Connecticut western news., 1910-11-03
Canaan Locals

day in town.
 J. J. Hannafln, Winsted. was in town last Saturday.
 Charles Messing. Lime Rock, has been visiting here.
 William B. Penny, Jr., Lakeville, was week end guest here.
 Chestnuts hereabouts are not as plenti- full this season as formerly.
 Mrs Mary Corbet arrived here Monday and is stopping at Mrs Hamm's.
 MT and Mrs Herbert Adams are visit ing his father, Horatio N. Adams.
 The Odd Fellows enjoyed another of their pleasant socials Saturday night.
 W. O. Bullock and wife were at Poughkeepsie on a visit part of last week.
 Passenger travel over the Berkshire line is quite good for this time of the year.
 Mrs Albert. Shaw has returned to Derby after visit to friends ill North Canaan.
 The personal tax will be collected by Henry Reed, appointed by the sllect- men for that purpose.
 The heavy frosts Canaan and vicinity is getting these nights are what the boys term "corkers.
 The glass windows of the savings bank have been reset this week and pointed up for the cold weather.
 Mrs John Dexter, Great Burlington, and her son Fred, spent the last of the week here as guests of friends.
 John Thurlough went hunting Tues day morning. The contents of the game bag is yet to be made known.
 Charles Pease is building new boat house on the Housatonio and expects to have it completed before cold weather sets in.
 A. P. Freeman sent his colored servant back to Salisbury N. o. Tuesday, who has been domesticated with his family the past summer here.
 Miss Margaret Dempsey who has been spending few days with her cousin. Miss Mabel Dempsey, returned to her home in Pittsfield, Monday.
 The address of President Finangar at the Pilgrim church this Wednesday night will attract good audience and no doubt be one that all who hear it will delight in.
 Mrs W. H. Webster. Mrs M. s. Damerel and children, Westerly, R. l., spent a couple of days here the past week on tour of this section. They were guests of the Garfield.
 The 10th anniversary of the pastorate of the Rev Arthur Goodenough at Win chester, was attended by the Rev E. O.. Gillette, LestA Adams, Miss Louise Bragg and Miss Mary Adam of this viii lage.
 No one knows the full significance of contempt until they have encountered a small town set down at a junction point where railroad connections are @ mis- homer and some of the trains crawl at the rate of three miles an hour.
 J. Henry Roraback attended the conference of county Republican leaders held at Winsted Saturday afternoon at Hotel Winchester. There were upwards of fifty present from all the towns in the county. Matters of moment to the party were discussed and plans made for the coming state election.
 The work of laying the new platform south of the depot is in progress. The width of the walk has been doubled and venient for passengers to alight from trains as we'll as to board trains at that point. It is also a convenience to the baggage men in loading and unloading baggage on south bound trains.
 All persons in this town or state, be- tween the ages of IS and 45 years who wish to be exempted from military ser. vice by reason of mental or physical dis. ability must report to post surgeons for examination. Those persons who have been exempted already by post surgeons since 1880, who are living ill the same town and whose disability has been classed as permanent, will not be obliged to be examined again except by the order of the surgeon-general. Those persons who take examinations and are exempted will be given certificates of their exemp tion, which must be filed with the select men in the town where the examined person is liable to be enrolled. The dis abilities prescribed by the surgeon-gen eral that will furnish reason for exemp tion are insanity, epilepsy or mental ab } erration, the loss of sight of one eye ol permanent defeat of one or both eyes 5 loss of hearing or speech, loss of an arm 7 or a leg, or any other injury or disease B which incapacitates one for manua t labor. Persons who neglect to file thei