Connecticut western news., 1900-03-29

move to Great Harrington next week.
 Miss N. Louise Roraback visited friends in Springfield. Mass, last week.
 Auction of horses, COWS, wagons, etc. at Madden's stables at 10 8. m. on Saturday.
 Rev E. O. Dyer of Sharon who has been seriously ill with pneumonia, is recovering.
 Governor Lounsbury has issued his proclamation designating April 13, "Good Friday" as Fast Day.
 Mrs Bonner has purchased as an investment the Couch house on Pleas ant street in Great Burlington.
 The orange tea at the M. E. church last week Wednesday evening was well patronized and about $3O were cleared
 Miss Grace Roraback is home from New Haven for short vacation. She is accompanied by friend, Miss Mer- ritt.
 Don't forget the auction of the Terrace View Hotel and furnishings at Falls Village, tomorrow, beginning at 10 a. m.
 Miss Lillian Marvin of Norfolk is spending few days with her aunt, Mrs s. M. Humphrey of this village who is on the sick list.
 Rev H. D. Cone, rector of Christ Church, Bridgeport, and his wife ar- rived in town Monday and are visiting Rev and Mrs M. H. Mill.
 The Young Peoples Society are go- Ing to have Label sociable at the Pill grim church parlors, Tuesday evening, April 8. Cake and coffee will be served.
 The dapple grey horse Roscoe Benjamin of Winsted recently purchas- ed of Toledo parties, reached him Sat urday and is considered one of the finest in the state.
 Samuel A. Eddy of Col. Harden bergh Camp, No. 53, s. of ", Canaan, has been appointed surgeon with rank of maior) on the staff of Colonel Lewis s Chapman of Derby, commander of the Connecticut Division, Sons of Vet erans
 Special religious meetings were held last night at the Methodist church and will be held tonight and tomorrow night. Methodist churches throughout the country are observing the week with prayer and an effort to fuu ther re- ligious work.
 -Genuine March weather during the past seven days-high wind every day except Monday and Tuesday. The temperature has not been severe for the season of the year. The mercury rec- ord for the last seven mornings is IA 39. .20-17-2l 34-24.
 On Saturday last Miss Hattie Ben- son sent to the NEWS office cluster of cherry tree blossoms. She also has apple blossoms, fragrant currant blos- soms and Syringa blossoms For fear some will doubt this statement it will be in order to explain that some time ago branches of the above named trees and shrubs were placed in bottles of water in the house, hence the blossoms.
 Edwin M Humstone, who was master mechanic and assistant super
 
 intendent of the Philadelphia, Reading < New England railroad from January 1894 to September 1897, died March 20 at his home in Poughkeepsie, aged 55. He was born in Ulster County, New York, and at Is began his apprentice. ship as a machinist in Poughkeepsie For few years after 1864 he was in the U. s. Navy. He had been connected with the Union Pacific, the Louisville & Nashville, and the New England road before entering the service of the P. R. & N. E. In May 1897 certain family in Norfolk, noted for such deeds, kindly invited four citizens of Norfolk, who were veterans of the Civil war, to visit General Grants tomb at their expense. The veterans were George W. Scoville, Silas A. Palmer, Charles N. Hollister and Burritt Darrow. They gladly &C., ceptsd the invitation and made the trip. A narrative of the journey and l it's incidents has recently been publish ed in book form entitled "The Pilgrim age to the Tomb of General Grant '" MT Scoville has kindly presented the editor of the NEWS copy of said book The editor has derived much pleasure in reading it, and hereby thanks the donor. ... .. -S. 0. Beckley today completes seventeen consecutive years of seryice as editor and proprietor of the NEWS He makes no favorable nor unfavorable comments concerning his service. The files of the NEWS speak for themselves, but they can tell only 8 fraction of the work connected with publishing news- paper. It will be remem bered that seventeen years ago Mir Beckley wrote, and published in the NEWS, series of articles entitled "Canaan in 1900." Those articles were not prophetic but they showed the possibilities of Ga naan, and what it might and ought to become by the year 1900. The NEWS will soon publish synopsis of those articles and endeavor to contrast Ca naan of 1883 with Canaan of 1900. Suf- flee 1t today to say the manufacturing opportunities have not been improved to any great extent. The saddest fea