Connecticut western news., 1909-09-23

Miss Gertrude Lynehan, Of Hartford, was a guest of Catherine Mccormick Sunday.
 Mrs H. A. Weaver returned Tuesday from a few days visit with her mother in Pittsfeld, Mass.
 w. J. Argall and family, who have been spending several weeks in Falls Village, returned to their Canaan home Tuesday.
 Mrs. Edward Greer, son Oh arles, and daughter, Annetta, returned from New York last week where they were visit ing relatives.
 Mrs. J. R. H. Moore and started for Indianapolis, Ind, last Friday, where MT. Moore has located in the capacity of Supervisor of public schools.
 F. A Bakers pacing horse. Top sonia, will enter in the 20 class at the fair at Great Harrington Thursday, Sept. 3Oth and the 2-19 class at the fair at Danbury Wednesday, October 9th.
 Tho Berkshire Power Company cases were resumed last Thursday at the Sheffield, Mass, town hall. The plain tiffs took up the rebuttal and the hearing was adjourned until Friday afternoon, j., September 24th, at the same place.
 The Fall term of school began Tuesday Sept 14th, but there were no sessions Wednesday or Friday of last week, ow- ing to the fact that the town water was shut off from the building on those days. School began in real earnest Monday morning.
 Rev. Frederic Carmen, rector of St, Peters Episcopal church, Denver, Color, ado, who spent several days at the Wangum, departed Sunday evening for his home. Sunday morning, last, MT. Carmen assisted at the services in the Salisbury Episcopal church.
 S.E Kimball, the local representa-. tive of the Standard Oil Company, is proudly displaying a beautiful new wagon, one of the latest style, flat bot. tom tank variety, received Monday from the Cleveland, Ohio works of the com. pany. Mir. Kimball will use the new tank for kerosine oil, exclusively, and the old one for gasoline. -.-. ! Between the hours of nine and five o'clock last Thursday, at Judge Rora backs office, Registrars of voters J Clinton Roraback and Edward l.. Rob erts placed upon the list of voters ito be made" nearly one hundred names which is an unusually large number fol this village. The applications will be passed upon Saturday, September 25th at town hall, by the registrars, selectmer and Town Clerk Norton.
 The Right Reverend Charles w Olmsted, Bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Colorado, accompanied by Mrs Olmsted and daughter, Ruth, and the Rev. Frederic Carmen, of Denver Colorado, drove over to Salisbury Sun day morning, where the bishop delivered a sermon in the Episcopal church. After the services the bishops party went t. the Salisbury school where they wert the guests of the Rev. MT. Quaile anC Mrs Quaile. The bishops party re turned to Canaan late in the afternoon having spent delightful day.
 Compliments Canaan Schools
 Upon visiting Canaan recently, { representative of the American Seating Company, New York city, who has beer in the school seating business for quit, a number of years, remarked that tht discipline in our school must be good for he had never seen desks which haC been ill use a year, ill such splendid con dition.
 A Page From Early History
 Thursday afternoon the people of thi village were given genuine dfasl, toned treat-a page torn from earl, American history, as it were. Thr incident was furnished by our popula townsman, Junius Rhoades, superin tendent of the North Canaan Wate company. who went up and down tn, streets calling out, at the ton of hi voice. "The water will be shut off a six o'clock tomorrow morning and b off all day" It was as if the town erie of the early part of the last century haC come back to life. One or two of tn older residents recalled having hearc and seen the town crler in their younge days, others spoke of having heard thei fathers and mothers, long since dead tell of the town crier.
 Underwent Operation
 Miss Paswell of this village, under went delicate surgical operation fo - the removal of the nasal septum las week at the House of Mercy hospital il Pittsfield. For long time past it hat been impossible for her to breathe at al through her nose, and what is commonl, known as the partition in the nose wa taken out. Miss Paswell was under general anesthetic and the surgical pro cedure which consumed two hours wa a most delicate one. Miss PaSwell vii