Connecticut western news., 1909-12-23

on friends here Thursday.
 FIX. Allyn has sold his trotting bred stallion to Edward Brewer.
 Mrs. F. $. Slziff of Falls Village called on friends here Saturday. George Condon will spend the holidays at his home in East Canaan.
 Miss Ella Langs of Falls Village called on friends in town Monday.
 Miss Katherine Smith of Falls Village called or friends hero Monday.
 Ivanhoe Scott visited friends in Pitts field Wednesday of last week.
 Miss May Devine visited relatives ill Great Burlington over Sunday.
 John Wells is assisting i'll Bullock & Felten's store during the holidays.
 Prof. Gregory, of Yale, was visitor at the local high school last Friday. l Mrs. H. A Benjamin and son Clayton, of Falls Village visited here Friday.
 Josephine Camp is clerking ill F. R. Collins jewelry store during the holi- days.
 L. c. Rhoades has been confined to the house by illness for the past ten days.
 John Sheridan has returned from a two weeks visit at his hone in Lewis ton, Me.
 Mrs. Patrick Carey is very i'll at her home and her condition is considered serious.
 Mrs. Frederick Scott of Pittsfeld, Mass, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Frederick Finney.
 Allyn Fuller attended the play "Dia- monds and Hearts," in East Canaan last Friday evening.
 Miss Marion Roger, who is a teacher ill Sharon schools, has arrived at her home here to spend the holidays.
 Adelbert Blass has returned from Pittsfield, Mass, where ho has been spending a few days with friends.
 Miss May Bartholomew of Lakeyille [ store during the Christmas holidays.
 Charles French returned to this village Saturday after few days visit with MT. and Mrs. N. c. Allen ill Lee, Mass. ] George Wood has been assisting ill l l.. 0. Rhoades' barber shop for the past week because of the illness of the proprietor.
 Miss Mary E. Hoag, formerly with Bullock 6 Felten, has accepted a posi- tion in Forbes 6 Wallace's store at | Springfield, Mass.
 Miss Mabel Donalds, who is instructor in the Sheffield school, visited friends in Canaan Friday before going to her home in Canaan Valley.
 On Friday evening of last week Prof. w. A. Macdonald gave reception to his dancing class ill the town hall and the attendance was very large.
 E. R. Atwood, the ice man, arrived here Monday-haying driven his newly purchased spar of grays from West Hartford-and expects soon to be cutting ice.
 The harvesting of ice has been started by Borden's plant and it is about in- ches thick. The pond was flooded Sat urday evening so that good clear ice might be secured.
 James McCabe and Harry Puiver who e employed with the New England Lime Company will leave about the first of the year for Danbury where the Company is to move its office.
 Frederick Fox will complete his duties as rural mail carrier Dec. 3lst and he will take up his work in the livery stable business of Fox & Adam. MT. Fox's place will be filled by Ralph Black and he will begin Jan. 1st.
 Sunday evening was the coldest that has been reported this year. The store windows were covered with glistenin9 frost as were the windows of the homes The lowest register of the thermometer that was reported was four degrees above.
 At the meeting of the local Assembly which was held ill the town hall on Wednesday evening of last week, 1t was voted to postpone the dance which was to be given by the gentlemen to the la dies on the evening of Dee. 20th, until January 5, 1910.
 Ivanhoe Scott and Daniel Hogan went to Lime Rock Tuesday evening to play basketball. The game is just being in troduced into that village and Scott and Hogan were secured to instruct the Lime Rock boys in the game. They also aided the girls five.
 There are some very heavy freights being pulled out of this town of late and the long trains have attracted consider able attention. Last Thursday evening string of IA cars was pulled out of the local yard which is a record breaker, for