Connecticut western news., 1911-07-20

from visit with MT. and Mrs. William Tanner of Winsted.
 Miss Gladys Pratt of Westfield, Mass, is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Frank Coons.
 Miss Mary Sweeney, the little daugh- ter of MT. and Mrs. Daniel Sweeney, went to the House, of Mercy. Pittsfield, for an operation for & throat trouble, on Tuesday.
 Miss Helen Wood is spending the summer at Lake Placid, N. Y, in the Adirondacks.
 Miss Maude Pulver of Brooklyn, N. Y, is spending few days with her mother, Mrs. D. D. Walter of Granite Avenue.
 0. G. Linneau who purchased the Spaulding farm on Belden street, has bought portable engine for use on his farm.
 George o. Peet of Bridgeport spent Tuesday and Wednesday with his mother, Mrs. Frances E. Peet. on Gran ite Avenue.
 Miss Ellen Hamer of Adams, Mass, and Miss Eva Gardnef, teachers in Can- aan High School, are visitors in town.
 Allyn Fuller and Gilbert Brewer motored to Manchester, Vt, Saturday, returning home Monday.
 Miss Catherine Mccormick spent Sun- day with friends in Millerton.
 
 Frank Stanton of Derby spent Sunday with his parents in town.
 Major Samuel A. Bennett of New York arrived Saturday. MT. andI Mrs. Bennett are spending few days with Judge and Mrs. L. F. Burpee, at their cottage at Twin Lakes. Mrs. Burpee is daughter of Mrs. Bennett.
 Frank Dalton, son of Mrs. Mary Dalton, employed as cook at The Can field, a brakeman on the Shore Line division of the Consolidated was killed Saturday night near Riverside, Conn. No one saw the accident, his body was found by the train crew on top of car. It is thought he came in contact with a high tension wire.
 | James Keenan, the engineer at the pumping station on the Berkshire divi- sion, while assisting in transferring freight at the local station fell between the car and platform Thursday, received painfal injury to his back and side. During his absence A. P. Evans has charge of the pump and Jaraos McCor- mick is assisting on the transfer work.
 Mrs. Ella H. Burns and MISS Emma R. Lawrence, left Friday morning for a pleasure trip to Halifax, Nova Scotia. They sailed from New York Saturday.
 William L. Adam, a nephew of Miss s. W. Adam of this town, has been elected director of the Agricultural bank of Pittsfeld, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, Robert W. Adam. <>a
 A. H. Herriman left Monday night for Erie. Penn, where he will spend the week at the races. His fast horse Friend Direct" is entered in the 2,21 pace, class.
 E. L. Roberts has rented the rooms in the D. W Manvel's tenement house on West Main street, recently occupied by Miss Potter's school. It is expected the reI airs will be completed, and the rooms ready for occupancy August 1st. Work at the Allyndale White Marble and Lime Go. at East Canaan is being rushed. The two new lime kilns are nearly completed and work will com, mence at once on a large marble mill 60x200 feet.
 Mir. and Mrs. R. H. Whitford attended the funeral of their nephew, Clifton Wickwire, at Waterville. Conn.,, last Thursday. MT. Wickwire was 24 years of age and had been sick for many months. He was we'll known in Canaan, |, having spent his vacation last summer here. His father, Edward Wickwire, was a former resident of South Canaan
 Miss Marion Roger of Canaan and Albert Krouse, were married at Meriden, Conn.,, on July 5. Their many Canaan friends extend hearty congratulations, Mir. and Mrs. Krouse will reside in Meri- Nden where MT. Krouse is employed in a printing establishment. The announce ment of the wedding vas surprise to their numerous friends. who expected they were to be married Tn the fall. Mrs. Frances F. Clemans is building new porch on the east side of the Clemans building on Main street. Joseph Blair is doing the work.
 Miss Marion Higgins is visiting her amt, Mrs. James Walsh in Bristol, The following from the Hartford Post refers to a young lady. who formerly resided in Canaan. Miss Alice Twiss Cummings, foster daughter of the late Frank A. Cummings, one of the first conductors on the Connecticut Vest ern railroad Miss Alice T. Gum