Connecticut western news., 1902-05-08
LOCAL NEWS

A. ". Nicoll and wife are at The Nipples for short stay.
 HI. B Stevens house on West Main street is being painted.
 Services in Christ church next Sunday at the usual hours.
 -Mrs H. I. Bodley of New Britain was in town from Friday until Tuesday. -Mrs Rev. U. G. Warren and daugh- ter of Lake Mshopac. N. Y, are visit ing at Mrs Hamm's,
 -Adelbert Cudney, s. N. E. tele- phone lineman, was home from Rock vile over Sunday.
 The colored people for miles around had ball at Town Hall last Thursday night and report good time.
 Frank VanDeusen, son of the late Egbert Van Deusen. has been appointed sexton of the lower cemetery.
 "A 10 cents social in the Pilgrim church parlors on Friday evening. "Progressive fudge'' at eight o'clock.
 "A meeting of the members of Pilgrim Church will be held at the church on Wednesday. May 14sh, at 3 p. n.
 John Hopkins and family have moved from the Hardenbergh building on Railroad street to Mrs Eddy's house recently vacated by Gilbert Fitch. Rev. E. 0. Gillette of Southfield. Maaa., supplied the Pilgrim church pulpit last Sunday morning and preach a | good sermon from Matthew XVII: 20.
 The directors of the North Canaan Cemetery Association met last Satur- day and elected Mrs Mary O. Corbit. prosident; Albert l.. Barnes, secretary and treasurer.
 -Brennan, the many coated tramp who vas found dying in cemetery m Hartford few weeks ago, passed through Canaan Monday, travelling by passenger train.
 -Mrs Rev. M. H Mill is having . serious time with vaccination, and has been confined to her bed nine days or more. Part of the time the fever reached 1O6 degrees.
 -George L. Parsons and daughter, Mrs J. Fl. Roraback, were in Boston, Mass from Saturday until Tuesday with Mrs Parsons who is undergoing treatment in that city.
 At Camps drug store. last Tues day was ''free soda" day for the season of 1902, and we should judge that as many a 1902 school children, besides many adults, .observed" the day.
 HI. D. Humphrey has started his soda fountain for the season and can furnish every variety of syrup that is desired. "Humphrey's soda water" are household words. Yum, yum.
 --The new stock of wagons, Glens- fall buckboards. robes. blankets and whips for the Aspinwall stables at I.enox, Mass, were all furnished by F. M. Cooke of Canaan and shipped from his repository here.
 "A limb from one of the willow trees fell Sunday morning in the Center cemetery and broke several grave stones.-New Milford Gazette. The brittle willow trees in any cemetery are . menancs to the grave stones.
 Fire swept over manY acres of the swamp east of the railroad track near Pine Grove station last Friday, and did great damage to woodland belong. ing to Barnum Richardson Co.,, F. l.. Beckley and Frank Hitchcock.
 -Highway Commissioner Macdonald was here Friday. He seems disposed to permit Main street to be macadam. ixed nearly it's full width from Camps drug store to the Warner House Al least he will have it re-surveyed to ascertain what the expense of that pro ject would be.
 The funeral of Capt. Becker, who died at Albany, N. Y., last Saturday ol Sunday, was held in Albany on Tues day of this week. Capt. Becker had been in poor health long time. Hi wife died at Albany the 7th of las January. Mrs Becker was sister O Mrs Rev. E. J. Kelly, who recently moved from Canaan to Stockbridge Mass.
 Mrs Mary 0. Richardson, widow O John A. Richardson, who was fol years the cashier of the Yale Nationa bank, has been appointed administra trix of the estate of her husband b! the Probate Court. The deceased banl cashier died intestate, and his heirs ar' Mrs Richardson and her daughter Caroline. No inventory of the estat' has as yet been filed but it is estimstet a amounting to approximately $35, 900 New Haven Register.
 The public schools of this villag observed Arbor and Bird Day las Friday. Special exercises were held il each room, consisting of essays, read inRs, recisations and music. Tw' trees were planted. one school tree named the Mckinley Elm, the other maple planted by the class of 1902 named the Naughty Two c02) Tn lawn was raked and other cleaning n done about the building.
 Prof. Edmund Skif, a forme music teacher in this section, was i town yesterday calling on old friends Prof Skiff has just returned to Water bury from two years of study i Europe. He was for six years music' director of the New York state schoc koH kho hlind If Batavia and waa crraa