Connecticut western news., 1911-05-18

ent and the meeting was postponed.
 There will be no rehearsal of the cho- ral union next Tuesday night. The combined chorus will sing in Norfolk Wednesday night.
 Attorneys in the Sweeney Curtiss au- tomobiIe accident case have been in | town gathering more evidence to pre- sent at the trial, which is docketed to come up in superior court, Winsted, next Tuesday.
 Mrs. Nat. Storm is spending a week with friends in Hartford.
 Preparations are going forward to make, the glorious Fourth in Canaan this year as memorable as the Big Wind of Ireland.
 The Mission Circle will meet with Miss Bragg Friday at 3 p. m.
 Submitting their personal belongings and valuable accoutrements to the ten der mercies of the piratical baggage smashers, but personally chaperoning and zealously guarding large pailful of spun ming angleworms, Dr. Ross and "June' Rhoades boarded the Sunday morning train for Albany, enroute to the Adirondack mountains, where they will spend a week or ten days flirting with the f1nny tribes that infest the streams and lakes in the neighborhood of North Creek.
 The Cranford club will meet this ! (Thursday) afternoon with Miss Char lotte Beckley. This will be mature day. meeting. The program will con- sist of readings by Miss Smith, Mrs. Rhoades, Mrs Shaw and Mrs. Hitchcock. The next meeting, May 25, at Mrs. Adams will be "Fagot meeting" and end the season.
 You can get bars of good soap for 25c at the new firms. Hunt it up.
 Samuel G. Camp went to Springfield Friday, and stayed to see the Yale crew come along to the finish line, after the Yale-Pennsy race on the Connecticut river.
 The'outside of Mrs. Hamm's s residence on High Street is being Finished in stucco work, by Edward Shaw, of Great Bar rington.
 l Miss Lucretia Atwater, spent Sunday at her home in Springfield.
 Miss Hamer and Miss Gardner, cou- pie of our accomplished young school ma ams, visited New York oyer Sunday. They were oirceroned by the dignified and demure young banker. John s. Reed.
 George Roger, who was appointed to head committee on bylaws for the new fire company has appointed Messrs. Wigglesworth, Fuller and George Har- denbergh to assist him in drafting in in- strument.
 Rev. E. c. Gillette occupied his pulpit in Pilgrim church, last Sunday, the first day of his release from the bondage of invalidism since his attack of tonsilitis nearly two weeks ago. He has not. even yet, fully recovered his wonted strength and energy, but his grit and ambition are as good as ever, and. he's looming i on."
 A pair of English starlings have built their nest in a dove-cote at Frank : snyder's barn, These birds are rare i'll this country, though plentiful enough in England. They are a very dark brown bird, with white bill and fly with swift, darting, eccentric motion, and so far as is known this pair are the only ones ever seen/in this section and proba- bly, descended from one of the two con- signments of 200 each that were liberated in this country eight and twelve years ago,
 Fred J. Capron, of Danbury, with his wife and daughter, came to Canaan last week to attend the funeral of Mrs Capron's s aunt, Mrs. Angeline McCarty, who was burned to death. MT. Capron has been associated with the Danbury News for number of years, and was at one time member of The Connecticut Westers News mechanical force.
 E. R. Atwood has started the sidewalk boom a a'booming. Clarence Humphrey is building a walk in front of MT. At woods house on West Main street
 w. H. Proper and Conductor Blodgett are strutting higher than ever since the stork stopped at both their homes in passing, last week.
 Miss Carre Fuller started yesterday for Chicago, where she will spend cou- pie of weeks at her uncle's, Robert T. Fuller. formerly of Canaan.
 One very convincing proof of the late ness of the season was supplied by Fred Scamerhorn last week, who brought home a muskrat trap from a low, wet place at the foot of Toms Hill, on Sun day, which was so solidly frozen in that he was obliged to chop it out with an 4