Connecticut western news., 1902-05-22
Mrs George l. Parsons returned

rom DOsbOn lAsB MOnuhy.
 -Mr and Mrs A H Herriman will go to Ogdensburg, N. Y., next Mon- day They will also visit other places in New York state and in Canada and will be away from home three or four weeks.
 Rev. Edwin o. Gillette of Souths field, Mass, has accepted the call of Pilgrim Church in this village to be- come their pastor for an indefinite time. He will begin his pastorate here the 18th of June.
 Rev. W. W. Davidson of New Haven supplied the pulpit at Pilgrim church last Sunday morning and preach ed very interesting and instructive sermon. His text was Luke XXII: 27. His theme was the service of Christ.
 Mrs Mary 0. Corbit, president of the North Canaan Cemetery Association, says that Eugene T. Rowe il st 'ad of Frank VaDDeusen is sexton of the lower cemetery, but that Frank Van. Deusepsis the man who does the work there.
 A small flock of song birds of the finch family flew into the village last Friday and rendered some beautiful bird mel odies equal to anything the canaries ever entertain us wish. A number of townspeople congregated to listen to the songsters.
 The central offices of the g.. N E. Telephone Go. and the Canaan Local Telephone Go. are now connectad by two wires This will be a relief to parties in town who rented an instru- ment from each company but were frequently called upon to transfer mes- sages for those who rented only one instrument.
 Friends in Canaan have received invitations which read as follows: MT and Mrs Ovid P. Gillette request the honor of your presence at the marriage of their daughter, Agnes Abagail, to Mir Edwin M. Scott, on Wednesday afternoon, June the fourth, nineteen hundred and two. at two o'clock, at their residence, Fairfield Avenue, Dan bury, Connecticut.
 Rev M, H. Mill returned last night from the Litchfield archdeaconry meet ing held at Washington. this state, where he preached the sermon. Rev John Fl. Plumb of New Milford was elected the new archdeacon to succeed Rev J. H. George who has moved to another district. Gideon Pond of Winsted was elected secretary and treasurer The next meeting of the archdeaconry will be held at Water town.
 -"Miss Celia Slocum of Saugerties" proves to be a myth and she new lady clerk at Jackson & Eggleston's is Miss Celia Steuerwald of Chapinville. We were informed last week by a party who claimed to be sure that the lady's name was Miss Slocum, etc., and in fact the party visited us second time and said he had verified his first in- formation; but Oswald Vosburgh knows more how the mistake occurred than we do. Ask him.
 ID. l. Peirce, owner of the sa, h and blind factory, is rebuilding the dam connected with that property. The dam Is in the Blackberry river about one eighth of mile above the factory. It is nearly fifty years since the dam was rebuilt. The large wooden bed pieces in the foundation of the original dam, probably placed there over 100 years ago, are apparently as sound as ever. The work of rebuild ing the dam was commenced last week, and coffer dam has been constructed and the main dam torn down. Frank R. Johnson of Norfolk has charge of the work.
 A special town meeting was held Saturday afternoon at the Town Hall which passed a vote authorizing the selectmen to give deed of Q one foot strip of the Douglas Library land to Mrs Hattie E. Pease. This action grew out of a matter of some years standing, the late P. o. Cummings making an error of one foot in measur- | ing the land he sold to O. H. Pease, giving Pease deed which encroached one foot on the north line of the Library land. In the present settle- ment of the matter Sherwood O. Cum. mings makes concession of land on the west of the library in return for the action of the selectmen in deeding the one foot strip to Mrs Pease, thus settling the matter satisfactorily to all parties.
 A suit involving $25.09 was tried before Justice Garfield at the court room on Saturday. The case is over 8 bill of Rboades & Stanton for saving timber for D. B. Tiffany. MT Tiffany contends that MT Rhoades agreed through Walter Van Deusen to saw timber for him for $3 per thousand. MT Rhoades denies that he agreed to saw any timber for Tiffany at any such price, and that he agreed to saw for Walter Van Deusen at $3 if he would bring at least certain amount, but that VanDeusen delivered Tiffany s lumber as it now appears-and not even the amount agreed upon. Justice Garfield rendered his decision in favor oi Rboades & Stanton. Attorney J. H. Roraback for Rhoades & Stanton; At. torney s. A Herman for Tiffany. Tiff fany appealed from the decision to the Superior court.
 N. E. Rogers Elected.
 At the state encampment of the ~ n n. |