Connecticut western news., 1900-03-15
THURSDAY. MARCH 16. 1900
Local News.

Saturday will be St. Patrick's Day. Monday was the twelfth annual an- niversary of the big blizzard. William Holcomb and family will move into 1.-The Perch" on High street about April 1st.
 -Letters unclaimed at Canaan post office are addressed to Ebenezer Barrett and Call Blodgett.
 Quite number of our villagers have endured siege of Ia grippe, and are able to be out again.
 Mrs Waller, mother of William Waller, has been very i'll with the grip. She is still very weak but is slowly im proving.
 Mrs John Flynn was called to Tor. rington last Thursday to take care of her nephew, M. A. Higgins, who is very sick with typhoid pneumonia.
 Daniel L. Peirce has been confined to his bed with catarrahal grip accom- panied by more or less fever, but he is recovering and sat up nearly all day Tuesday.
 Mrs George R. Wilcox has over 100 little chickens. Rather early for spring chickens but of course they are kept in the house, even when the mercury is not at zero.
 -Sabin P. Ives will sell a large amount of personal property at public auction at his home in East Canaan on March 24 List of articles will appear in our advertising columns next week.
 Miss Mary Shuckerow will go to New York on March 20 to learn new system of dressmaking and will return on April 9, after which date she will do all of her work at her rooms on Bragg street.
 The NEWS is indebted to Secretary of State, Huber Clark, for copy of the Connecticut State Register and Man ual of the year 1900. These yearly books arc indispensable in legion of offices, especially in newspaper offices.
 -Crocus was in bloom in Mrs s. 0. Beckleys flower bed last Friday, and over in Winchester dande]ions were re- ported in blossom. With the mercury at zero the following Monday morning it would appear that crocus and dande- lions were little too previous in their appearance this season.
 Mrs Mary 0. Corbit has purcha sed the Church house occupied by D. F. May. Mir May and family move this week to farm in Monterey, Mass. Miss Helen Louise May, who has been in New York through the winter, re- turned home several days ago and will go with her parents to Monterey.
 Mrs Merwin of Cornwall Hollow, widow of the late Ashbel Merwin, re. gently sold her real estate in that place and has bought from J. l.. Bragg the house on Church street in Canaan now occupied by John Hoag. Mrs Merwin and.her late husband lived on the liar man Peet farm in Canaan a number of years ago. Mrs Merwin and her daugh ters will be cordially welcomed on her return to Canaan, for they have many friends and relatives here.
 Sparks from 0. N. E. locomotive set fire to the grass back of J l.. Bragg's residence yesterday forenoon and the flames ran dangerously near to MI Bragg's hay barn, but the fires course was changed by the valiant efforts ol half dozen ladies who afterwards, with the help of one or two men, succeeded in extinguishing the blazing grass These East Main street ladies should apply for the SIS. 65 which has been on deposit awaiting the first volunteer firt company.
 Highway Commissioner McDonalt was in town yesterday to look over thu proposed layout for changing the mair road in front of Mrs w. J. Thomson and T. F. Bigelow's. The proposed route is to go around the south side o the hill. Neither Mrs Thomson or M Bigelow desire the road changed, ant it will bring the highway considerabl. nearer the railroad, but it will eliminat, grade, keep labor employed, and VI suppose of course will be built within the appropriation of which there i about $168O left to the discretion o Highway Commissioner Mcdonald anc the selectmen to use in permanent i'm provements.
 Lawyer George E. Taft disappear cd from Unionville on Saturday, leavin behind debts to the amount of $500 considerably distributed among his ac quaintances. He also leaves behin his second wife and five children, onl one of whom can contribute to the suI port of the family; this being the oldes daughter, Georgia. Taft lost none speculating through Hartford bucks shops, and the manner in which he COT tracted some of his debts leaves hiI liable to criminal prosecution if | could be found. Besides his law pra tics he was the manager and junit member of the fire insurance firm Hitchcock & Taft. Mir Taft went frol
 Canaan to Unionville about fifteen yea
 ago. He lived here about two yea and was principal of the Canaan Hig school and studied law with Judge 4 T. Rorsback. Mr and Mrs Taft Ql Arst wifs) and two children lived in | houss new essupisd by Mrs 2. g. Nsy