Connecticut western news., 1905-11-30
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30. 1905.
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church at 1O.30 a. m. today.
 Most of the business places in town will close at 10. 30 &. m. today.
 A. G. Sheaffer of Hartford, job printer, has entered the employ of 0. H. Pease.
 Mrs. Louisa Hall has gone to South Dakota to spend the winter with her nephews.
 -J. Clinton Roraback attended the football game at Cambridge, Mass, on Saturday and saw Yale defeat Harvard too.
 A union Thanksgiving service was held at the Methodist church last eve- ming. The sermon was delivered by Rev. T. R. Wallace.
 A. H. Herriman, Ed. Fitzgerald, John Langs and l.. o. Rhoades were ill New York Monday and Tuesday attend ing the horse sale at Madison Square Garden.
 Members of the Pilgrim and Meth odist churches will resume the union cottage prayer meetings next week. An nouncements will be made from the pulpits on Sunday.
 -Dr. H. l.. Ross took 6O-foot gill net out of Twin Lakes last Sunday. There were IA fish in the net, including suckers, white fish, perch and brook trout. Warden Ross says the owner of the net can have the same by present. ing claims that he is actual owner.
 The Canaan Savings Bank has inn proved the front of their brick block on Main street by placing marble curb stones at the outer edge of the concrete sidewalk aad then grading the ground between the new curbing and the curb ing which adjoins the cobble stone gutter.
 Mir. and Mrs. Lucius St. John live at Ames, Story county, Iowa, and on Sat urday evening, November IS, large number of their friends and acquaint- ances gathered at the home of MT. and Mrs. St. John to celebrate the forty-fifth anniversary of their marriage and pre- sent them with gold and silver coins and other gifts. MT. St. John was born at South Canaan, Conn.,. August 5, 1887.
 -Consalino Orinetto, the Italian con- monly known as ' Russ who lives on the so called Wesley Prescott place in Sodom district, was before Justice A. B. Garfield last Friday evening charged with keeping disorderly house, J. H. Roraback appeared for the prosecution and G. A. Marvin was counsel for the accused. After conference between the attorneys the hearing was adjourned to Dec. 9, and Orinetto was recognized in the sum of $1 for his appearance on that day, Officer Rhoades being surety.
 Charles Perkins, about 40 years old, freight conductor on the Central New England road, was killed at Winsted about 2.30 Friday afternoon. He was standing on the Naugatuck tracks directing the movements of his train and was struck by the locomotive of passenger train on the Naugatuck div ision. He was taken to the hospital in Winsted unconscious and died about 4 o'clock. His wife came on from Hartford, his home, and took charge of the remains. Perkins was we'll known and well liked along the line of the road.
 Rev. Amos N. Benedict, who was born in Canaan, February II, 1895, died Saturday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Cruikshank. He was son of the late Thomas Benedict. Rev. Benedict had been ill poor health for over year. He was active ill organizing the Baptist church in Southfield many years ago, and for a period after that he held charges ill Connecticut and New York state He returned to Southfield and for nearly 30 years was pastor of the Baptist Church there, hold ing many services in the chapel at North Norfolk His funeral was held at the Baptist church in Southfield and his re- mains were taken to Bridgeport for in terment. He IS survived by a widow, two sons and two daughters.
 John Bannahan's family live at the Vacation House through the win ter Last Saturday forenoon the father was away at work and Mrs. Bannahan had gone to Mrs. Richmond's. The Bannahan boys, Johnnie and Willie, and another boy. Johnnie Caldwell, got to playing with a couple of rifles and all at once Johnnie Bannahan discovered that Caldwell had 22-calibre rifle aim- ed at Willie. Johnnie yelled to young Caldwell to turn the gun away from his brother and at the same time Caldwell s finger was on the trigger and the rifle went off, the ball ploughing through Willie's wrist and entering his breast Willie is a nervy little chap of about fourteen years, and with the other boys he walked up to the village where his wounds were examined by Dr. Camp who after probing could not locate the bullet Willie was taken to the Win sted hospital in the afternoon by his mother, where the X rays were used and the bullet located on the outside oi the ribs, and where it will do no harm consequently the surgeons decided not to remove it. Willie came home Mon day and is getting along nicely. The Caldwell boy is 15 years old and has lived in Canaan something over eight months his father being a telegraph operator now working at Norfolk. The shooting was due to thoughtlessness o1 the Caldwell boy.