Connecticut western news., 1900-07-05
THURSDAY. JULY 5, 1900.
Local News.

-E. B. Robinson of New York is viz iting E. D. Norton.
 70. M. Humphrey and family spent the Fourth in New Haven.
 Irving Roberts of Torrington visit ed relatives here the Fourth.
 Mrs William Sardam is recovering nicely from her recent illness.
 Miss Grace Roraback, g teacher in Now Haven, is home for the summer.
 George Pratt and family of Vest field are visiting his sister, Mrs Frank Coon. ....- A pleasant ice cream social was held at the Pilgrim church last Friday evening.
 Rev E. c. Gillette of Southfeld visited relatives in Hartford and Sharon the past week.
 MT and Mrs T. A. Evans and Charles Bailey and wife. all of Bethel, are guests at Dr Ross.
 Mrs A. W. Osborne returned to Everett, Mass. on Saturday after two weeks visit at M. l.. Osbornes.
 Other. ball games the Fourth. At Millerton, Sharon 8, Millerton 9. At Lakeville, Norfolk ', Lakeville 8.
 HI. H. Beardsley will this week complete his contract of painting s. w. Barnes iron fence, barn and other prop erty.
 -Mrs Nellie Preston of this place will chaperon New Rochelle party at Humphreys cottage at Twin Lakes from July to 27.
 Miss Florence Thomson and Miss J. Elizabeth Newton, teachers in New York city schools, arrived at their homes here Friday for the summer.
 The heavy thunder shower last Thursday afternoon badly washed the highways but no damage by lightning in this town has been reported.
 -S. A. Eddy and family are occupy ing their cottage at Twin Lakes. l. J. Eggleston and family of Millerton are occupying the cottage at the picnic ground.
 -Erastus Holcomb's two oldest boys are visiting relatives in Cornwall. They went alone on the cars to Cornwall Bridge on Tuesday and it was quite an event or experience for them.
 Captain Becker and wife of Albany, N. Y., Mir and Mrs Naylor of Ph iladel- phia, Pa., and Rev M. B. Snyder of Millerton, N. Y. were guests of Rev and Mrs B. J. Kelly over the Fourth. Mrs Becker and Mrs Naylor are sisters of Mrs Kelly.
 There seem to be two ball teams that are invariably easy victims for the Canaan club, viz. East Canaan and Mil. lerton. The boys went over to York state Saturday and scalped the Miller. ton boys by score of 21 to 5. The Stanton brothers were the battery fol Canaan, and Burch and Rogers officiat. ed for Millerton. The Canaans went to Wassaic yesterday and the score re- suited Canaan 19, Wsssaic 6.
 About l o'clock on the morning O July 4th someone fired small cannon in the driveway between the Warner House and J. E. Rhoades' residence The cannon burst and shattered tn, plate glass in the east door of the War ner House, broke the cellar windows and damaged the platform. One of tho piazza posts at MT Rhoades' residence was splintered. It was thoughtles. caper ard liable to break windows, evel had the cannon not burst.
 D. l.. Freeman, director of tn Hartford and Connecticut Westeri Railroad Company. attended the hear ing before the railroad commissioner at the capitol in Hartford on Monda, on the application of the Hartford an, Connecticut Western Railroad Com pany for an approval of it's relocation o it's layout over the Montague farm il East Granby, now the property of Free O. Wagner of New York city. E. D Robbins, counsel for Mir Wagner, vii file demurrer. After short sessiol the hearing was adjourned to 1l.3O ol July 9.
 The denizens of the Warner Hous had lively experience one day las week which for time created quite eommotion in that usually quiet an sedate hostelry. While the boarder were drowsily recovering from the e fects of the midday meal they wer startled by the sudden appearance ( an object which filled them with mil gled feelings of dread, apprehens1o and wonder. In their excitement som of the boarders were heard to exclair "For mercy sakes!' "What a creaturel "Did you ever!" ''Well, I never!' "Ca MT Warnerp "Mercy mel" 'sSake aliver etc., etc. After the first qGalr of excitement had subsided and th boarders had partially recoy cred froI their fright, reconnaissance was mad, the offending object located, and. afte an exciting campaign, finally captured when the discovery was made that tt t'obiect" was a certain young lady wh, weary of the monotony of the place, ha blacked up, donned full fedge bloomer bicycle suit and stampeded u