Connecticut western news., 1907-03-14

school in Sharon Valley, was home to spend Sunday with her father cashier Roger.
 Rev. B. Seeholzer, formerly pastor of che Methodist Church of this place, now located in Sharon, has been visiting at H. B. Stevens.
 Miss Della Howell of Salt Point, N. r., has been assisting in the office of the Garfield Lime company during the illness of J. H. Lansing.
 Miss Gladys DeHart came from Hart ford to spend the Sabbath with her parents. She was accompanied by Miss Mattie Harrison of Winsted.
 Unclaimed letters remained in the postoffice Tuesday for Mrs. Burr, care Mrs. J. w. Stedman, J. w. Thurton. Esposito Costanzo, Henry Tankire.
 Archie Weaver knocked the box ball record into cooked hat at Osborne's alleys Tuesday evening. During one game he made four spares and total score of 203
 Lucius Biglow, captain of the 1907 Yale football team, and Hubert N. Will Hams, a member of the Yale crew for two years, were in town Monday morn ing en route to New Haven.
 H. R. Whitford and O. H. Pease re- gently measured the Housatonic river on the ice from the railroad bridge near W. H. Proper's to point three miles north, placing permanent markings on the bank each quarter mile.
 Seneca Strong and B quarts of horse radish left town Monday. The horse radish failed to return. This was MT. Strong's largest oneday sale since he started lon the road" this season. '-e The following addition to the South ern New England Telephone Company's s list of subscribers in the Canaan divi- sion has been recently made: R. A. Sil- vernail, Lakeville; William Fox, Corn wall Bridge; I. N. Bartram, Sharon. Mir. and Mrs. William Decker will move from Winsted to this place in the near future, occupying the house be- longing to Lyman Howe on Bragg street. MT. Decker is a plumber and will carry on that work here after April |.
 Irving F. Proper of the Hudson, N. Y High School, who won the twelve-pound shot put, handicap at an athletic meet in Troy, N. r., Feb. 27, with an actual put of 43 feet and 9 inches, is the son of David Proper, former Canaan resident.
 In a recent number of ''The Great Southwest" a magazine published at Denver, appeared a story entitled "A Tenderfoot Mining Camp" It recounts the trials and vicissitudes through which the six "tenderfoots" composing the ''Red Elephant Mining Company" pas sed. One of the six is William Burg hardt, son of W. w. Burghardt of Canaan.
 The Canaan correspondent of the Hart ford Courant says: MT. Howard of New York has formed a stock company to manufacture key rings, using the local names of s. G. Camp, G. A. Marvin and J. H. Lansing as incorporators, with cepital stock of $25,000. The company will be located in New York and will manufacture key rings which will sell from 10 cents to $25. 
 The legislative committee on educa- tion is having quite time over the av- craze attendance grant bill, introduced by Representative Kingsbury of Coven- try. It extends the provisions of the law under which towns may receive an average attendance grant of S25 pupil from those towns with a grand list of $500, ,OOO or less to those with grand list of s1 ,OOO, 900 or less. North Canaan is among the towns that would be bene- fitted.
 The Chatham Shirt Company, the concern which desired to locate branch plant at Canaan, have just completed arrangements for locating plant at Rennselaer, N. Y. They will employ 200 hands there and desire 100 more op- orators for their main plant at Chatham, NY. They may want to locate another plant some day and perhaps Canaan may be able to provide the required number of operators when that day comes.
 A Great Harrington correspondent says: Samuel P. Knight, w. M. Hyde, H. J. Clifford, w. w. Bayhs and R. B. Libbell of the engineering department of the Consolidated Street Railway com pany began Monday to work on the sur vey of the proposed new electric line from Canaan to Mill River thence to Hartsvile, thence past Lake Buel and