Connecticut western news., 1908-01-23

Send that subscription by money order, cbeck, bill in an envelope or in | any other way you choose. The local amateurs who are to present the drama Nevada here Feb. and ' expect to present it during the two weeks following in Lime Rock and Lakeville
 Mrs. Robert Peirce entertained a whist party Saturday afternoon. There were six tables and the prizes were awarded to Mrs. Fred Collin and Miss Louise Bragg.
 Messrs Baker and Beverley are being showered with congratulations to-day on the manner in which they appeased the bangs of hunger under 125 waist coats last evening.
 The Girls basket ball team of the Gilbert school. Winsted, has sent a challenge to the Canaan girls for game in the near future and the challenge will probably be accepted.
 The quarterly directories were distr1b- uted last week by the Southern New England Telephone Company. AS usual a growth in the number of instruments in the Cana an Division is shown.
 A considerable number of the sub soribers to THE NEWS who were year in arrears for subscription either came to this office and paid up last week or sent remittances by mail. What is the date on your label?
 We are pleased to be able to say that Horace Holt, wh ose illness with pneu- monia was announced in last weeks paper, is progressing rapidly towards recovery and, up to the present time, has not been very seriously i'll. z
 For some time the flag pole near the Town Hall has been ill dangerous con dition and one day last week it was felled by force of inemen. And none too soon as there was not more than two inches of sound wood ot the bottom C
 Miss Maude Shauff1er has resigned her position with the Canaan Printing Company and is succeeded by Miss Edna Hayner of Upper Troy. N. Y, 8 graduate of the shorthand and com mercial departments of the Albany Bus mess College.
 In the obituary of Mrs. John Ryan, published last week, we omitted to say that she was one of the few women in this section who were members of the order of St. Francis. She had been a member for at least forty years proceed ing her death.
 On Monday of the present week. James E. Greene sold his residence on West Main Street to Charles B. Shaw who will take possession during Febru- ary. MT. and Mrs. Greene expect to take rooms in the home of their daugh- ter, Mrs. s. A. Kemp
 Rev. T. R. Wallace conducted the chapel service at Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, N. J. on Thursday last and gave an address to the students of the senior year. On Thursday night he preached at Mt. Kiseo, N. Y. and on Friday night conducted revival ser vice at Golden's Bridge, N. Y.
 Farmers telephone lines are good things to have. A reporter asked a farmers wife who was in the town yes- terday if there was any news up her way. T don't know" was the reply, "Ask Lizzie, ,she listens at theltelephone. I-Pittsfeld Journal.
 And you may have observed that the listeners are not confined to farmers lines.
 Choral Union Notes.
 On Tuesday evening the printed re- port of MT. Paine to the Choral Union was distributed.
 Six persons from Falls Village have joined the society.
 Mill River 32, SouthfieId '.
 The basket ball game, played in Town Hall Saturday evening between the mems teams of Mill River and Southfield ] resulted in a victory for the Mill River team by 8 score of 32 to 7. The attend ance was not large owing, presumably, to the fact that another game was scheduled for Monday evening. The game was rather too rough to be enter taining as during some portions it re- sembled wrestling contest more than basket ball game. Evidently the best of feeling does not prevail among the ball tossers who are our across -the-line l neighbors.