Connecticut western news., 1901-11-07

w. Fl. Emmons moved his household
 goods last Saturday from Clemsns' block
 on Main Street to Charles Emmons'
 house on Church Street
 Mrs W. F Clarke. Pittsield, Mass. |.
 has appointed Mrs G. H. Van Deusen,
 Canaan, agent for the New Device for
 ladies waists and collars.
 A teachers meeting will be held in
 the Eldridge Gymnasium at Norfolk on
 Friday, November 8, 1901, at 2:30 p. m.
 Dr. J. E Clarke, principal of the Gil
 bert School, Winsted, will give his lecture on "Books and Reading"
 Mrs Harper of Harpersville, N. r.,
 visited few days last week at Fred erick Gillette's, West Main St. She is sister of the late Miss Della Hall, wbo lived so long in the Gillette family.
 Weston M. Bafnes and family will this week move into the rooms in CIemans' block, recently vacated by Mir and Mrs W. H. Emmons In about two weeks they will also move their dry goods store into the same building.
 Mrs M G. Adam has exchanged location with her son G A. Adam for awhile. She and her daughter, Kath- crime, are occupying the house in the village in which he lived and he with his family are domiciled at Mrs Adams old home on the lower road to Eas t Canaan.
 The remainder of W. H. Emmons' stock of groceries, canned goods, cigars tobacco. and other merchandise. also four show cases, two stoves, coffee grind CT. lamps with brackets, and other equipments will be sold at public auction at the store in Clemans' block on Sat- urday, Nov. 18th at 10 A. M.
 No fault to be found with New weather when one compares it with that which has been experienced in some parts of York State within the pact three weeks. Mrs Louise Smith who returned last week from TuQy, N. Y !, said that while there she awoke one and found that there was six inches of snow on the ground. It made her homesick and long for New Egg land Nevertheless the snow all dis in couple of days.
 The youths and the kids enjoyed last Thursday night with out elaborately decorating" building. One thoughtless act aas tolling the church bell few strokes; however, most of the villagers stumbled to the racket that the bell was not sounding fire alarm. Cabbage stumps were thrown against doors and windows and some glass was thereby broken but not inten- 'ionally. The young people had good lime without doing much damage.
 Elsewhere in this paper is recorded ;he death of Miss Cornelia Holcomb, md in another column brief mention is made of her illness and former resi- lence. The old residents of Canaan will remember Miss Holcomb who was ! daughter of the late Captain Robert Holcomb who for many years kept ,otel at the lower corner in the town of North Canaan. At one time the Hol- | ,omb sisters kept hotel at Lebanon Springs, N. Y., and for many years the ate Samuel Jacobs was in their employ.
 The special election of delegate o the Constitutional convention was a Ipecially hot contest in this town last Tuesday The result did not sustain he foregone conclusion expressed last week by some over-confident people. Each party at the caucusses held last week nominated 3 good man. The Democratic candidate vas Charles W. Camp, M. D. The Republican candi- late was Hosea L. Ross, D. D. 8. When the polls closed at 5 o'clock Tuesday afternoon the ballots cast ,howed that the doctor had 29 more 7otes than the dentist, the figures being