Connecticut western news., 1899-01-12
Ice houses are being filled in this

Ice houses are being filled in this | village.
 Mrs Ila H. Pease of Lee, Mass. has been visiting relatives in town the past | two weeks.
 Charlie Seeholzer is recovering from three weeks illness with se- we're case of tonsilitis.
 Letters advertised at the Canaan post office are addressed to Charles W. Hart and Charlie Lee.
 Miss Caroline Bailey is severely ill with the grip at the homo of W. E. Brewer in Mill River.
 The Canaan Local Telephone Go. have put in ten new instruments in Sheffield with connections in this vil- lage.
 Moving pictures again. Hemmes & Dillon with the wonderful kineto- scope and phonograph at Town Hall, Monday evening, Jan. 16 Seats at Collins.
 Here is quotation from a letter which the NEWS received on Tuesday from Mrs Sarah A. Coggswell of Great Harrington: 'I am usually we'll, but all the rest of the family are struggling with the grippe"
 The steel bridge to be placed over the road at the Bennett Hill railroad crossing has been in the freight yard here about ten days, but the icy condi- tions at Bennett Hill have prevented it's being placed in position. It will probably be put in Sunday.
 Mrs Mary W. Ward of No. SS9 Asy- lum avenue fell on Winthrop street yes. terday morning, caused by an attack of heart disease. After resting in the house of Mrs Henry Sweeney she was taken home in a carriage. Hartford Courant, Jan. 10.
 The Mozart Symphony Club give the third entertainment in the lecture course at 3p. m. of Tuesday, Jan. 17th, at the Town Hall. This is one of the most celebrated musical clubs in the country, and justly so. All the artists are of the highest grade and yet the concert will not be over the heads of any. The variety of instruments to be used and the completeness of the train ing of the artists will furnish music that can be understood and so appre- ciated by all. Quite number are ex- pected from surrounding towns. Tick cts to this concert, including reserved seats, are 50 cents; on sale at Collin s store
 By far the best lecture ever listen ed to in Canaan was delivered by Colonel l.. F. Copeland of Harrisburg, Pa., at the Town Hall, Tuesday evening in the Canaan Entertainment Course. Not withstauding the amount of sickness in town there was good sized audience present who were highly pleased with the ColonePs address. His subject was "Seeing the Elephant" taken from John Godfrey Saxe's verses telling of the blind men who went to see an elephant, | and the one who felt of the animals | side declared he was like wall, and the one who took hold of the trunk de- clared an elephant was like snake, and the one who got hold of the tail declar- ed he was very like a rope, and so on, each judging the elephant by the frag- ment of anatomy he happened to find. The Colonel compared the elephant to human living and the blind men to diff ferent classes of people who each judge the whole of life by their fragment of experience. The Colonel trampled up- the theory of evolution and declared that the grandest work of God is ID an, and the most glorious work of God a woman. He maintained that the most wonderful mechanisms, the most beau tiful art, the most colossal structures are but the thought of man. The bridge | that spans the space between the cave | dwellers and the modern inhabitant of palatial residences is human thought. | The lecture was both forcible and witty and an excellent tonic for those forum ate enough to hear it.