Connecticut western news., 1906-09-27
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George M. Walton has been on tn @ sick list.
 H. R. Whitford was in West Cornwall Tuesday.
 S. B. Jewett of Sharon was in town yesterday.
 Howard Beirce is confined to his home by illness.
 P. J. Kane has been spending his vacation in New York City.
 Saturdays rain prevented the Canaan vs Southfield base ball game.
 Furnaces have been fired up" and light overcoats are ill demand.
 Miss Gladys DeHart has been home from Hartford for few days.
 J. Henry Roraback has been spending a couple of days in New York.
 Canaan is well represented at the Great Harrington fair this week.
 Miss Grant, who is employed at Parsons store is attending Harrington Fair.
 The residence of George L. Parsons has been wired for electric lighting.
 John Humphrey of West Norfolk spent Sunday at H. D. Humphreys.
 William Dimon of Philmont has been visiting his sister, Mrs. Henry Scutt
 Miss Frances Clark of Norfolk has been visitidg her grandmother, Mrs. Beebe.
 Sore throats and severe colds are pre- valent ill Canaan and these are many victims.
 E. D. Norton has taken position as bookkeeper for the Canaan Printing Company.
 MT. and Mrs. M. L. Osborne have rented rooms in a portion of John Cud- ney's house.
 s. L. Clemens (Mark Twainj passed through Canaan Saturday noon on his way to Norfolk.
 E. Chopper, the truokman has moved from Sheffield and occupies rooms in the Porter building.
 0. H. Weising of Lime Rock was in town Tuesday and made THE NEWS a hello-good-bye call. Mrs. Emma Turner of Falls Village, for merly of Schenectady, is visiting her brother, George Brinton. 5
 The freight car which was wrecked here last week was burned in order to dispose of the remains
 MT. and Mrs. A. H. Herriman covered about $50 miles during their recent auto trip through New York state. .s-t 2
 At the meeting of the selectmen and town clerk Saturday. IT persons were admitted to the electors oath.
 George s. Dunning and J. Clinton Roraback attended the congressional convention at Bridgeport, Saturday. E. Chopper. who established truck ing business here, has leased the old creamery building on Railroad street and is to establish livery.
 The Misses Grant and Anderson of this village walked to Ashley Falls last Sunday and enjoyed the balmy air of that little village for about two hours.
 The senior member of tho firm of Cullen & Co.,, electricians, of Pittsfeld, Mass. was a caller at THE NEWS office Tuesday. MT. Cullen was in town on bussiness.
 Dr. Ross will pull triggers instead of teeth for ten days after Oct. 4. News from the Adirondack region is to the effect that the game is already running for cover.
 Saturdays rain came just in the nick of time to prevent many wells from be- coming dry and to save power plants on the Housatonic river from resorting to steam for operating their machinery.
 Miss Eleanor Miller of Sheffield, who has been the operator at the local office of the Postal Telegraph company, is to go to Norfolk to accept similar position, and Miss Dibble of Norfolk comes to Canaan.
 Colts band of Hartford passed through Canaan enroute to the Great Barring ton fair Tuesday. We rather hoped they would favor us with few selections in- asmuch as they had nearly two hours to wait here but they didn't.
 The Central New England Railway will issue special excursion rates from its stations Canaan to Campbell Hall in- elusive to Poughkeepsie and return on Sept. 27 and 28 account of the Fair held at Poughkeepsie on those dates.
 The directors of the New England Lime Go. met Monday at their office in Canaan and elected 0. E. Griffing, pres ident; David Follet, treasurer; N. Wat. son Hardenbergh, secretary; Wallace Garfield, general superintendent. Letters were unclaimed in the Canaan post office Monday for Mrs. Charlotte Carey, Maurice Heckscher, Henry Knapp, Spinnso Pasquale, Miss Alletter I