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

in town Friday.
 B. M. Moore, New York, spent Friday here on business tour.
 Remember the Thanksgiving bake sale at M. E. church November 22.
 J. R. Gibbons, Boston, was here last Thursday and Friday calling on friends.
 w. H. Sullivan, Bridgeport, was up here few days the latter part of the week.
 Reports on baseball fatalities through out the country show 21 as the seasons record.
 It's 8 mighty good plan to fit 8 criti- cism to yourself before applying it to others.
 Basketball has commenced and from now on there is likely to be some good playing done.
 Sheriff Turkington was here Friday for few hours, getting line on politi- cal matters locally.
 ANONCAhUSk OA khO Nou1b LII common pleas is now in session at Litch- field for this county.
 Canaan has many bachelors. You can easily tell them because they seem never to have any troubles,
 Some of the piffle that is being handed out these days by the campaign orators would make Teddy bear sick.
 Mrs Charles Pease returned home Sat- urday from Hartford, where she has been spending 8 week visiting her par ents.
 Reform is grand thing isn't it? It means, according to an observer the abuse of good citizens and a steady in- crease in taxes.
 Baseball has been retired and now it is the football and basket ball warrior that demands the center of the stage and the limelight.
 Monday night brought very heavy frost. Water froze nearly an inch thick on rain barrels and the grass and late fowegs were badly nipped.
 The depot has been repainted and the crossing gates and sign posts have been touched up and the crossing announce ments have been relettered.
 The state wont go to the dimnition bow VOWS just yet. which ever candidate is elected governor of the state, nor will the prices on food products be lower in Canaan.
 From the reports that come to us of danderlion blossoms and strawberries be- ing found these days, one would infer that we were on the verge of spring, in- stead of dreary winter.
 Miss Minnie Caldwell attended the State Sunday School convention in Hartford Wednesday and Thursday, Mrs F. F. Stevens and Miss Mattie Manvel were also attendants from here.
 An exchange wants to know what has become of the old fashioned stingy man who would skin gnat for its hide and talIuW. lie lives in Canaan, brother, and on Sunday goes to church and drops penny ill the contribution plate.
 Lee E. Prindle, Albany, N. Y, with MT and Mrs J. Tomkins Lloyd, Miss Minnie Davidson and John E. Davis, all of Troy. were in town Saturday auto ing through this section and enjoying the scenery of the Berkshire and Litch- field hills.
 The season is here for putting up stove pipe and man is judged by the language he uses. Listen for a minute as you pass along some of the Canaan streets and you'll here from some houses some thing besides prayer. But then they say skin deep religion always does make the most noise.
 A genuine surprise party was gwen Misses Anna and Lena Blair and Gladys Pulver Halloween night by 14 of their young friends. It proved very enjoy. able affair. It was given at the home of Mrs Blair, Railroad street. Halloween games were played and there was music and a general good time. Refreshments were served during the evening.
 The morning freight was unable to make the grade and curve between here and Falls Village Tuesday morning for over an hour, necessitating backing dowr the grade to the village twice and finally the cutting off of five cars at that point, The result was considerable delay in the freight traffic along the line for that day Frost on the rails made them so slippery that the heavy train could not make the ascent otherwise.
 Coroner s. \. Herman has appointed the following medical examiners il Litchfield county: Canaan-Francis s Skiff Cornwall-Joseph Robinson Goshen-Joseph Howard North Kent Walter M. Barnum; Litchf1eld anC Morris-Charles l. Page New Hartford and BaTkhamsted-Josiah Swett New