Connecticut western news., 1900-05-10
-Kittie A. White has been on few days trip to New York.

day from weeks visit to her parents in Hillsdale, N. Y.
 Mir and Mrs J. W. Peet have been in New York since Monday but are e1- pected home today.
 F H. Langdon of Canaan Valley has pair of perfect albino calves-pure white with pink eyes.
 Mrs A. W. Nicoll and son William returned from Great Harrington May l to remain or the summer.
 Leslie W. Pratt of Norwich, spe- cial ,nsus agent,is spending some time in town with Supervisor Eddy.
 -R Rev Dr Mickle, former presiding elder of this district. will deliver the Memorial Day address at Rockland, N. I.
 A few flakes of snow fell in this village last Saturday morning, and at Southfield enough fell to cover the ground.
 Mrs Mary Gillette, who has been in Albany, N. Y. several months. will soon return to Canaan to spend the summer at the Warner House.
 Rev s. A. Burnaby will attend the local union convention of the Christian Endeavor societies of Southern Berk shire at Mill River on Tuesday. -Forepaugh & Sells Brothers great united shows will exhibit at Winsted next Monday. Their railway trains wlll pass through Canaan on Sunday.
 -George W. Greene of East Canaan has this season already sold nearly for ty Eagle bicycles. It pays to advertise in the NEWS, and it also pays to buy good wheel.
 Supervisor Eddy has quite corps of assistants at the census office there being M. D. Rudd, George Holcombe, Special Agent Pratt, Miss Strong and Mrs J. G. Root.
 Ten persons joined the Pilgrim Church last Sunday morning -six by letter and four on profession of faith. One person joined the Methodist Epis- copal Church by letter. -. .----
 Henry Kneeland has moved into Peter Hicks house in the western part of the village, William OBrien and family having moved to Mrs O'Brien's fathers, Patrick Fitzgerald. James Fl. Foote and wife, who have been at the Warner House since last fall, left for Readsboro, Vt. on Monday where they will spend the summer with their son. Dr J. Harvey Foote. .
 The opinions of the Supreme Couit of Errors in three cases tried in the Su- perior Court by Judge Roraback have been published. in all of which the Su. preme Court sustains the judgments of Judge Roraback. te.t ..e.
 The H. L. Barber Whip Go. shop at Southfield caught fire from a stove Tuesday noon and was entirely con. stunned. The loss will be fully $l5,O0O. About 15 men were regularly employed at the shop where finished horse whips were manufactured, a@
 The strike of the section men on the Central New England road is over. most of the men returning to work Tuesday at the old scale of 1.25 per day but with the assurance that their pay will be raised when the Springfield branch is completed and the increased traffic of the road warrants the advance. The V. I. A. are testing the incan- dssent street lamp recently advertised in the NEWS by W. W. Norton of Lime Rock. The lamp is placed in front of H. D. Humphreys house and it gives wonderfully brilliant light. The V. I. A. will also test the gasoline lamp sold by F. J. Fuller of Ct. Harrington. The boarding house at Pine Grove camp ground is being enlarged by rais- ing the roof five feet and doing of if teen good sleeping rooms in the second story. A veranda is being built on the house and the entire building has been raised about foot higher than former ly. ...
 We have received copy of Vol. I. No. l, of The Colored American Nigga zine. We notice that the featured story "A Wild Mountain Rose" is by Maitland Leroy Osborne, and that sn- other of the stories "The Doctors Great Discovery" is by O.. s. Borne who is none else than our friend Os- borne.
 pr Edwin M. Heath, the we'll known veterinary surgeon, died at his home in Winsted on Saturday forenoon after six months illness, the cause of his death being blood poisoning. Dr Heath was born st Curtissville. Mass. 39 years ago and for the past thirteen years has been we'll known veterinary of this section. His wife and two chil. dren survive him,
 l -Messrs H. E. Lyles and Albert l.. Barnes with some assistance from wheelmen in Clayton have made sec tions of bicycle path wherever most needed between Clayton and Canaan. They have done good work, and quite an expensive one. Canaan wheelmer are asked to contribute toward bicy. cle bridge south of Elisha Benedict house, and prompt and generous re sponse is expected. S# ba
 The dancing class now being taught by J. G. Beckley will take thei, last lesson on Saturday evening. The teacher reports much progress made by the 34 scholars, only few of whom ha5