Connecticut western news., 1907-07-04

furnishings for the new residence of John Church at Great Burlington, also for the residence of Mrs. Ogle in New Marlboro. They also have contracts for interior woodwork on the residences of MT. Pupin, near Norfolk, and MT. Bloodgood of New Marlboro. All the work here mentioned is of elaborate and expensive design and is of the sort that can be manufactured only by expert workmen. The firm will also submit an estimate on the interior woodwork, (mill work inIbuilders' parlanoe) on the Pupin house. This is also to be very elaborate and costly.
 Will Go To Mexico.
 Miss M. Louise Roraback expects to leave the latter part of August for Chi hua-huense, Mexico. where she is to take a position as teacher in a missionary school, conducted under the auspices of the American Board of Foreign Missions She will have one assistant. There are ITO girls in the school. Twenty-Five of them are pupils of a girls boarding school connected with the institution. The students are educated for teachers in the common or public schools in that region of Mexico which is in the noun tains in the northern part of the country The school opens September 1. Miss Roraback has had considerable experi- ence as a teacher in the schools of Can aan and Sharon and will, without doubt, be successful in her new field of labor. Telephone Calls
 The Southern NewEngland Telephone Company recently installed telephones for the following people in the Canaan division: Mrs. M. B. Brewster, Mrs. H. l.. Curtis, Mrs. Anna G. Bartlett, H. Setzer, c. F. Dunning, A. P. Freeman, R. D. Peirce, at Twin Lakes; Samuel Scoville, jr., West Cornwall D. T. Pack Ter, Margaret Schley, Lakeville; Dr. Frank Hartley, Sharon; w. H. Scoville, North Cornwall; Mrs. A. Rector, Pine Grove; Bradford Brothers, Cornwall Hollow. E. J. Donalds, Canaan Valley; O. H. Mover, Lime Rock; A. A. Law renee, H. M. Doty, Canaan.
 This is now one of the largest divi- sions in the state. Four men are kept constantly busy on installation and re- pair work.
 This is one of the busiest seasons ever experienced here. Applications for new telephones are coming in rapidly and the work of the young ladies in the cen tral office is constantly increasing. More Trolley Talk.
 The Great Burlington correspondent of the Pittsfield Eagle sends these three trolley paragraphs to that paper:
 "TheBerkshire Street R. R. company is piling up ties at the southern terminus of the road for the construction of the proposed Canaan extension"
 "A. Fl. Town, a surveyor for the pro- posed trolley route to Egremont and Oa- naan, has an office in the Summer block during the remainder of his stay in town. It will take about two weeks to restake the route. He is now pur- chasing some additional rights"
 70. E. White of Willimantic, Ct., one of the largest pole and tie, dealers in the state of Connecticut has been here for a few days. MT. White is now figuring on supplying the Berkshire street rail way company with their poles and ties for the proposed Canaan and Egremont would be built in the near future. MT. White is now in possession of another large tract of land in the vicinity of the so-called "East Indies.'' He traded the land from which he had cut the timber for tract of heavily wooded land owned by MT. Garfield of Canaan" Canoeing Rules.
 The following canoeing rules printed by The Boston Post may be of in terest to canoe owners in Canaan and vii cinity.
 1-Do not try to pass another canoe amidships.
 2-Do not get up and walk about in canoe.
 3-Two canoeists should never try to change places in a canoe. The way to do this is simply to turn the canoe end for end.
 4-Do not walk along the gunwale of canoe.
 5-While in a canoe always lead sedentary life.
 6-Never try to kiss young lady on river or lake unless it is frozen over and you are both on skates.
 "A life preserver is a good thing to take along on a canoe trip, but not the sort of lire preserver that comes in quarts.
 Slave the canoe cushions filled with cork shayings-they float
 9-If the canoe capsizes, hold fast to it until some kind-hearted person balls out the river.
 10-Never propose to young lady in a canoe. It is dangerous thing to do