Connecticut western news., 1911-01-05
Two new basket ball teams have been

organized Dy the boys or the HlRn school-the Stars" James Keenan. captain, and the "Comets,' Fraucis Abbe, captain.
 The annual offering for the Congrega tional Church building society will be taken at Pilgrim church Sunday
 The Hawthorne Club meets to day with Mrs. Smyth. The subject for discussion will be Styles of Compost tion," on which Miss Bragg is scheduled to read paper, and definitions. There will also be music.
 The first rehearsal of the Canaan Choral Union will be held in Town Hall next Tuesday evening at 7:45 o clock. Secretary Hardenberg will be present early to dispose of the books to the singers.
 Mrs. J. L. Bragg is ill a critical con- dition at The Naples.
 George Whelpley of South Norwalk, who, with his wife, spends his summers at Frank Snyder's in Canaan, and de- votes much of his time during vacation to fishing and hunting, sends word that he has few new wrinkles in the pisca- torial art, through which he expects to beat his own record next season and in- veigle the incest fishes in the brooks to me'out. George is famous Red Man "a much big Injun-skilled in wood craft and watercraft, and at the same time so thoroughly at home in the busy haunts of men that he no longer mistakes an illuminated town clock for the full moon.
 At meeting of the Odd Fellows Mon- day evening D. D. G. M. Daniel D. Cox and Suite, installed the following off. cers |: N, G., H. H. Stanton V. G., J. O. Rorabaek Rec. Secy., H. H. Scutt :; Treas, F. H. Lee Warden, L. J. Streck :; Con-, W. D. Sheldon; Chap, W. P. Stage R. s. S., G. V. Wood L. s. s., Joseph Beebe R. s. N. G., Samuel Seigel; l.. s. N. G.. W. A. Wright; R. s. V. G., O. E. Harrington L. s. V. G., B. H. Baldwin; I, s. G., W. G. Wycoff; G. s, G., I. l.. Scott. After the installa- tion social hour was enjoyed, some passing by thought they heard slight noise but it was only the boys acting .'Odd." Initiatory will be worked next Monday on four candidates.
 Jim" Keenan, who owns. and occu- pies one of the oldest houses in the town, located on the old furnace road, recently discovered in his attic documentary Sevi- dence that John TenEyck, the negro murderer of the Stillmans in Sheffield, who was hanged in Pittsfeld about thirty-two years ago, was born in that house. In the same batch of old docu- ments was found an entry apparently showing that the late John o. Richmond also first saw the light of day there
 The schools re-opened Tuesday after the holiday vacation. Most of the teachers and several of the pupils speht the holiday out of town.
 A troupe of colored artists" ten in number, gave an entertainment in town hall Friday night and repeated it on Saturday night. The performance is said to have been good, but the atten- dance very light.
 Postmaster Holt's praises were sung by many for his considerate action in opening the postoffice on Sunday, Christ mas day, for short time, to accommo- date people who were unable to get to the office Saturday night. Many Christ mas packages in the mails were delivered on that morning,
 School Superintendent Vogel visited New York, Hartford and other cities during the Christmas vacation,
 Samuel J. Briggs has been attending the golden wedding festivities in cele- bration of his parents fiftieth wedding anniversary, in New York state.
 Miss Prindle, graduate of the state normal school in New Haven, succeeds Miss Cleaveland as teacher in the seventh and eighth grades of the Ca- naan high school, Miss Cleaveland's en- gagement having expired with the end- ing of the month of December.
 A teachers convention will be held in Pilgrim church, on Saturday of next week, at which the schools of several towns in Litchfeld county will be repre-. sented, It is expected that approxi- mately fifty teachers will 5e present.