Connecticut western news., 1904-10-20
LOCAL NEWS

Parsons block on Main street is re- ceiving coat of paint.
 Mrs. E. w. Warner has been quite sick with fever since Monday.
 Fred Collin, the jeweler, was in Pittsfeld Tuesday visiting friends.
 A. O. Brainard of Lakeville visited friends in Canaan from Saturday until yesterday.
 -E. D. Norton left here on Tuesday for business trip to New York and Philadelphia.
 Eighty tickets were sold at this sta tion for the Autumnal excursion to New York yesterday.
 Seventy three names ''to be mades were presented to the registrars of voters at their meeting on Monday. The Sunday school teachers meeting will be held at 7.30 at the Methodist church this Thursday evening.
 MT and Mrs. T. F. Watson of New Haven visited at Mrs. Hardenbergh' from Thursday till Saturday afternoon. Walter Rowe and Miss Susie Smith of Pine Plains, N. Y. spent Saturday and Sunday with MT. and Mrs. T. Lee Roberts.
 Miss Margaret Trebilcock, of Bow manville, Canada, is visiting her sister, Mrs. John c. Adam. She arrived last Thursday afternoon
 But little of the presidential cam paign is apparent in Canaan, but the larger places in the state are having the usual rallys and torch-hght parades.
 Martin Langs, proprietor of the Warner House, and daughter, Miss Ella Langs, left yesterday for visit at their old home in Brantford, Ontario. MT. Beckley's regular Tuesday night dance will be held on Wednesday night of next week. Children's class meets on Wednesday afternoon of next week. MT. and Mrs. w N Beebe are talk ing a vacation and will start today for lbbSllclN, lufioS. uCJ WILL uloO flo1U Poughkeepsie and Winsted before they return.
 Harry Nicoll of New York city at tended his brothers wedding atHolyoke, Mass, m Tuesday, came to Canaan yes terday and left here today for Philadel- phia, Pa.
 TI,o obaat,,,k aoooo,, hoe 1,oY,t r,o,,e and there will be but few more trips in the woods for them. It is said the crop this year has been much larger than usual.
 Mrs. Esther Cunning, who had been visiting friends in Saratoga Springs, Greenwich and Saltwater, N. Y., since August 3, returned to Canaan last Thursday.
 John Coggins, Jr., who has been visiting in town since August at the home of his uncle, Peter Coggins, re- turned Monday to his home in South bridge, Mass.
 MT and Mrs. H. O. Barnes of Ga naan and Mir and Mrs. William 0. Hin- man of Great Harrington returned Tuesday noon from their trip to Oyster Bay, l.. I. and other places.
 --The hunters moon, which is making the nights bright, is one of the brightest moons of the year. It will be full the coming Monday, the last quarter coming week after, or the 31st inst.
 An examination has been made of the village water from the mountain res ervoir by Dr, Herbert E. Smith of New Haven, and he finds it all right and con- taining nothing harmful.-Dr. c. w. Camp, Health Officer.
 It has been decided to hold the con- vention of the Winsted Christian En- deavor Union, which was scheduled tc be held in the Congregational church here Saturday, in the Norfolk Congrega tional church. The number of cases ot fever in this town is responsible for the change.
 It is expected the new semaphore signal, which is being installed south o1 Union station, will be in operation within day or two. The new sigma will be so constructed as to make it i'm possible to open the switch into the spul track, which connects the Berkshire division track with the C. N. E. tracks without first setting the semaphore a * danger thereby warning all north bound trains. The new signal is SC about quarter of mile south of tn station.
 It is said that turkeys are to b more of a luxury than ever, for tn Thanksgiving day dinner this year, a the cost of them will be so high as t make it impossible for the people, ex cept with the best lined pocketbooks t' indulge their appetites with the ac customed fowl. Present indications ar that turkeys will bring price from 3 to 40 cents 8 pound, the lower price re lating to the western bird, and the high CT price to those raised in the easterl states. It is said that Ohio, which ha always been good turkey producin state, is responsible for the high prices as the farmers of that section are nc raising nearly their usual number. is said the turkeys raised in Connection will bring most fancy prices during tn coming season.
 Captain Henry Eugene Burton, law yer, soldier. eloquent of speech an with pen, died Monday morning at h home in Middletown. Captain Burto was the son of Rev. Henry Burton, Methodist clergyman, and was Dor Nov. IT, 1840. He was married o October 4, 1866 to Miss Mary Beeche Hooker, the daughter of Hon. Joh Hooker and Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hool CT. She died ill Hartford, January 9 1886, leaving one daughter, Miss Katl arine Burton, who survives Captai TD L l~.e,