Connecticut western news., 1907-02-07
Lent begins next Wednesday.

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 Little Jennie Hoag is quite i'll.
 0. H. Briggs visited at the Naples over Sunday.
 Miss Annie M. Brown left for New York Monday.
 J. 0. Roraback spent portion of last week in New York.
 Miss Jennie Hamm of New Britain is visiting at her home here.
 Mrs. J. P. Smyth is entertaining her mother, Mrs. Ebert of Brooklyn.
 Irving Ferguson of Bridgeport spent Sunday with his father and sisters here.
 Lester Hoskins has commenced his duties.as Miss Louise Bragg's right hand man.
 Mrs Edward V. Nestell of New York has been the guest of Miss Louise Rora- back
 Miss Vera A. Hand of Maiden Bridge. N. Y, is visiting her sister Mrs. H. M. Doty.
 Fred Dean succeeds Myron Cleaveland as driver of Ives S5 Peirces' delivery [ wagon.
 Mrs. J. D. Clemens is i'll with grip. A trained nurse from Pittsfield is in at tendance.
 Mrs. Salmon Barlow of Barlow street has had fall, seriously injuring her left hand and wrist.
 ! Mrs. A. V. A. Felten has been enter taining her mother, Mrs. G. M. Bullock of Hillsdale, N. Y.
 Word was received Monday by the bank officials that the new vault was shipped February 1.
 Mrs. A. D. Wait of Cohoes, N. Y. spent few days last week with her sister Mrs. H. l.. Ross.
 Mrs. Castle of New York city has been spending several days with her sister, Mrs Ophelia Camp. i
 Mrs. Mary G. Adam has been called to Cambridge. Mass, by the illness of hsr daughter who has the grip.
 The vault for the new bank is still conspicious by it's absence, but the delay is costing the vault firm s1o per day. {
 The Cranford Club meets with Mrs. O. w. Camp to-day and the Christ Church Guild meets there tomorrow.
 As a mark of respect to the memory of William H. Camp the business places were closed during his funeral Saturday.
 Miss Daphne Stickles resumed her duties on THE NEWS Monday. after an absence of ten days at her home in Derby.
 tonbury were entertained at Dr. O. w. Camps during their stay in town last week.
 Mrs. H. E. Pease arrived home from California on Saturday last. and speaks enthusiastically of that far western state.
 Although several Canaanites are in the grip of the grip, the ailment is not so prevalent here as in many other places.
 The marble floor is being laid in the first story of the Garfield Inn. Metal ceilings are also being placed in the building.
 A bill has been introduced in the leg islature providing for the removal of Court of Common Pleas from Falls Vii lage to Canaan.
 Roger B. Rood, Eastman's graduate has left the office of Roadmaster Smith Danbury, to accept better position with Waterbury Brass Go. I Miss Susan Norton is gradually fail ing and their is no hope for her recovery. Miss Ella Hall, Mrs. Cora Adam of Canaan and Mrs. Brown of Lakeville are caring for her.
 Last Friday evenings Assembly was another very pleasant event. There were 16 whist tables and at the con- clusion of the card playing, dancing was indulged in for brief time. : MT. Ground Hog emerged from his ) habitation Saturday glanced about, saw ' his shadow, returned inside and tele- : phoned the coal yard for another six week s supply of black diamonds.
 Miss Roxy Stevens, former resident attended W. H. Camps funeral Saturday and visited in town over Sunday Miss Stevens is now stopping with Mrs. Ed ward Stevens and daughter in Norfolk
 The death of Michael J. Burke occurred last Friday f1om pulmonary trouble at his home near Hoosick Falls, N. Y. He was well known ill Canaan, as.he was the contractor who eliminated the grade crossing on East Main street some nine years ago.