Connecticut western news., 1907-05-23

John Cudney has taken position as assistant in D. D. Walters neat market Joseph Beebe having resumed his work as polisher at the Ashley Falls Marble Go. plant.
 Some of the machines which the Re. liable Manufacturing Company has been waiting for for many days has arrived and is in operation but there is consider able yet to come.
 John Cudney circulated a petition ir Canaan last week to be presented tc Sheriff-elect Huntington, asking for the re-appointment of l.. 0. Rhoades of Ga naan as deputy.
 J. Henry Roraback was one of the Litchfield county lawyers who witnessed the conferring of the third degree ot Masonry on James Woodruff at Litch field Friday evening.
 | David s. Cowles Post, C.. A. R., has received and accepted from Rev. Father Bannon an invitation to attend memo rial service at St. Joseph's church Sun day next at II a. m.
 | Several Canaanites had urgent busi ness in Hartford yesterday and it wa: something of coincidence, perhaps that Buffalo Bills aggregation happened to be there the same day.
 George Bump of East Canaan was il town the latter part of last week, hunt ing up the owners of taxable canines And they're all taxable if the identity ot the owner can be established.
 Over on s. A. Eddy's premises stands a tiny Charter Oak, a grandchild of the famous Charter Oak at Hartford. It il a promising youngster and is highly prized by Mr. and Mrs. Eddy.
 The largest tax in the town of North Canaan is paid by the Barnum, Richard son Co., on their furnaces at East Canaan and the iron making appurtenances thereto. It amounts to about $500. The postponed annual meeting of the North Canaan Cemetery Association will be held Saturday afternoon at o'clock in Town Hall. Officers will be elected and other business transacted. Southern New England telephones were installed during the past few days for W. W. Norton and, Abram Martin, jr., of Lakeville, Roland Smith and A. V. Candee of Sheffield and Martin Langs, Canaan.
 MT. and Mrs. N. B. Chapin, Judge Bierse and F. Holley of Torrington re- gently took an automobile ride through Sharon and Salisbury to Twin Lakes and returned calling on friends ill Ca- naan and Norfolk.
 At the last meeting of Wangum Camp of Modern Woodmen one candidate rode the sawbuck and one application for membership received favorable consider ation. The outlook for increased mem- bership during the coming year is very encouraging.
 John Langs went to the House of Mercy at Pittsfeld last week, accom- panied by his mother and Dr. J. G. Adam. He is afflicted with mild attack of typhoid fever and the reports which are being received from Pittsfield relative to'his condition are favorable.
 Last evening at the Methodist church parlors the Kensington Club held seven cent entertainment. The admission was seven cents, every seventh person was admitted free and seven little ladies gave pleasant entertainment. A sale of home made goods was also held.
 A. L. Barnes of Great Harrington, son of Sheridan Barnes of this village has associated himself with New York busi- ness men who have secured lime quarry in the town of Sheffield. MT. Barnes says that the company will commence the immediate building of six kilns. Gas will be used for fuel.
 William Garfield has ordered 300 feet of fire hose which will be distributed on the various floors of the Garfield Inn when the building is ready for the open ing. He has had hose on each floor of his business building for several years and these buildings are therefore better protected against fire than almost any other building ill town.
 On Tuesday twenty cans containing wall-eyed pike arrived from one of the United States fish hatcheries. Local fishermen took charge of the ship ment and placed the perch in the Housa- tonic river. H. R. Whitford's launch was called into commission to convey part of the pike up the river mile or two while the balance were deposited farther south.
 A correspondent sends the following: "A little incident worth relating was