Connecticut western news., 1906-08-02

Iors August ' from 5 to g.
 Mrs. Chas. Briggs is visiting in New York.
 Miss Mary welles of Canton is visit her home.
 Dr. William T. Owens of Hartford is visiting his parents.
 Mrs. Mary Corbit and Mrs. Preston spent Saturday i'll Hartford.
 Miss Ellen Considine spent Sunday with Hillsdale, N. Y, relatives.
 Miss Katherine Utterwick of New York is spending few days at The Naples.
 William Ferguson returned Monday from two weeks stay with Mrs. Mary Partridge at Andover, Conn.
 Mrs. H. D. Humphrey and daughter Beatrice leave to-day for Leetes Island where they will spend several days.
 There is great abundance of blue berries in the vicinity of North Norfolk Ten men are kept busy there all the time.
 Mir. and Mrs. Henry Barnes and daughter, Edith, have been visiting their son and brother, Clinton, at Cary vile, Mass.
 MT. and Mrs. F. R. Collin, who have been spending the last three weeks at the Eddy cottage at Twin Lakes returned to ther home Monday.
 Much interest is shown among the people of Pine Grove in collecting do- nations for the erection of club house or place of amusement.
 Mrs. E. Toucey and family of Bridge port are occubying the Colt Cottage at Pine Grove. Mir. Ralph is quite an acquisition to the grove along the musical line.
 Miss Amy Singleton, who was stop ping with her aunt, Mrs. Crane at the ''Cattails." Pine Grove has gone to Rich, field Springs for a week, then will join her family at Woodmont-on-Sound.
 W. B. Joyce of Canaan, lately em- ployed as operator at the Lakeville station has gone to North Dakota with MT. Cherry, formerly despatoher for the O. N. E. road, where he has position.
 Miss Brown of Hartford. who has been visiting her sister, Miss Anna Brown, stenographer at the New Eng land Lime Company's office, for the past three weeks, has returned to her home in Hartford.
 John Caldwell, who has been employed as telegraph operator in the freight yard on the Central New England Railroad. has moved his family to Norfolk, where he is employed as operator at Grants Station.
 Joseph Ganci of Ashley Falls, formerly of Canaan, has made application to the court for first papers of naturalization. The application states that he was born in Sciacca, Italy, February g, 1882, and that he arrived in New York on August IA, 1898.
 Letters remained unclaimed ln the Canaan postoffice July S1 for Mrs. T. M. Gurney, Luciens Griggs, Ulliana Luigi, Mrs. Kathrina Ranscher, Robert L. Shaw Miss Clair Warsham. Postals, Miss Geneva Fuller Caterson, Mrs. Edward Caterson.
 . William Dempsey will, in the near future. increase by one boat the f1otilla of gasoline launches on the Housatonic river. He has been engaged for several months in building launch and has it nearly completed. He expects it to be the reindeer of the river.
 Dr. Ross and wife and travelled 800 miles during their recent auto trip and had no trouble of any sort with the envy by the fellow who has just paid some farmer two pairs of dollars to hook his team onto the benzine buggy and drag it to a hospital.
 That the public appreciates the privi- leges of the Douglas Library is shown by the fact that during the winter an average of 250 books are taken from the building each day it is open. In the summer the average for Saturday is about 1S0. The number on Wednesday is somewhat smaller.
 Miss Carol, nurse for July at the Mary Watson Memorial left yesterday Miss Johnson, housemother for July and Miss Whiton, chaperone left to-day. Miss Margaret Jackson of Middletown is housemother for August. Miss Anna Jones of Hartford, chaperone, Miss Adelaide Spicer of Hartford, nurse.
 Wangum Camp of Modern Woodmen at their meeting last evening, conferred degrees on two candidates after which a supper was served. The meeting night will probably be changed from Wednes- day to Tuesday in the near future. The Camp is flourishing and it is expected that more candidates will be initiated soon.