Connecticut western news., 1902-05-01


 New England Telephone Company who will operate 1t in a short time.
 The supper and sale at Town Hall last Thursday evening. given by the ladies lof the Episcopal Church, was we'll attended and a successful affair. Net receipts $37. .00.
 -Dr. 0, W. Camp sold his sorrel horse to Edgar T. Andrews of Bethel Mir Andrews son John staid last Thurs day night at Dr. Ross and drove the sorrel to Bethel next day.
 Irwin W. Sanford, civil engineer. of IakeviIle, was here Monday and staked out the curb line of the proposed mac adam road on Main street. so that the water company may know where to locate their main when they change it from the center of the street
 A thunder shower visited Canaan, about o'clock last Saturday afternoon, and the n, 1t day was . raw. chilly day with mercury at 49' at noon, and about S5e above zero Monday morning but quite warm in the afternoon, yet Tues day proved to be cloudy, chilly day.
 Rev G.F. Goodenough of Ellsworth supplied the Pilgrim church pulpit last Sunday morning and preached unique but excellent sermon from the text re- corded in Matthew VI22 After the service one of the church trustees re- marked, "that sermon was good enough"
 Rev R. B. Ooons draws large audi ences. He proves to be not only thinker but an orator, and in that re- spect reminds Canaan people of the Rev T. Fl. Baragvanath who was pastor of the N. E Gnu oh here in 1888 89 go. Nr Ooons' text3. st Sunday evening was from Matthew 20.
 -Crosley-s Genuine Negro Minstrels will give one of their aide splitting en- tertaiuments at the Village Hall in East Canaan on Saturday night of this week. Go and sea the dancing and specialties. hear the negro melodies and coon songs and listen to the banjo pickin' by the sure enough real thing. Popular prices.
 Friends in Canaan have received invitations which read a follows:
 Mir and Mrs Charles H. Gillette de- sire your presence at the marriage of then daughter Katherine EdnA. to MT George William R ,beon, IT. on the afternoon of Wednesday, the fourteenth of May, nineteen hundred and two. It four o'clock. 1204 Benton street, Joliet. Illinois.
 The Canaan Fire District has made contract with the Norfolk Electric Light Co. whereby said company is to furnish said district with 55 electric street lights of Is candle power, for one year fer &6O0. The lamps will be kept lighted until midnight except on some moonlight evenings when lamps are not needed. The service will be ready on or before August l.
 No need of calling your attention to Frank M. Cooke's full page adver- tisement-you cannot fail to see it. but we want you to read every word of it and then visit Mr Cooke's ,repository and sse for yourself the finest army of vehicles, harness and horse goods ever shown in this section. Cooks's prices sold 27 wagons, over 30 set of harness. and lot of horse furnishings on his opening dsy, April IT.
 Martin Lang and family of Great Burlington, Mass. took possession of the Warner House last evening. MT Lang is the new landlord. having leased the property of E. W. Warner. MT and Nn Warner and Mrs W. Fl. Warner will remain as boarders with Mr Lang. Mrs E. W. Warner has been . landlady for 35 years. and for the past 20 years It the present Warner House, and ex- cepting few weeks while she was in Europe two years ago has superintend- cd the cooking of every meal.
 "A O. N. E. freight train least bound) was run into Thursday at Boston Corners junction by the Pitts field express on the Harlem railroad. The express was running north and dieregarded signals. The engines came together on the junction and the entire express train derailed and the passen- gers considerably shaken up but no one seriously injured. The freight crew jumped when they saw the impending colliaion. Conductor Goggles and Engineer Toomey of Hartford were in charge of the freight.
 Good fishing and sharp shooting. Last Monday afternoon the Rev 0. W. Hanna called on Druggist Camp and said: "Stiles Stevens and went fishing in the town of New Marlboro last Fri day and caught ifty-two nice trout, weighing 10 to I2 pounds. MT Camp replied: My rector read last Sunday about Ananias and Sapphira, and he we'll" Mir Hanna is not seeking noto- riety. but MT Camp's remark caused MT Hanna to come immediately to the NEWS office, tell his hsh story and say: :: '.It is fish story and true" Ernest F. Johnstone. painless tooth puller, who was arrested here on April 22 on six charges for violating the state dental laws, and was given . hearing before Justice Garfield and was bound over to the June term of the Superior court under $20O bonds, was released last Thursday afternoon, the bonds be- ing furnished by Mrs Newman of Brooklyn, N. r., who came here that day for that purpose. Johnstone left town the same afternoon. According | to Johnstone's own story Mrs Newman