Connecticut western news., 1909-11-04


 Miss Jennie Wilcox, of Falls Village, was ill town Tuesday.
 Miss Katherine Moran, of Sheffield, was in Canaan Tuesday.
 Miss Marion Roger of Sharon spent Sunday at her home here.
 Mrs. Henry c. King went last week to New York to spend the winter.
 MT. and Mrs. w. O. Bullock were Ill New York city Monday and Tuesday.
 Miss Mamie McGuire, of Hartford, was home with her mother. over Sunday.
 Miss Bessie Burns of Torrington was a guest of Mrs. Samuel Briggs last week
 James McCabe is spending two weeks vacation at his home in Adams, Mass.
 George Oondon of East Canaan is now employed by Benton 6 Wright in their shoe store.
 H. E. Pulver and Miss Della Graney were in Millerton Sunday and had din ner at the Millerton hotel.
 The members of the Preachers Union of the Housatonic Valley will meet next Monday in the Methodist church.
 Mrs. Justus Reynolds, notice of whose death appears on the next page, was q cousin of Mrs Richard A. Owen.
 Mrs. Sakens Anderson and daughter, Miss Florence, of Canaan Valley spent Sunday with MT. and Mrs. E.W. Adams.
 Henry Potter of Cazenovia, N. Y., who has been the guest of pr. Camp for about four weeks, departed for his home Monday.
 There will be Q special communication of Housaton1c Lodge, Mo- 61, F. 6 A, M. this evening. The first degree will be conferred,
 Manager Wilcox, of Bordens, has a force of men engaged in building con- cret outside for the we'll in the rear of the plant.
 Dr. Fife, of Chatham, N. Y. is en- gagged in making an inspection of the cattle, dairies and barns of the farmers who supply Borden local station. Walter Goggin has made number of improvements on his house on West Main street. John Cudney and force have enlarged the dining room, and built a pantry and rear yeranda.
 The Rev and Mrs. Smyth will return 1 to Canaan this evening from South by the death of Mrs. Smyth's uncle, the Venerable Lewis Cameron, of that place.
 On the evening of Wednesday, Nov. 17th. class of thirty five, from Mill River, Southfeld, East Canaan and Ga naan, will be initiated iD to the mysteries of the order of Modern Woodmen of America.
 Deputy Warden Ralph Stanton recent ly assisted c. k. Nickerson of Torrington ill detecting game law violations in that vicinity for 8 few days. One day last week Officers Stanton and Nickerson ar rested a Harwinton man for snaring birds. The man was fined $l0 and costs.
 David VrOom, barber, of Danbury, who was we'll known in Canaan, was killed by an express train in his home city last Thursday morning. Nobody witnessed the accident, but the unfortu- nate man was walking along the tracks when struck. MT. Vroom worked for Lewis Rhcades during the summers of 1907 and 19O8
 New Hours at Library.
 The hours at the Douglas library have been changed to 80 to 4:3O on Wednes- day and Saturday afternoons Canaan to Have an Ice Man
 MT. and Mrs. k. R. Atwood, of West Hartford, were ill town Sunday and Monday. MT. Atwood has leased from the New England Lime Co., the ice pond and storage house at the Barnes lime plant and is making preparations to es- tablish an ice business here, making daily deliveries.
 "The Frost is," etc.
 "The frost is on the pun kin and the folders ill the shock" the coal is ill the dealers bin and our overcoat's in hook It looks to us like hustle for the dollars that are due, or the frost that's on the pun 'kin'll be gittin through GIT shoe And though Jim Riley's sta Ks O fod der may satisfy the bull, it's Burbank's s mealy taters that keeps our stomaohs full. So send along the dollars on your old subscriptions due and the frost that's on the pun'kin wont bother us nor you. Exchange.
 Candidates For Naturalization
 Wheaton F. Dowd, assistant clerk of the Superior Court of Litchfield County, was in the village of Canaan Saturday for the purpose of receiving applications