Connecticut western news., 1901-08-22
Harry Barnes is camping at Twin

Lakes.
 -Lucien Stephano's family moved to Great Harrington on Tuesday.
 Miss Mary Bell of Chatham, N. r.. is visiting relatives and friends in town.
 Mrs Frank Gillespie and son, Rob- ert, of Stamford are at Beckley's this week
 Willie Riley of Hartford is visiting his grandfather, Patrick Riley, of this place.
 On Tuesday of this week F. R. Collin moved his jewelry store into Cummings new block.
 Miss Mary Alseph of Falls Village spent few days last week with her aunt, Mrs Julia Messenger.
 The Luman Foote place on West Main street has been much improved by removing the front fence.
 Miss Amy Leighton of New York city. who has been visiting friends in Stamford, is the guest of Miss Edna Roberts.
 A neat granite monument has re- gently been erected at the grave of George A. Mcintyre in the lower cemetery. Saturday being St Bartholemew's Day, there will be & celebration of the Holy Communion in Christ church at 10. .00 a. m.
 Edwin Knickerbocker of Syracuse, N. Y, visited bis sister, Mrs J. E. Rhoades. from last Thursday evening to Saturday noon.
 New arrivals at Mrs Hamm's last Saturday were Mrs Hawkins of Brook lyn, N. Y, and Miss Ely and Miss Bowman of New Haven. Mrs George W. Cowdrey, who has been sojourning some time at Bath Beach near Coney Island and at Long Branch, N. r., arrived home Saturday. MT and Mrs Geo P. Strong left last Friday for ten days vacation. They will visit friends in Plttsfeld, Mass,, and Frank Strong in Greenfield, Mass.
 John M. Roys was in this village Monday exhibiting large egg which one of his hens laid last Thursday. The egg measured 63x8s inches and weigh ed four ounces.
 Rev A. W. Gerrie preached an ex- cellent sermon in Pilgrim church last Sunday morning taking for his text part | of the 4th verse of the 8th Psalm, "What is man, that thou art mindful of himy"
 Master Alfred Caldwell who started June 18th with party of nine boys from various parts of the United States, i for two months vacation trip to diff ferent places in New Hampshire, re- turned home last Friday.
 -E. s. Hoyt of Griggsville, Ill.,, ar rived at D. l.. Freeman's last Friday and on Monday he and MT Freeman started on pleasure trip to New York via the o. N. E.. road and day line ste amers on the Hudson River. The selectmen have b uilt new and Ion ger sluice north of the lower ceme- tery. They put in an iron pipe two feet in diameter with stone work at each end. They are also widening the road as far north as the railroad cross ing and when the work is completed it will be good improvement.
 The town schools will open Mon- day, September 9th with the following teachers in charge: At Canaan, Miss Roraback, Mrs Preston, Miss 0. M. Palmer, Mrs Root, Miss Adele Merwin. At East Canaan, Miss Conklin and Miss McCarty; Sodom, Miss Keefe; Canaan Valley, Miss Stevens; No. 5, Miss Grace Goodwin Miss Palmer is from Nor wich and will teach in the room where Miss Lydia Merwin taught, and Miss Adelle Merwin will teach the kinder garten which Miss Schofeld taught last year.
 In the NEWS report of the Law and Order League raid at Miles Ferris the list of liquor seized was copied from Law and Order League memorandum which in its abbreviated form is said to be wrong. The siezure, according to the Law and Order League, was one demijohn with whiskey in bottom; one basket of bottles-some with whiskey in bottom; one box of empty bottles But the NEWS is informed on good authority that no liqnor was siezed, an6 Mir Ferris also claims that the demijohr and Il the bottles were empty.
 Seth R. Howes, the late well-knowl snowman who has resided in Brewster
 N. Y., and who died last May, has be-
 queathed valuable and real estate il Chicago and in Putnam county, N. Y.
 to his daughter, Julia Fl. Boissee, wifi of Prof Lewis Boissee. Prof Boissee' summer home is the farm formerl owned by Ruloff Rood, near Clayto MT Howes' property is estimated to b from $1,000,000 to $1,500,000. Som , reports are that it is even more tha that. but no exact estimate of hi wealth is determined, much of it bein tied up in real estate of variable and UT : certain value, and large part of it be
 ing in various stocks and railroa - bonds.
 n The NEWS desired to publish :. sketch of Hyman Jacobs, who died tn s 9th inst, but has been able to glea n only the following points in regard t o his life: Hymen Jacobs was born 0 !. the "Moon place." so called, at w s topue in the town of Salisbury. Angus