Connecticut western news., 1900-10-04

Mass. is visiting her father, Thomas Bonner.
 The fourth special meeting of Mountain County Pomona Grange will be held with the Litchfield Grange on Wednesday, Oct. 10.
 pr Ross took first premium on White Wyandotte cockerels and second premium on bullets at the Danbury fair.
 The criminal side of the Superior court for Litchfeld county will be held at Litchfield commencing Tuesday Oct 9th at 10 a m.
 The NEWS is again indebted to Miss Mary Stevens of Canaan Valley for large bouquet of sweet peas left at this office on Tuesday.
 Delightful weather, and here is the mercury record at noon for the last sev- en days: 80-76.71-74-77-71-74. A good rain last Saturday night.
 The Cranford Club begins its sea. son of readings by meeting with Mrs Q. W. Camp today at 2.45 D. m. The subject of tue reading today will be 'From Concord to Yorktown"
 Roscoe Young, Fred Roderiok and Joe Foucher of Wiusted with Samuel Roberts and Robert Holt went hunting in this vicinity Monday and bagged IA gray squirrels, 8 woodoock and par tridges.
 70. D. V. Barnes and his sister. Miss Edith, left yesterday for New York where they will take steamer today for Europe. They were accompanied be Mir and Mrs Jules Mignery of Great Harrington.
 -Oswold Vosburg left yesterday on weeks vacation accompanied by his wife. They will visit the Danbury fair, New York city, Hudson river by day light and various other places too nu- merous to mention.
 The Misses Julia and Katherine Grace of Philadelphia are visiting Mrs Charles Collins. The Misses Grace are daughters of the late John Grace who many years ago was station agent here for the old Housatonic railroad. Miss Spaulding of West Stock bridge, Mass. has been engaged for the winter by Miss Susan Norton. the mill liner. The ladies left yesterday for New York city where they will attend the fall openings and get their bearings for the new fall styles. -Dr and Mrs J. D. Clemans have re- turned from weeks pleasure trip along the Hudson river, Brooklyn, N. r.. and Sea Cliff, L. I. They arrived home Monday, delighted with their trip and accompanied by Dr Cleman's aunt, Mrs o. s. Stow of Brooklyn, who will remain a week or so with them.
 Last weeks Puck contains very graceful little poem, full of pith and wisdom, from the pen of 8. G. Camp, entitled ''Also in Fsiryland. A dou- ble distilled extract of the poem reveals the prosaic announcement that the fairies got drunk on dew slipped from poppy and that there is prospect of a W. 0. T. U. 'also in Fairyland."
 The majority of people in this town are congratplating each other land also themselves) over the vote on the license question last Monday and that the town is not to be afflicted with saloons They also comprehend that the temper. anoe people of the town of Canaan
 Falls Village) made noble struggle for no license, and although they lost the battle by only one vote they reduc cd the license majority from 50 in 189e and 36 in 1899 to in 1900.
 The annual meeting of the Litch
 field Northwest Conference was largel,
 attended at the Congregational church
 at South Cansan last Tuesday. Among
 the speakers was Rev Dr Creedan o
 New York. district secretary of the A
 B. o. F. M., who spoke on the Chimes
 question. The delegates in attendanc from Pilgrim church were Mrs Georg
 Adam and Mrs Merwin. Rev aud Mir
 8. A. Burnaby, together with severs others of the congregation were als present.
 Ticket Agent Henry Reed had tn good fortune of making a first clas
 photograph of the Mountain Expres
 train early this season. This photo graph was used to illustrate an articl relative to the Mountain Express put lished in the September number of Le oomotive Engineering. Mir Reed now in receipt of letter from Aug Scharrey of Germany asking for one ( the original photographs, stating ths 2 he had collection of over 1000 pi, lures of locomotives and was very anl ious to obtain this one. We are of th | opinion that there are few amateur ph,
 tographers in the country who have r 't ceived as much notoriety over pictul d as has MT Reed and he is to be copgra D ulated.
 Last Thursday was great day . the Great Burlington fair-the greate T ever, 1t is said, it being estimated tn 2 upwards of 25, ,0C0 people were presen !" It was also great day for Canaan. I'll l. morning train from Winsted broug ' with it three or four car loads of peep Q packed like sardines, in two coache ? They immediately spread themselves { ', over town, invaded the stores. play, " hall in kho akxaat and in faot had Il