Connecticut western news., 1907-10-31

OdSt church tuesday evening, NOV. o. An excellent meal for 35 cents.
 Special town meeting Saturday at Town Hall, 3 p. m.
 Charles Brainard, has moved from Norf6k to Canaan. {
 Mrs. E. 0. Gillette has been spending few days in Hartford.
 Ground is to be broken this week for E. E. Merchants house.
 J. Clinton Roraback is in New Haven coaching the Yale football team.
 A new furnace is to be installed in Wigglesworth & Co.'S hardware store.
 Pipes have been laid from the water mains to the cellar of Henry Scutt's house.
 Seneca Strong returned last week from his visit with relatives in the western states.
 Contractor Brennan of Mill River is to erect Edward E. Merchants house on Railroad street.
 Watch that bonfire carefully. You know Canaan's fire fighting facilities are decidedly limited
 A furnace and blacksmith's forge hove been located in the addition to the Garfield Automobile Station.
 Lewis Roraback has so far recovered from the serious injury he sustained several weeks ago, as to be able to be out
 The case of "Little Billy" the Italian. beer agent, which was to have been tried Monday, was postponed until Nov 15. ..
 Miss Katherine Duffy, of Sharon Val ley. accompanied Miss Marion Roger to her home here Friday and remained over Sunday.
 A meeting will be held in Town Hall Monday evening at 7:30 to discuss the advisibility of organizing the assemblies for the winter.
 Canaan will soon have plenty of youthful dancers. Miss Finnegan' 8 dancing school is in full blast and she has many scholars from the ranks of the little folks.
 Decker & Alvord have just completed the installation of a hot water heating plant in the residence of O. E. Badgley, steam in the residence of James Hanlon, and hot air in Mrs. Bierce's residence.
 Dr. N. s. Wadham of Goshen, Conn has purchased Dr. Ross automobile, bu unfortunately the yelp-from- purgatory horn will remain in Canaan. The sale was effected by a NEWS Cent-a- Word adv : ~ --.t..
 The high water washed away bridge near O. G. Smiths on the Clayton road, one near Sonthfield and one near Harts- vile. The road between Canaan and Sheffield is impossible in places, being covered by water.
 H. B. Case of Barkhamsted, one of the Litchfield County license commissioners, was in town last week for the purpose of receiving applications for licenses. These applications appear on another page of to-day's paper.
 William Gregory, formerly in Borden employ here, who was taken to his home in Mount Upton, N. Y. several weeks ago, is rapidly improving ill health. His friends did not consider his recovery possible when he left here.
 Do you presume that request for a Canaan-Pittsfield train will be used to start the fire in the N. Y. N. H, 85 H. office some cold morning. Or will it bring about the desired result? Unclaimed mail remained in the Canaan post office Tuesday for: Valley Booth, Burchard & Co.,, John Pipe, Agostino Respino, Mrs. D. D. Walsh, Miss E. White. Postals: Henry N Bristol, A. P French, Victor Phillips.
 The contractors have, as we stated last week, practically completed the work on the sewer system but the fnal payment has not been made by the fire district inasmuch as the job is not. as yet, satisfactory. There is considerable water ill the pipes, indicating that the joints are not all tight.