Connecticut western news., 1907-10-24
Lime Plant to Close

| oIdHcu or the New EnRlanu Lime COm
 pany is behind its orders at the present
 time, it is expected that all will bt
 filled and the plant closed by November
 10th according to past custom. The
 daily product at the present time is
 about 120 barrels.
 School Notes
 Miss Taylor, Miss Evans and Miss
 Hill attended the State Teachers Con.
 vention at Hartford last Friday. Miss
 Ferris, the first grade teacher, attended
 the New Haven section of the same
 convention. At meeting of the teach
 CTS, held in Miss Roraback's room,
 Monday afternoon at 3.3O, the teachers gave very interesting and helpful reports of the convention.
 The names of Gertrude and Marion
 Higgins should have been added to the list of those not absent or tardy during the month of September.
 Will Initiate 20 or 25 l Wednesday evening of next week promises to be a red letter night in the history of Waugum Camp of Modern | Woodmen of Canaan. On that occasion District Deputy l.. B. Koopman expects to confer degrees on at least 90 candi- dates and the number may reach 25. He will be assisted in the work by Woodmen from the Lakeville and Win sted Camps. State Police Mobbed.
 Merrill s. Louks and James Seaton, state police, who were engaged in fer riting out those who sold liquor in North Canaan, were two of five officers who were mobbed by toughs at the Wolcott fair near Waterbury last week. They succeeded, however, in arresting nearly dozen of the toughs.
 New Books
 The following new books have been placed in the Douglas library. Ameri- ca's Insular Possessions, Camping and Tramping with Roosevelt, Nearest the Pole, Historic Towns in Connecticut River Valley, Theodor Leschetizky, The Birth of the Nation, Manual of Mythol- ogy, The Friendly Stars, The Efficient Life, Seventy Years Young, History of American Art, Eve of French Revolu- ton, Worry-the Disease of the Age, Music and Morals, Love Affairs of Liter ary Men, Handy Book of Literary Curi- osities, Readers Hand Book, Historic Note Book, The Shutter, Silence of Dean Maitland, Alice for Short, The Saint, Marcia, Catherine of Calals, Princess Virginia, Madame de Treymes, Cruise of Shining Light, The Country House, Fraulein Schmitt and MT. Aus traher, Little Colonel Stones, Old Fashioned Girl, Dave Porter's Return to School, Editha's Burglar, What Hap pened to Barbara, Story of the Amulet. Overcome by Gas.
 An Italian named Jack Albrida was overcome by gas while filling the kiln at the Canaan branch of the New Eng land Lime Co., last week. Dr. Lee re- sponded to call and worked over him for two hours before restoring him to consciousness. He is now about again, seemingly none the worse for his expe- rience. Meeting of Board of Trade
 On Saturday evening of this week at ' 30 a meeting of the Board of Trade will be held at the offices of A. T. and J. H. Roraback to discuss the question of re- questing the New York, New Haven 6 Hartford railroad company to run the train which now runs between Great Harrington and Pittsfeld, between Ca naan and Pittsfield instead. Every mem Der should be present Saturday evening at 7.3O.
 An Italian Band.
 It is fact not generally known that within the borders of the town of North Canaan there is band. It is composed of 24 Italians who are employed at the Peirce & Freeman branch of the New England Lime Company. They hold their rehearsals Sunday mornings in one of the cabins and it is said they discourse good music. Some of them are musicians of long experience, having played in the army bands i'll their native land. Gone to Annapolis.
 O. A. Weymouth, superintendent of the Hadsell Lime Company's plant at Clayton, Mass, was crack base ballist and footballist in his college days at Yale and inasmuch as there is not much do- ing in the manufacture of lime at Clay ton just now, he accepted an offer to coach the team of kickers at the Annap- oils naval academy for their game Sat urday with Harvard. Annapolis lost.
 Did you open your diary to Octber 20, 1907 and write First snow storm?" A Deluge of Orders.
 The orders for half hose continue to come with a rush to the Reliable Manu- featuring Company. Those now on hand would keep the plant busy for a, year and half with its present equip