Connecticut western news., 1911-03-09

value and the public is invited to attend. The hour of the service is three o'clock. The annnal offering for the Ameri- can Missionary Association will be re- oeived at the Pilgrim church next Sun day morning. This association works for the education and evangelization of the Negroes, Indians and the mountain. eers of the South.
 George 0. Peet, of Bridgeport, re. turned home Monday after brief visit with hls mother in Canaan.
 Arthur F. Freeman spent a couple of days in New York, the early part of the present week.
 Miss Sarah J. Rorabaok has been af- aicted with neuralgia, but courageously continued her school duties.
 Miss Gladys Ferris, of Torringtou, formerly teacher In the Canaan school, has been visiting at Rev. MT. Smyths.
 George W. Ford went to Sharon Sat urday and sold three pianos.
 Gene Williams will take his Canaan basketball team to Sheffield tonight for a game with the Sheffields. The team is composed of Scott, Dalton, Wiggles- worth, Joyce, Gurney and Dempsey. The Canaan boys hope to come home with the Sheffielders' scalps daugliug at their belts.
 John N. VanDeusen makes an an- nouncement to his debtors, in another column, that they will do well to read and take due notice thereof
 The Cranford Club will meet today with Mrs. o. W. Camp. There will be reading by Miss Ferguson, on Bach and 8 paper by Miss Wilcox on Handel There will also be music.
 Mrs. Maria J. Parks, of Cooper Hill, is seriously ill, and her condition at the present writing is reported as very low.
 Mrs. John 0. Richmond, who, has been spending several weeks with her aunt, Mrs. Jane Hinsdale, at Mount Ross, N. Y, is expected to return to Ca- naan this week.
 MT. Lewis Hester is entertaining his mother, Mrs. Hester, from Hartford.
 The Kensington Club, of the Metho- dist church, met with Mrs. F. H. Lee Tuesday.
 Mrs. George W. Ford has returned from few days visit in New York.
 A. v. A. Felten is making a business trip. in the interests of the lime compan- ies he represents, to Bridgeport, New Haven and New York.
 Mrs. U. H. Miner is spending the week III Winsted. The local Odd Fellows lodge conferred the third degree on two candidates, Mon- day night.
 Fred K. Allyn spept Sunday with friends in Norfolk.
 Pope Chapman and Will Hubbell, of Falls Village, were among the visitors in Canaan Monday.
 Canaan friends of MT. and Mrs. Will G. Wilcox, of Norfolk, will be interested to know they are arranging to celebrate their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary at their home, "Seven Gables" on March 24. There will be no invitations issued, but MT. and Mrs. Wilcox will be at home very informally during the af-, ternoon and evening to receive all friends who may do them the honor of calling upon them.
 The office of A. V. A. Felten in the Garfield building have been fitted up for MT. F's. convenience, and he moved in last week.
 There is prospect of the usual spring demand for houses to rent-and not enough houses to go round.
 Miss Ferry, the dressmaker, is suffer ing painful attack of neuralgia.
 Judge A. T. Roraback is in Hartford, where the supreme court is in session.
 MT. G. H. Laidlaw, of Oneonta, N. Y, formerly superintendent of Borden's milk plant at Canaan, was in town Friday, 'calling on old neighbors and friends.
 Director l.. A. Clinton of the State Agricultural Experiment. Station at Storrs is to speak ill the Town Hall at Canaan Thursday evening, March 23d. Professor Olinton's lecture will be on "Some of the Live Aspects of Agricul- Education. The public is very cordially invited
 George M. Bullock has considerably enlarged the little coal weighing office building on Railroad street, and frightened up the covering, making it not only more capacious but more comfortable and in every way more convenient.
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