Connecticut western news., 1909-08-26

Charles Tanner and family are spend ing their vacation in Millerton, N. Y.
 The Misses Alice and Carrie Lee of Sheffield spent yesterday with their brother, pr. F. H. Lee
 Mrs. A. O. Caldwell took an auto mobile trip to Hartford, last Wednesday returning Friday night.
 Miss Cora Vandergrift, who has been visiting with Mrs. Alfred Turner, left yesterday for Bridgeport.
 Ground has been broken for new house to be built by Mrs. Frank Mo Carty on her property on Bragg Street.
 Miss Genevieve Davis, who has been stopping at The Garfield the past month, returned to New York yesterday aftsr. noon.
 Mrs. Joseph Landry, of Hartford, spent Sunday with friends in town. Her daughter Miss Marie. who has been visiting at James McCormick's accom- panied her home Monday.
 The Canaan Seconds defeated the Twin Lakes baseball team Thursday for the third time thls year by the score of 9-3. Jack Adams pitched sn excellent game for the Canaan boys, striking out eleven.
 Guests at "The Grove" are: Miss Clara Psrdow of Yonkers, N. Y; Capt. Baxter. wife and daughter of the New York Navy Yard; Mrs. Francis P. Whittlesey of Great Harrington and Mrs. s, G. Peck, New Haven.
 Mrs. Mary Sheldon, who has been spending 8 week at c. c. Smiths re- turned to her home in Mill River Mon- day, accompanied by Miss May Smith, who will spend week with her and other friends in that place.
 The mushroom season is here, and it is we'll to know how to distinguish them from toadstools. There is one fnfallible way: eat them-if they kill you, they're toadstools, if not, they are mushrooms. There is another way, but 1t is not SO re- liable-ask Lew Rhoades.
 Larger Water Main
 A quantity of six-inch iron pipe is being strung along the way between the Blackberry river and the N. Y, IN. H. & H. R. R crossing and the A. J. Wiggles- worth company will at once begin the work of laying this pipe between those points, to replace the present four-ineh main. The stretch measures 2100 feet and one ton of lead will be used in calking the joints. Excavation began yesterday.
 Scholars Certificates
 Pupils certificates for perfect attend ance at Canaan school, for the year ending June 23, signed by Governor Weeks, secretary 0. D. Hlne and State Agent c. N. Hall, have been received by Miss s. J. Roraback for the following twenty five: Emma Rood, Elva Rood, Lena Boinay, Helen Hanton, Emma Kegler, Bertha Wellner, Blanche Fox, May Parmelee, Regina Adams, John Fuller, John Flynn Matthew Dempsey, High School and from the grades Clara Merchant, Helen Osborne, Willard Peirce, Ina Trieschman, Nelson Parsons, Helen Parmelee, Lena Hayden, John Adams, Severino Gondelli, Josephine Flynn Catherine Mansfield, Mary } Rhoades and AIgott Lindell. Merry Strawrders
 i MT. and Mrs. Williams arrived at the Wangum Friday evening from New Rochelle, N. Y, and Saturday enter tained Mrs. Stillman, the Misses Gladys Stillman and Katherine Abbe and Master Herbert Chambers on an all days tour, In their honor the Misses Gladys Still man and Katherine Abbe gave a straw ride to Ashley Falls on Saturday even ing. The weather was ideal and all had hilarious time. The straw riders were: MT. and Mrs. Williams, Mrs. Stillman Miss Kathryn Hart. Miss Angela Hart Miss Alice Byrnes, Miss Mary Byrnes, Miss Clara Lehme, Edward Dousbough, Miss Gladys StiIlman, Misses Frances and Katherine Abbe, Master Whittlesey sAbbe and Herbert Chambers. 1 Help the Editor
 The following, from the Norton, Kan sas, Telegram" is as applicable to THE NEWS as to that paper: Don't think be- cause the reporter sees you getting on the train that he ought to know who you are and where you are going, or if he sees you greet some friends that he knows who they are and where they came from. We aim to get all the news, but you may be the one we don't happen to know. We try to become familiar with names and faces, if possible, but during the years past we have been to church and failed to see you there; we have hung around the town pump, but some of you weren't there; we have loafed on the street, we've even risked our reputation on back streets on a dark night, but you weren't all there. And we'll ha hanred if we know where to