Connecticut western news., 1911-11-30

word are doing the work.
 Miss Emma Kegler. of the Teachers Training Hall, South Manchester, and Miss Mae Deyine. who is training in the Model School, New Britain. arc home for the Thanksgiving vacation.
 Miss Catherine O'Brien, of Hartford, is spending Thanksgiving with relatives and friends here.
 0. H. Pease spent Sunday in Hart ford.
 The Odd Fellows worked the third de- gree on Freeman Dem psey and Leonard A. Caldwell Monday evening. There was big attendance of members and the degree work was of the best. A chicken pie supper was served after lodge closed. Miss Ruth l.. Peirce is expected home from Northfield Seminary to spead Thanksgiving with her parents.
 Mss Mabel Roberts, of Torrington, daughter of Irving Roberts, and sister of Kenneth Roberts, of this place, who has been in Litchfield County Hospital since Sept g, has returned home and is re ported as on the way to complete re- covery.
 The census of the children of North Canaan, recently taken under the direction of the scnool board, shows that there are 423 children between the ages of i and Is i'll town. of whom 34l | 1,,5k ! l,a ,S17bl lio it, tn of the remainder who are not attending school, S4 are under years of age, 2S between and ', 3 between I and Il, IT between fl and Is years. all of the last two beiug engaged ill labor at home or in places of business ill the commun- lty. This years census shows an in crease of 21 over last year. r.
 Mrs. Edna Gibson. of Hartford, spent Sunday in town with bis sister. Mrs E R. Atwood. ...rs.s
 A union Thanksgiving service was held Sunday evening at the Methodist church. Addresses appropriate to the occasion were made by Rev. H. Corn ford and Rev. B. O. Gillette, and the singing was led by chorus choir com posed of members of the choirs of both churches. ..s
 Miss Jennie Ferry last Sunday went to Ashley Falls and celebrated the birth day anniversaries of her father and hrother-in-law.
 No meeting of either the ,Cranford or the Hawthorne Club this week, owing to Thanksgiving. :. Fred L Manvel was in town over Sunday, being called home by the serlous illness of bis father.
 Prof G. R. Bennett, of St. Austen's s School, and R. s. Melvin, of Litchfeld, spend Thanksgiving day with Harold A. Preston, at his home in this village. Miss Finnegan starts her evening dancing class next week Thursday at the Town Hall. George H. Page, former resident of : Canaan, and rative of Huntsville, died at East Morris, Nov. %, at tue age of 66 years. He moved away from Huntsville about 30 years ago. and lived for time in Canaan and Salisbury. finally removing to East Morris. The
 burial was ill East Morris on Monday
 A number of school friends of Marian Higgins pleasantly surprised her, at her home last Saturday afternoon. as it was her eleventh birthday. The little girls an iovad O daliub tfr,l oftSr,,oO,, toro+,or
 After dancing and games were enjoyed. all were invited to the dining room where table was spread with refresh ments. Two birthday cakes occupied the center of the table. Marion received two silver spoons from her little friends Those present were her teacher, Mss Bertha Prindle, and the Misses Fanny F Jackson. Luella Cudney, Olga Johnson, Myrtle Brazie, Margaret Vosburgh, Mar garet Corcoran, Gertrude Hugins, Miss Mary Lee and Mrs. F. Coons.
 The recent cold spell froze the Borden ice-pond to a thickness that made skating safe, and the surface of the pond was alive at various times, with SKaGerS.
 Miss Lydia Merwin, of Torrington. is at the home of her mother for Thanks giving.
 A congenial party of ladies assembled at the residence of Mrs. Robert D. Peirce on High street Friday afternoon to play
 ''five hundred" Five tables were in commission and the afternoon was en- joyably passed. The prizes were won by , Mrs. William o. Bullock and Mrs. George M. Bullock. Refreshments were served.
 Mrs. Arthur Rood, who died at Pen Tan. N. Y. last week was the wife of Henry Rood's son. Henry Rood was at one time resident of Canaan.
 Miss Margaret Hanlon who spent a couple of weeks with friends ill Black