Connecticut western news., 1900-03-15

eral weeks.
 Joseph l.. Parsons is in New York this week buying merchandise for the spring trade.
 Orange tea at M. E. church parlors Wednesday evening, March 21, from 5.30 to 9 o'clock. Landlord Warner returned Satur- day afternoon from his two weeks so- journ at Pittsfeld, Mass.
 Mrs Lyman Dunning attended the funeral of Mrs Caroline B. Mansfield at Winsted on Monday.
 -S. A. Kemp ventured out Monday after being housed up two weeks with the grip and sciatica.
 Don't forget the auction at II o'clock tomorrow morning at the H J. Mead farm in Canaan Valley.
 -J. l.. Bragg has sold the Osborne house, so called, on Elm street to Peter Nelson who works for 1erdenbergh Brothers.
 District Deputy Grannis of Litch- field made an official visit to Housaton- ic Lodge No 61, F. & A. M last Mon- day evening.
 -Dr Ross, B. A. Peirce and H. B . Ives attended the Sportsmen's Show in New York last week. Albert Barnes al- so attended the show this week.
 A new dancing class of thirty pu- pills had their first lesson at the Town Hall on Saturday evening. John Beck. ley is the instructor.
 The semi mi-annual convention of the north Housatonic division, Poughkeep- sic district, Epworth League, will be held at Lee, Mass. this afternoon and evening.
 A whist party to celebrate the 23d anniversary of the birth of Henry M. Dodge was given at the home of his parents, MT and Mrs George Dodge. on Church street Saturday evening. A dozen young people were in attendance. The Canaan Creamery has this week finished getting ice at Twin Lakes, and harvested "A carloads in all It now appears that Thomas O'Hara of Twin Lakes, instead of 0. R. Pulver of Norfolk, had the contract to cut the | ice.
 Albert P. Briggs has purchased all of the real estate owned in this village by the late Michael Madden. Mir Briggs will not immediately move from his home in East Canaan as his plans are not yet fully matured, but he will probably continue the late MT Madden's livery business and eventually move to his new property here. We shall wei come the genial Al. as villager.
 Reports from Poughkeepsie state that Miss Hattie MoMonagle, with whom Conductor Christian eloped, is worth $20. 900 in her own right. Other reports state that Christian has been seen in Chicago; also that Mrs Christian was formerly Miss Woodin of Canaan Mountain. Christian left $5 and let ter for his wife in Hartford saying that she would never see him again and ask ing her to forget that she ever had a husband like him. Mrs Christian and her children have gone to New York state aud she says she will locate him and make him support her. Last Monday morning when the mercury had gone down to geo the | boiler of the steam heater in Jackson, | Eggleston & Cos store went on strike In other words, it was not known that all the water in the boiler had evapora- ted and when stream f cold water was turned oL the boiler cracked and 1 of course became unserviceable. It will take about two weeks to replace the boiler. On Monday vain effort was made to warm the store with kero sene lamps and oil stoves but during the afternoon coal stove was procure { and in due time fire was started in it, | Arthur J. Collier, who succeeded Dudley Paine as passenger train con. ductor on the Central New England road about three months ago, was on Tuesday notified that his services were no longer required. Collier had been 8 trainman on the road for twelve years previous to his recent promotion Friends of his in Hartford say that Col lisr's winning the silver lantern at the Winsted fire company's fair is the cause of his discharge. The lantern was offered as prize to the most popular conductor, and despite the efforts O his real friends to bring about his de feat, he won the prize. The railroad company have no use for popular con ductors.
 A special car was run over the Gen
 tral New England railroad last Thurs
 day to Hopeweil Junction and Pough
 keepsie, returning to Hartford on Fri
 day. In the party were President
 W. Brock of the Central New England President J. H. Appleton of the Hart } ford & Connecticut Western, C.S. Spen
 cer, general manager of the Adams Ex , press Company, MT Curtis, ,superintend ent of the New England Division tn Adams Express Company, O. E. Shel 1. ton, route agent, 0. H. Ewing, chic engineer, J. F. Eedden, train master : and Superintendent Martin of the Ger , tral New England. The trip was solel , for inspection of the road. -Th funeral of Jeremiah s. Ne
 was attended at the late residence ( 1-A