Connecticut western news., 1907-03-21

timber has been sawed on the Whitford lot but high water in the swamp temp orarily stopped the work. The mill will be moved back and the job com pleted when conditions are again favor able.
 School Notes
 All interested are invited to attend meeting in the interest of education which will be held in the Eldridge Gym nasium, Norfolk, tomorrow at 300 D. m. The subject will be "The Teacher and Oral Expression" by Prof. John W. Wetzel of Yale University, New Haven. Milk Prices.
 Friday was contract day at the Bor- den plant, and the prices for the ensuing six months will be as follows per 100 pounds: April, $l .50; May. S1. 80; June, $1.10; July, S1.25; August, $l35; Sept ember, $l.50. The above prices are an average of I31s cents per 100 pounds more than the prices paid last year. Sev- eral new dairies were taken on, and more are to follow.
 R. H.W. (Record Hauling Wood)
 During the last two weeks of the sleighing Rufus H. Whitford established record for Canaan. He owns a wood lot on the Falls Village road, 41a miles from Canaan ,and from this lot in these two weeks he drew, to Canaan with two teams, 96 loads of slab wood, making four round trips, or total of 36 miles per day. It is evident that no time was consumed in telling long stories and that the faithful horses we'll earned their generous rations
 Long Journey.
 Nearly every Canaanite has probably seen the huge bundles of hides which are delivered at the Canaan station for the Turner & Cook whip factory at Southfield. These hides when they reach this place have nearly completed a longer journey than the average Ca- naanite has taken. They are imported from India and are known as Indian Buffalo hides. They are used by the Southfield concern in making their famous centers for rawhide whips.
 Millerton Getting Ready.
 MT. Beach, in the employ of the Berk- shire Power Go. is engaged in procuring the right of way for the new electric light lines from Canaan to Millerton. The Millertonites are preparing for the use of this modern method of illumina- tion. Several contracts for the wiring of business places and residences have been made and in few instances the work is already completed. These places will be all ready to ''hook on" when the wires bearing the juice" are strung in. to town.
 !" Down in Maine"
 Local amateurs have begun the re. hearsal of Down in Maine" rural, comedy drama which will be presented, on date not yet chosen, for the benefit of the Village Improvement Society. The cast consists of Mrs. Frank Hitch. cock, Mrs. Frank F. Stevens, Miss Will. COX, Miss Ella Langs, M. D. Cosgriff N. Watson Hardenbergh, Henry R. Whitford, Frank F. Stevens, F. J. Kane Samuel Hitchcock, Henry Scutt and Harry M. Doty. The play consists of four acts and two and one-quarter hours are required for its presentation.
 Catastrophe Averted.
 The other day while 0. M. Humphrey was feeding his furnace a few shovels of coal, he heard the plaintive new of a kitten. The sound appeared to come from the furnace interior and investiga. tion proved such to be the fact. One member of family of kittens was in the coal bin and MT. Humphrey had un. consciously shoveled it up with the coal ana thrown it into the furnace. Kitty was quickly rescued and was none the worse for her experience barring slight burn on one leg and the loss of small quantity of hair which had been con. siderably singed. It was narrow es. cape from cremation for kitty. Railroad Rumbles
 An exchange says that the New HaveI road announces that it is to hereafter , do business with the public in more open manner, that it is to take the public into it's confidence. If this be the case it would rather look to the man with hi, eye to knot hole like an admission that things have not been exactly as they should have been in the past. The section men placed several tons oi coal in tho station cellar Monday. We are informed that between 60 and 70 tons of coal are required to properly heat the station during the winter.
 Superintendent Land and supervisor McArdle of the 0. N. E. railroad were in town Thursday.
 President Mellen of the N. r., N. H 8 H. road passed through town in his private car Saturday afternoon.
 Stores in Demand