Connecticut western news., 1907-04-11

repairing the farm house. MT. Tows is later to erect an elaborate residence on his property and desires Mir. Lorraine to submit an estimate on its construction. Pads.
 Bailey's wrigghng picture show called few Canaanites to the Town Hall Monday evening. This class of enter tainment seem to be losing the popularity which it experienced for some time after its inception. These machines will go the way of the phonographs. When the photograph was new (and not so nearly perfect as at the present time) it filled halls everywhere. It is still valuable as an entertainer in the home and at small public gatherings but the man who started out to-day to give phonograph entertainments would soon be afflicted with remarkable financial stringency. Valuable Volume.
 Through the courtesy of Theodore Bodenwein, Secretary of State, we have AOSCiNOo d NOpJ ol blG bdbt Register and Manual for 1907. The book was compiled in the complete and comprehensive form that has character ized it during past years. It is a verit- able mine of information pertaining to the state of Connecticut, and the fact that the demand for it is steadily in- creasing is conclusive evidence of the fact that 1t possesses merit. To this volume has been added a new frontis- piece containing one of the best views of the capitol we have eyer seen.
 Railroad RumbIes
 A train off the tracks at Barkham- sted yesterday morning, caused oonsid- esable delay of the trains from the east on the Central New England The train due at 8.21 reached here about 10.30.
 The wrecker was called to Grants, yesterday morning to place several de- railed cars on the track.
 About one hundred carloads of coal for use in the locomotives have arrived here during the past week. .a..
 The "clam digger" has been out of commission for few days because of leaking flues in the boiler. It is again in operation however.
 School Notes
 The following flag story was written by one of the younger pupils in the Ca. naan school:
 THE FLAG $ STORY.
 was put on the ship which Admiral Dewey had. It was large war-ship which was going to the Philippine Is- lands. The morning we started there was the booming of cannon, the firing of guns, and the stars and stripes foated over every building. I felt proud and happy. When the ship started I waved in the breeze. We were on the water ten days and ten nights. We anchored in Manila Bay. There we had battle, and Admiral Dewey won without the loss of man. had three bullets shot through me, but I moved proudly just the same. Then we returned to Amer ica, which is going to be my home for ever. KENNETH ADAM. Fifth Grade. Telephone Calls
 The following persons were recently added to the s. N. K. Telephone Com pany's list of subscribers in the Canaan division: P. Cleaveland, Lakeville A. K. Chapin, Lakeville; Charles L. French, Canaan; W. N. Decker, Canaan; Hao- sell Lime Company's plant, Clayton Mrs. O. R. Fisher, Chapinville. Mrs. H. W. Pierpont, Cornwall; James Gruber, Falls Village. The new directories, it is expected, will be distributed on Saturday of this week.
 scribers in the s. N. E. Telephone Com pany's Canaan division.
 A second cable, containing a large number of wires, was extended from the cable pole to the central office last week. This cable will provide for the company s \ increase in business in this division. Snow of the Present and Past.
 The storm which began Monday after noon and continued until yesterday morning was wholly unexpected and it wasn't bit welcome. It measured about one foot and would have been considerably deeper had it contained less dampness. Clinging to the branches of tAe trees along the streets, it bore them downward and made very pret- ty sight. One by one the older resi- dents drifted into the sanctum Tuesday and recalled the fact that in the 50's, the cos and the 70's there were April snow storms that beat this one "all holler," when the snow was five feet deep on the level or when it showed steadily for week and the thermome- ter rose to 90 in the shade the next day and melted the snow in couple of hours or so. The stories are all true of course but someeow or other they don't II Al