Connecticut western news., 1909-05-20

day with his parents.
 Miss May J. Kegler spent Saturday and Sunday in Hartford.
 Miss Clara Clark, of Norfolk, has been the guest of Mrs. E. V. Nestell.
 Mrs. Timothy McGee of Egremont Plain was visitor in town yesterday.
 Miss Bessie Riley, of Hartford, spent Sunday with tho Misses Collins.
 Joseph Ives of Manning, Ia., former Canaan boy, was i'll town Tuesday.
 Martin Langs and daughter, Miss Ella, spent two days in New York last week.
 Miss Ida Evans, of Torrington, was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Ross over Sunday.
 Mrs. l.. J. Nickerson, of West Corn wall has been the guest of Mrs. H. D. Humphrey.
 Mrs. Leroy Stone of Bethel is spending few weeks as the guest of Dr. and Mrs. H. L. Ross.
 J. H. Bronson of New Haven, who is the owner of the fast racer, Ailesn Will son, was Ill tow this week greeting old friends.
 The board of directors of the Canaan Bridge company held a meeting Monday afternoon and declared an eight per cent. dividend
 Mrs. John Flynn returned from Hart ford Monday night, where she has been with her husband, who is a patient at St. Francis Hospital. She reports him as doing nicely.
 Advertised letters at the Canaan post office May IS were; Miss Helen Hunt in care of Mrs. G. w. Thompson, w. H Donnslly, Herman Johnson, John Sherry. Postal cards for James Brant, O. M. Freitag, Howard 0. Williams.
 The summer schedule of trains on the N. Y, N. H. 6 H. railroad will go into effect on Sunday, June 9th. It is be- heYed that the time of arrival and de- parture of trains from the Canaan sta ton will be about the same as last sea- son.
 Despite the lowering weather there was good attendance at the photograph recital given at the Town Hall Friday under the auspices of Christ church. The program included selections by some of the most famous of soloists and several pleasing instrumental selections and recitations. After the recital dan cing was enjoyed.
 The receipts at the strawberry tea given by the Young Peoples Society of the Congregational church Friday eve hing netted $31 and the tea was a decided success. As the evening was a warm one the trawberries and cream were very acceptable and many took advantage of the opportunity. The committee to whose efforts the affair largely owes its success included Edith Barnes, Belle Lorraine, Carre Fuller Eugene Rowe, Allen Fuller and Harry Holt, while number of others rendered valuable assistance. The proceeds will be added to the piano fund. Jackson Petition for Pardon
 When the state board of pardons meets Monday, June ', it will have 46 petitions for parole from prisoners now confined in the state prison at Wethers- field. Among them will be that of Ernest F. Jackson, B years old, sen- fenced to 10 years imprisonment for manslaughter, convicted April F, 1906. Jackson says that the judge at his trlal said he was guilty of carlessness rather than of wilful crime i'll killing Cynthia Pentield in Falls Village; also that he had wife and four children to support. Epworth League Celebration
 Epworth League Day was appropri. ately observed at the Methodist Church Sunday. Mrs. c. B. Shaw presided and read an able paper on the league. Pa pers were also read by Mrs. N. E. Pres ton, Mrs. Frank Coons, Miss My1a Lawton and H. H. Scutt. Mrs F.F. Stevens lead an extremely interesting paper on the object and aims of the junior league based on her own exper- fence. Rev. Harry CornfJrd r.&Gc {. brief but helpful talk and music T-..s rendered by quartet composed of Mis. Edith Green, Miss Gladys DeHart, H. H. Scutt and l.. E. Hester, and by duett composed of Mrs. Ella Burns and 1 N. E. LGwton. The juniors in the lea que assisted ill the exercises.
 Death of Joseph Owens ] The body of Joseph Owens, who lived in this place up to few years ago while employed as engineer on the Central New England railway, was taken to Millerton from the insane retreat at Middletown where his death occurred, interment being made there. He was engineer on the freight train which was wrecked at Barkhamsted, two miles east of Winsted, in 1893, bv the explosion of