
 -Stetson's "Uncle Toms Cabin" did a good sized business in their tent here on Monday evening but the perform ance was not up to the usual plane of "Uncle. Tom" shows that visit Canaan.
 The past week has been a dry and hot one. Here is the mercury record at noon for the past seven days: 85-82- 78 81- -92- 93-91. Not drop of rain has fallen since the shower on the evening of May 2Sth.
 Mrs c. A. Knox of Jersey City re- turned home on Tuesday after few days visit with her niece, Mrs A. V. A. Felten. Mrs G. M Bullock of Hills dale, N. Y. is is visiting her daughter, Mrs Felten.
 Mrs Sarah Gillette Smith, who has been staying with her brother and sis ter, Frederick Gillette and Mary Gil- lette, in this village since last fall, re, turned last Friday to her home on Smith hill in Salisbury.
 -Children's Day services will be held in the Methodist church next Sun- day evening at 2 o'clock. In addition to the Board of Education's program "Peace and War" there will be special exercises by the primary department which will be the feature of the even- ing. Exercises by the children of the Pilgrim Sunday school will be held in Pilgrim church on next Sunday even- ing also.
 Mrs William Barnum died Tuesday night of tumor at the home of her daughter Mrs D. F. May in this village. Mrs Barnum was G3 years old and her home was in Monterey, Mass. She is survived by her husband and three children: Mrs May and Mrs H. B. Ives os Canaan and Arthur s. Barnum of Amherst, Mass. The funeral will be held tomorrow at the Monterey church at 2 p. m.
 
 William c. Phelps, Mrs MP. Whit ing and Mabel Phelps left Winsted Tuesday for D several weeks visit in Ashtabula and other towns in Ohio. The most remarkable fact in connection with this item is that MT Phelps is in his 92d year and is hale and hearty. He is going out to the scenes of his childhood in Ohio now after four score years strong in limb and with the use of all his faculties. Others might do we'll to copy after his mode of living Citizen.
 Prices of all kinds of property and merchandise are advancing. Pig iron and hardware are 30 CT more per cent higher than six months ago. Lumber has advanced $3 per thousand feet. The prices of coal, kerosene, meat, hay, potatoes, and of all farm products are constantly advancing. Real estate is 25 to 30 per cent higher than it was on January 1st. The man who buys 8 farm today makes good investment, and he is exceedingly fortunate if he gets it at the price asked six months ago.
 = The junior ball teams of Canaan and East Canaan met on the race track here Saturday afternoon and played eight innings of the national game which resulted East Canaan 15, Canaan 30. There was the usual amount of ar gument indulged in, and one of the big boy spectators tired everyone with his harangue. It is due the East Canaans to state that fifty per cent of their team are not many years out of the nursery, while the Canaans are at least at tho age of long trousers.
 The Connecticut charter for The Canaan and Berkshire Electric Road authorizes and empowers the company to locate, construct, equip, operate, and maintain a street railway, with not more than two tracks and with suitable turnouts and switches through, over, and along certain streets and highways, routes and places in the town of North Canaan, also to manufacture, use, rent and sell electricity within said town of North Canaan, for light, heat, and power, and for all other lawful pur- poses. There are other privileges granted in the charter besides those ahevs mentioned.