Connecticut western news., 1908-07-30
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Mr. and Mrs. Irving Ferguson wen to Lee Wednesday and returned to theil home in Bridgeport Sunday, They spent one day at Twin Lakes, fishing.
 Mrs H. D. Humphrey has so greatly improved in health during her stay al Hillcrest hospital in Pittsield that she contemplates returning home week after next.
 Whats this? Summer on the home stretch and no circus yet. That is, none if we may be permitted to forget Hunts. A lapse of memory of this sort is permissible, isn't it?
 A combination base ball team com. posed of players from Clayton. South. field and Mill River will play the Canaan league team at Canaan this (Thursday) afternoon at three o'clock. The construction of the commodious sheds in connection with "The Can field" livery barn, is we'll under way d.. vii. be q convcnience which will be much appreciated by people who have occasion to drive to town.
 Miss Florence Johnson has gone to Claverack, N. Y. where she has DO. sition as teacher in the Lulu Thorley Lyons home for crippled children. Large numbers of these little unfortu- mates inhabit the institution.
 The Hotchkiss family of Millsrton had a reunion at Twin lakes last Fri day. Mrs. Robbins was there from Boston, Mrs. Hubbard of Salisbury and E. F. Gillette and family, of Sharon, making IS members and relatives of the family.
 The annual birthday gathering was held at the Mary Watson Memorial Tuesday but was not very we'll attended. Games music etc. were enjoyed in the afternoon and music in the evening. Twenty y-seven girls are enjoying va cation there. A number of them at tended the Norfolk concert last evening
 Unclaimed mail remained ill the Ca naan postoff1ce Tuesday for H. O. Bar net. Clara Freyer, Mrs. Mary Hesline care of Mr. Bailey. Post cards for Miss Beth Ames (2), Dr. L. L. Bradshaw, Miss Emma Burkhardt (2), Mrs. Will liam Chartier, Mrs. Gertrude Davis care of Mrs. Uptegrove, Mrs. Willard Peck, Willard Sanford, E. L. Wooden, Mrs. c. Warner. .# Plenty of HuckIeberries
 The huckleberries on the Norfolk mountains are ripening rapidly and a small army of pickers are there each day, Canaan has been quite numerously rep resented there.
 Unusual Record
 Collector John s. Reed has been rather more fortunate than the major ity of collectors this year in his effort to collect the poll and military tax. They amount to about $4O0 and MT. Reed has been able to secure about $375 thus far and thinks he will be able to collect the greater portion of the balance.
 Jealous Girls Started Rumor.
 Harold Thompson of, Twin Lakes, denies that he planned to elope and that he threatened suicide. He says he is 21 years old, not IS. He further declared that he spent Monday night in Lake vile, after having had few words with his mother. He said local girls, inspired by jealously, started the report that he had threatened to end his life.-Wins sted Citizen.
 Cement Coping s.-. l O. M Humphrey has had another re- lapse of the cement fever and for a number of days has been constructing a coping. about one foot in height, on the dividing line between his property and that of D. L. Peirce on West Main street. Short, square posts are located in the coping at eight-foot intervals. The idea is a novel one in Canaan and the fence has excited much interest.
 Wants Parole.
 The Bridgeport Farmer says: George W. Cornwell, sentenced October II, 1906 to prison for from two to ten years fo1 the theft of bonds, jewels and cash from Mrs. Johanna Lumpkin lately ot l Canaan, on the preceding New Years day, has applied to the board of directors of the states prison for his liberty on parole. Cornwell was prominent in this city. socially, when his arrest came like a bolt from clear sky, and the trial of the case was one of the most notable in the criminal annals of the city" Tramps are "Swa rnning''
 It b9hooves Canaanites, and the resi-. dents of other villages in this vicinity to see to it that their doors and windows are securely fastened at night or when they leave their homes during the day for the reason that tramps in unusual numbers are prowling about The night force ill the Central New England yard remark that it is a long