Connecticut western news., 1900-01-18
THURSDAY. JANUARY Is. 1900
Local News.


 -Dr Samuel Camp of Great Barring ton has improved during the past week.
 In January 1898 there were 70 sub- scribers in the Canaan local telephone exchange. Now there are 132.
 w. H. Camp visited his aged grand mother in Roxbury yesterday and re- ports her in very feeble condition.
 -J. G. Beckley prompted the dan- cers at the c. A. R. ball in Great Bar rington last night. Music by Bald wins orchestra.
 Henry s. Rood of Benton Center, N. r., and George Rood of Vineland, N. J., have arrived in Canaan to attend the funeral of Edmund D. Lawrence.
 The Whiting G. Kellogg farm so called at South Canaan has been sold to Welles Yale of Huntsville, through the real estate agency of Samuel A. Eddy < Go. of this village.
 Hon N. B. Stevens of Winsted has been housed up week with severe cold but is improving; and Probate Judge George M. Darlington has been confined to his house in Winsted five weeks with neuralgia and an Liberated tooth, but he is also improving.
 -Abaut three inches of sleet fell last Thursday night which made good coast ing and fair sleighing. A little snow fell Sunday and some rain Tuesday fore noon. The wheeling is now good. but the sleighing very thin. Ice about 10 inches thick is being harvested.
 Samuel A. Eddy, census supervisor for Connecticut, will keep his head quarters in Canaan. He opened an office in the vacant room in the High School building yesterday with Nal colm D. Rudd of Lakeville as chief clerk and Miss Ethel G. Strong as stenographer.
 MT Tabor of Glen St Mary, Flori- da, writes to W. Fl. Camp that his nur- sery, which is about 25 miles due west of Jacksonville, was visited by heavy frost two weeks ago, but they kept the trees from injury by building wood fires LoHis Holt, recently returned from Florida, says that ice formed on puddles of water in Tampa during Christmas week.
 A teachers institute will be held in Town Hall. Canaan, on Friday, Feb. 2. under the auspices of the State Board of Education. There will be morning and afternoon sessions which will be addressed by prominent educa- tors, The teachers and all interested in schools in the neighboring towns will be invited to attend. Programs will be out in few days.
 At their regular monthly meeting Saturday in New York the directors of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad elected William E. Barnett of Now Haven to be third vioe-president of the company. MT Barnett was grad uated at Yale in 1864 and became con- nected with the old New York & New Haven road in 1869. The consolidation came in 1873. Mir Barnett continued in the service and has been secretary to the president and attorney in charge of the departments of law, taxes and real estate. He is now to be corporate vice. president, under the direction of Presi don't Hall. w. E. Barnett is brother of Rev F. W. Barnett of South Glas- tonbury.
 The next entertainment in the Methodist lecture course will be given at the Town Hall, next Wednesday evening, Jan. "A, at eight o'clock. Miss Laura Chapin, soprano, and MT E. 8 Chapin, baritone, wh, have de- lighted Canaan audiences with their songs, have been secured, together with Rev l.. D Bliss, of G.. Burlington who will give readings from Browning. The whole promises to be the best en- tertainmeut yet given in our village this season. Reserved seat tickets will be on sale at Collins store after Satur- day morning; those who hold season tickets can secure reserved seats by presenting their course tickets at MT Collins together with ten cents addi- tional as reserved seats will be 35 cents, general admiss ion 25c. Course tickets will admit bearer without any further charge.
 The NEWS of November g, 189s contained an extended report of the disappearance of Julius 0. Richardson of North East, Pa. former resident ot East Canaan, Conn. Mir Richardson went to Niagara Falls on Sunday, Octo Der 15, and on Tuesday night, October 17,he disappeared from the hotel where he had registered. Letters which h' wrote to his wife plainly indicated tha' he intended to commit suicide. and visit to his room in the hotel disclosed facts that left no doubt but what h. had done as he threatened. Last Sat urday, Jan 18th, the NEWS received { postal card stating that "Mr Julius Richardson's body was found on tn, 14th of December on the Canadian shore. The Masons took it tt Manlius and laid him by the side of hi daughter. When MT Richardson livet in East Canaan he worked in the ols Huntington | Day forge. He married Libslia Day, daughter of Abram Day who survives him. His ags was abou oc yeAfl.