Connecticut western news., 1909-08-19

OHhTleS WdtsOH Ol 1Thuu INaplus, | Mich. has been calling on old time acquaintances ill this town and visiting | his son in Torrington.
 The Misses May and Polly" Gillette and Miss Blanch Fox are occupying the Congregational parsonage until the return of the pastor, Rev. Dr. Gillette.
 The protracted rains of the week, while exceedingly disagreeable, were still welcomed by all sensible persons, who realized that they gave crops a new lease on life.
 Mrs. Camp and Mrs. Clemens returned | Friday from visit with Mir. and Mrs. | Frank Anson, in South Hadley, Mass, Mir. Anson was clerk in N. L. Jackson's | store here for several years.
 Miss Bessie Frein, who has been visit 1 ing her grandfather, H. o. Barnes, for the past eight weeks, left last evening for Seattle, Wash. where she has secured a position as school teacher.
 Mrs. Andrew Fraleigh, of Poughkeep- sic, has been spending few days the past week with her mother, Mrs. w. R. | Weddle. Her boy, Roger, aged II, rode from Poughkeepsie on his wheel.
 The sudden death of Elizabeth, wife l of Edward U. Bailey and daughter of Rev. Hiram Eddy, late of Canaan, occurred Monday at Jamestown, N. Y. ] Besides a husband, Mrs. Hiram Eddy, | mother, and Mrs. H. E, Lyles, sister, of this village and 5. A. Eddy, brother, of New Haven, survive. Good Game Looked For
 Salisbury having dropped out of the league, the regular game scheduled for Saturday, at this place. will be played ! between the Canaan team and the Pitts field Athleucs. The Berkshire boys are said to b9players of some class and a swift and exciting contest is looked for. ! Game will bs called at p.m.
 Honeymoon After 50 Years
 After having enjoyed fifty years of blissful married life, during which they | never allowed themselves vacation, MT. and Mrs. Nelson Jones, of Miilerton, are now sojourning in Vermont. They | are visiting a granddaughter, Mrs. Sizer. wife of Rev. W. l.. Sizer, of | Waterbury Center, Vt,, but before re- turning to Millerton will visit Massach- usetts and Connecticut. Has Best Wishes
 J. Henry Roraback of Canaan, one of Connecticuts star politicians, who con- ducted the recent senatorial campaign for Congressman E. J. Hill, and would have won but for the eleventh hour appearance of Senator Bulkelsy in favor of the opposition, is to get back at Bulkeley by conducting ex-Gov. Mo l Leans campaign against the Bulkeley candidacy for reelection. There are great many people in Connecticut who would like to see J. Henry win out. Berkshire Courier. Death of Mrs. F. A. Baker
 Early Friday evening last, at the hotel Garfield, occurred the death of Mrs. F. l A. Baker, aged fifty, wife of the pro- prietor of the hotel. Death resulted l from cancer and while Mrs, Baker had | been i'll for some few years, death came rather suddenly. Surrounding her at 1 the time were her husband, sister, Mrs | Neva Gregory, of Boothbay Harbor, Me, and daughter, Mrs. George B. Bur gess, of Bridgeport, Conn.,, the two last named having been in Canaan for the | past three weeks. Accompanied by Mir. | Baker, Mrs. Gregory, Mrs. Burgess and N. L. Jackson, the body left Canaan Saturday on the 1911 train and was taken to Boothbay Harbor, Me, where burial was made Monday afternoon. Deceased was we'll and favorably known here and MT. Baker has the sympathy of large circle of friends.
 Fined $I2O for Selling Beer
 Several complaints that beer was be. ing illegally sold at the house of one Lorenzo Frodazia, all Italian, near Clay ton, having been made, sheriffs I. P. Hornbeck. of Falls Village and J. E. Hungerford, of New Milford, Saturday morning arrested Mrs. Frodazia, and brought her before justice of the peace Miles L. Blodgett and prosecuting at torney F. M. Williams, at Canaan, where she pleaded guilty to the charge of sell ing beer without a license and was fined $l20, which she paid. The officers left Canaan for the Italians house about II o'clock Saturday morning. Frodazia was the one they were after. but upon searching the place, he could not be found. Consequently they took the woman in custody. The trial was held at 3 p. m. The woman was given se- we're lecture and warned not to sell any more beer, but she seemed undisturbed and departed on her way, as if nothing out of the ordinary had taken place. Joseph Gancl acted as interpreter.