Connecticut western news., 1901-05-16

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Albert Roraback is home from Yale
for short rest.
Mrs Amos Collar of Norfolk is Wis
iting relatives here.
The News of May % will publish
the program for Memorial Day.
Frost in numerous places IN this
section was reported Tuesday morning.
Deacon David Fuller and daughter,
Lille, are passing few days in Boston.
A letter addressed to Wm. l. Lock
wood remains uncalled for at Canaan
post office.
Eliza Paul has returned to Peeks-
kill. N. Y. after five weeks soiourn at
E, s Roots.
The Episcopal sale and supper at
Town Hall yesterday p, m. was well
pa:ronized. The supper was excellent
Mrs Dennis McCarty is quite sick
with facial erysipelas at the home of
her daughter. Mrs Ensign Yorker, on
High street.
The government viii redeem all
revenue stamps in hands of purchasers
when the law goes into effect which
repeats the use of them.
New Marlboro held . special town
meeting on Monday and the project to
change the highway near G. G. Smith s
mill in Konkapot was defeated.
Some of the large trees west of
Parsons store were cut down Saturday
afternoon to make room for the brick
block which s. O. Cummings viii build
there.
Mrs Corbit has trimmed up the
for. ut in the rear of her house and built
. rustic pagods, enclosed with wire
m ,squito netting, on = point overlook
ing the village.
Some of our ,oung peope went to
Mill River last Friday night to hear the
New Marlboro minstIels. They report
the entertainment as pleasing and the
singing as especially fine.
Rev c. W. Skinner. superintendent
of St Christopher's Home, Dobbs Fer
~, N. Y, is expected to occupy the
pulpit In the III. E church next Sunday
morning He will give brief descrip-
ton of the work being done in the
Home.
Yale won the athletic games from
Harvard Mt New Haven on Saturday
Charlie Dupee came in second in the
220 yards dash and will therefore be
one of the team to go to England in the
summer to contest the Oxford Cam
bridge team.
A thunder shower visited this placs
between six and seven o'clock Saturday
evening. Its approaching appearance
was alarming but the shower did MOI
prove very heavy here although at Mil
lsrton, N. Y. the rain fell in torrents fo
twenty minutes. and at Boston Corners
NY. two barns were destroyed b.
lightning.
The Connecticut House of Repre-
sentatives voted yesterday that the Tar
iffville extension measure be made tn,
order of the day for next Wednesday
May add at IL q. m This action We
taken to give ample notice of the da.
when the resolution should be scte,
upon, because there were so man.
members of the House who wanted +
speak on the measure.
Last Friday morning Jackson, Eg
gleston & Co.'S valuable mare wakes
out of the barn and wandered down tn
lane to the open lot west of Union de
pot Soon the switching engine cam
along and frightened her. She starte
on . run for home but in turning int
the lane she slipped and fell, breakin
one of her front legs between the ankl
and hoof A plaster cast was 500
placed on the fracture and the anims
appears to be getting along nicely.
The will of Luman Foote was &C
mitted to probate on Monday of tn
week. Il is dated August 2. 1897, an
all of Mr. Foote'S property, both res
estate and personal property, is b
queathed to Mrs Anise Bronson Porte
of East Canaan. The Judge of Proba'
has appointed George L. Parsons ~
ministrator with the will annexed. I'll
estate has not been appraised at tn
writing bat it is spproximsted I
s35. 900 to S4O,0 personal properi
besides the real estate in this village.
The death of Mrs Benjamin Hswle
ut Canaan Valley calls to mind the ia,
that she was born Feb. %, 1908 and ,
course could not celebrate her birthds
anniversary rs frequently as most pc
pie do. It also calls to mind the ia
that her husband, who died 20 or mo
years ago, willed her life use of b
property and at her death Lyman Du
ming wss to receive legacy of 500
and Ward g. Brinton $500. Mrs Ha'
ley outlived Mr. Dunning and Mr. Bri
ton bat the Dunning and Briuton hei
win rsssiss said lsgacisA