Connecticut western news., 1909-12-16

on friends here Tuesday.
 P. F. Chapman. of Falls Village, was in town Tuesday on business.
 Mrs. James Mcclure, of Millerton, N. Y., called on friends in town yesterday.
 MT. and Mrs. William Hart, of Falls Village, were over Sunday guests of w. J. Argall.
 MT. and Mrs. George w. Ford attended the funeral, Wednesday, in West Corn wall, of Mrs. Alice Nickerson.
 Miss Josephine Camp returned yester, day from Great Burlington, where she has been the guest of friends for few days.
 Dr. and Mrs A E Cobb, formerly of Falls Village, are now stopping with Mrs. William Merrill on Barlow Street, this village.
 w. A. Austin, who is taking a course at the Baltimore College of Dentistry, Is clerking in Bullock & Felten's during the holidays.
 One of the Canaan's generous and very thoughtful women, sent her team to the school house Monday afternoon to take the teachers to their homes, The walking was very bad and her act of kindness was greatly appreciated by all the teachers.
 A meeting of an assembly committee was held Friday evening at the home of E. B. Brewer and arrangements were made for the card party which was held last evening in the town hall. The at tendance was as usual large at the party and the evening was very enjoyably spent.
 A meeting of the Odd Fellows was held in their rooms Monday evening and a rehearsal of the second degree work was held. The degree team of the local organization is to go to Great Barring ton, Mass, about the first week in Jan uary and work the second degree on candidates of that lodge. } Tuesday evening party of about 30 Odd Fellows made a trip to Winsted where they were guests at the first de- gree work enacted by the members of the Winsted order. Following the de gree work there was banquet and all the members of the Canaan lodge had a very fine time. The local Odd Fellows chartered special train for after the banquet and on the train were several from here who went to Winsted to hear Sousas band. The train left WInsted at midnight and at about 12:45 o'clock the membefs of the merry aggregation 1 arrived in the village of Canaan.
 Had Foot Smashed.
 Winthrop Wyckoff. who is employed by the Borden firm, met with an unfor- nate accident Thursday of last week by having a large can of milk fall on his foot and smash it. Although no bones were found to have been broken, he was not able to work for a few days. He was attended by Dr. Cobb of Falls Village who was substituting for Dr. Adam.
 Real Estate Transfers.
 The latter part of last week the follow ing deeds were recorded with Town Clerk Norton: Miss Fanny s. Whittlesey to Peter Caravati, for the sum of one dollar and other valuable consideration, the Bigelow place on the East Canaan road; Miss Fanny s. Whittlesey to Luigi Seben, for the sum of one dollar and other valuable consideration, land and . | I11 hn gt site the Bigelow place.
 Canaan Vs. Housatonic
 This evening ill the town hall there will be one of the fastest games of the season played and it will be between the local five and the HousatoHic quintet. The regular Housatonic team is speedy as is the local five and as both lives are about evenly matched for weight there is every indication that it will be one of the best games put on in the town hall this year. The attendance at the past few games has not been as large as it might have been, and, as long as Canaan has a winning team it seems to many of the fans as if it ought to have better support.
 The Needed Snow and Rain
 The weather man may be highly com plimented for the fine prediction he made Sunday in regard to the weather for Monday, for we got the snow first and then the rain, good and plenty. Early Monday morning fine flakes of snow began to fall and they gradually increased to large size. These large flakes fell for a while but during the afternoon it began to get warmer and at o'clock the snow turned into rain. With the rain, came a northeast wind and it was a very unpleasant evening for one to be out. This rain and snow, however, came at just the critical time for the water in many Connecticut viii laues and cities was very low. It has