Connecticut western news. [volume] (Salisbury, Litchfield Co., Conn.) 1871-1970, 1907-12-05

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shingles on his body.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. H. Bliss of New
York and Mr.. Robt. Bliss, Ambassador
to St. Petersburgh, Russia, were recent
guests of Miss Barnes.
Eggleston & Livingstone have the
concrete work nearly finished at the DR..
Kerley place. This is the first concrete
house in this section. The stable will
not be built until spring.
To THE CANAAN GIRLS: Come on
Canaan girls basket ball team, we are
willing to play you most any time.
THE SHARON GIRLS.
There is to be meeting of the Sharon
Post Saturday afternoon at o'clock.
In the evening the state commander of
the Post from Middletown, Conn, is to
be here and wishes all the old veterans
to be present.
E. F. Jennlson Of Hartford, Conn,
general agent for the Bowker Fertilizer
90. for the State of Connections called
on j. B. Wilbur Saturday to contract
for 1908. Mr.. Wilbur has sold this
brand of fertilizer for fourteen years.
Mass will be said at st Demands
church next Sunday at 9 o'clock instead
of 1920. An opportunity will be given
for people Of the parish to make their
Christmas duty. Confessions Saturday
from to 9 and Sunday morning before
Mass.
Last Friday being the last day for
legal hunting this season, many nimrods
secured the woods in this vicinity for
game. The season has been very poor
one. None of the hunters have found
many birds, and many who have been
out have not killed any. Woodcock fur
nished the best sport. None of Sharon's
hunters met with serious accidents.
| Edward H. White who was superin-
tendent Of the milling department at
at the Benedict Mills at the electric
plant has been secured to take charge of
1. N. Bartram's Mountain Mills"
known as the Handlin. A, steel mill is
soon to be installed, then take your
choice, the old way or the new. By the
loss of the dam at the electric plant no
milling will be done SO we are. uniformed.
The proprietor Of the Mountain mill is
fortunate to secure 30 competent man
as Mr.. White.
The Donation Party was successfully
presented by local talent at theICasino
last evening under o. E. 81 sauspices.
Full house and first-class play. The
following composed the cast Of char
acters; Samual Polhemus. E. H. Win
chester. w. E. Klebes, Arthur Lamb,
Irving Sincerbox, Charles Whitford. J..
Stanley Morehouse, E. Franklin Gill
lett. R. K. Woodward, w. S. Newell,
Jno. D. Barnum, Miss B. Evelyn WEIGH,
Miss Alzada Lloyd. Miss A. j. Tiede-
man, Miss Edna Klebes, Miss M. Eliza
beth Prindle, Mrs. H. S. Morehouse,
Mrs. Adelbert Middlebrook, Miss Helen
McAvoy, Mrs. Frank Sperring. Dane
ing followed the play.
Humane Agent Simmons of Winsted
has been unsuccessful in his search for
the little Gilbert home girl, Lena Sim
mons, who was kidnapped by her father,
John d. Simmons, on Nov. 18th from
the home Of Oliver Williams in Sharon,
where she had been placed by Supt. D.
s. Case. The humane agent traced the
man and his daughter as far as Boston
Corners. He visited Red Hook, Hudson,
Athens and other places, but could get
no trace of her. Two women and man
named Pendergast are believed to have
assisted in the abduction. Chief of De-
tectives J. 0. Young of Poughkeepsie, of
the Central New England Railway Co.,
and Sergt. Cruise of the Hudson detec-
tive force have promised to do what they
can to locate the little girl and syste-
matte search is to be made. While in
Sharon, it is alleged, the father stole $50
and it was by means of this money that
he got away with the girl. Just before
taking her he had paid So for her board
for another week.
..as.-a SCHOOL NOTES
The following pupils have been neither
absent nor tardy for the four weeks end
ing November 80, 1907. Room 1 Anna
Loughlin Hazel Pitcher, Norman Wiley,
Percy Wiley. Room 2 Edna Heady,
l May Rhynus, Albert Knoll, Frank Koc.
t hanski. Roland Wiley, Consuelo Pitcher,
. Vincent Besanceney. Room Nelsie
Prediger, Ethel Pitcher, Clinton Miller,
, Arthur Hotaling. Room 4, Jarvis Jack.
| son. High School, Alice Dunbar, Olive
, Bierce, Edward P. Hazard, Jr.. Cora
Winans, Mabel Stevens.