Connecticut western news., 1911-05-18
CANAAN


 paratory to laying cement floor. To- night IS to be an important night for some on the temporary membership list, The officers will get together and select from that list the names of those who will be the first real members on the active list, up to the limit agreed upon. Those who aie left over will be placed on the waiting list, to be chosen from as vacancies occur, or when the member snip list is enlarged.
 The Waterbury Republican last week issued an anniversary edition commem- orating it's 20th anniversary. It was one of the most elaborate, best-printed, best written and best-illustrated special edi- tions that has come to this desk In long time, and one of which the Waterbury journalistic youngster should be proud. The Republican is well up among the most enterprising and influential papers in Connecticut.
 In the Pilgrim Church the annual offering for Congregational Home Mis-
  topic of the mid-week meeting this eve ming, will be, ''The fore-runners of the King James version of the Bible. The Mission Circle will meet with Miss Bragg Friday afternoon.
 Harry Lyles is laid up with badly strained left leg, an infiction that came pon him suddenly while playing his first tennis game of the season, Tuesday |, ternoon. He will be about in 8 couple = days.
 Next Sunday evening at the Metho- ulst church there will be a public install lation of the newly elected officers of the Epworth League, at the time of the usual preaching service. The ritual service, as prepared for that occasion, will be used, and in addition there will be special singing, also short addresses ! by the pastor and the out t-going and in- coming presidents. The Junior League will be represented by members who will give recitations. William 0. Bullock went to New York on business Tuesday. r
 Frank H. Wilcox has been confined to his home for few days with severe cold. J. Clinton Roraback is on flying trip to Danbury and Hartford.
 Do you know what you can do? Go tu The Canaan Mercantile Go. They will help you figure it out, and the price will be right. ...s...a ..... --.. /. .. George L. Parsons is comfortably we'll gain, and able to be about town. Charles F. Roberts has bought ten- acre wood-lot of Mrs. Mary 0. Corbit. on the south and west sides of Church Hill, on which is a large amount of vari- ous kinds of hard and soft timber.
 The towns big road roller was bor- rowed by the contractors making the state road at Point of Rocks, Tuesday, and trundled it all the way to the scene of activities, at limit speed.
 The directors of the choral union have selected, by process of elimination, the singers who will take part in the big events at Norfolk, and there will be a commingling of joy and gnashing of teeth, as usual, when the score goes up on the bulletin board.
 Mir. and Mrs. Carl Stoeckel will, { z usual, entertain the Canaan singers in the Norfolk oratorios, on the occasion of the grand concert which, will form the third event of the tuneful series.
 Mrs Henry J. King, of New York, is in town for the summer.
 The Knights of Columbus will work @ degree next Tuesday night.
 Marion Wilson, i'm 2ersonator, Monday night. and the Boston Festival Orches- tral Club Tuesday afternoon, will SUD- ply our festive society with joy enough for next week.
 MT. and Mrs. s. W. Barnes are enter taining Miss Carrie Richardson of New Haven.
 A German carp weighing ten pounds, speared by w. A, Wright in Griffith s NOF6 A uSSOnJ h1Sll1' 1GGAhCIOo COhS1OcL" able attention in Rhoades' barber shop window yesterday.
 Highway Commissioner Tom Butler and Chief Inspector Donnie O'Neil were were out with the road scraper yester- day morning, smoothing up the main streets after the delightful shower of the night before. Later they deposited 9 layer of trap-rock on the surface of the main street, a consignment of ten car loads having been received.
 Howell Freeman, young son of MT. and Mrs. Arthur P. Freeman, fell out of tree at The Naples, Tuesday after noon, and broke his left wrist in such a manner that the jagged bone protruded through the skin. He was taken to the