Connecticut western news., 1906-10-04
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town the latter part of last week. MT. Strong was station agent here in the days when the Warner house served as a depot.
 Metropolitanites who spent the sum- mer in this vicinity are hustling back to the city. Nothing like a sharp frost to make the Gothamita hum Home, Sweet Home."
 There are but three families at Pine Grove at the present time. One family families are to remain well along into November.
 Sign boards, pointing the way to Sheffield and Norfolk, have been erected at the corner of Railroad and Main streets, also guide board at the Church and Main street corner.
 What sort of time did you have dur ing your ride through Lee, Mass?" asked one Canaan automobillst of another. "Fine,' was the answer. And that is right-S20 fine.
 $. A. Kemp is working on the Hardenbergh cottage at Twin lakes. Mrs. Kemp accompanies him and dur ing their stay there they will reside in A. V. A. Feltens cottage. | Business Is booming at the post-offioe as we'll as everywhere else in Canaan. The receipts for the third quarter of | af s1246.61 for the corresponding quarter in 1905. an increase of sl35.96.
 Rumor has it that the Peter Coggin farm, near the New England Lime Co.'S Canaan branch, between Canaan and East Canaan, has been sold for 0,000 to parties who are about to form a new lime company but the report lacks con- f1rmation,
 A new hind of electric light, new to Garfield automobile garage. It is called the mercury vapor lamp. The light fills glass tube 2S inches long and pro- duces e brilliant illumination of pe- culiar coloring.
 In certain circles during the past week the question of organizing brass band in Canaan has been quite vigorously agitated and an effort may be made later to interest the numerous citizens who, in former years either blew through brass or pounded sheepskin.
 Mrs. Chapin and Mrs. Hildreth of Torrington and Miss Webb of Winstsd were guests of Mrs. Rood and Mrs. Bunnell last week on their way to Canaan Four Corners, N. Y. for few weeks outing in that region, and were to take in Great Burlington fair also.
 John Cudney has received all the Norfolk laundry machinery and has it located in the quarters he prepared for it i here. The electric motor by which it is i to be operated has not yet arrived and this, together with other minor hin drances, will prevent the beginning of operations for several days. A petition was circulated in Canaan during the latter part of last week asking that when the Berkshire Street Railway is extended that its course from Great Harrington to Sheffield be direct instead of via the Egremonts and that Egremont be served by a branch or spur line. The petition was signed by practi- cally every one to whom it was presented.
 Unclaimed letters remained at the Canaan postoffice Tuesday for Mrs. Anderson, Miss Katherine Bayliss, Cleto Betti, John L. Cook, Hattie Crosler, Henry L. Hazard, Miss K. Kiernan. Mrs. Isaben Selden. Postals. Mrs. Mary Hanchett, E. W. Merrill, Miss Nellie Shaffer, Rob~t Thompson, o. F. Taylor, Mrs. Samuel Whitney.
 Among the Conaanites who went to the Great Harrington fair and fell vic tims to the pickpockets was Henry R. | Whitford whose change purse, contain ing about $500 was taken from his pocket. The following day his father, R. H. Whitfood, went to the fair and found $500 on the ground. As it is all in the family, Henry k. found 1t unnec- essary to make an entry on the Profits lost" side of the ledger.
 School Notes
 Ruluff Mcintyre, class of 1904 and a graduate of Searles 1906, has passed the required examinations and been ad- mitted to the Massachusetts Institute of | Technology at Boston, not conditioned. Irving Messenger, of Waterbury class of 1896 called on many of his former classmates last week.
 Baggage Record
 | September was a busy month with the baggage handlers at the union station Baggage master A. A. Hubbard reports 2250 pieces on the N. Y, N. H. & H. side and baggage master Emmons 1000 pieces on the 0. N. E. side, a total of 3250. The number of pieces handled this month also promises to be large be- cause of the many city people who are returning home.