Connecticut western news., 1911-10-12

| promised TOT IdS6 week ulu uO6 DSCOIu0 effective, and cars continue to run un- der two-honr headway. But they carry lots of passengers. Last Sunday over 2,00O fares were rung up, both ways, between Canaan and Great Burlington.
 That dividing fence between the elec- tric and the steam tracks, at the hotel, remains uncompleted. AS the steam railroad people will not allow it to be finished it will probably come down.
 Miss Stein, of The Naples, has been spending few days with friends in TyriDgham. .r.-.-
 Miss May Adam, Miss Bragg and Miss Brow, the trained nurse, have returned from brief sojourn at Twin Lakes.
 G. W. Gage of Winsted makes his first announcement to the readers of The News in this issue. MT. Gage has recently accquired the store formerly occupied by Wm. Nisbet, which in addition to his Opera House store gives most complete line of dry goods and house furnishings to select from. e..
 The devotees of the game of whist, who were famed for their prowess in that fascinating exercise of wits, around the lobby of The Oanfsld, have been sing ing small since H. G. Miller of Hartford who struck town last week and depart ed with their scalps dangling from his belt. With Nick Ginicola, a trolley constructionist. as understudy and part ner, Miller cleaned out the local whisters in one, two, three order, in a three ses- sion tournament held on three nights. He took them on, first come first served, and defeated such combinations as Dr. Corwin and ''Johnnie'' Sheridan, Frank A. Baker and B. A. Peirce, Donnie O'Neil and O. w. Thurlough. The re- spective scores ran-according to the best recollection of an innocent bystand. CT who had no interest either way, thus: I 115 to. 51 7a to AT; 82 to 39.
 While at the Danbnry Hospital, last week, where his wife is convaleseing, Dr. Ross met and talked with George Schmitt. the aviator who fell with his flying machine from height of several hundred feet and was severely bruised and taken to the hospital. Schmitt mir aculously escaped death. and even got off without broken bones, the machine having landed on soft ground, He was in the hospital only few days.
 Misses Myra Lawton and Minnie Cald- we'll attended the Epworth League con- vention at Lakeville. Wednesday and Thursday. as delegates from the Canaan League.
 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Parsons spent Wednesday in Hartford.
 MT. and Mrs. J G. Root are taking their annual vacation, visiting friends near Chatham, N. Y.
 MT. and Mrs. G. w. Studley of Corn wall Bridge called on friends in town Monday.
 The presence of Liquor Prosecutor Williams, of New Milford Consta- ble Ike Hornbeck. of Falls Village, and Attorney l.. J.sNickerson, of West Corn wall, in town Tuesday, started specula- tion among the men about town as to the prospect of something doing court-wise. But the day passed, the legal visitation went and the sun set without any unu- sual developments. 1"
 Frank F. Stevens, of Dempsey's drug store, is enjoying a weeks vacation, a part of which he is spending with Mrs. Stevens, at Twin Lakes. During MT. Stevens absence, Horace D. Humphrey, the former proprietor, and owner of the premises, is assisting MT. Dempsey, and in unoccupied moments Investigating the desirability of rebuilding the side walk in front and refusing to deny that he intends to have the work done before real cold weather sets in.
 Miss May J. Kegler visited her sister Miss Emma, in New Britain Tuesday and Wednesday. Miss Oliver and Mrs. Sherwin, of The Naples, have been visiting friends in Sharon.
 School Supervisor George J. Vogel is in Sharon this week.
 Dr. Walter Parmelee, of Boston, spent Monday and Tuesday with Deputy Sheriff Lew Rhoades. Dr. Parmelee is a native of Canaan ,son of the late Owen Parmelee, and left his native town some 20years ago. He is professional chirop- odIst with headuuarters in Boston Phil Orben, of Joe Ganci's Garfield Hotel barber shop, returned Friday after two weeks vacation spent in New York.
 R. H. St. John, of Danbury, the cigar distributor for the Old Well Cigar Co.,, came to town Thursday evening, stocked