Connecticut western news., 1905-12-28
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER s8 , 1905.
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tages of our clubbing rates.
 A. G. Sheaffer (Pease's printer) will move into George P. Porter's new tene- ment house on Foote avenue in few weeks.
 Mrs. Harriet Bierce of Torrington called on friends in Canaan last Satur- day while on her way to Ashley Falls to make visit of few days there.
 Joseph Ganci has left the employ of Henry H. Scutt and opened barber shop at the hotel in Ashley Falls. MT. Cramer of Middletown is the new bar Der at Scutt's.
 Elmer L. Bartlett and family, who have occupied their cottage at Pine Grove Camp Ground since early last summer until Dec. 18th, have returned to their home in Bridgeport.
 Ira Chapman writes us from Sharon where he was visiting his daughter, Mrs. Walter K. Landon, that we made him much too young in our statement that he was Fl years old. Mr. Chapman writes, was IS the 22d of October, 19O5."
 The impr- no, the alterations at Union depot are nearly completed. Con- venience and room have been the results sought, palpably not harmonius design, and we are somewhat oomforted by being told everything will look better when the painters have done their part of the work.
 The annual dinner of the Litchfield County University Club will be held at Conley's Inn, Torrington, tomorrow evening. The speakers are to be: Rev. J. M. Buckley of the Christian Advocate on "Civic Purity" Herbert Knox Smith of the department of Commerce and la- Dor on the Relations of Corporations to the Government" Charles M. Owens upon the Mormon question, and Charles Hopkins Clark of the Hartford Conrant on the recent trip of Secretary Taft to the Philippines.
 A deal is in progress between out-of- town parties and Henry R. Whitford which if carried out will add an indus try to Canaan. The proposition is to have MT. Whitford build, on what is commonly called the Shields place, a factory building, about the size of the town hall, to be used for knitting mill to manufacture hosiery. Such an in dustry would employ about thirty hands to start with. MT. Whitford has been sick with the grip but came to the will lage Tuesday to meet representatives of the hosiery company, and during the negotiations Mir Whitford was taken very seriously ill and had to be hurried to his home in an automobile. He is better again, however, and the negotia- tions will probably be closed before long.
 Mrs. Mary Curtis died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Albert E. Barnes, in Winsted, yesterday morning. The funeral will be held there Friday, and burial ill Canaan. Mrs. Curtis had been sick for three months. She was a daughter of the late James Cummings of Falls Village and was born in 1885. For nearly twenty years she and her late husband, Hiram G. Curtis, who died about two years ago, lived on the farm north of Canaan where Hiram Miller now lives. She is survived by four daughters and one son, Mrs. A. E. Barnes and Mrs. Willie L. Barnes of Winsted, Mrs. William Woodbeck of Sheffield, Mrs. Charles Barnes of Ct. Harrington and Frank Curtis of Win sted. Two sisters of the deceased are wing, Mrs. o. H. Futile of Pittsfeld and Mrs. Susan Sweet of Providence, R. I.
 Among the holiday guests in town were: Mrs. G. M. Bullock of Hillsdale, N. Y., at A. V. A. Felten's; Rev. A. E. Roraback of Providence, R. l., and Miss Grace M. Roraback of New Haven at Judge Roraback's; N. E. Rawson of Brooklyn, N. Y., at Mrs. Frances Clem. ans; Thadeus Downing and wife ot Philmont, N. Y., at Perrin Stanton S Arthur Winn of Philmont, Mrs. Joseph Quintell of Pittsfeld Mir and Mrs. Ches ter Vim of Torrington at O. T. Vos. burgh's; Dwight Allyn and wife of Chapinville at G. s. Fuller's; L. J. Root and wife of Bristol at E. s. Roots Frank Smith and wife of Winsted al William H. Smith $; Samuel Bennett of New York at The Naples; William Riley of Hartford at Patrick Riley's Arthur Grinnell and wife of Waltham Mass. at M. Langs'; Mrs. H. 0. Ham mond of Thomaston at Mrs. M. G Adams; Miss Libbie Edleman of An cram, N. Y. at Rev. T. R. Wallace's Dr. HI. Barnes and wife of Oyster Bay N. Y. at H. c. Barnes; Rollin c. an( Miss J. E. Newton of New York at R D. Peirce's; George F. Dunning O Briarcliff, N. Y. at Miss s. W. Adam s Dr. w. T. Owens and wife of HartforC at A. H. Owens; George Badgley O -NSa1t Point, N. Y. at O. E. Badgley s
 samuel Bonney, wife and daughter O Waterbury, Leighton Bradley and fam fly of Goshen at Leman Benson's; Johl Nicol and Louis Holt of New Britain Clinton DIV. Barnes and John Hubbard Worcester, Roger Rood of Hartford. Mis- Caroline Camp of Wellesley, Harolc Preston of Mt. Hermon, Mass, Mis Irene Greene. Miss Mary Collins an' Miss Margaret Hanlon of New York James McCarty of New Haven at thei respective homes here. At John Hoag' there was a family gathering of eigh tesn, among those present being F. c Capron and family of Danbury an' Walter O. Hoag of Bridgeport.