Connecticut western news., 1901-08-01
The Great Girard Show disbanded

| East Canaan.
 Miss Susie A. Haight of New York visited her aunt, Mrs, Susan Stevens over Sunday.
 MT and Mrs Fairchild and daugl- ter, Mary, of Albany, N. T., are visit ing at Horace E. Holt's.
 Louis Guernsey, Roy Foulder, A. thur Downing and Flagler have gone into camp at Twin Lakes.
 A car of Angors goats on the c. N. E. sidetrack here yesterday attracted considerable attention.
 Misses Clara and Rebecca Coggs- we'll of Pittsfeld are visiting at their uncle's, G. P. Strong's.
 Mrs c. H. Briggs is taking an out ing among the Catskills. and Mrs s. A Bennett is visiting in Sheffield.
 The Canaan ball cam have won three games, forfeited one, and lost one, hence their percentage IS GOO.
 Mrs N. l.. Jackson and little daughter left Tuesday for a months visit with relatives in Cortland, N. Y.
 Mrs J. s. Adam is accommodating eight summer board, rs, and Samuel Briggs five at their places in Wetogue district.
 Miss Helen and Master Russell Eddy, children of Dr Mac. Eddy, arc spending couple of weeks with their uncle, s. A. Eddy.
 There will be Methodist Sunday school excursion from Millerton and in- cluding stations to Canaan to Highland Lake, Winsted, on August 15.
 Mrs Henry Bullard of Poughkeep- sic visited Mrs Esther Williams over Sunday, and on Monday went to visit sister, Mrs Patterson in Lee, Mass.
 Mrs Morgan, wife of pr G. E, Mor- gan of Hartwellville, Vt, visited at Wm. J. Ferguson's, also her parents and brother, Dr J. H. Foote of Canaan from last Friday until Monday.
 The excursion to Savin Rock over the N. T., N. H. III, railroad on Tuesday was we'll patronized, the train passing through here with ten we'll fill ed cars. Six persons boarded the train here.
 | Miss Grace Roraback goes tomor- row to Hulburton. N. Y., to visit her great uncle, Henry Roraback and the Buffalo Exposition for few days. She will then visit Detroit and Negau- nee, Mich,, also Brainerd, Minn., and expects to return home the second or third week in August.
 Peter Marcier was killed at Chester, Mass, July Is, while working in a stone quarry. He was struck over the heart by crowbar which was sent fly ing through the air by rock falling on one end of it. He was B ears old and brother of Xavier Marcier who for merly lived in Canaan but now resides at Boardman, near New Milford.
 Something should be- done to save | the elm trees in this town. If lime will kill the elm tree worms 1t is ches p way to annihilate them. Elsewhere in this paper is recorded Dr William J. Riders successful experiment in using lime to kill these pests. This is not an advertising dodge, therefore don't fail to read what Dr Rider says in regard to his experiment.
 Rev J. Milton Greene, missionary in Porto Rico, visited his brother James R. Greene here Tuesday and Wedne . day and on Tuesday evening delivered an address in the Pilgrim church on Porto Rico and Cuba. The address was most excellent, and described the chsl. acter of the people religiously and SO cially. Among the audience. which numbered about fifty, were five minis. ters Rev Mir Greene goes to Cuba in the fall as Presbyterian missionary He left yesterday for Buffalo where he will hold ten days meeting in Span ish.
 Albert P. Briggs saw a gentlem II at Union Depot last Friday event { waiting for the train to Winsted. Nil
 Briggs observed that the gentleman wore G. A. R. button on the lape of his coat, and as MT Briggs is also member of the G. A. R. he entered int, conversation with the stranger wh stated that he was 8 native of Main
 bus for about 35 years had resided 8 Ottawa, Kansas, and was on his way t
 visit bis daughter in Winsted, Conn Speaking of the drought in Kansas tn stranger said that no rain had fallen 8 Ottawa since April 15, and the corn an, : grass were all burned up by the ho weather. There will not even be an : corn fodder there this season. He sai U that many farmers were compelled T dispose of their COWS because the could not feed them, and COWS ths
 were worth S50.00 each before tn D drought were now sold at two ceni D per pound and shipped out of the stat' '- The wheat crop was harvested befo1 r. it was injured by the drought, and tn a crop was the biggest ever known Il thirty bushels to the acre. Farmers o means have already purchased whe at 7 45 cents per bushel to feed their stoc
 on during next winter. The oat cro 's was injured by the hot weather whic ,s followed the wet spring and cause l, rust. He said that the state of Missou a suffers as much from drought as Kal B. sas does.
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