Connecticut western news., 1902-05-29

There will be free for all race and a colt race at Riverside Park on Me- morial Day at 2p, m
 s Tripp says. ''If the matter in the medicine and investment circulars we receive is true, death and poverty are things of the past "-Millerton Tele- gram.
 A small tarantula was found in a bunch of bananas opened at Jackson x Eggleston's store last Friday. He was very much alive but did no damage be- fore being placed in glass Jar.
 MT and Mrs G. w. Hall of Falls Village, who have recently lived at Hotel Winchester in Winsted, have engaged rooms at Dr. Camps and will take their meals at the Warner House. The seven o'clock mail train was two hours late Saturday night on account of the engine giving out at Cornwall Bridge and another locomotive had to be sent down from Great Harrington
 The kerosene lamps now used on the Poughkeepsie bridge are to be dis carded and the big bridge will be lighted by electricity and make Pough- keepsie and Highland look like New York and Brooklyn at night.
 George W. Cultis and his men have recently done a good job in paint ing the exterior of Hiram Miller's house between Canaan and Clay ton; and have also done some very nice painting on the interior of Alexander Suydam's 8 house in Salisbury.
 There has come to our desk the May number of the Nutmeg Idler, an amateur magazine published at Tor rington. The current issue is John Brown souvenir number and is most complete in its treatment of the life of the famous abolitiopist
 Rev. w. W. Holden of Morris preached an excellent sermon In the Pilgrim church Sunday morning from the text found in Romans XIV: B. "Whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's." MT Holden also read Rev E. 0. Gillette's acceptance of the call to the Pilgrim Church pastorste.
 The graduating class of 1902 of the Canaan Graded School will hold com- men cement exercises at Town Hall, Friday evening. June 6; music by Lake vile orchestra, The graduating class are: Bessie Leila Lawrence. Oarre Allyn Fuller, James Edward McCarty, Mar garet Agnes Collins, Edna May Roberts,, Mabel Winifred Quinn, Mary Elizabeth Collins, Mary Frances Graney, liar. old Audrus Preston, Cornish Frank Hitchcock.
 William P. Thoms of Millerton- our former Billy Thoms-is going to leave Millerton and go to Aurora, H., to work at his trade of plumber. Say. Billy, you had better go and board with Mrs Frank VaDDeusen who is running big boarding house in Aurora, with Harold to wait on the table. Frank is in the furniture buai. ness there, and Imogene is still pur- suing her studies.
 According to the new time schedule of the Central New England railroad in effect today trains now leave Canaan as follows: GoNa EAST $40 and g 40 a. m. l; 12 3S, 401 and 34 p. m CONC WEsT-8.22 and 1924 g. m.; 238 and and 5.02 p. m. Express from Hartford arrives at $40. Sunday trains: Vest ward 1.46 p. m Eastward 39. The 10.24. 12 33, 2.38 and 4.01 trains run between Hartford and Poughkeepsie.
 At last Thursdays meeting of the Connecticut State Dental Association, held in Hartford, prosecuting com mittee was appointed. It will be the function of this committee to secure evidence against all illegal practitioners of dentistry and to affiliate with the dental commission in bringing all violators of an act concerning the prac- tice of dentistry to justice. Among the members of the committee are Dr. Fl. L. Ross, Canaan and Dr. F. E. Roys, Winsted.
 George A. Marvin, of the firm of Rusher & Marvin, attorneys at law, Hartford, will open a law office this week in Rhoades' block, Canaan. Mir Marvin will be at his Canaan office from Friday nights until Tuesday mornings and will spend the balance of each week in his Hartford office MT Marvin, who is we'll known as the editor of the Norfolk Chimes, has a large circle of friends in town who will be pleased to learn that he has talk en his residence in this place.
 On Thursday afternoon, May 22a the "Schoolmates" met with Mrs Jane E. Briggs at her home in East Canaan. Kind messages and gay flowers were tokens of good will. There were rem inisences of our early years, the reading of letters from distant friends, and last ly a delicate yet substantial tea for which the house is famed. It was all most enjoyable and night came all too soon, but we hope for another reunion in the near future, with the spinster.
 -Engineer Patrick O'Hara of Water bury, who was badly scalded in 8 col lision on the Naugatuck road at Win sted last Friday morning, died of his injuries at his home in Waterbury early Sunday morning. aged 36 years. His body was taken to the homo of his father, John O'Hara, in Chapinville on Monday and the funeral was held at St. oh,,oh .n Gonoon Tuoa1ov