Connecticut western news., 1902-05-22
THURSDAY. MAY 22, 1902
LOCAL NEWS

next Tuesday night.
 Strawberry tea at the M. E. church parlors, May 2S.
 -George Porter of Texas was in town the fore part of the week.
 Miss Carrie Scott of Bristol is visit ing this week at George P. Strong's.
 There was a white frost in a num- Der of places in town yesterday mora ing.
 Rev F. A. Holden of Morris will preach in the Pilgrim church next Sun- day morning.
 Miss Beatrice LaCompte- of New York city visited Mrs H. B. Ives at The Naples last week.
 Mrs Oive Beckley of Winsted went to Cleveland, Ohio, last week to spend the summer with her son.
 About $l6 was the net receipts o the straw berry tea at the Pilgrim church parlors Tuesday evening.
 The dime social at the M. E. church parlors last Friday evening was . pleasant occasion and netted about 60 dimes
 Rev U. G Warren of Lake Maho- pac, N. Y. is visiting his family who have been at Mrs Hamm's about three weeks.
 The apple trees have been in full bloom during the past week and it is now thought the apple crop was not injured by the recent frosts.
 Mrs Caroline Drummond of Great Burlington arrived Monday to remain with Mrs Corbit while Mrs s. M. Humphrey takes vacation.
 Miss Kellogg, the nurse who takes care of Mrs A A. Wright, is taking g two months vacation and Miss EllaHall will take Miss Kellogg's place.
 The next regular meeting of Noun tsin County Pomona, No, 4, P. of B., will be with Morris Grange, No. 119, at tho GrangeHan in Morris, June 4, 1902. The score of the base ball game at Millerton last Thursday was: Millerton ', Canaan 5. The Canaans expect to play again at Millerton on Memorial Day.
 About dozen s. N. E. telephone linemen arrived in town Saturday and have begun the job of running the electric light wire from Norfolk to Canaan.
 The North Canaan Water Go. has g Dumber of men at work digging g trench and laying six inch main pipe between the Methodist church and Union depot.
 Miss S. w. Adam went to Pitts , field, Mass yesterday morning to visit her brother, Robert w. Adam, couple of days and take carriage drives around Lenox, Lee and Stockbridge.
 Moses B. Mead returned Saturday from Forestvills, where he has been visiting his niece several weeks. We understand that MT Mead will board at Ezra Langdon's in Canaan Valley.
 The invitations are out for the wedding of Miss Caroline Scott to Mir Gottlob Stotz, which will take place on Tuesday, June the third. at the resi- dence of Mir and Mrs Christian Stotz in Bristol. Conn.
 It Is understood that the summer time table of the 0. N E. road will go ioto effect next Sunday, May 25, and that the Mountain Express train will run between Canaan and Hartford the same as last summer.
 Our local amateurs are working hard under the direction of l.. l.. Greene and expect to give good per. formance of "The Great Diamond Robbery" at the Town Hall on Tuesday evening. The play is for the benefit ot the Heptasophs. See the advertise ment on this page for the cast o characters.
 The trial of Harry Osterhaut charged with stealing chickens from Mrs Emma Maston about March 20th is on today at Litchfield. Constable Rhoadea, who arrested Osterhaut on April Is, and W. Fl Emmons will ap pear as witnesses. MT Emmons will testify that he once owned the chickens and he identified them as the property of Mrs Maston at the hearing held be fore Justice Garfield in Canaan on the 18th ofApril.
 Deer stories are more plenty thar fish stories this season. The latest dee story is as follows: s. A. Kemp ownl two COWS One of the cows is Jersey and has calf which is kept in M Kemp's barn on West Main street al the time, while both COWS are pasturet during tho day time in the fields wes of the woods on the back road to Ashle, Falls. Last Sunday morning Mir Keml drove both COWS to the pasture and thel he started for home. After going som distance from the pasture he heard tn Jersey COW lowing so frantically tha lie returned to the pasture to see whs caused it. He discovered full grow deer by her side. The COW had mad fiends with the deer and apparentl thought it was her calf Just to se whether the deer was very wild, M Ksmp led the COW long distanc i,s the pasture and the d. CT fo1lowe within eight feet of the COW. Whe Mr Kemp left the pasture the secon Ii ae the Jersey COW and the deer vel atil kssping eonpany.