Connecticut western news., 1912-12-26
CANAAN

bHe SIOW, CO Do gwen Jdil % duIl @4' will be the best ever given in Canaan.
 Santa Claus has kept his eye on the Boy Scouts.
 Rev. and Mrs. E. c. Gillette are spend ing week at Hartford and Talcottville. Dr.'and Mrs. H. L. Ross will spend Christmas with relatives in COhOes, N. Y
 Next Monday evening Canaan min strelsy lovers will have an opportunity to see Neil O'Brien's new and talented company of corked and cOrking artists, at The Mahaiwe, Great Burlington.
 This Saturday evening at 5:3O the Sunday school of Christ Church have a party in Odd Fellows hall. Supper, fol lowed by games and 8 Christmas tree IS the program for the evening. The Christmas song will be held Sunday af- ternoon at 3:3O.
 Miss Frances Freeman is home from Fredonia, N, Y.. for the holiday vaca- A tion.
 Mrs. W. J.. Thompson is entertaining her sister, Miss Sherwood from Canada. The post office will be closed today, Wednesday, from 12 to 5:45 p. m.
 ". W. Rowland, of West Stockbridge, was visitor in town yesterday.
 Rev Albert Edward Roraback spent the first of the week at his home in town. Quentin Roger spent Christmas with friends in Winsted.
 Send your Christmas Greetings, to those who cannot joln the family circle, by telephone. Adv.
 Annual communication of Housatonic Lodge F. and A. M. Thursday evening this week, Dec. 26. Election of officers.
 The new officers of Esther Chapter Q. E. s. will be installed Friday even ing, Jan. 3. by Mrs. Ida E. w. Davis, of Collinsville P w. Grand Matron.
 Miss May Devine is spending @ few days ill New Britain, the guest of friends. Misses Margaret and Rose Lowe are spending Christmas at their home ill Lime Rock.
 Rev. E. c. Gillette and family will spend week in Hartford and Talcott- vile. Rev. J. E. Tinker will occupy the pulpit at Pilgrim Church next Sunday morning. The choir will repeat some of the Christmas music.
 The Brotherhood class had an inter- esting dicussion of peace and arbitration last Sunday, Emphasizing especially the arbitration of the question of the Panama tolls. Next Sunday they will continue the discussion. taking up es- pecially the arbitration treaties with England and Germany and the lapsing of the treaty with Russia.
 Miss Margaret Corcoran spent Sun day with her grandmother in the Cat skill.
 Er. and Mrs l.. E. Holt and daughter Marian, of New Britain, are spending Christmas at Horace E. Holt's.
 MT. Fred Dewey is visiting friends in New York.
 Misses Isabel and Margaret Roger spend Christmas with their sister ill Tor rington.
 At @ special meeting of Esther Chap ter No. 72 o. E. s. held Friday evening of last week, two candidates were initi- ated, after which refreshments were served.
 Miss Mary Mullen, of Sheffield, was the guest of her brother here over Satur- day.
 Miss Helen Lefingwen is spending the holidays with her father. James Leff1ngwell.
 Miss Ellen Homer spent Friday night at Mrs. Fred Brewers.
 MT and Mrs. F. E. Dewey and family spent Christmas with relatives in Kent James F. Hines, of New Haven, is spending the holidays with MT. and Mrs. Joseph Kegler.
 Senator G. Wright Gordon and family of Springfield, were over Sunday guests of Mr.. Gordon's sister, Mrs. R. P. Lee.
 The Southern Berkshire Marble Com pany are very busy. A night and day shift are working at the present time.
 Christmas day the Douglas Library will not be open, either afternoon or evening.
 Misses May and Bessie Lorrain, of Sheffield, visited at their grandfather's, E. R. Lorrain, the last of the week,
 Miss Mary o. Hill, teacher in the fourth grade of the public school. is spending the holiday vacation. at The Naples.
 Miss Melita Rosenbeck is spending a few days at her home in Torrington.
 Acel r. Rood is spending a few days visiting hls many friends in this vicinity