Connecticut western news., 1909-09-09

Asst. principal, Miss Ethel Potter. Grades : and S-Miss Cleaveland, of Lakeville.
 Grades ana 6-Miss Ellen Hamer, of North Adams.
 Grade Miss Hill of Norwich. Grade 3-Miss Eva Gardner. Cromwell. Grade 2-Miss Johnston, of New York City.
 Prlmary-Miss Gibbs, of Norfolk. Other teachers are: East Canaan, PIin- cipal, Catherine B. Finnegan.
 Primary-Miss Rosenthal.
 Sodom-Miss Powell.
 Mir. Briggs Has Narrow Escape
 W. H. Briggs had a narrow escape from bad accident Friday noon in the narrow cut where the state road runs under the 0. N. E. tracks on the upper road to East Canaan. He was driving in the direction of this village, and while in the narrowest part of the cut Ia tour ing car, in passing, crowded one of the horses against its mate, and tore hole in one of the binders.
 Advertised Letters
 Letters advertised in the local post office to Sep, are for: Angelo Agovino, Mrs c. Atkins, Dr. Geo. A. Bates, Mrs. Annie Bruey. Mrs. Lucy Fuikle, Miss Flossie Stickles, Mrs, R. T. Tynes. Post Cards unclaimed are for: Miss Jane k. Barlow, Miss Florence Beuedich, Miss l NY L D-1 ID Jennie Corrigan, Frank Howard, Miss Elizabeth Pollard, Miss Patterson, Theo. Silbuck, Harry Lehnler, Miss Sara Staples, Miss Ruth Myreck.
 Narrow Escape In Aute Smash.
 Thursday evening, while seated in light buggy and driving one of livery man Briggs horses northward, on the road to Ashley Falls. Dennis O'Neil, a bartender at the Garfield cafe, was sud denly run down by an automobile. How ever, by rare good fortune, tho young man escaped injury, as did also the horse the only disastrous results being three smashed buggy wheels and slight dam age to the automobile. Mir. O'Neil and the occupants of the touring car were shaken up somewhat, but that was all. ] That they were pot seriously injured is nothing short of marvellous, for the big auto was going at merry clip and the force of the impact was terrific. The auto owner, who lives not more than a thousand miles from Canaan agreed to settle for all damages to the livery rig. The accident happened about mile and a half north of this place.
 State Botanical Society.
 The Connecticut State Botanical Society held field meeting in Canaan Monday, eleven members being present from Hartford, Bridgeport, New Haven Naugatuck, Franklin, Southington, East Hartford and Oxford and Professor NJ. F, Fernald, of Harvard University, also being in attendance.
 The botanists spent the greater part of the day in the swamp east of the -eamp grounds and were specially inter ested in the flowers which are peculiar to the limestone regions. They came by train and automobile and nearly all left Canaan Monday evening. While here they made their headquarters with Mir. and Mrs. Charles s. Phelps, mem bers of the society.
 MT. Weatherby, of East Hartford, Mir. Bissell, of Southington and MT. Wood ward of Franklin, stayed over and Tues day took trip to Sharon in quest of the rarest Connecticut fern, the asplenium pinnatifdum. This fern has only been found ill two places ill the entire state, once ill Sharon and again in Southing- ton.
 Mad Autoist Chases Canaanite. About 11:30 o'clock Sunday night, officer Lew Rhoades was called up on the telephone by Frank Snyder of West Main Street, who informed him that man, apparently intoxicated, or mental i ly deranged, had been running an auto mobile all over his front yard, had smashed into the piazza of his home, tearing off step and was just that mo- ment departing Officer Rhoades i'm mediately hied himself in the direction of the scene of the disturbance, and, al- though he could see the automobile from distance, and followed hard af. ter, he was unable to overtake it.
 MT. Snyder endeavored to get the number of the auto, but every time he would approach the machine, the driver would chase him and he had to step mighty lively to avoid being hit. Once MT. Snyder just gained the. piazza, when the car crashed into the steps. Finally, after tearing a rambler arbor, scraping the bark from maple tree and otherwise cutting pranks, the autoist ran his machine down the lane, across the road and smashed into the fence of Fred Gillette's place. Subsequently the mad chauffeur turned his touring car toward town and was lost in the | dar1-rogs 5F yNast Mo;,t strna+