Connecticut western news., 1909-09-23

Ivanhoe Scott, Edward Joyce and Paul E. Gurney were guests of the man agement of the Twin Lakes house Tues day evening. After an evening of social intercourse dancing was enjoyed.
 Mir. and Mrs. H. K. Prescott, of East Canaan, and Mir. and Mrs. A. A. Law renee, of thls village, enjoyed trolley trip to Pittsfield and Lanesboro, Mass, on Monday. returning to Canaan on the 5:07 D. m. express.
 George s. Fuller returned Monday noon from a ten days business trip to Colorado. MT. Fuller crossed the Great Divide, going four hundred miles west of the city of Denver. He had a most enjoyable time and was mucn impressed by the push, energy, and progress exhibited in the West.
 William D. Nesbit, who has conducted the Pine Grove farm, has sold his en- tire stock, including household furniture, horses, cattle and general equipment, to Howard O. Williams, of Manchester, N. Fl. MT. Nesbit will move with his family to New Haven and MT. Williams will take possession of the place tho latter part of the week.
 The selectmen of this town and Town Clerk Norton will be in session from Q a. m. to D. m, Saturday, at Town hall, for the purpose of examining the qualifications of electors and admitting to the electors oath all who are quah
 fed to become legal voters in the annual town meeting which will be held Mon day, October 4th.
 In the case of William J. Evans, against Hanford NJ. Ferris, which was tried before Justice of Peace George w.
 Ford on Wednesday morning, the de- fendant's attorney. J. Clinton Roraback, filed a plea in abatement, which the court sustained, rendering judgment for the defendant on the plea in abatement, on account of error in the copy. Mar win and Camp appeared for the plaintiff,
 No Water For Day
 Rumor had it early last week, that Canaan was liable to suffer from a W ater famine, and To and behold, all day Fri day there was not drop of water to be had. But it was not because of famine, but rather owing to the fact that the North Canaan Water Company was making a connection between the new six-inch water main and the old pipe, on East Matn street opposite the Eddy . farm house. After the connection was
 completed, the work of removing the old pipes and filling in the ditch, from a point near the Blackberry river, to the } Eddy farm house was begun. On Fri
 day the fire hydrant near the Wangum hotel was removed to a position nearer the corner. Excavation was begun
 Wednesday down Main street, from the
 place where the connection was made to
 the N. Y, N. H. & II. railroad crossing, where the final joining of pipes will be made. When everything is in readiness
 for this last connection, Canaan will
 again be without water for day. } Did You See the Balloon
 1 About one o'clock Saturday noon
 scores of Canaan people observed q large gas balloon which was travelling southward just the other side of Tom s hill and not much above. The passen-
 gers in the basket were plainly seen.
 The balloon, which landed on Smith hill, left Pittsfield, Mass, at 11:35 o'clock Saturday morning, and carried , Leroy M. Taylor of New York, w. ]. Serdenburg president of the American
 Merschaum company of New York, Mrs. , A. M. King of Boston and Pilot William Van Sleet of Pittsfeld. The bag passed , over stockbridge at 1925, noon and . Great Burlington, fifteen minutes later.
 The distance between that place and
 Canaan was covered in about twenty minutes. The balloon passed over the Twin Lakes and very n9ar Judge Rora-
 backs cottage. Sunday afternoon the
 bag was brought from Salisbury by
 railroad and sent to Pittsfleld on the 7:20 D. m. train While waiting in Canaan one of the men in the party secured some bandages and salve for the purpose of dressing some slight injuries
 sustained by Mrs. King when the land
 ing was made.
 Saved From Drowning
 That Charley Simmons was not drowned Wednesday in the Blackberry,
 was due solely to the prompt action of f Louis E. Hester, an engineer at the 1 Berkshire Power Company's plant, who saved the man just as he was about to
 sink from exhaustion. During the noon
 hour MT. Hester noticed an empty row
 boat airift in the river, not far from the
 power house. The oars and a fish pole were dangling from the boat, but at first glance there was no evidence of human life. The engineer thought that the cirC umstances were rather strange and upon more closely looking, he dis ? cerned & mans head in the water near Il. Al E-1I