Connecticut western news., 1906-11-08
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Michael Joyce, 64, dropped dead ln his yard about nine clock last night; heart trouble is supposed to have been the cause.
 George Lake died last Thursday night after an illness with typhoid fever. The funeral was held Sunday with interment at Milerton. He was about 42 years old.
 AS in previous years, election returns were received Tuesday evening st the offices of A. T. and J. H. Roraback and a large number of people gathered to hear the result of the battle of the bal. lots. Fully as much interest was ex- pressed in the York state result as in the Connecticut strife.
 A. A. Hubbard, the democratic candi- date for representative spent election day handling baggage, carrying mail bags and distributing pastors between times. An old two-wheeled gig mysseriously @ appeared at the station and remained all day. On the back of it was inscribed in chalk "Vote for Hubbard"
 We regret that we were unsuccessful in our efforts to ascertain the vote on state treasurer. as there was much local interest in the candidacy of K. S. Roberts of East Canaan. His vote in Canaan was l6S against F. F. Patten who received 191. The balance of the republican ticket received from l l2 to 13T votes therefore MT. Roberts ran consider ably ahead.
 The Canaan Printing Company is in- creaslng and improving its newspaper and job printing equipment and, among other things, has just purchased and in- stalled large paper cutter of up-to-date model, to take the place of the one which has been in use for several years. THE NEWS" has all the tools with which to do satisfactory work in the line of the art preservative.a
 Those who made the Sunday School tour of Connecticut in September have a report in "The Bulletin" issued by the Connecticut Sunday School Association. They mention the Canaan Methodist church in the list of those having the largest number of officers and teachers present at the Convention. The total registration was 101 and F schools were represented. In proportion to the total registration, Canaan's offering, S23.45, was the largest.
 Borden Briefiets.
 The report has been going the rounds that kerosene is about to be poured into the Borden milk, ill other words that the Standard Oil Company had obtained control of the Borden business. Borden officials deny this rumor and say it had its start from the fact that w. J. Rogers IS president of the Borden Company and H. H. Rogers is vice-president of the Standard Oil Company and that they are not any way related.
 Canaan, Conn.,, to Albany, N. Y. When that extension of the Berkshire Street Railway from Great Harrington to Canaan is constructed, and when other contemplated extensions and con. meeting links are built i'll Massachusetts, it will be possible to take a seat in an electric car at Canaan and travel by electric road until reaching Albany, N Y. The proposed link connecting Pitts field and Albany, will, if constructed extend from Pittsfield across the Lebanon Valley in New York state, to Nassau, N. Y, from which place an electric road already extends to Albany and to Hud son. This route would be much shorter than the present steam route between Pittsfeld and Albany.
 Canaanites Broke Chain.
 Canaan people are receiving anony. nous letters in connection with the end less chain prayer scheme said to have been instituted by Bishop Lawrence The thing is nonsensical and foolish stating that those who will write it for nine days and send it to nine persons be. ginning with the day they received it. will on or before the ninth day experience some great joy and that those who grant this request will be relieved from all calamity. If the "chain" wasn't broken before, it was smashed to smith. ereens when this sacrilegious monstrosity reached Canaan. Bishop Lawrence em phatically denies the statement that tht scheme was inaugurated by him. An Honest Farmer.
 One day last week in one of the Ca naan stores, a s100 bill was passed out in making change, in mistake for q S2( bill. The proprietors made diligent inquiry but failed to locate the missing yellowback. Every person with whom they dealt on the day of the disappear ance of the bill, was interviewed with the exception of one man, farmer, whC resides some distance from Canaan. Or his next trip to town, which was a da, or two afterward, he walked into tn, store, informed the proprietors that h,