Connecticut western news., 1906-07-26

I and in the Reformed church in the evening.
 "Bennie" Winn, who has been em- 1 ployed at Rhoades' barber shop for some time, has laid down the razor and shears and has returned to his home in Phil mont, N. '.
 Frank Whiting, one of the dynamo tenders, at the Berkshire Power Com pany's plant, lost portion of one of his fingers few days ago by its becoming entangled in gear.
 George Van Deusen and H. R. Whit ford are building boat house on the Blackberry river near Frederick Gillette's bridge. The house will be used as a shelter for their gasoline launches. No doubt many Canaan people will have urgent business in Great Barring ton on Saturday of this week. Ofcourse the circus will have nothing to do with calling them over the line.
 Daniel Sweeney, who recently resigned hls position as car inspector for the N. T., N. H. & H. R. R., has accepted the position of foreman in the quarry of William Canfield, at East Canaan.
 Miss Caroline Camp, who has been visiting Miss Dorothy Pease in New Britain, and Miss Josephine Camp, who has been the guest of Miss Eleanor | Walker at Woodmont, have returned home.
 l.. A. Caldwell and son Alfred have ar rived home from the Adirondacks, where they have been spending the last four months in constructing a dam. MT. Caldwell was foreman of the construc- ton gang.
 Unclaimed letters remained in the post office Sunday, for Miss Caroline Doll, Miss Hanna Djerf, Mir. Geo. W. Foster, MT. Fred Mercy, MT. Grant O'Dell. Postals: Miss I. s. Rollo, MT. Wm. E. Lawrence. We are requested to deny the rumor which has been current in town during the past week that A. P. Briggs has sold his livery business. MT. Briggs states that certain Canaan man asked him to set a price on the business which he did but that negotiations proceeded no further.
 Arrivals at The Wangum are as fol lows: M. B. Williams, Miss c. NJ. Sin clair, Mir. and Mrs. Irving E. Raymond, New York; Miss Anne E. McAllister, New Haven; Geo. H. Tolwen, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Mrs. w. F. Clarke, Pittsield, Mass; Julia E. Ulford, New Haven; O. E. Ventres, Lenox, Mass.
 Ross Bailey was before Judge San ford in Great Harrington last week charged with stealing fowls from Adolph Anderson and also with breaking into the home of William Garfield, who lives just over the Massachusetts line. He was liberated on $500 bail furnished by his mother. fl
 The registrars of voters of North Canaan will be in session at the office of Judge A. T. Rorabaok Friday. August 8 and 10 from 12 to p. m. to receive applications from electors, declaring the party in the primaries or caucuses- of which they desire to participate. The registrars are John G. Beckley and J. Clinton Roraback.
 Flash Boards Erected.
 A. .k;, ,, tha o,nna1 l,x,- x.-a tar y,ariod in the Housatonic river, the Berkshire Power Company have caused the flash boards to be erected on the dam near the power house. These boards do not have the effect of raising the water but concentrate it so that it passes over only one end of the dam rather than over its entire length. The point over which the water now flows is opposite the large wheels and they thus receive suf- ficient supply of water to enable them to develop power for operating the plant. Telephone Business Directory
 The first number of the new Connecti- cut Business Telephone directory has been received and is probably in the hands of all telephone subscribers now. The directory is to be issued semi-annu- ally and is about half the size of the directory issued by the Southern New England Telephone Company more fre- quently. It contains only the business places of the state under classified head ings in each exchange. The directory is issued free to telephone subscribers, the publishers relying upon advertisements and black face lines in directory for SUD- port of the scheme. In just what way this book is an advantage over the regu- lar directory is not apparent.
 Mary Watson Memorial News.
 Thursday the girls went on a straw ride to Twin Lakes, had supper at the Lake and returned about S.30.
 The little play, "A Proposal Under Difficulties" which was given at Town Hall last Wednesday evening, under Memorial auspices, netted S42.