Connecticut western news., 1907-10-17

is doing the work.
 MT. and Mrs. J. H. Strong of West Hartford have been spending few days with their daughter, Mrs. O. H' Pease.
 Concrete walks are being laid in front of the residences of H. B. Stevens and Frank Stevens. Booster Club member. ship is increasing.
 A moving picture show is to be given in Town Hall on Friday evening of this week. A matinee will be held in the afternoon at 3:45.
 Mrs. Corbitt is to close her large resi- denoe this winter and will have room in the house to be occupied by MT. sand Mrs. Walter Hayes.
 MT. and Mrs. Sylvester Marshall re- turned the latter part of last week from their wedding tour to Washington and the Jamestown exposition.
 George Fields brought to THE NEWS sanotum Monday several ripe black, berries which were picked from bushes In Rev. J. P. Smyth's garden. 1 Unclaimed mail remained in the Canaan post office Tuesday for Miss Katherine Ball, Irving Hart, Mrs. Flor enoe Harris, Nelson Strong, vennie O. White, Mrs. H. O. Rockefeller, (postal. )
 Rev. A. E. Roraback left the Provi. dence hospital Monday, where he has been i'll with typhoid fever for several weeks and is now at his home here. cooperating.
 l A. J. Wigglesworth has leased D. w. Manvers house on Church street now occupied by Edward Merchant and will 1 take possession when MT. Merchant vacates.
 James Graney has frightened his grip on Booster Club membership by starting the foundation for a second house on his Bragg street premises. Good for Graney. 1 Who's the next? Ferdinand Beokley and family con- template purchasing place in this will lage and moving from their farm. They have already inspected few pieces of village property.
 MT. and Mrs. Frank Whiting have moved from H. D. Humphreys house on Reed street to the place they recently purchased near the Central New Eng land bridge on East Main street. ! Mrs. Bostwiok of Van Deusenville, Mass, was a guest of her sister, Mrs. Frances Poet, Monday. She will soon close her house and with her daughters go to Florida to spend the winter. The school board contemplate renting a room in the Garfield building for use as an office by Miss Stone, superinten- dent of schools, inasmusch as their is no apartment at her disposal in the school building.
 | One Canaan launch owner says he cleared $25 % the past season by taking parties up the Housatonic river for a sail. Thus the excursion on the Hous- atonic'' idea lacks considerable of being new idea.
 MT. and Mrs John Littlefeld, of Springfield, Mass, autoed to Canaan George Walton's. On Monday they returned home, taking Mrs. Marvin and Miss Walton with them for visit o1 several days.
 Miss Morley. one of the trained nurses who has been in attendance on Lewis P. Roraback, the 8-year-old son of Lawyer J. Henry Roraback, who sus- tained fractured skull as result of 8 fall from his bicycle three weeks ago has returned to Pittsfield.
 Barnum's circus will be in Canaan some time during the present month It ends the season at Dyersburgh, Tenn, Oct. F and will pass through here over the New York, New Haven and Hart. ford railroad enroute to the winter quarters in Bridgeport It requires about 90 cares to move the show. Grant E. Laidlaw and family leave to-day for Oneonto where they are te reside in the future. MT Laidlaw is superintendent of construction for the Borden company and moves from Gan aar , in order to be more conveniently located They have resided here for several years have made many friends and their de parture from town is much regretted Mrs Rhoda Spaulding, aged 89 year, , and months, died Saturday at the home