Connecticut western news., 1908-09-03
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| home in East Canaan last week.
 MT. Haddon has returned to the em- ploy of Loran Miller, the butcher
 Edward Ludington of Patterson,N. Y. is visiting with J. A. Osborn's family.
 MT. and Mrs Fred Wehner and son are spending week in New York City. Miss Grace Silvernale spent couple of days ill Shelton, Ct. with Miss Olive Bennett.
 If you sec long faces on the boys and girls don't ask why. School commences next Tuesday.
 Myron. Holley and wife returned home Monday evening after spending about three weeks in the Catsxill mountains.
 O. P. Turner and wife of Pawing, were guests of Mrs. Turner's brother J. X. Osborn over Sunday.
 Miss Pearl Osborn departed for Dan bury last Monday morning to again en- gage ill the millinery business.
 Mrs. Will Pulver of Copake was visit ing relatives in town last week, her husband coming and spending Sunday.
 The VanDeusen farm near here was sold recently to Miss Sarah Mead of Port Chester, N. Y. Her brother in tends to occupy the property on April first.
 Mrs. William Bissell and two daugh- ters started last week for Derby, where they expect to spend two or three weeks.
 Harry Millspaugh is back on duty again at Heaton6SCo.' s store after taking a weeks vacation and belng on the sick list for a week.
 Madison Silvernale has returned to A. F. Roberts Co.'S store after spending his annual vacation with his wife and daughter i'll Torringford.
 MT. and Mrs. Leonard Pfahl of Amenia, a former resident of this town and an old employee of J. M. Miller, visited with Mrs. M. E. Miller and family last Friday. -..@- Patsy Lodge has been quite seriously Ill with appendicitis so much so that he could not undergo an operU6ion but at this writing his many friends are glad to learn that he is somewhat better.
 Quite number from here are antici- pating a good time at Dover Plains Labor Day and watch our boys win some of the prizes offered in the con- test for which they have worked hard to equip themselves.
 Rev. MT. Bond of New York who is visiting with Rev. Simon Stephens preached in the M. k. church Sunday morning and in the evening the pulpit was occupied by Rev. J. c. Oakley of Chatham. Both were able sermons. Miss Nettie Barnett returned last week from Naugatuck after a two weeks visit. She is now attending to the household duties of her brother Henry, while his wife Is visiting friends in Newburgh, N. Y. for a week.
 The third base ball team crossed bats with Lime Rock in Myron Holley's field last Friday, Lakeville winning by a score of 6-5 and the little fellows de- fsating them on their own grounds in Lime Rock the week before 11-3 and played eleven innings.
 Charles Decker's wife and son of Evansville, Wisconsin and Mrs. Conk- | lin of Walden, N. Y. are visiting their sister Mrs. Emma Powell, this being the first time Mrs. Powell has seen her brother in 26 years. She expects to re- turn with him to his home in Wiscon- sin for m extended visit, starting Fri day morning going by the way of Wal den, visiting friends and relatives on the way, reaching Evansville about | October 1st
 N When the local firemen go to the tournament at Dover Plains on Labor Day, they will be headed by the Wood men Band of Chatham, N. Y. Every one of these musicians is a member of the Chatham Camp of Modern Wood men. There are said to be only two or three other instances in the United States where band has been organized within the membership of secret so- ciety. The leader of this band is Judge Waltermire who has more than a local reputation as a cornetist. The Judge has been a member of one band or another since he was eight years old He began at that age by walking i'll | front of the bass drummer and holding Hp the front end of the drum. At the age of ten he invented a truck on which to place the drum, thus relieving the strain on the drummer and his assistant and the invention promised to be sue cess until they took it to Troy one day and undertook to run 1t over a street paved with cobble stones. On this un- even surface 1t "jiggled" the drum to that extent that tho drummer found It impossible to hit the drumhead ofteuer than once in five times. The Judge abandoned the idea of having the thing | the cymbals. He took them home after every rehearsal and during the week used them in killing potato bugs on his fathers farm. He dumped about pint of bugs onto ono cymbal and exiting uished them by compression under the other cymbal. Then he was promoted to alto soloist. This job he held only two weeks inasmuch as he blew this horn so loud that it was impossible to hear the snare drum and the farmers who came to town complained that they couldn't get their horses to pass the band room while the Judge was playing the horn. He was then given cornet and he has stuck to this ever since. He has made his musical knowledge of much use in hls business. He was an insurance agent until short while ago. He got ahead of the other agents by advertising free programme of cornet solos ln