Connecticut western news., 1910-02-10
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 was in town few days last week.
 Miss Kane. of Lakeville, has been n guest of Miss May Smith few days.
 Miss Lacey, of Great Burlington, was a weekend visitor of Miss Josephine Camp.
 The regular meeting of EStherChapter Order Eastern Star, will be held Friday night.
 Miss Margaret Collins expects to leave Sunday for two weeks stay in Phila- delphia and New York
 Housatonic Lodge, No. 61, F. 6 AM, holds it's regular communication tonight and it is expected that there will be work
 Allyn Fuller left this morning for Chicago, stopping at Washington on the way. He expects to be gone a week or ten days.
 Dr. J. c. Adam, who has been confined to the house about ten days with the grip, sat up little yesterday afternoon and hopes to be out soon. Dr. Loewe Of Falls Village is attending Dr. Adam s practice.
 A party of twenty-five ladies, com posed of the "SpinSters" and their friends went to Lakevillc Tuesday night Ill two sleighs and partook of a chicl1on pie supper at the Wononsco House. The party returned about midnight
 A runaway team came down East Main street last Su nday afternoon and was stopped near the depot, without serious damage. It proved to be D. D. Conner's team, and they started from the P. 6 F. lime kiln neighborhood.
 The remains of Mrs. Catherine Colli- gan were brought here from Brooklyn Tuesday and the funeral was held at the Catholic church at 10 o'clock Mrs. Colligan was 65 years old and was for many years resident of East Canaan. Burial ln the Catholic cemetery.
 The following Italians were made American citizens and received their naturalization papers at Winsted Tues day: Antonio Malnati, Cesare Malnati, August Castagna, Antonio Gandelli, Azzo Gandelli, Alberto Cevelli, Isaia Minacci, Enrico Broggi, Louis Selen, Simon Demaestre. Ten more from this town are expected to follow soon. School Notes
 Miss Ebba Lindell is substituting in ] fourth grade this week.
 The Trask family have moved to Nor folk, but Mary continues to attend school in Canaan.
 Nellie Ivory is i'll from an attack of grip.
 In observance of the day, schools will be closed February 22. Coming Basketball Games Manager Wigglesworth has signed the HOusatonic team for the game next Sat urday night, The visiting team will be composed of Cooper, Brozan, Leary, Murphy, McCarty and Bell. The prow- | ess of these players is we'll known in Ca- naan, and it is a certainty that there will be a good game. For the following Sat urday, the 18th, the Films of Naugatuck will play their second game of the sea- son here. When they played here be- fore they were defeated by a score of 35 to g, but they propose to turn the tables this time and do something towards restoring their prestige as the former amateur champions of Connecticut. The Spinsters' Return"
 If hearty laughter and applause is any evidence of an audiences pleasure at an entertainment, the members of the Kensington Club, under whose auspices ''The Spinsters' Return" was presented at the town hall last Friday evening may well feel that they have scored a success. All the opportunities for fun making that the clever little comedy af- forded were taken advantage of by the players, and in addition they interpolated scores of highly appreciated local hits. The costumes were comedies in them selves, and the wearers did their part to add to the exaggerated styles of apparel they had evolved for the occasion. Each member of the cast took his or her part in masterly manner, and though the training had been a short one there were no serious breaks. The entertainment added the neat sum of $1O0 as profit to the M E. Church, for whose benefit it was undertaken.
 That Fishing Trip
 A party of five, consisting of John L. Thurlough and his brother, with Howard Bierce and two friends from Chapin- vile started for Plantain pond, Mt. Washington, Saturday afternoon on a fishing expedition. It was a fine winter day, and ideal weather for ice fishing. But there came a change-the mercury started for the bottom of the thermom- eter and the wind helped it along. John