Connecticut western news., 1900-11-29
CANAAN IN 1900.

In the spring of 1888 tho NEWS passed into the hands of its present editor, and at that time he wrote a series of articles showing what Canaan was then and what it might become in 1900 Some of those suggestions have been carried out and some enterprises have been launched that the editor did not think of at that time.
 Let us spend a moment in looking back at Canaan seventeen years ago. The business men then were c. B Gard ner, ieweler; o. W. Camp, physician NJ. B. Mead, stationer; J. D. Clemans dentist; J. N. Van Deusen, hay dealer: G. P. Strong, timer; E. J. Prescott, butcher; Luman Foote, baruessmaker; John Rodemeyer, bootmAker; J. B. Hardenbergh, attorney; A. T. Rorabaci, attorney; M. Rorsbsck, insurance; J. s New, coal dealer; J. L. Bragg, feed and lumber; W. H. Camp, druggist; W C.. Humphrey, druggist; J. A. Mcdonald, hotel; E. W. Warner, hotel; Wolcott Adam, retail milk dealer; Fuller & Peet, general store; G. L. Parsons, general store; J. A. Underwood, sash and door manufacturer; Chas. Barnes Sons, lime manufacturers; Peirce & Lawrence, lime manufacturers; Barnum Richafdson Co.,, iron manufacturers; John Davis, brick manufacturer; E. W. Warner and J. A Mcdonald, livery stables; The Tobacco Growers Mutual Insurance O.; 8. 0. Beckley, editor of Connecticut Western News; and the officers of the Canaan Savings Bank. J. B. Hardsnbergh was the judge of probste, and George Scid- moro was proprietor of the barber shop
 Start out and look for them today and you will find that the jeweler is now F. R. Collin, Dr Camp now divides the field with Dr Lee and Dr O sens, ths purely stationer and printer is 0. H Pease, Dr Ross has succeeded Dr Clem- ans. retired. Mir Van Deusen and Mir Strong are stIll in the same line and Van Deusen has added . coal business, the meat business is conducted by D.D. Walter, Jamee Quinn is the harness. mAker-Mr Feote having retired, J. Homan is the bootmaker, the attorney Is J. H. Rorsback. insurance business is conducted by Whittlesey < Adam, Ives 4 Peirce are the feed men, and have succeeded MT New in the coal business, MT Bragg now being proprietor of the boarding house "The Msples," the drug stores bear the same signs al though H. D. Humphrey has succeeded bis deceased brother, William G., Ew. Warner now owns all the hotel business, and Frank Hitchcock peddles the milk, the general stores are now conducted by Jackson, Eggleston %. and by G. l.. Parsons & Sons, Fuller & Peet now con- fining themselves to hardware. The sash and door business is now conduct. ed by Johnson. Lindell & Co.,, and Can. field Bros. are . new concern in the lime industry, but Barnes Sons and The Peirce & Freeman Go. are still doing a big business. The B. R CO. are run. ming their East Canaan furnaces, and speaking of East Canaan reminds us that the only business change we can recollect there is the purchase of Dun. ning's store by E. L. Roberts < O., A. B. Garfield and Wm. Adam being still in business. The Garfield Bros. lime kiln. and office are located at East Ca naan. The NEWS is still edited by Ml Beckley. and the Iveries are conducted by A. P. Brig ys and Walter Warner. D. 0. Whittlesey has been judge of probate since the decase of J. B. Hardenbergh in the year 1892; and l.. O. Rhoades he, been proprietor of the barber shop fol several years.
 And now we have to chronicle ths passing away during the past seventeen years of the Tobacco Growers Mutua Insurance Co, the brick making busi ness, and the death of the president vice president and secretary of the Ca nasn Savings Bank of seventeen year, ago, respectively Frederick Watson, P O. Cummings and ]. B. Hardenbergh Seventeen years ago the public reading room closed never to be opened again The Allen qusrries still remain idle, ant a public park or grove opened on Soul Church has been entirely cut dowu an, modern dwellings erected on the site yet within atvelve-month have we com pleted park in front of Union depot
 Seventeen years ago tobacco was
 leading crop in Canaan. but now com paratively a small amount Is rsises about here. The Masonic Lodge an, the 0. A. R. post were fourishing i 1883 and now in addition to these frs ternal societies Canaan has the Orde
 United American Mechanics. the Son
 of Veterans, the Improved Order (
 Heptasophs and the W. R. 0.
 In the article in 1883 the editor state
 that demand was growing for a tobs,
 cs warehouse. One was built au
 operated by B. Grorta of New York br
 shut down when the tobacco busine,
 languished, and the building is no
 owned and occupied by Ives & Peirt
 for grinding mill. The editor adv
 cated the building of residences in di
 ferent direct ,ns, and we are pleased
 state that a great many have been bui
 in seventeen years. Railroad street h,
 been built up, Bragg street opened ar
 built up. many fine residences erects
 on Granite and Orchard avenues; Be
 low street opened and built up as VIC as South Church street Reed stre
 has been built up, and a number residences on both East and West Ma
 street, Elm street and High stree
 The Canaan Academy has sta,