Connecticut western news., 1906-02-01

Edward A. Slye moved his house. hold goods to Pittsfeld, Mass. last Fri day.
 Frank Miller and wife of Bridge port spent Sunday at their cottage at Twin Lakes.
 -Thaddeus Baird and family have moved into Edward A. Slye's house on Barlow street.
 The two younger children of MT. and Mrs. Gilbert Fitch are recovering from the chicken pox.
 Mrs. Timothy Farrell of Hartford is visiting her parents, MT. and Mrs. Pat rick Riley, in this village.
 Mrs. Harriet L. Brown of Lakeville is visiting the Misses Norton. She ar rived last Thursday afternoon.
 Mrs. J. G. Beckley will go to Hart ford tomorrow for weeks visit with her aunt, Mrs. Louis 0. Roys.
 Miss Schauf1ler of Walden, N. Y, has been the guest of her sister, Mrs. Charles Shaw, the past week.
 George B. Coggswell of Pittsfeld, Mass. was in Canaan from Sunday after noon until Tuesday evening.
 A Valentine tea will be served at the Pilgrim church parlors, Wednesday evening, Feb. 14th. See posters.
 Miss Fannie Snyder of Pine Plains, N. Y, has been staying at her aunt's, Mrs. Joseph Owens, the past week.
 MT. and Mrs. Frank E. Anson at- tended the funeral of Mrs. Joseph w. Bond at Millerton, N. Y, last Sunday.
 The foundations for George P. Por- ter's new building on Railroad street are completed and the carpenters began work Tuesday.
 John DeHart of New Brunswick, N. J., returned home Monday after a weeks visit with his brother, Garret DeHart, ill this village.
 Miss Anna Brown, who was for five years with the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Go. of Hartford, has taken the position of stenographer at the New England Lime Go. office, succeed ing Miss Peck of Hartford who has been here the past month.
 Mrs, George W. Fields is a great under the doctors care for four months. During the past week Mrs. Fields has been seriously i'll, and at this writing there is not much change in her condi- tion. :.
 The A. 6 M. Barnes Lime Co.,, Inc, of North Canaan, filed a preliminary certificate of dissolution with the secre- tary of state on Jan. 20, 1906. All claims against said corporation may be sent to M. A. Barnes, treasurer, Canaan, Conn., This corporation has been super oeded by the Berkshire Hills Go.
 The Masonic ball was attended by forty couples last Thursday night at the Town Hall. All expressed themselves IS having a good time. Besides the eighty dancers there were about sixty people who attended the concert by the Germania orchestra. At midnight a good supper was served at the Warner House by M. Langs.
 John L. Pierce of Lincoln, Neb. ,who IS deputy auditor and has charge of the insurance department of the state of Ne oraska, has been on business trip to New York and on his way home stopped over in Canaan from Monday evening until yesterday noon to visit his uncle, Daniel L.. Peirce, and other relatives here.
 Judge Wheeler in the Superior court at Hartford yesterday signed the reservation in the suit by the state of Connecticut against the New London Savings Bank, which will take the case direct to the Supreme court of appeals for decision on an act by the legislature taxation on all deposits in savings banks throughout the state.
 Miss Isabelle Haskell, who has been the bookkeeper at G. L. Parsons 6 Sons store for nearly five years, went to Mass, yesterday to begin her duties as bookkeepar for Field & Weber, paper manufacturers of that city. The Epworth League and friends presented Miss Haskell with a chafng dish and a solid gold watch chain, as tokens of their regard.
 The local camp of Woodmen are to have benefit entertainment tonight at the Town Hall. The performance will be given by the Metropolitan Vaudeville and Moving Picture Co.,, which has good reputation in these parts. The program consists of up-to-date musical acts, monologues and sketches, soubrette singing and dancing specialties, moving pictures and illustrated songs. Get re- served seats at Collins jewelry store during the day. Popular admission prices prevail.
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