Connecticut western news., 1902-05-29
THURSDAY. MAY 29. 1902.
LOCAL NEWS

-Canaans will play ball in Millertor tomorrow.
 Miss Lane of Pleasant Valley if with Miss s. P. Norton for time.
 Mrs Henry Spencer of Stamford il visiting Mr and Mrs Thomas Bonner.
 Frederick Goodrich and wife o New Britain were in town over Sunday
 Mrs D l.. Freeman and Miss En. sign arrived home Friday from Chester
 "A real lively thunder shower visit cd Canaan about 6 80 Sunday evening
 Will Riley of Hartford visited his grandparents here the fore part of the week.
 On Memorial Day the stores will close at Il a m. for the remainder oi the day.
 The hours for visitors at the Litch field County Hospital in Winsted are from 2 to p. m.
 Some hot days last week: Up tc 9O' Friday and 86' Saturday. Sunday warmed up to 800.
 Don't forget Cooke's big auction oi wagons and horses today at his reposi tory near the depot.
 -Miss File of Albany, NY is spend. iDg the week with her friend, Mis-. LAn1s' at the Warner House.
 Rev Arthur Goodenough of Win. choster will preach in the Pilgrim church next Sunday morning.
 Charles n. Fuller was called to Lee, Mass., on Monday to attend the funeral of his sister.
 The services at Christ church here. tofore held At 500 p. m. have been changed to 7.3O D. m. during the summer.
 "A. v. A. Felten of Hillsdale, N. Y. was in town yesterday packing up his hons4hold goods which he will move to Hillsdala.
 -On. Memorial Day the post office
 
 will close at II .. m, open 5 p. m., close s 30. open 30, close 7.30 for the remainder of the day.
 MT and Mrs Thomas Simpson of Germantown, Pa, have been visising Rev and Mrs R. B. Coons during the pAss week. MT Simpson is brother of Nm COOns
 Another thunder shower came along Monday afternoon and again on Monday night. Tuesday it rained hard till l6 p m. and yesterday was a day of drixzles. The rains were blessing to agricnlturalists.
 --Letters unclaimed at Canaan post ] oface are addressed to Wm. F. CIippen, Mrs Eliza G. Willard. Mrs Ransome Z Rogers, Purdy J VanWart, Mrs Jane J. Warren, A. M. Wellman, S. K. Will Hams. Gorge Lynch.
 -E. B. Baker, Jr., special agent ot the 6. N. E. Telephone Go. has been in town the past week making arrange ments with the subscribers of the Local Telephone Co. to take the s N E ser vice. Mir Baker will soon be here again.
 On Memorial Day the Hiram Eddy Camp, s. O. V. At Lakeville, will send detail to the lower cemetery in Ca naan to decorate the grave of Rev. Dr. Hiram Eddy. The detail will arrive on the 9 40 . m train and return on the 1O.M .. n. train.
 The Memorial Day program has been changed little during the past week. The G A. R post have engaged the Rev R. B. Coons to deliver the principal address in Village Hall in East Canaan at 30 p. m. After said address, volunteer short speeches will be in order.
 -Relatives in town have recei ved tho following invitation: "Mr and Mrs Nelson A. McNeil requests the honor of your presence at the marriage oi their daughter, Harriet, to Mir George Henry Mitchell on the afternoon ol Tuesday, the tenth of June, at one o'clock at Trinity church, Lime Rock Connecticut.
 Murray G. Hoag, who has beer living with his son-in-law, Harry Davis At West Torrington for two or thre. years, arrived in Canaan on Wednesday of last week and is staying with his son John Hoag. on Orchard Ave, but ex pects to go to his old home betweer Canaan and Ashley Falls. Mir Hoaf vas 9l years old the 18th of last March His health is poor but he is able te walk around. He is native of Dover N. Y., but moved to Canaan in Novem her 1843. He takes pride in the fac that in ''cholers times" in 1882 he voted for General Jackson.
 Albert l.. Barnes of Canaan and George H. Clark of Salisbury hay, tickets for sale for the third annual con cert of the LitchHeld County Chora Union of about POO voices at the Ar mosy in Winsted. on Wednesday eve ming. Jnne 4. assisted by the following eminent soloists; Mrs Shanna Cum mings. soprano. Dr Ion Jackson, tenor and Gwylim Miles. bass, all of Ney York and Miss Emma Bneh, contralto nf Hartford. Part first will be Mendels aohn's orstorio of "Elijah;" part tw, will be selections by the orchestra o sixty piecss under Mir Arthur Mees o New York. Richmond P. Paine of Ne, Britain will conduct the choruseG ExtrA train As fAr west As LAkovill Aft1s ths soncsrt.