Connecticut western news., 1900-06-14

Here is the mercury record at noon for the last seven days; sl,72-7S-77.S3- 75-78.
 Samuel Yanushwetz of East Canaan is the new clerk at Jackson, Eggleston < Co.'S store.
 The auction at the John Rodemey- or place was fairly we'll attended last Saturday. Most of the goods except the stoves brought fair prices. Alfred Evans and family are now living in Hartford where Mir Evans Is employed in bicycle factory. Their household goods were shipped from Canaan to Hartford last Monday. MT and Mrs T. Shoemaker of Griggsvile, ILL. are visiting MT and Mrs D. l.. Freeman. They arrived last week and will remain an indefinite time. Mir Shoemaker is brother of Mrs Freeman.
 The last meeting of the Pilgrim Club will be held at Pilgrim Manse on Tuesday evening next There will be an address on Mammoth Cave" by Rev c. W. Hanna Music by an or chestra and refreshments will be served.
 Mrs NJ. 0. Corbit is happy in the possession of new 1900 Columbia chainless bicycle with coaster brake at- tachment Shs recommends the wheel very highly and finds it very easy-rid- ing, so much so in fact that she fears it may run away with her.
 Frank R. Holmes and family from Mt. Vernon, N. r., have moved into the Chester M. Deming house on West Main street. MT Holmes is employed in the Canaan creamery and has been here since February but his family did not come antil last Saturday. The Pine Grove Camp Meeting will open August 20 and continue until the 27th with two days convention in- cluded. The corporation has compile ted the repairs and improvements on the summer hotel which is equipped with fifteen sleeping rooms.
 Rev and Mrs NJ. H. Mill returned Tuesday from four days visit to New York city. On their return they at tended the annual conference of the Diocese of Connecticut at Bridgeport Rev N. s. Boardman occupied the pull pit of Christ church Sunday. Mrs Franklin Tripp of Smithfeld and Mrs George Morris of Chatham, N. r., who have been spending we sk with Mrs NJ. O. Corbit, have ret turned to their respective homes. On We'd nesday last they took pleasure drive through the Berkshires, calling on many friends.
 You will laugh until you almost have mysteries to see Charles Dutcher's dog "Jack" perform with large tin pan. The dog is so full of life that he cannot keep quiet and he performs with the pan, and in the winter rolls snow balls, just for fun. Nobody taught him these tricks.
 l How pleasantly refreshing it is after rain when the multitudinous sand of Main street is for time sub- dued and one can breath without fill ing his whole breathing apparatus with suffocating dust and sand. It makes one realize what 8 blessing street sprinkler would be.
 Before Judge Wheeler of the Su- perior court at Winsted last Friday Herbert and James Porter and Orvie Watkins charged with burglary at Pine Grove camp ground. plead not guilty and were tried in Litchfeld today be- fore the Superior court. R. T. Hig. gins has been assigned to defend the prisoners.
 l GOLDEN WEDDING. MT and Mrs Daniel l.. Peirce quietly celebrated their golden wedding on Tuesday ot
 last week at their residence on West
 Main street. It was strictly family
 gathering of children and grandchil dreu. Only fourteen persons were
 present but the occasion was very
 pleasant one.
 | Editorial game laws are stated by an exchange to be as follows: Bool
 agents may be killed from Oct. 1st tt
 Sept 1st; spring poets from March 1s
 to June 1st t;scandal mongers from Apri
 1st to Feb. 1st; umbrella borrower
 from Aug. 1st to Nov. 1st and iron
 Feb. 1st to May 1st; every man wht
 accepts a newspaper for two years ant
 on being presented with the bill says
 I never ordered it, may be killed ol the spot without reserve or relief. -J. H. Rathburn & Go. have com , pleted their work at Lakeville and hav } now the Catholic church spire at Litch field to repaint, five stacks and the 22. feet-high chimney of the Coe Brass Go of Torrington. Steeple Jack Rath burn also expects to finish the spire a Cold Springs. N. r., from which Stee pie "Steve" fell last week, breaking hi back and causing his death. The con tract for painting the M. E. churcl spire of this place has not as yet bee , awarded.
 , Tt is we'll known that Housatoni ? Lodge. No. 6l, F. < A. M. annual suspends, labor during the months C : July and August. The membership ( the lodge is increasing and much 1T : terest Is shown in this institution. O B Monday evening, June %. the third ds - oroo ui1l ha oonforrod on tba alara,t