Connecticut western news., 1909-07-29
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Miss Olive Evans of Millertou is guest at George Rogers.
 Miss Beulah Adams was the guest of friends in town Sunday. .-.
 James McCarty of New Haven was a guest in town over Sunday.
 Miss Rose Johnson of Hartford is visiting at William O'Brien's.
 Mrs. Ellen Butler of Hillsdale is visit ing Mrs. Catherine Considine.
 Miss Louise Trieschman is visiting Miss Gladys Traver at Lakeville.
 Mrs. O. G. Smith has rotur ned from an enjoyable trip to Block Island.
 Miss Gladys Traver of Lakeville spent Saturday visiting friends i'll town.
 Miss Martha Baum, of Brooklyn, has been the gu est of Mrs. Leo Werner. Mrs. Douglass of Brooklyn is a guest of her sister, Mrs. George L. Parsons. Selden Downs of Tyringham, Mass, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Stevens.
 Ralph Stan ton has broken ground for the. house he is to build on Railroad { Street.
 Misses Mary aud Sarah Ferguson ra- turned home Saturday from their visit in Andover, Mass.
 Miss Carrie Fuller and Miss Ferris, of New Milford, are spending ten days at Orr's Island, Maine.
 Harold Preston of Worchester, Mass {, is spending his vacation with his mother. Mrs. Nellie Preston.
 Mrs. George Dodge has been visiting her sisters, Mrs. F. T. Strong and Mrs. John Nichols in Woodbury.
 William Joyce has gone to Waterbury { where he has secured 8 position as tele- graph operator in the new station.
 Eugene Williams has given up his position in Campbell's restaurant and taken place as clerk at Vosburgh's.
 The Canaan Seconds will play the Twin Lakes team on the local diamond this (Thursday) afternoon at o'clock.
 MT. and Mrs. s. W. MurdocK. of Oneonta, N. Y, have returned to their home after few days visit with Miss Minnie Wilcox.
 l MT. and Mrs. Stevens and two daugh- ters, who have been spending two weeks at the Naples, returned to their home in South Norwalk Monday.
 The annual meeting of the school board of the town of North Canaan will be held Monday afternoon at 2:30 clock at the Canaan school house.
 Mrs. Daniel Burton, of Gay Street, Sharon, and Mrs. Fred Reed, of Sails bury, made short call Saturday on their cousin, Mrs. R. A. Owen.
 After several weeks spent at her parents home here, Mrs. B. H. Tripp and son, Raymond, have returned to their home in Cleveland, Ono.
 Mrs. N. l.. Jackson has returned from Cortland, N. Y, where she was called by the illness of her mother. The latter is much improved ill health.
 Miss Bessie E. Riggs of New York, who has been spending the past week in Springfield, Norfolk and Canaan, re. turned to her home Saturday night.
 Menthol, the man with the fragrant name, wanted here for burglary, has made good his escape and the scent, despite it's familiar qualities, has been lost.
 A heavy top dressing has been put on the Smith hill road and also on the Sal. isbury side during the past week and heavy.
 David M. Green, of Sheffield, has sold to J. A. Allyn vacant lot on Railroad street beyond Bragg street. For the present MT. Allyn will build carpenter shop on the lot. s~r Miss Katherine Quinn returned to Boston Saturday after spending her va cation with her parents here. Miss Mabel Quinn has joined her sister, Mrs. Charles Mackay, at Scituate, Mass. Rev. E. .. Gillette and family leave the middle of next week for Winthrop Beach, Mass, to spend month. While there MT. Gillette will preach at tho Eliot Congregational Church at Boston.
 c. E. Badgley has purchased the old Paul place property on the Church street road from Mrs. Albert L. Barnes, of ! Great Burlington. The property in- cludes tenement house and 12 acres of land.
 Rollin o. Newton, of New York, wis ited his aunt, Mrs. Mary Kellogg at the Naples Sunday and is spending the week as the guest of his sister, Mrs. R. D. Peirce. at Twin Lakes. He has just re : turned from an extended business trip to the West and Canada.
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