Connecticut western news., 1908-11-12
CANAAN

WI in town Friday.
 J. o. Benton of Great Harrington was in town Friday.
 Mrs. Hattie Peet has been victim of grip during the past week.
 Grip is again making it's appearance, There are several cases in town.
 Rev. T. F. Ramon has been spending a week with his sister in Canada.
 Roy, the little son of Rexford Stanton, is i'll with mild attack of scarlet fever.
 Mrs. Henry Barnes, who was reported very i'll last week, is on the road to re- covery.
 A cent-a-word ad. is usually"the miss ing link" between you and the thing you seek.
 Winthrop Wyckoff has been spending few days in Chatham and East Chat ham, N. Y.
 Mrs, Mary Corbit went to Pittsfeld Saturday to witness the play "The Lion and the Mousse"
 The Methodist congregation have joined the Booster Club consequently the parsonage is being repaired outside and painted inside.
 Miss Mary Joyce has been filling a temporary position as telegraph oper- aEor at Litchfield for several days. She is now visiting in Winsted.
 Governor-elect Lilley was in town for a brief time Saturday morning. He came in an automobile from Norfolk where he has been spending several days.
 The chicken pie supper in the Metho- dist church Friday evening was so ex- tremely we'll attended that the chicken disappeared before all appetites were satisfied The receipts were about $62 0o.
 The cement walk in front of Fuller building. on which the masons did too smooth 8 job, has been roughened SO that the pedestrians may remain right side up while treading on 1t in wet weather.
 MT. and Mrs. R. A. Gwen, who moved here from Merlden last week, have stored their household effects in DOT tion of Edwin Pease's new houses in "Peaseville" pending the completion of the MoCarty house.
 A Boston Corners, N. Y. correspond ent says: Nathan Blodget loaded his goods Sunday, November 1, for moving to Canaan, Conn.,, where he expects to reside' Also that MT. and Mrs. Will Lomay from Canaan, Conn.,, are spend. ing couple of days with Mrs. Lomay's parents"
 What Might Happen.
 In the past, people have been known to place their umbrellas in corner in the postoffice and forget them. It's dangerous practice. The open-envelope incident proves that someone might dis cover tffem there, drop an internal ma chine into one of them and send the whole outfit to someone they "had a grudge agln'." s.s' Georges Description.
 The Hillsdale, (N. Y.) Hamburger" says: Reports from the Adirondack re- zion where George M. Bullock, Jr., is for his health, arc very en- couraging to his friends here. He de- scribes the scenery in and around Eliza bethtown as "the nearest like Heaven of anything one could imagine" He is out camping much of the time with new found friends and says the life is strenu- ous, living and hunting ln the woods, but pleasant withal. He shot one deer and last week one of the party killed one that weighed 2331a pounds. That "Black Hand" Letter
 In the Winsted Citizen of November 4 there appeared a communication which, it was stated, was sent to that paper by someone in Canaan. It at tempted to explain the mystery" con- nected with the "black hand" letter re- ceived by F. A. Baker, of 'The Can field" on October 6. According to this communication someone left stamped. addressed but unsealsd envelope ill the Canaan postoff1ce, somewhere between October and T. This someone" missed the envelope in a few moments and went back to get it. It was gone. Dill igent search in the office on the side walk and in the stores failed to locate it. Subsequent events proved that an other someone, filed with malicious in tent, entered the office at the psycologi- cal and opportune moment. spied this envelope and, To and behold, it bore the very address the second someone wanted to use. Remarkable coincidence. A moan and insulting letter was deftly in- serted in the depths of this envelope and mailed and the originally innocent envelope "became an instrument of torture and humiliation" to the owner .L l.. kl.. .<>F .k1 kn