Connecticut western news., 1912-06-13

| IOIIOW Gu6 uSSr00 WOrK. It WAS eAp6CG- ed that Great Harrington lodge would be present to do the work but they have found it impossible to attend.
 The first regular meeting of Queen Esther Lodge. No. 49, Daughters of Rebekah will be held in Odd Fellows hall, tomorrow night.
 Miss Bessie Frein of Great Harrington spent Sunday with her aunt, Mrs. Eugene T. Rowe.
 MT. and Mrs. J. Lee Ensign were in town Saturday.
 A transient visitor, from New York, driving about town observed that Ca naan is a much better kept village than the average of country towns. He said that in tour of the village he did not see a single house that seemed badly in need of painting, nor a single neglected lawn.
 Mrs. Arthur M. Marsh, of Glaston- bury, Conn, and son Anson, are spend ing few days with MT. and Mrs. A. A. Lawrence.
 The matrimonial bug is at work again after slight Hull, which was interrupted by the 0. E. Thompson-MaryR R. Belot, Pittsfeld, wedding by Rev. MT. Corn ford, which was the culmination of a romance, This was followed, Friday by the marriage of Paul l.. Mottelay and Miss Edith V. Derwin, of Brooklyn, per- formed by Rev. E. 0. Gillette.
 MT. and Mrs. Charles D. Lay and two children of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Miss Henrietta Brown have been guests of the Misses Brown.
 The new 'crosswalk, on Railroad street from Wigglesworth' s to the bakery, is completed, and is a much needed and substantially constructed improvement of marble and cement.
 Fred Scamerhorn packed up his worldly belongings, Monday, and took his departure on a north bound train. Fred informed his friends before depart ing, that he intends to settle in Florida, and go into the fruit and garden. truck business, and that when he is thorough ly settled there hls parents, MT. and Mrs. Jacob Soamerhorn, will sell out their Canaan property and join him in the sunny south.
 A daughter was born Monday to MT. and Mrs. 5. E.. Kimball.
 MT. H. M. Adams. of Hartford, is vis- ting relatives and calling on friends in town. MT. Adams is very pleasantly remembered as a former teacher in Ca- naan schools.
 MT. Walter G. Geikie, of Sydney, with his wife and three chil. dren, visited his aunt, Mrs. Mary Geikie Adam. from Friday until Tuesday,. The family sail today from New York, on the steamer Cedric. for Liverpool
 Judge Roraback's family are now domiciled in their Twin Lakes cottage having driven over, "bag and baggage" Tuesday forenoon.
 Judge A. T. Roraback is sitting with the Supreme Court in New Haven, this week.
 Miss Brazee of Boston has been spend ing a week with Miss May Smith.
 H. 0. Gaylord of Falls Village was in town Tuesday morning.
 H. L. Barber and A. O. Lockwood. of Southfeld. have purchased Ford auto mobiles, and now travel down to Canaan by gasoline.
 Miss Katherine Finnegan principal of the East Canaan Grammer School, re- ports two cases of diligence in her school that deserve mention. Willie Casey, son of Martin Casey, has been neither absent nor tardy single day in six years, and during the last three years. while he has been janitor of the school house he has not failed once to have a fire go- ing and the school.room warm by 9I o'clock, the hour of beginning. Willie KegIer, son of Clement, Kegler, has not been absent once, and was tardy only once in six years of school attendance, the single exception being one morning when he was out of town and returned on the 10 o'clock train.
 Mrs. George L. Parsons IS spending week in Brooklyn, N. Y., visiting her sister Mrs. Wm. Douglass. Mr. Par sons will spend Sunday with them.
 MT. and Mrs. Henry B. Ives moved to Twin Lakes Saturday and are occupy ing their cottage there for the season MT. and Mrs. R. D. Peirce went to their cottage, this week.
 Miss Jennie Ferry was at her home in Ashley Falls Sunday.
 MT. and Mrs. Jesse Drumm, of Pitts field, formerly of Canaan, visited friends and relatives in town over Sunday.
 Misses Elizabeth and Catherine Mo- Cormick and Charles O'Connell spent Sunday in Lenox, Mass.