Connecticut western news., 1899-05-11
Rules of Publication.
THURSDAY. MAY II, 1899.
Local News.

Yale over Sunday.
 -'.What IS so rare as day in June?' Arbor and Bird Day in 1899
 -Bicyclists should remember that g sidewslk that is sidewalk does not re- quire posting.
 Letters advertised at the post office are addressed to Robert Batstone and Mrs John Potter.
 Miss Elsa Shwartz of Great Bar. rington spent few days the past week with Miss Manvel.
 Mrs s. A. Burnaby returned Mon day from three weeks visit to her for mer home in Spencer, Mass.
 Yesterday was Free Soda day at w. H. Camps. MT Camp has put in a nice and new Tennessee marble fountain.
 Rev N. s. Boardman, who lives near Pine Grove, occupied the pulpit at Christ church Sunday with Rev Bar nett.
 The town is raising the grade oi the highway from Elm street towai d Bennett hill with clay or loam taken from Ohilcoot.
 MT and Mrs R. D. Peirce will stay with Mrs Newton and Mrs Kellogg at Myrtle Hill until other arrangements are made, or until the summer visitors arrive.
 Mrs George B. o ggswell of Pitts field, Mass, has visited relatives here since last Thursday and is waiting here to meet her son Theodore who is a member of the 1lth U. s. Infantry and is daily expected to arrive on his way home from Cuba or Porto Rico.
 -Landlord Warner is branching out and his latest venture is Warmers Opera House. Mir Warner has had a stage built in the hall on the third floor of the Warner House Annex and proposes to rent the place for such entertain ments as the place is adapted The stage is provided with wings, flies. and dressing rooms and the auditorium is sufficiently large for Canaan audiences.
 William Ellis, for many years a newspaper correspondent at Southfield, Mass, is in poor health and has laid down his pen and will write no more. He is nearly 75 years old, and an attack of Ia grippe last winter has left him in feeble condition. He has been man of excellent principles, of good educa- tion and bright intellect. Many readers of the NEWS and other newspapers will miss his bright contributions. Mir Ellis was local poet of renown and his verses were considerably more than simple rhymes.
 Canaan is getting to be an exciting calf mart on Tuesdays. This week there were five buyers kicking up the dust within the radius of furlong of the station. They ran the prices SO that the farmers got from 6i to cents per pound for their calves. All the buyers will be here next Tuesday and probably the same prices will prevail. They will also buy sheep and lambs. Calf day" is good thing for business in the village and we would like to re- port 150 calf sales next week.
 The late Rollin 0, Newton was one of the prime movers and earnest advo- oates of the project to eliminate the grade crossing on Bennett hill More rock was encountered in making the excavation than was expected, conse- quently the work progressed slowly last season. During the past year Mir New ton occasionally remarked "I want to live to see that work completed, but I don't expect to-" As an act of respect in memory of Mir Newton the work on that road was rushed from last Satur- day morning and the road was made passable and was opened Tuesday after. noon just in time to let Mir Newton $ funeral procession pass down the road and under the railroad bridge on its way to the cemetery.
 Some of the wheelmen in this viii lage probably have the impression the the state law permits them to ride up. on any sidewalk that is not ''posted. ' That is wrong impression. Chapter CXXX of Public Acts of Connecticut 1889 93 95-97 gives bicyclists all the in. formation they need on this subject. We will merely quote part of Section 2 as follows: "The term sidewalk as used in this act, shall mean any side. walk laid out as such by city, town, O, borough, and any walk which is reserv. ed by custom for the use of pedestrians or which has been specially prepared for their use." The penalty for yio lation of the bicycle law is "a fine moi exceeding twenty dollars for each offense, and shall be further liable fol all damages occasioned to any person by such unlawful act. There are g number of "scorchers" in this towr who should thoroughly comprehend that the above mentioned penalty also applies to whoever Without the permi provided for by the bicycle law) rides g bicycle or tricycle. at rate of speed ex. ceeding ten miles an hour "in public highway, street, square, or park, within the territorial limits of any city borough, or thickly populated portion of any village" The same penalty ap plies to whoever rides bicycle no provided with suitable alarm bell, o whoever fails to use such bell ip ac sorAsnes with the bseyels law.