Connecticut western news., 1910-12-22

Canaan Tuesday were Mrs. Charles Han chett, Mrs. George Judd, MT. and Mrs. George Dean and daughter and Mrs Daniel Dean.
 Mrs Charles S. Adam has gone to Springfield for the holidays.
 MT. and Mrs. Richard Palmer. of West Cornwall, have been visiting Ill town.
 Mrs. Nellie Sanford and Mrs. George Ayres. of Falls Village, were in Canaan on shopping tour Tuesday. &- " Pope Chapman and Landlord Langs, of Falls Village, came to Canaan Tues day to see Harry Lyles couple the pump to the reservoir. :... ..
 William Ransford, of Salisbury, called on his old friend Jay Underwood, Tues day. v >.... ,.
 Rev. MT. Griffith, of Lime Rock, was Canaan visitor this week. F..
 Mrs. Frances Peet and son George will be Christmas guests of Mrs. Peet's sister, Mrs Bostwick, in VanD Deusenville, Mass.
 Miss Ethel Potter started Sunday for her home in Cazenovia, N. Y. to spend the holiday vacation of two weeks.
 MT. and Mrs. Drumm, Barlow street, visited her daughter. Mrs. William Palmer, in Lakeville, last week
 Railroad Gateman King has been spending few days in New York, Fred Parmelee taking his place at the cross ing gates in the meantime.
 Nathan Miller, of Bridgeport, son of Frank Miller, and we'll known to the summer colony at Twin Lakes where he had spent the warm seasons for num- Der of years past, died in sanitarlum in Stamford, Saturday night, of tuber- culosis.
 Mrs. Merrill representing the Prac- tical Dairyman, published in Ruther- ford N. J.. is in town writing up the Borden plant and interviewing the far mers and dairymen of this section on the milk and produce situation.
 In letting off blast near the gravel pit near the old Hoag homestead, on the Ashley Falls road, Tuesday, John Hoag blew woodchuck out of it's winter quarters. The animal was evidently dormant and was promptly confscated by the Italians in the neighborhood, and cooked and eaten
 Mrs. J. $. New has so far recovered her strength as to be able to sit up, and is considered out of danger. Miss Roland, the trained nurse, who has been with her for some weeks past, returned to Pittsfield yesterday.
 Liveryman A. P. Briggs is making rapid progress-glory be l-toward com plete recovery from his recent serious illness and his many friends Christmas will be all the merrier because he is.
 The Borden's have begun to cut ice on their pond near the milk factory. The ice is about ten inches thick and of good quality.
 There will be special Christmas music at the morning service at the Pilgrim church next Sunday and at 4: 80 the chil- dren's Vesper service will be held. There will be songs and recita5ions by the little folks with the giving and receiving of gifts The gifts which the children bring will be sent as usual to the New ington Home and the offering will be for Northland College, Wisconsin, con- cerning which Pres. Fenenga spoke so interestingly lately. To the Christmas services the public is cordially invited.
 MT. A. V. A. Felren, who has been a sufferer from rheumatism for some time, was seized with an unusually violent and painful attack while in his store, Monday, and was obliged to give up work and go home.
 l Misses Margaret and Frances Norton. of Salisbury were visitors in town yes terday.
 Miss Mary Hanlon of Chapinville was in this village Wednesday.
 Sedgwick Tracy, of Falls Village was 8 Canaan visitor Monday.
 1 MT. and Mrs. A. V. A. Felten are planning house party to be given in their pleasant cottage at Twin Lakes, January and 3. The guests will be MT. and Mrs. William Bullock, MT. George Bullock, MT: and Mrs. Freeman. MT. Frank Wilcox, Miss Minnie Wilcox, Dr. and Mrs. Ross, and Mrs. Bierce
 Mrs. Mary Devine and Mrs. James Mccormick were in Sheffield Monday.
 The meeting of the Hawthorne Club last week, considering its current topic of Music, listened to 8 paper by Mrs. Ives, on Music of the Nineteenth Gen. tury" and dealing with the Italian and German schools and the French ana English schools. There was also paper by Mrs. Smyth on Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann.
 Perfect attandanca at tha SodOm