Connecticut western news., 1902-01-16
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THURSDAY. JANUARY l6, 1902
Local News.

last Saturday evening.
 Mrs Cora Adams is visiting Mrs Amos R. Collar in Norfolk.
 Work of filling individual ice houses in this village began last Thurs day.
 The newly elected officers of Housa- tonic Lodge, F. & A. M. were installed Monda, night.
 A moving picture and vaudeville show is booked for the Town Hall, Sat urdaY evening.
 Circumstances have arisen which will delay the reappeaiance of our local minstrels until after Lent.
 HI D. Humphrey has been on the sick list the past week but yesterday he was able to be in his store part of the time
 Edward Everts of Millerton, one of Lorin Eggleston's clerks, is helping out Jackson, Eggleston < Go. during their big sale.
 Rev Samuel Adam has gone to Ogdensburg. N. Y. as an assistant in an Episcopal church. and will remain there until Easter.
 w. H. Fuller, James Graney and G. W. Dederick are attending ths an- nuaI meeting of the Grand Lodge of Masons in Hartford.
 Rev. E. J. Kelly will be away from home another week, but the pulpit of the Methodist church will be supplied next Sunday morning.
 Walter Warner was taken ill last Thursday with . cold and neuralgia and was confined to his bed for Q few days, but is very much better now.
 -S. W. Barnes large St Bernard day "Pedro" was chloroformed last Thursday to end his existence. as he had been suffering terribly with Bright's disease.
 Last Saturday afternoon Mrs D. D. Walter gave reception to her neigh bors on the hill, from to o'clock, in celebration of tho 30th anniversary of her marriage.
 John Rishworth Jordan visited his old home in Brooklyn, N. r., from Dec 23 till Jan 10, when he returned here and has been packing his photo grapher's outfit and moved to LAkeyille yesterday.
 On March 1st, Fred Niver. who has been with Jackson, ERgleston < Go. the past year, will go to Pittsburg, Pa. where he has secured position. Mrs Niver and little son will go to Millerton for awhile.
 Rev. N. 8. Boardman will supply the pulpit of Calvary church at Utica, N. Y. for three or four months. That Church has 553 communicants Mr Boardman started for Utica yesterday, but his family will remain at their home near Pine Grove camp ground.
 Mrs J. s. Adam and daughter Rose went 10 Newark, N. J. the second week in December and will remain until about the first of February. Rose is also visiting awhile in Pottsville, Pa Miss Katherine Cake who has been some tune with her aunt, Mrs Adam, went the same time to Sunbury, Pa She does not expect to return.
 New York is ge tting nearer Canaan all the lime. Until recently there were only tbree times day, and A m. and 30 p. m., that one could leave New York and come to Canaan, but now train leaves new York at Il 30 a. m. on the Harlem road, arriving at Miller ton at 3 p. n. and connecting with the Central New England train, reaching Canaan at 4.O4 p. m.
 An informal meeting of residents Of this village was held at J. H. Rora- backs office on Tuesday evening to consider the subject of electric lights for this village. The sub iect was discussed by nearly all present, and a committee of five was appointed to locate boundaries for proposed fire district, ascertain how many street lights are needed and to call public meeting in the near future.
 Miss Carrie Lermond started Tues day morning for Rock Ledge, Florida, where she has position in hotel and will remain until April 1st. Wbile Miss Carrie was at the Hillhurst. Nor folk. last summer, she met . party there who engaged her to go to Rock Ledge this winter. Miss Nellie Rossman, sister to Mrs Samuel Briggs, went in company with Miss Lermond as she is also going to Florida
 There were few business change in town in 1901. The only new large concern to go into business was the Borden Condensed Milk Co.,, and among the smaller enterprises the barber shop of Fl. Fl. Scntt and the billiard room of Amos Beauion are new corners. The Canaan Creamery, W. Fl. Emmons. grocer, and T. O'Dwyer, plumber, went out of business. There was . little change of location, tho post office, Jeweler Collin. Real Estate Agent Abbe, and the Savings Bank moving into the nev Cummings block, 0. M. Barnes in- to the store vacated by Emmons, and Rhoades' barber shop into the old post onice. J. N. Van Deusen's hay press and storage building burned and Mir u.rnau.av, v,o~ oo,,d nnka khak ;uduakrv