Connecticut western news., 1901-11-28

it happens that people get in arrears with their newspapers. THE NEWS seeks to obviate the unnoticed slipping away of time by printing with the subscrib- CTS name the date showing expiration of subscription. Look at it now. 
 Daniel Mulville moved his house hold goods to Norfolk yesterday.
 U. W. Pees was in New York last week from Thursday until Saturday.
 Read Dr. Talmage's Thanksgiving sermon, published on the fourth page.
 THE NEWS to new subscribers from now until January l, 1903, for $2 in gd vance.
 Canaan boys and girls are home from colleges and schools for the Thanksgiving vacation.
 Thanksgiving services at 0.30 o'clock this morning in the Methodist church and in Christ church.
 A game of foot ball will be played in this village at o'clock this after noon between the Sharon team and the Canaan team.
 The game of foot ball this after noon at Torrington, between the Tor rington and Winsted teams, will be Q hotly contested battle.
 ID. w. Manvel has recently made extensive repairs and improvements on his grist mill at Ashley Falls, Mass, and every wheel and stone is now whirl- ing there again.
 The Newtown Bee says: 70. B. Johnson has been confined to the house by an attack of articular rheumatism. !" Some years ago Charlie was connected with the CONNECTICUT WESTERN NEWS.
 Here is the mercury record for the last seven mornings: 2O-18 26-32 -33- -23- 10. At noon: 3S 4l-37 37. 39 24-20. Sleet storm Saturday evening; heavy rain Sunday; snow squalls Monday evening.
 James E Dean of Winsted was here Saturday and also went down to Pine Grove to see whether tramps had broken into his cottage. as it was re- ported that tramps had entered some of the cottages there..
 Willard Burghardt and Eugene T. Rowe will start next Monday for Puerto Cortez. Spanish Honduras, where they will engage in the business of raising bananas. May health, wealth and happiness be the reward of their enterprise.
 Letters remaining uncalled for in Canaan Post Office are as follows:
 MT WIG. Crane,
 Joseph A. Smith,
 e 0. Frank Kelly,
 George O'Brien,
 Gustaf Petterson,
 J. T. Van Smyth.
 Il. P. Hatch, the venerable drug gist and poet of Millerton, N. r., has been critically ill and gradually failing fr the past ten days, but was living yesterday noon. J. l.. Barton, proprie- tor of the Barton House at Millerton, has been seriously i'll since the 18th inst. but was somewhat better yester. day noon.
 We have received a copy of the Pacific Commercial Advertiser, pub lished at Honolulu, Oct. 31, 1901, which records the arrival on Oct 30 of the steamer "Sonoma" from San Francisco, Gal. Among the passengers was E. Peabody, the scientific optician who has frequently visited Canaan and other towns in this section.
 MT George s. Williams has severed his connection with The Pawling IN Y.) Chronicle, and will hereafter de- vote his time and energies solely to ths conducting of the Patterson (N. Y., News. Mir Williams and family vii still, however, continue to reside ir Pawling. Mir Williams was foreman o the CONNECTICUT WESTERN NEWS from February 1887 to August 1890 but fol the last eight years or more has beer connected with the Chronicle as assist ant editor, manager, etc.
 George Thompson, aged 78 yearl and 10 months. died of heart failure al his home in Csnaan Valley last Sun day morning at 10 o'clock. For fifteer years he had been unable to lie down but slept in rocking chair. Unti recently he was able to attend to hi business and his familiar figure wa often seen in this village. He becam critically ill on Saturday and it was no expected he would live through th' night. He died sitting in his rocking chair. He IS survived by his wife, an by one son, Charles Thompson, wh lives in Bridgeport. He also leave one sister, Mrs Marcus Lewis, wh lives in East Canaan Mir Thompson was born in Woodbury but came t Canaan Valley when he was IS year old and has resided there ever since He was wagon maker by trade an' forty years ago carried on large wago making establishment. Later he kep store for number of years, and ala run distilIery. The distillery has no been operated the last 20 years. but h has operated the cider mill until fe' days ago Mir Thompson's funeral ws attended at his late residence on Tues day at 2 D. m. Rev. O. W Hanna COT dueting the services. Intsrment i 0nnsaA Vsllav