Connecticut western news., 1901-11-28
Do you call this week Indian

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 Joseph s. Adam was in Newark, N J. from Friday until Monday. | Il. B. Mattison of Rochester, N. Y., is visiting at s. w. Barnes.
 Over 20 turkeys were rallied off at Joseph Owens last Friday evening.
 J. l.. Bragg has been setting out about twenty maple trees in the high way east of his house.
 l Last Sundays fierce storm may have been the eQuinectial storm which failed to appear in Septem Der.
 MT and Mrs H. s Rood of Benton Centre, N. Y. are visiting Mir Rood's sister, Mrs Lydia Lawrence.
 To-day the post office will close at II 8. m. and open at 5 p. m.; close at 5.s0 and open at 6 30; close at 7.3O for the remainder of the day.
 Mason Noble went to Newark, N. J. on Tuesday where he will remain two weeks and then proceed to his home in Florida.
 Elsewhere in this paper will be found letter from Col. A. B Lawrence | who delivered the Memorial Day address in Canaan, May 30, l9OO. There was good skating on the Borden Creamery pond from Thursday until Saturday afternoon and the boys and girls glided around there as much as they desired.
 Miss M. J. Peck was the first in Canaan to respond to the request of the Winsted Hospital, for supplies. She has contributed old linen and rolls of cotton bandages.
 Jerome G. Root and Norman Moore have swapped positions. Jerome is now baggage master at the 0. N. B. station and Norman is clerk in G. L. Parsons & Sons store.
 Mrs Augusta Scott who has been housekeeper at Frederick Gillette's, West Main street, for several weeks. went yesterday to Sheffield, Mass, to remain this winter with her sister, Mrs Goodsell. MT Gillette expects woman next week from Falls Village to take Mrs Scott's place.
 Eighty tickets were sold for the ball at Town Hall last Thursday night. Sixty couples were present, and Knights orchestra furnished the music Refreshments were served and everyone had jolly time. The Canaan base ball club cleared $5O.OO or more by the venture.
 -Thomas Bonner is the happy possessor of Remington six horse power gasolene autom obile. single seat. which arrived last Saturday. It is a slow coming machine, having been ordered the 17th of July, but is not slow going machine as it is capable of speed of 25 or more miles per hour; however, Mir Bonner does not intend to run the machine at that speed.
 Prof. M. V. Meade, who intends to form dancing classes at the Town Hall in Canaan on December 12, has a danc- ing academy in North Adams, Mass, where he has taught since 1894. This season he also has classes in Great Harrington and Sheffield, Mass. One of the North Adams papers highly recommends Prof. Meade and gives him full column press notice. He has taught summer classes in Lenox and Stock bridge the past season.
 Charles Groat of Richmond, Mass, aged about "A years, died at the Hos- pital in Pittsfeld. Mass, on Monday morning. Nov. 25. He had been sick three weeks and had been in the hos pital just one week. His funeral was attended at Richmond yesterday at Il a. m. He was the only son of the late Samuel D. Groat who many years ago was the founder of furnace at Chspin- vile. Conn. He is survived by three sisters, Mrs Sherrell of Richmond, Mas, Mrs Daniel Mickle and Mrs James Beckley of Brooklyn. N. Y.
 Some of the readers of the NEWS may possibly be interested in the fol- lowing paragraphs copied from letter which John G Beckley wrote from Raleigh, N. O., on Sunday evening, Nov. 17th: "At noon today my wife and walked down to Cabarus street and saw Andrew Johnson's birthplace "a little old fashioned house, now occupied by 8 negro family" "During the afternoon we started out to walk out east to the Confederate cemetery and to the Federal cemetery, which are both near together. We visited the Federal cemetery and spent so much time there that we did not go to the other. The Federal (NationaD ceme- tery contains the graves of about 675 known dead and 513 unknown dead. some from Andersonville. Among the known dead are the graves of IS Con- necticut soldiers. I remember the names of Young, Hughes, Kinney, By ington, Smith and Johnson among the eighteen. The cemetery also contains the graves of five North Carolina soldiers of the Spanish war of three years ego. The cemetery was establish ed in 1866."