Connecticut western news., 1901-07-25

-MlSS- D0rotny bennett or NeW York is guest at Myrtle Hill.
 The Pittsfeld Y NJ 0. A. base ball team will play here with the Ca naans ol Saturday at p. m.
 Sherwood 0 Cummir gs of Norwalk was here Tuesday inspecting the pro- gress of the work on his new block.
 The ball games at Torrington last Saturday resulted as follows: Town 6, Pitts6eld 5, Consolidated 15. Lime Rock 5,
 The lawn party given at Southfield, Mass, last Saturday evening for the benefit of Turner X Cooks band was success in every way.
 Conductor Martin Riley of the c. N F. road received notice on Tuesday that his brother had been killed on the Susquehsuna railroad.
 Letters remaining uncslled for al Canaan post office are addressed as fol- lows: Dr W. D. Davis, Wm. l.. Lock- wood, Miss B. B. Moore.
 Miss Name Marr, of Pine Plains, N. Y ., and Josie D. White of Winsted, Conn were guests of Kittie A. White from Friday until Monday.
 pr Talmage's sermon, published on the fourth page, is timely and powerful one. Dr Talmage handles the subject without gloves.
 The carpenters are rushing the work of building the Borden creamery. The main building is sheathed, ceiled and roof-boarded, and the upper floor is laid.
 Another hot week has passed, and here Is the mercury record at noon: 92 to 96-9O to 94. .S5 93- 90 84-90. The mild showers Monday evening were very accepta ble. s
 Hurry up, North Canaan! ca July IT the New York board of estimate adopted resolution accepting the S5. 200. 900 gift of Andrew Carnegie for sixty five libraris -
 The Canaan base ball club went to Norfolk last Saturday and pounded the tripe out Of the Norfolks, and did not play good ball either The score was Canaan "A. Norfolk 2.
 Mir and Mrs H. B. Ives, Mir and Mrs Fl. l.. Ross of Canaan, and Miss Ida Evans of Bethel will commence camping at Twin Lakes on Saturday They will occupy "Edgewster" camp.
 Mrs Rebecca F. Coffl1g of Van Deusenville, Mass, is very feeble in- deed. She lies in 8 stupor most of the time and when aroused to give her med icine or nourishment her mind wanders.
 It was intended to have game of ball here this afternoon between the Norfolk and Canaan clubs but the Nor folks cannot come today, therefore the Canaans will play scrub nine from this village. The game will be a good one however. a. .... ~. --
 The following named gentlemen ar lived in Canaan Wednesday noon and will be recognized by base ball circles i; l. Guernsey, A Downing and Mir Folder. Later they will camp at Twin Lakes. They will play with the Cs- naan ball club this season.
 -Girard's World of Novelties, assist. ed by Miss Ida Howell, the sweet sing CT of illustrated songs, and Meyerholz's moving pictures of the Pau-Americsn Exposition, appeared at the Town Hall, Canaan. last evening and are bill ed to appear at Town Hall Tn Norfolk this Thursday evening.
 The Litchfeld Enquirer of July IS says: "The first stra W -hatted horse in Litchfield was seen on the Standard Oil wagon, Tuesday, July 16. It is splendid idea and was very generally adopted in New York and other cities during the recent very hot spell" It is a most excellent and humane idea and we hope to see it generally adopted everywhere during the hot weather.
 Allen B. St. John writes from Kan. kakee, H.. under date of July 21 as follows: Speaking of July 10 as being the hottest day in Chicago since the formation of the weather bureau. the thermometer was only 98o in Kankakee that day, but today the same thermom- e!er hanging in the same place out in the shade all day at this p. m :, is 1O5. with warm south breeze. I do not know how Chicago is or how you are in Connecticut, but 1t seems the hottest I ever knew. I have another thermom- eter that hangs in the sun and register ed 129s0 today. Both therm om eters are good ones. I will say it is very dry, only one shower since the 4th and no signs of rain are in sight but plenty of dust. and vegetation is in a suffering condition for rain. Mercury reached 990 two days last week. We had cold weather out of season up to June 8th or 1Cth, and now it is hot out of season All are we'll even if it is hot.
 POINTERS.