Connecticut western news., 1910-01-27

over Sunday.
 Mason Humphrey is recovering from an illness ofs3veral days.
 George Livingstone of Pittsfield was in town Sunday and Monday.
 H. R. Caldwell is working "extra" i'll in the telegraph office at Botsford.
 Miss Lucy Merwin, of New Haven, was a recent guest of Mrs. George Ford.
 Mrs. Michael Kane, accompanied by her son James, were ill Winsted Friday.
 The Oranford club meet with Mrs. Emma Rood this (Thursday) afternoon.
 Peter Kisselbrack, of Lakeville, has been visiting his sister, Mrs. M. J. Xiii mer.
 Mrs. G. l.. Parsons has been ill and was unable to attend her sisters funeral last week.
 Miss Mary Howell, of Poughkeepsie, has been visiting her sister, Mrs. J. H. Lansing, the past month.
 David Curtiss expects soon to start a livery at the stand formerly occupied by E. Chopper on Railroad street.
 Miss Mabel Dempsey returned Mon- day from visit with relatives in Bos- ton. Mass, and Hartford, Conn.
 F. A. Baker attended the banquet of the business men at the Hotel Win chester ill Winsted last Friday night.
 Town Clerk Norton reports for the year 1909:,70 births, 15 marriages and 30 deaths. Who says North Canaan is not growing?
 Have you seen the comet? It is visi- ble to the naked eye about six o'clock in the evening Ill the western sky inst above the sunset.
 0. F. Roberts has large lumber job in East Canaan near the Gaylord place and Rhoades 6 Stanton have installed a sawmill on the job.
 Mrs. Percy Stanton has returned from East Canaan where she spent a week with her mother, Mrs Hannah Roger, who was on the sick list.
 Dan Sweeney says he saw several live frogs near a spring on Church hill Sun day. Who ever heard of Rabbit" seeing frogs in January?
 John Bianchi is again behind the counters In Bullock & Felten's store, having arranged with Eugene Williams to attend to his restaurant business.
 The horse race on the ice at Springfield this week Saturday is of interest to local horsemen as F. A. Bakers "Topsonia" is to try her speed against "Amos K" who has meyer been beaten on the ice.
 The assessors have notified the tax payers by postal card of the increased valuation of their property, and it is prophesied that the board of relief will be "bnsy folks" when they meet next Tuesday.
 Saturday was bad day for Canaan dogs. Aside from the death of Rags" referred to elsewhere in THE NEWS, Mrs. Mary Collins pet dog, Buster, was severely bitten ill the neck and had to be killed.
 A meeting i'll the interest of education will be addressed by Secretary c. D. Hine tomorrow (Friday) at three o'clock in the high school. All interested in the vital questions of education are urged to be present.
 Just as THE NEWS was going to the New Britain that the fair little damsel who arrived Tuesday, the 18th, would call Horace Holt grandpa" when she came to Canaan. See birth column.
 The interstate union of Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York G. A. R. posts will meet at the Town Hall, Canaan, February 22. There will be addresses by prominent men, and the afternoon session will be open to the public.
 The high water in the rivers last Sat urday drove the muskrats from their homes and Fred Brewer went rating" in the afternoon. At the present prices -50c. to 75c. each-the 3S that Fred captured netted very fair remuneration for the afternoons work.
 Local milk producers will be inter- ested in the report from New York that the Alexander Campbell Milk Company, one of the largest milk distributors i'll the city, announced Monday afternoon that on February 1 the price of milk would be reduced from cents to s cents a quart.
 The rain storm of last week "did things in certain localities The snow and ice vanished, the rivers and brooks overfOwed their banks, in many cases distributing quantities of ice over the adjoining lowlands. The Berkshire Power Go. was overstocked with water and unable to light the streets for three nights, although the Inside lights were kept on. The ice ill the Housatonic Ll-s T