Connecticut western news., 1903-04-23

Granger visited Mrs Frank Partridge at Rockville during the past week.
 The "gay little dandelions" have reappeared again. If they were cul tivated flowers, how we should prize them.
 On the fourth page today we begin the first installment of "The Light That Failed" Rudyard Kipling's best story,
 Lewis Q. Rhoades has been ser iously i'll with asthma, torpid liver and other troubles since last Saturday, but was better last evening.
 Miss Jennie M. Scoville. formerly of Chapinville, who has been in Greeley, Col, since, last December, has return ed to East Orange, N. J.
 MT and Mrs Alex Boinay moved on Monday from the Warner House annex to the Prudence Belden house. so call ed, south of Pine Grove camp ground on Belden street.
 The residence of David Kyle in New Milford was damaged Sl, 1000 by fire yesterday afternoon, caused by an explosion and ignition of turpentine which Mir Kyle was mixing over a stove
 A farmhouse near Millerton, N I owned by George Williams of New York and occupied by Adrian Raigh, was burned Saturday night. Loss about S2500, partially insured. Origin of fire is believed to be incendiary.
 Mrs Rev. D. 0. Stone, who was called home from Europe last October by the death of her mother. Mrs D. L. Freeman, will sail for Europe tomorrow to join Mir Stone there. Her brother, Arthur P. Freeman, will accompany her abroad and will remain in Europe about two months.
 The April number of the Brown Book of Boston contains railroad story entitled "Satan's Kingdom Bridge" by Maitland L. Osborne, Jr, now of Boston. Osborne knows the locality whereof he writes for he went from Ca naan to New Hartford where he was employed for some time by Editor Jones.
 -Pension Agent Edward s. Roberts has secured a government pension of $8 per month for Everett E. Bettis of this town. veteran of the Civil war. MT Bettis has for ten years been trying to get pension through Washington agents but without success. The pen sion dates from last October when Mir Bettis was examined.
 The cold. raw north wind prevent ed number of people from attending F. M. Cooke's second annual opening of his carriage and wagon repository last Friday, yet there were goodly number in attendance and Cooke did considerable business, in fact he made 5000 worth more of sales than he did at the opening year ago. Buyers were present from Great Harrington, Norfolk, Winsted, Kent, New Milford and from Millerton. Mir Cooke gave away 200 souvenir whips and had magnif. cent display of carriages, wagons. har ness and farm machinery. Turner & Cooks band furnished music during the afternoon.
 Mrs Jerusha Wheeler, 96, the old est native of New Marlboro, Mass., died Friday at the home of Benjamin Wheeler, her brother-in-law, in New Marlboro. She was the widow of Elisha Wheeler. She was tNice mar ried, her first husband being Philo G. Beach, who was cousin. There was one daughter by this marriage. Her second husband was Elisha Wheeler, who died in 1879. She is survived by three daughters. Mrs Edward w. Frost and Mrs William Thersen of Mill waukee, Mrs R. R, Blacker of Mauistee, Mich and three grandchildren. She was a member of the First Uongrega- tional church of New Marlboro.
 At last Saturdays session of tue international anti alcohol congress, at Bremen, Mrs Mary H. Hunt of the Women's Christian Temperance union, Boston, Mass delivered an address on the significance of scientific temperance instruction in public schools as a pre-. ventive of alcoholism This item will interest Canaan people inasmuch as Mrs Hunt was born on the top of Ga naan mountain in the original town of Canaan which in the year 1858 was divided into the towns of Canaan and North Canaan. Mrs Hunt is a daugh- ter of the late Ephriam Hanchett and Nancy Swift Hanchett and the family at one time lived on High street in Ca nasn For twenty years Mrs Hunt labored to have every state in the Union enact Temperance Education law. In January 1902 Georgia passed such law. This was the last one ot the forty five states to adopt that law and the governor of Georgia sent Mrs Hunt the pen with which he signed the law. The NEWS of March IS, 1897 also Feb. and 13, 1902, published long articles about the Hauchett family.
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