Connecticut western news., 1900-09-27

-Ur dOSs VIII DC RDsons ou VAcetlou from Oct 6 to Oct. 22.
 Mrs Michael Madden of Hartford is the guest of Mrs Tinker.
 Editor Rodem ,y CT of the New Hay n Palladium wss in town over Sunday. R. H. St. John of Danbury was in town on Tuesday, as genial and witty as ever.
 John Simmons has moved from East Canaan into the Shields tenement in the rear of Dr Lees.
 Mir and Mrs William Sheppard of Naugatuck were the guests of MT and Mrs Frederick Gillette Tuesday.
 Miss Mary E Howe returned last Saturday to her home in South Canaan after two weeks visit with her sister, Mrs Caroline Root.
 A neat headstone has recently been placed at the grave of Mrs Seneca Tal- lerday in the lower cemetery, and the family lot has been graded and seeded. The semi annual meeting of the Litchfield County Medical Association will be held at the United States Hotel, Litchfeld. Tuesday morning, Oct. g, at II o'clock.
 Until recently Winsted has gloried in the fact that it was tie home of George Washington. Last week that great distinction was transferred to Salisbury which is now George Wash ington's abiding place.
 The Mountain Express on .ne Gen. tral New England Railway, running be- tween Hartford and Canaan and on Sat nrdays and Mondays between Hartford and Millerton, will be withdrawn after Sept 30, 1900, for the season.
 Conductor Frank Smith who dur. ing the summer has resided in Canaan, having been conductor of the Mountain Express. is to rsturn to Winsted having been transferred to Nos. 6 and IA pas senger trains of which he takes charge next Monday morning, leaving Winsted at 6. 40 for Hartford and taking the o'clock train out of Hartford for Miller ton, N. '.
 The town fathers have issued cal for the annual town meeting to be held at Town Hall, this village, next Mon ok O ~ kho noon. The usual routine of business will be transacted. Besides this the Ii cense question will be balloted upor again this year and the question whether or not to accept the legacies of the late Mrs Irene J. Church for the purpose o caring for the lower cemetery and fol the use of the Douglas Library will be acted upon.
 During the past week quite mum Der of our townspeople. ladies included have taken pains to inform the edito that they fully endorse the article en titled "The License Question" publish cd in the NEWS of September 20. On man, and he is not Prohibitions either, told the editor "That article i all right so far as it goes, but you di' not tell it all. You should also hay stated that before no license was adopt cd here men, women and children wer in peril on the streets after dark. an, it was hazardous for woman to ap pear on the streets even in the da time"
 THE NEWS of August publishe the marriage of Mir. Frank A Horto and Miss Ina A. Roberts, and is no' requested to publish the following item Ina A. Roberts, who had been a con panion for blind lady for nearly tw years in Stoneham, Mass, was marie in Boston. the 9th day of August, Mir Frank A. Horton, who is a soldie and belongs to the 7th Heavy Artillery They are stationed at Fort Banks, Wi, throp, near B ,stop, Mass. Mir Horto has been in thc standing army for tn past seven years. He was in battle l Cuba, and returned to the Battery Winthrop last October. MT and Mi Horton visited Mrs Horton's mother Mrs Emma Roberts. and grandmothe Mrs Harlow Root, In Canaan. Mi Horton did not return to Boston whe her husband returned, bat visited he aunt, Miss Lillie D. Root, who be been in Norfolk the past six weeks nur ing. also visited relatives in Winste and Torrington. Mrs Horton returne to Boston last Thursdsy. She wi board at winthrop Beach, near Fo Banks. Her friends wish her much jo.