Connecticut western news., 1899-11-02
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 2. 1899.
Local News.

Local NcWS.
 R. l.. Van Dsasen of New York was in town yesterday.
 Miss Mary J. Peck will move into g part of A. L. Hugins' house on Church street.
 A. W. Nicoll, wife and son Will. liam go to Ct. Harrington today to re main during the winter.
 Letters unclaimed at Canaan post office are addressed to Charles M. Chase, Mrs George Hill, J. A. Hawkins, Mrs A. J. Osgood.
 David Curtis and Charles Maxwell will give dance at Town Hall next Thursday evening, Nov. g. Price is 50c per couple. All are invited.
 P. J. Griffin, Denny Coyle and two other hunters from Hartford were in town Sunday on their way home from g weeks hunt in Cornwall. They had 13 coons and 45 squirrels.
 The Cranford Club will meet with Mrs A. T. Roraback this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Miss Dotha Stone Pinneo of Norwalk will be present and will read a paper entitled Friction of Today"
 The highway between Charles Paul's and wm Drumm's is virtually closed while new bridge is being built over the Blackberry river. Who ever drives through the river below the bridge does so at their own risk.
 The Poughkeepsie Eagle says: Mir Henry A. Leroy of the Puritan Mining Company, was at the ore mines at An cram Lead Mines on Saturday last, ,mak- ing arrangements to increase the ore and begin mining and shipping. The ore is said to be of the finest quality, and in some places is forty feet in thick ness.
 Our local camp of Sons of Veterans is in need of guns and other equip ments. The boys propose to start fund for the purchase of these things and with this end in view propose to give supper and informal dance at the Town Hall, Friday evening, Nov. IF. There will be graphophone and musi- cal entertainment pre- eceeding the dance. Supper will be served early and late. Moderate charges will be made for each feature of the evenings entertainment and it is hoped the boys will net enough at least to buy ramrods as starter Further particulars next week.
 The iron business is booming and the demand is so great that Barnum Go. have sold and shipped every ton they had on hand, including even the large stock of low grades or low numbers of iron that had been ac- cumulating for several years at their furnaces. It is reported that they have also booked orders for many thousand tons to be manufactured in future one report says 600, 900 tons. We think 5000 tons would be nearer the correct figures because it would require nearly fifty years for the two furnaces at East Canaan to make 6OO,O 900 tons.
 The Central New England railway has completed thorough inspection of its roadbed from..H Hartford to May brook. N Y. The committee selected to award the three prizes of $50, $20 and BIO has decided that section fourteen at Copake, N. T., in charge of Section Foreman Nelson Linde is superior to any other piece ot track along the road. MT Linde will therefore receive the $50. The next best section is that between Winsted and Granville, known in rail- road circles as section seven and work ed by Thomas McMahon of Winsted. The third prize went to Section Fore man John Smith of Stanfordville, N. Y. Supervisor McArdle of Winsted says that the road was never in better con- dition than it is today.
 There will be an entertainment course in the Methodist church here this winter under the auspices of the Young Peoples Society Christian En- deavor. Course tickets for five enter tainments cost S1OO. The committee have secured some excellent lecturers and announce the first entertainment on Wednesday evening, Nov 15 when Rev o. D. Ramsey of Coxsackie, N. Y. will lecture. his subject being "Afoot and Awheel through the Emerald Isle." On Dec. 15 Rev Dr A. J. Palmer of New York will lecture on 1.-Two Heroes; and on some date in January Rev Dr s. Parkes Cadman of New York will speak on Abraham Lincoln. All entertain mshts begin at o'clock, in the M. E, church. The last two entertainments will be announced later.
 The Halloween boys "had it in" for the editor and on Wednesday morn- ing the front entrance to the NEWS office was barricaded with three lumber wag- ons, buggy, benches, barrels, saw horses, staging, etc. Welner's tailor shop was also ba,ricaded with at least a cord of cedar posts. A buggy reposed gracefully on top of the gate tenders office, fish wagon on top of Dan. Sweeney's shop, an old fashioned sleigh in front of Jackson & Eggleston's, and g heater in front of G. l.. Parsons & Sons. Chairs, signs and blinds climb cd the flag poles and veranda posts around town, and All Saints Day dawn ed upon curious arrangement of af- fairs. The hose cart was found in J. Fl. Roraback's front yard. The boys did no damage this year e far as VIC nan lssru,