Connecticut western news., 1902-04-24
THURSDAY. APRIL 24, 1902,
LOCAL NEWS

MT and Mrs J. W. Peet have been in New York since last week.
 Remember the supper aud sale al Town Hall this evening.
 Governor Mclean has set apart Friday, May 2, as Arbor and Bird Day Mrs 0. H. Briggs went to New York last Saturday for few days' stay
 "A new floor is belng laid and the vestibule being repaired in Christ church.
 The carpenters have commenced building the addition to c. H. Pease's 8 printing plant.
 Regular services will be held in Christ church next Sunday at 10. 45 .. m. and 5 p. m.
 Willard Reid of New York city was . guest at Geo. Fuller's from Friday until Sunday afternoon.
 The seventh annual reception of the Canaan dancing class will be held at Town Hall on May 2.
 Miss Almira Stevens was taken with . chill last Sunday night and is very sick with pneumonia.
 The Canaan base ball club will play tho Millerton club on the grounds of tho latter on Saturday afternoon of this week.
 Ut is understood that Martin Lang of Great Burlington has leased the Warner House and will take possession Nay l.
 Miss Bessie Lorraine has been quite niok for week with . cold Sbe was up and dressed Tuesday and ia improv- ing nicely now.
 Mrs Esther Dunning, who has been in Springfield. Nass- for several veeks, is expected to return to Canaan some tim. this week.
 "A Fl. Herriman shipped his race hosse to Quebec, Canada, last Monday wAare the horse will run in the races on Qusen's Day, May 21.
 It will cost about $200 to rebuild tho abutments and wing wallis to the hiehway bridge near A. H. Owens resi- donOo in East Canaan.
 Walter w. Warner has accepted . petition with the Stanley Electric Go. of Pistafield, Mass. and will commence his duties about May l.
 -A1n Frank Fl. Smith of Ashley FAIls, Mass.. who hes been quite ill for three or four weeks. is now able to sit mp two or three hours at time.
 Constable Rhoades went to East Canaan on Tuesday and placed ''stick- -.sg plastera" (attachments) on certain property. Rhoades is good barber, and also does "plastering," as he calls ik
 -Hr and Mrs Milo Crocker of Pitts field. MaAb., are visiting in town. They arrived Monday and will remain . month or two with their daughters, Mn E. R. Lorrain, Mrs Horace Holt and An Reuben Stewart.
 "A dry, hot wind from the south swept over Kansas and Nebraska last Sunday and Monday, sending the mer- cury up to 90. 95, and 100 degrees ac- cording to locations. A hot wave struck Canaan on Tuesday, and the mercury climbed up to 8S degrees in the shade. Yestsrday the temperature was 84'. The selectmen have posted on the public sign poet in this village . copy of Chapter CLXXX of the general statutes of Connecticut, passed by the General Assembly of 1901. being an act concerning sidepaths for bicycles. All resident cyclist citizens of this town arc requested to read said document on the signpost. or read it in copy of the general statutes.
 Rev R. M. French of Hadlyme preached in the Pilgrim church last Sunday morning. His text was the first clause of Psalms XXXVI, g, For with thee is the fountain of life." MI Frcnch's theme was "The OverflowiDg Life ]" The sermon was full of thought and lluhtrations-a we'll written pro duction and should have been delivered with vigor.
 w. K. Landon and family will re. move to Sharon about the middle of next month, where MT LAndon will be employed by the Sharon Local Tele phone Go. in position similar to the one he has filled for the Canaan Local Telephone Go. but at . larger salary. Mr LAndon and family will also have charge of the telephone exchange ol central office in Sharon. They will be greatly missed in Canaan.
 Ernest F. Johnstone, painless tooth pnlleF. was arrested Tuesday after ar investigation by Dr. J. Tenny Barker of Wallingford, one of the state denta commissioners who was here { few days previous to Tuesday. on sil charges for violating the state denta laws. He wss given 8 hearing before Justice Garfield at Town Hall John stone claimed tooth pulling is not prac ticing dentistry. He admitted that h. was not licensed dentist and that i tooth pulling constituted practicint 7 dentistry he was guilty. Justice Gar field bound Johnstone over to the Jun, teTm of the Superior court under $20' honda. Johnstone was arrested in Nor wich on . similar charge in February 1899, convicted and paid fine of S6 and costs.