Connecticut western news., 1903-06-25

M. B. Mcintyre of Sanford, Fla, has been in town the past week, visiting relatives.
 Miss Roxanna Stevens went to Shef- field, Mass, last Thursday to visit at Edward Holmes couple of weeks.
 Harold Preston returned last Thurs day from Montclrir, N. J., where he had been employed for several weeks.
 Carl and Thomas Herriman of Ogdensburg, N. Y, have been visiting their brother, Alfred, here the past week.
 Miss Curran, former bookkeeper at G. L. Parsons 8o Sons store, was in town yesterday.
 The family of George W. Lumb of Poughkeepsie, N. Y, moved into their new cottage on the northwest shore of Twin Lakes last week.
 -Barnum & Bailey's greatest show on earth will exhibit at Hartford today; at Danbury, July l.; and at Pittsfield, July 3. Excursion rates on all railroads.
 Miss Lillie Fuller and Miss Edith Barnes expect to leave Canaan on Mon- day, July 6, to attend the Christian En- deavor convention which>opens i'll Den yer, Col, July 9th.
 Next Sunday is the two hundredth Nf tl,r li,.tl of lNn of Methodism, John Wesley. The event will be celebrated in the churches of the denomination the world over.
 Presiding Elder Frank J. Belcher has been very sick for four weeks with typhoid fever at his home in Pough- keepsie, N. Y. but the last report states that he is slowly improving.
 News from Amos M Baldwin who is now at Santa Cruz, Cal, is that he is greatly pleased with the climate there and his health is much improved. Prof Baldwin is now the leader of the Santa Cruz band. ...&
 Mrs. W. A. Brown has been serious ly ill for about three weeks, but her many friends are glad that this week there is an improvement in her con- dtion and her recovery is expected, not withstanding her advanced age.
 Harry Sedgwick of Cornwall Hollow stopped in town Monday on his way to Boston, Mass, to attend the reunion of the Army of the Patomac and the Sixth Army Corps on June 24, % and 26. MT. Sedgwick is an honorary member of the Sixth Corps. '. Daniel R. Spaulding will next week celebrate the 89th anniversary of his birth and the 127th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. MT. Spaulding is very active man, and does plenty of farm work every day. He was born at New Marlboro, Mass, July 4, 1914. Victory Council, No. 65, O. U. A. M. have issued invitations to an open meeting next Monday evening. It is expected that W. A. Chase of Water bury, state councillor; F. C.. Perry of ! Winsted, state vice-councillor; and | Jonathan Osborne of Norwich, state organizer, will be present.
 Rainy last Thursday, Friday, Satur- day, and Saturday night. Heavy rain early Sunday morning and thunder shower at 10 a. m. and the rain contin- ued until p. m. The Blackberry river overfowed it's banks, and part of A. H. Herrimans meadow was submerged. Cloudy and misty all day Monday. Cloudy and cold Tuesday. Rain again yesterday morning, with mercury at 50 degrees.
 | s. A. Kemp visited his son, Herbert at Stanfordville, N. Y, over Sunday | Herbert is now milk inspector of the Borden creamery at Stanfordville. MT Fred Paddock is superintendent. MT Kemp heard that Herbert was crushed between a car and the milk platform or Tuesday, June Is, so he went over to set him. He was pleased to find him only bruised and not dangerously hurt.
 Edward D. Smith of Hartford, the c. N. E.. brakeman who was arrested il Hartford last Thursday charged witf theft of $20 from Victor M. Coe of Ca naan was brought to Canaan Thursday afternoon by Deputy Sheriff Rhoade and given hearing before Justice J. G Beckley.. Smith pleaded not guilty bu olo1 C.. l,s ance before the Superiar court in Litch field ill October and he was bound owe under $150 bonds, in default of whicl he was taken to Litchfield jail.
 1.-The soldiers monument committee held preliminary meeting at A. T. an, J. H. Roraback's office last Saturda, afternoon and compared views in regart to different methods of procedure t obtain soldiers monument. Tw ladies of the committee were out O town and third one was unable to b present, consequently the meeting ad journed until Monday, June 29, at 2.3 p. m., at which time permanent or ganization will be formed and plan adopted for systematic work ill raisin money
 Joe Dragon, Rhoades' barber, kindly by nature and a lover of animals Last Saturday Joe found wee kitte perishing in the wet grass and he too it ill to the barber shop, put it under tn stove, and it warmed up into a lively hungry little mite. Joe owns femal
 dog which recently had a litter of puI 3 pies,and Saturday afternoon this mothe dog strolled into the barber shop an
 laid down. Then was the hungry Xii
 tens chance, and Joe was much asto1 : ished to observe the kitten happil nursing from the dog. The dog come Ito the shop every day now and the we kitten gets its meals during her stay i