Connecticut western news., 1899-08-03
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THURSDAY. AUGUST 8. 1899.
Local News.

A large but pretty porch has just been added to the house occupied by Dr Lee.
 Harry Sedgwick of Cornwall Hol- low visited relatives here the latter part of the week.
 Arthur Hanlon went to Poughkeep- sic, N. '. on Monday where he entered Riverview military academy.
 Frank Stevens and wife returned Tuesday from visit of several days with Mrs Stevens parents, Mir and Mrs Downs, at Tyringham, Mass.
 : George s. Fuller is going to build Q two-story addition and piazza on the west side of his house on Granite Ave. He has 2 ready commenced work on the foundation.
 -Ralston F. Smith of New Hartford arrived at Robert Little's last Saturday. He brought his bicycle with him and he wheels to Housatonic, Mass. and other places to call on friends.
 The Canaan base ball club went to Ashley Falls Friday and won a game, score 27 to g. On Saturday they went to Norfolk and were beaten 24 to 15. Today's game will be on the grounds here with the Norfolk team.
 The stockholders of the Canaan Local Telephone Company held their annual meeting last Saturday and re- elected the old board of officers. They voted to increase the capital stock s1, 1000, viz. from $4, ,000 to $5, 900.
 There was no service in Christ church last Sunday. It was the first time in about twenty years that the church has been closed on Sunday. The Rev M. H. Mill of St. Johnsbury, Vt. will supply the pulpit next Sunday.
 Mrs Hammond, niece of Mrs George Adam, has been engaged to teach in the Cornwall School, formerly the Housa- tonic Valley Institute, now conducted by F. Milton McGaw and Frederick E. Bragdon, principals. The fall term opens September 13.
 Rev John F. Scott of New York preached 8 grand sermon in the Pill grim church last Sunday morning. Next Sunday the Rev Lyman Warner of Salisbury will supply the pulpit. The church will be closed two Sundays, Aug. 18th and 20th; neither the Sunday school nor the Young Peoples meeting will be held.
 The excursion from Hartford West Point, via the O. N. E. road and Hudson river steamer last Thursday was well patronized. There were eleven cars in the train and 575 passengers were carried. The train stopped at all stations between Hartford and Lake vile. Nine tickets were sold at Canaan, and the train reached here on the re- turn trip about 10 p. m.
 -Tupper Lake, N. Y., where Owen Sweeney, Jr. of East Canaan has lived for several years was almost wholly de- stroyed by fire Sunday morning. Of the whole village there only remains two hotels, the opera house. the Roman Catholic church and half dozen strag- gling tenements. The To s is about $2O0, ,0OO, very little insured. One hun dred and sixty nine houses were burned.
 In regard to Andrews & Stevens cotton fac tory ard store which Thomas Richards mentions elsewhere in this paper, we will say that the factory was destroyed by fire. In later years a ma chine shop, foundry, grist mill and cider mill was erected on that site; but that building also burned down and the water privelege now remains idle. Henry o. Stevens tore down the old Andrews & Stevens store building about 37 years ago and used the timber in constructing the large barn which still stands west of his house.
 Ray Cbamplin, 20 years of age, and e brother of Mrs Horace R. Powell of this city, was instantly killed on the Rhinebeck branch of the O. N. B. rail road at Silvernsils last Saturday. He was engaged in disconnecting an air coupling, when his foot became caught in guard rail, throwing him across the track. One of the cars on the train passed over his body and cut it in two, killing him instantly. He had been employed only two months, having been given the position vacated by hls brother, who had been promoted to conductor. The deceased was unmar- ried. --Poughkeepsie Eagle.
 Two weeks ago today William Hen- ry Stevens and his daughter went berry, ing on Canaan mountain south of the furnace at East Canaan. When they returned and had come out of the woods into pasture or brush lot, not far dis tant from the furnace the daughter stepped up to clumb of berry bushes and commenced picking the berries. Soon her father came to the same bush and immediately discovered large rat tlesnake coiled up within six inches of her feet. He immediately siezed his daughter and swung her around out of reach of the reptile. He then procured a stout stick and killed the snake. The reptile sported nine rattles which indi- cates that it was ten years old. MT Stevens says that from boyhood he has always heard that rattlesnake was never seen on the north side of Canaan mountain, therefore he WAS quite sur. prissd to And one there.