Connecticut western news., 1911-11-09
AS NEW YORK HERALD (Continued from First Page.)

many another Connecticut town they did not give 1t the increased impetus essential to more than a teuiously slow growth, and the old towns chief pride has been its preservation of its old homesteads and it's old families and its sacred tra- ditioBs. It has stood as alonely illustra tion of Litchfleld county hill town. maintaining the full meridian of its glory because of its characteristic ln- dustries and its strategic position us the junction of two railroads, without which it would have been destined to sink slowly to it's setting. s
 The writer then enumerates the lad vantages and attractions" which the town boasts, practically as set forth every week ar theN head of The News editorial page. and proceeds: hr
 A year ago . inaan had all the forego- ing possesSIons with the important ex- captions ot the live wire newspaper, the wlde awake Business Mems Association, the trolley line to Great Harrington, the new hose company and brass band, The trolley hne was coming along any way, but the extraordinary conjunction Of stars which suddenly developed the four other causes and evidences of progress. iveness dates back to the return of Mir. John Rodemeyer and his advent us edltor and genei al manager of the Con- necticut Western News, the renewal of conn, ction- there with after an abs .nce of thirty years. At least that's the direct testimony of the now nearly twenty-five hundred people of Canaan.
 He quickly vitallzed. the sleepy old weekly, Jnen The News brought the dopey Business Mems Association out of it's trance and galvanized 1t into an 1 instrumeut of such dynamic activity that i the once sJaid residents arc aghast at 1 the results.
 In fact, the forces which he set in ! operation so moved the hitherto com pllcent, self oontented old town from it's chronic choler that within few months the Business Mems Association had held rousiug banquet such as Canaan never i had dreamed uf, discurdnnt elements and warning factions had come together in a spirit of amity and progressiveness, numerous betterments in the civic and business life of the village had been consummAted, well oiled machinery had been set in motion to attract new in- dustries, and unique Fourth of July celebration had been carried out on a scale commensurate with the enterprise I The Fourth of July celebration com. prised a parade remarkable for the num- Der and quality of industrial floats. a children s pageant aud play festival, for which the training had been done py Miss Susan B. Meyers, New York playground expert the demonstration of u new chemical engine by the newly organized and equipped hose com pany. and a coHcert by the new band,
 In the last week the Business Men's
 Association held a smoker, appointed committees for the annual banquet and did a lot of things to promote the growth and prosperity of Canaan, The News to day in its discussion of local and state topics is one of the most frequently quoted journals in Connecticut. The
 News is published by the Canaan Print. ing Company, of which MT. G. Willis Parsons is the new and enterprisinR
 business manager.
 MT. Rodemeyer is 8 native of Canaan
 He succeeded the late Edmund Clarence Stedman as editor of the Winsted
 Herald. aud many years afterward
 from 1904 to 1907, worked with him on a fnauclal paper md collaborated with him m The History of the Stock Ex. cuange." MT. RUdemeyer has been