Connecticut western news., 1900-03-22

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 Henry o. Warner of Great Barring ton visited friends here from Thursday until Saturday.
 Mrs l. 0. Rhosdes attended the flu neral of her mother, Mrs Carey, at Shef field on Saturday.
 Mrs U. G. Warren and child of Cairo, N. Y are visiting her mother, Mrs Hamm in this village.
 George Prince and F. B. Young of Pittsfeld, and Martin Rood of Torring- ton were in town over Sunday.
 Forepaugh & Sells Brothers Circus will show along the line of the Central New England railroad in May.
 On Saturday, March 31, the horses, COWS, farm wagons, etc. belonging to the estate of the late Michael Madden will be sold at auction.
 J. H. Roraback attended meeting of the different Repub' ican congression- al committees of the state at the Allyn House in Hartford yesterday.
 Andrew Baillar and wife will leave for the Klondike on April 16 and will sell their household goods at auction at their home in East Canaan on April IA
 Mrs L. Hawley and children visit ed her parents, MT and Mrs Edgar Wright at Pawling, N. Y. last woek. While there Mrs Hawley's daughter, Lucy, celebrated her 18th birthday.
 The auction at the Mead farm in Canaan Valley last Friday was well at- tended considering the travelling and most of the articles were sold. The farm itself will be sold to MT Pixley of Southfield Dudley Paine, formerly conductor on the Central New England railroad and who recently sold out bis interest in the Hotel Central at Winsted. has now purchased the New Hartford House in New Hartford.
 A change of place for the meeting of the Pilgrim Club has been made and the club will meet with Howard Bierce next Tuesday evening Subject for de bate: Resolved That political expan sion is injurious to the nation. Hon D. J. Warner, Hon. D. T.. i Warner and J. J. Warehouse of SaIis- bury, Col. George Church of Great Harrington, and others held business meeting at the Warner House last Fri day.
 | Armour cement ia made of the mar risge of Dr J. J McCarthy of Meriden to Boston young lady. Dr Mccarthy is the man who gained notoriety recent ly by failing to marry Miss FIorine Pequigney of Thompsonville, formerly of Canaan.
 -Dr W. Francis Spring, the we'll known itinerant dentist, was tried in Waterbury on Saturday for non sup port of his wife and was found guilty Judge Cowell sentenced Spring to 60 days in jail or to furnish bond for $500 to pay his wife $5 per week for six months. The bond was furnished. l Miss Emma Lawrence, who for about a year has been in 8 sanitarium in Central New York, arrived home last Thursday much improved in health, She was accompanied by her nurse; and also-by her uncle Henry s. Rood ot Benton Centre, N. Y. MT Rood ex. poets to remain in Canaan until the fore part of next week.
 -Belden, the Clother, has issued posters announcing a ''Fire Sale" of $l0,O00 worth of clothing, gents fur nishings, etc., trunks and bags, at the Olin building in Falls Village. The goods are only slightly damaged by water. Big bargains will be given. The sale commences tomorrow and con tinues until stock is closed out.
 Charles Butcher has three-year. old hen with legs so short that he calls her "Creeper." This hen lays uncom monly large eggs, all of them about the same size and no double yolk eggs Six of the eggs which Mir Dutchel brought to the NEWS office on Monday weighed over one pound and tws ounces, or over three ounces each.
 Edwin P. Lewis, only son of Dl George F. Lewis of Collinsville, diec Thursday night at his home after six teen weeks illness with typhoid fever He was 23 years old and machinist b, trade. Edwin Lewis had few ac quaintances in Canaan where he few years ago visited the late Mrs M. W Ward who was a cousin of Dr Lewis Many friends of Dr Lewis reside in Ca naan and they extend sincere sympath, to the bereaved family. When D Lewis was young man he lived in Eas , Canaan and went to select school i the town hall in this village. After ward he studied medicine with the lat , Df Wm. w Welch of Norfolk, an, ) later located at 0 ollinsville
 Reports from Hartford and in tn papers of that city say that the dis charge of Conductor Arthur Collier O the Central New England road was no wholly due to his being too populsl but in some measure to irregularities In connection with his discharge come the announcement that Golfers atter tions to Mrs Avis, wife of Dr Wood
 burne R. Avis of Canaan, have broke up the Avis household and that Dr Avi will sue for divorce from his wife an