Connecticut western news., 1906-11-15

Woodbury.
 NJ. S. Daniels of New York has been visiting in town.
 Miss Gladys De Hart was home from Hartford over Sunday.
 Mrs. William Garfield has been visit l ing friends in Winsted.
 The Hawthorne Club met yesterday afternoon with Mrs. J. P. Smyth.
 The Misses Josephine and Caroline Camp have been visiting in Norfolk.
 The wide concrete walk in front of the Garfield Inn is being constructed.
 MT. and Mrs. Frank Stevens have been spending few days in Hartford
 Mrs. Ruluff Rood of Clayton was a guest of Mrs. Bunnell on Saturday last.
 Arthur Tuckerman of New York City is visiting his sister Mrs. Samuel A. Eddy.
 Frank Stevens will be one of the ex- hibitors at the West Haven and Win sted poultry shows.
 Miss Miller and Miss Garland of Great Harrington spent Saturday and Sunday with Miss Lydia Merwm.
 The foundation for an addition to the | Garfield automobile garage has been completed. It will be used as a boiler room.
 Mrs. Cora Adams visited Norfolk rela- tives last week and this week goes to Winsted for few days visit with rela- tives there.
 Seneca Strong made three fishing pill grimages to Lake Buel the past season and hooked total of 150 fish, princi- pally perch.
 THE NEWS and The Youths Compan- ion both one year for S3.25. (Subscrip- tions to Companion must be new and not renewals.)
 The partitions in the basement of the Garfield Inn have been constructed, the windows have been placed in position and the plumbers are at work.
 J.C Roraback, ex-Yale center, um- pired the Hill -Hotchkiss football game Saturday at Lakeville, which resulted in victory for Hill of IS to 0.
 A child named Huntingdon, between Canaan and East Canaan has been i'll with diphtheria for several days but is thought to be on the road to recovery. IA. William Devine has been off duty at Fuller & Peets and devoting his attention to boil on his neck, five boils on his left arm and an abscess on one of his fingers.
 The ladies are becoming interested in box ball and number may be seen roll ing the balls almost any afternoon. Although they ''get the knack" of the game quickly, no records have as yet been broken.
 The Women's Guild of Christ Church will hold sociable in the Town Hall, Tuesday evening, November 20th at 8 o'clock. There will be games, exhibit of living pictures, dancing and refresh ments. Admission, including these % cents.
 We don't remember year when the report relative to a scarcity of Thanks giving turkeys hasn't been circulated about this time. But a local market man says it's no joke this year, that he has tried diligently for several days to buy turkeys and has found but few. Last week a representative of one of the large seed houses was in town, call ing on the storekeepers and collecting the unsold seeds. These seeds are re- turned to the aforesaid wholesale house and when all are in, a huge bonfire is made and they are destroyed-at any rate that's how the story goes.
 Rhoades & Stanton have ordered 40 horse power boiler which will be used in the operation of the portable saw mill they are to place on Sugar Hill, near Falls Village. They have purchased there about 80 acres of timber land The lumber will be placed in stock al their place of business in this village.
 NJ. L. Osborne has offered a prize oi $500 in. gold to the person making tho highest score on his box ball alleys be fore January 1st. J. O. Rorabacl started the high scoring with 146 points this was soon tied by A. L. Hugins ant later Seneca Strong went them ten bet ter and scored 156 points. Neither 14t nor 156 has been equalled since.
 More state road is to be built in Ca naan in the near future, probably nex spring. It will extend from the Metho dist church, south along Church stree as far as possible. In other words tn, road will be extended as far as the fund will carry the work. It Is on this stree that it is proposed to eliminate grad crossing and it is possible that this worl and the road work will be done abou the same time.