Connecticut western news., 1906-08-16
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annual picnic at Holley Grove, Lakeville yesterday. The day was pleasant, the outing was participated in by Q goodly number and everyone had good time. Miss Katharine Upson Taft, formerly of Clayton, Mass. but for the past nine years instructor in art at Brunot Hall, young ladies seminary at Spokane, Wash. has been spending few days with MT. and Mrs. H. E. Lyles.
 The office clairvoyant hasn't been with us very long, therefore we don't know whether he is reliable predictor or not. If he is, theren be some big crowds in Canaan to attend the first fair of the Litchfield County Agricultural Society.
 The boys composing the Canaan base ball team say they are not getting the financial support they ought to have, and which they must have, in order to provide the national game for the public. 'Chip in" literally when you attend the games.
 It took 10 innings to decide the base ball contest between Canaan and Lime 4 Rock at Canaan Saturday. Canaan should have won the game as at one time that team had long lead. It didn't win, however, and the score was 10 to in favor of Lime Rock.
 When George R. Wilcox has an order for anything in the line of antique fur nishings for summer cottages, he makes the article if he don't happen to have it in stock. Such was the case the other day when Twln Lakes cottager wanted an old-fashioned crane for his fireplace.
 A woman was at the helm of one of the automobiles that whizzed into town Tuesday and be it said to her credit that she footed the horn, decreased speed and turned that Railroad Main street corner in the way it should be turned by the men autoists. We felt like dofing our sky piece to that female.
 Mrs. Della Hardenbergh of Canaan, who is one of the cottagers at Twin Lakes, slipped from large stone last Thursday, as she was walking near the cottage, and fell, breaking her wrist. The fracture was reduced by Dr. Adam, and the injured member is on the mend. Mrs. Hardenbergh's s many friends tender their sympathy because of her mis- fortune.
 | Arrivals at the "Wangum" are Eliz- abeth M. Wharton, Katherine L. Whar- ton, Margaret E. Rivers and Elizabeth Ford of Bridgeport; Jessie Mallory of Fair Haven; Miss Annie McAllister and Miss Julia E. Elford, New Haven; Ho- ward Martz, wife and daughter, Brook lyn, N. T.; Malcolm Kerr, Edith Kerr, Anna M. Keer, and MT. and Mrs. s. L.. Reed, Brooklyn, N. Y.
 Sewerage System Plans.
 The executive committee of the fire district met Monday evening to discuss the matter of procuring sewerage system plans. Wallace W. Burghardt of Canaan was instructed to employ such additional assistants, consulting engineers, etc., as he requires to make complete plans. An effort will be made, weather permitting, to have the work completed within two weeks.
 Boundary Line Survey.
 Of late there has been considerable | speculation as to what is the meaning of the surveyors staffs and flags noticed in fields and alongside the highway be- tween Canaan and Ashley Falls. We are informed that they were placed at these points by civil engineers who are working on the boundary line survey between the states of Massachusetts and Connecticut.
 Will Jump to S7.5O.
 Coal now costs $7. 40 per ton in Canaan. The next and final jump will be to $7 50 next month. The fill-up-their- -bins-in- summer customers have their supplies in and there is practically little demand for the black diamonds at the present time, so the dealers tell us. The orders will begin to pile in, however, as soon as the mercury begins to drop. At the pres ent time there is every prospect that the supply will be ample to meet the demand. He Can't See 1t.
 We have had the office clairvoyant squint into the future as far as the middle of November to ascertain if he can see the arrest of some of those mak- ing time automobile tourists as they rush through the streets of Canaan at a speed that causes sedate and dignified residents to climb electric light poles in order to escape being ground up into soap grease for that Ashley Falls establishment and he says that from where he sits he can't see anything resembling said arrest.
 Mary Watson Memorial.
 For the past week the young ladies have enjoyed outings at Twin Lakes, Great Harrington and Pittsfield. Out door play and games of all kinds.
 The new arrivals are the Misses Anna Sall, Edith Sall, Eleanor Ochlhof, Sadie Cross. Hartford; Agnes Staples, Sarah Staples, Edna Harris, Grace Stevens, Middletown; Gertrude Fox. Lora Fox, New Haven; Lillian Crawford, Bertha Shreyer, Norwalk; Bessie Atkins and Pauline Curtis. Winsted.