Connecticut western news., 1902-03-27
THURSDAY. MARCH 27. 1902.
Local News.

-Miss Catherine Finuegan is home for the Easter vacation.
 -Dr. E. s. Parsons of Thomaston Was in town over Sunday.
 Mrs J. E. Bisrse has been shut in for few days with . cold.
 All the schools in town closed last Friday for the Easter vacation.
 -Mise Bessie Riggs was . guest of Mis- Daisy LAndon over Sunday.
 Miss Pearl Wilcox of Falls Village spent Sunday at w. K. Landon's. -"Mud, mud, mud" describes the condition of the roads tho past week.
 Rev g. A. Burnaby will preach in the Pilgrim church on Easter morning
 -Mrs R. D. Peirce is suffering with an infiamed wisdom tooth and neuralgia -Mrs Ed. Adams and two daughters viaited in Great Burlington this week.
 -Mrs John Seaoord and two sons of Lse, Mass, were in town Tuesday and Wednesday. ..
 Harvey Sabine is improving and expects to be able to resume work in the ERws office next week.
 Roscoe Benjamin sold the hand somest landau ever finished, At S1550 last week to out of town parties.
 Miss Edith Green and Miss Bessie 8paulding went to New York on Mon day, and will remain few days there. Harry Peck of Ashley Falls will take position with F. M. Cooke in the carriage and harness business. April 1. -Mrs Hubert Stanton, who Ras been receiving treatment in the Springfield Hospital for several weeks, arrived home this week.
 The Improved Order of Heptasophs will initiate ten candidates 1t their meeting tonight, which was postponed from two weeks ego.
 John Ryan, who has worked for s. ". Barnes the past seven years, will work for Ns P. K Brown the coming year, commencing April l.
 Theresa Carl, head waitress at the Warner House, will go to New York on Saturday to remain over Easter with her sister who resides there.
 -N1 George l.. Parsons went to Boston on Monday to receive treatment Bhe Was accompanied by her husband. They will remain there m indefinite time.
 James Harrls, who has always lived on the banks of the Housatonic river 1t Bulls Bridge, says he has never seen tho Housatonic river as high ss in the last freshet.
 The frame for James s. Graney's new house on Bragg street has been Aised and sheathed. It is. a large building and is very conveniently ar- ranged inside.
 It is rumored that Oswald s. Vos- burg and family, who went to New Ro chelle last October, are to move back to Canaan this spring and that MT Vosburg will be employed by Jackson & Eagles ton.
 HI. R. Whitford, the merchant at South Canaan, has just had 25OO novel signs printed ct the NEWS office, adver- thing his business. These signs will be pasted on fences and other conspic- nous places in all this region.
 The fire district committee on electric lights are waiting to receive bids from any local company that may be formed. If they do not hear from any local company by April they will close contract with propositions already made.
 Albert L. Barnes will soon build g large house on the hill south of the Charles Paul place. so called, on Church street The Paul house is being moved east number of rods in order to pro vide an extensive lawn and unobatruct d view fir om where the new house will stand.
 James w. HAwver, aged 34 years, died of pneumonia at his home iu Bloomington, H., March 18. He was g son of Edward Hswver of Canaan, Ct When about 15 years of age he com menced clsrking in the late Deacon Graham's drug store at Salisbury. Later in life he was drug clerk for Frank An drews and the late Dr. Mack Eddy in Winsted. From Winsted he went to Bloomington where he has since resid ed. He is survived by his wife al Bloomington, by his father and by his brother Edward At Canaan, and by his sister, Mrs John Welch at Falls Village
 Last Thursday was contract day a Bordens'. The prices for 100 pounds O milk arc as follows: April $1 25, Ma, q O6, June, 85c, July 95c, Angus 31. 10. September $1 30 or an average of q O8 per 100 pounds for the next sr months. The company are now getting about 5000 quarts daily. This seaso, they will pay more than they were will ing to pay last season, the advance be ing a follows per 100 pounds: Apri 1Oc, May Dc, June 5c. They paid . Canaan during the past six month 68-1OO of one cent per quart nor than the New York Consolidated Mill Exchange prices for 1901. The mill bottling business has some losses, . evidenced by the fact that the Borden are this week shipping from Canaal hiteen tons of broken glass whic represents their Canaan bottles broke during the pest nix months.