Connecticut western news., 1899-08-10

Mrs Josephine M Root visited her brother at Colebrook from last Thurs day or Friday until Monday.
 The mercury record at noon for the last seven days is: S1-sS-8 s-80-74-70-72. No rain has fallen since July %.
 Charles H. Gillette and wife of Joliet. Ill will leave home about the 18th to visit rela- tives at Housatonic, Canaan and other places.
 A five-years-old boy in Verbank, N Y. wants to know where the apple pies grow, and when the apple pies will be ripe.
 Mrs H. D. Humphrey and children are spending the month at Leete's Is- land. MT Humphrey will join them about the 18th.
 Il. J. Eggleston entertained party of Winsted and Millerton friends with a clambake a. his Twin Lakes cottage Saturday evening.
 Word received from O. ". Myers home on Canaan mountain at p. m. yesterday stated that MT Niver was alive but only ex- pected to live a very few hours.
 An anniversary High Mass was celebrated at St. Joseph's church Mon- day forenoon for Michael Goodwin, who departed this life August 5, 1895.
 Sadie Landon. the ten-years-old daughter of MT and Mrs Walter K. Landon, has for 8 long time been a great sufferer with heart trouble and is now very feeble indeed.
 Letters unclaimed at Canaan post office are for Miss Gilberta Chams, Miss Nora Godfrey, K. Suns,, Miss Katherine Lambert, Charles Potter, F. F. Cohans.
 Miss Mary A. Murnane is'taking 8 two weeks vacation and is visiting her parents at Hillsdale, N. Y. Mrs J. G. Root is substituting for Miss Nurnane in the telegraph office.
 Rev Lyman Warner of Salisbury supplied the Pilgrim church pulpit last Sunday morning and preached very helpful sermon from Genesis xxi; 28. His theme was the power of prayer.
 = Harvey Brizzie, & compositor on the Millerton Telegram, and three other Millerton boys, Milt Morgan, Rob Dauchy and John Meyers went to New York Monday to enlist in the regular army.
 Miss Seaman who has been house. keeper for Rev E. J. Kelly, returned to her home in Stormville, N. '. on Monday. She intends to become 8 stenographer and will not return to Canaan.
 The guests at .The Hamlet" at present are: Mir and Mrs s. 0. Cum mings and three daughters of Norwalk, Miss Church of New York, Miss Bou- telle of Hartford, Miss Reichold of Brooklyn and Mir Hawkins of New Rochelle.
 Maitland l.. Osborne spent Tuesday in New Haven Intervening ''Ik Mar vel"-Donald G. Mitchell, for the Ma tional Magazine of Boston. Our friend "Mait" wrote the leading article for the August National; Author of David Harum."
 A neat white marble headstone has recently been placed at the grave of Mrs Jane ". Branch in the lower ceme- tery, and g substantial rough ashler granite monument has been placed at the grave of Mrs Edward Hawver in the same cemetery.
 B. A. Peirce, H. B. Ives, Perrin Stanton, Lewis Rhoades, Dr Ross and Mir Nash started on Sunday in three seated wagon for a. thirty mile drive to Otis, Mass. where on Monday and Tuesday, Perrin and Lew showed them how they used to catch fish in Otis res- ervoir.
 Master Cornish Hitchcock left home August 1st to visit New York city and Newark and Trenton, N. J. He was ac companied by Mrs Clifford Renville of Newark and he expects to be absent two weeks. Cornish is only 12'years old, and as this is his first visit any distance from home he will always remember this journey as pleasant event in his life.
 -Canaan people have not lost their interest in the Rev o. D. Milliken, therefore today we copy an article which he contributed last May to The Pacific. The article is entitled "Two Kinds of People" We also copy few items which some other person also con tributed to The Pacific in regard to So. noma, Cal. We have waited several weeks for the opportunity to publish them, and we wish to state that we pub fish them without Mir Milliken's know ledge or consent