Connecticut western news., 1912-02-01
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Canaan Hose Co.,. minstrels are dili- gently practicing some of the specialties for the performance, but delay in seour- ing music, songs, etc., together with the attractions that monopolize all the evenings in the pre-Lenten season. has retarded their progress, and 1t Is now planned to hold rehearsals weekly dur ing Lent, and give the show immediately after Easter.
 Mrs. N. B. Chapin of Torrington visit ed friends in town Thursday and Friday. Miss Ethel Potter accompanied her home , and returned to Canaan Saturday even- ing.
 Rev. J. P. Smyth attended the arch deaconry meeting in New Milford on Tuesday.
 Mrs, Frank McCarty is ill so that her boarders are obliged to go out for their meals at present.
 Christ Church Guild will meet next Tuesday with Miss Ferguson.
 Word was received Monday night of the burning of barn, containing r head of cattle and one horse, belonging to Ii. Wollman, about mile north of Corn wall Bridge.
 A daughter was born Thursday to MT. and Mrs. John Mansfield on Reed street.
 At the East Canaan Village Hall. Mon day evening Febuary 5. Mrs. Taylor, Chairman of the Litchfield County Equal Franchise League. and her husband, MT, A. s. G. Taylor, will address the mem bers of the Grange oa the subject of Equal Suffrage. The Connections State Grange has endorsed Woman Suffrage and, naturally, the local granges have, n consequence. expressed much interest in the subject. All are invited. .
 At the next regular meeting of the Hollenbeck Grange, South Canaan Mon day evening, Febuary 5, the lecturers hour will be open to the public beginning at 8 o'clock. A Lincoln Day program has been prepared.
 Miss May Smith has been spending 9 week with friends in Windsor Locks, New Britain and Springfield. 'r
 Harold Norton spent Saturday with friends in Salisbury.
 Miss Lillie D, Root spent Saturday in Pittsfeld Mass. ts
 Frank Niles Wise and Miss Cora Eliz- Rbeth Rowland, of Pittsfeld. were mar. ried here by Justice George w. Ford, yesterday.
 Samuel Newton, of California, brother of Mrs. R. D. Peirce, IS visiting MT. and Mrs. Peirce, on High Street. ,
 George Wigglesworth, of Naugatuck. was in town last week guest of his brother A. J. Wigglesworth. .-
 The opening of the Pilgrim church social rooms after their extensive trans formation and re-modeling, will be an enjoyable event, next week Wednesday evening, when chicken supper will be one of the dedicatory rites and ceremon- ies. .G.s.4
 Mrs Ellen Holcomb Peck. formerly of Falls Village, Conn. died Tuesday morning at the home of her niece, Mrs, Fred Gillette, in Great Harrington, Mass, aged 80 years.
 The fourth quarterly conference will be held at the Methodist church next Thursday evening, February 8th. Rev. R. E. Wilson, district superintendent, will be present a+1
 The Odd Fellows worked the second degree Monday evening; next week the third degree will be put on to be follow ed by spread. ..#.
 The annual meeting of the Canaan Fire District will be held in Town Hall, Saturday, Feb. 10, at o'clock. Besides the regular business of election, hearing reports and laying tax for district pur- poses. it is expected some attention will be given to proposition to extend the sewer system. The matter of fire pro- tection and fire insurance also is likely to be discussed, and it is hoped there will be general turning out of tax payers at the meeting.
 The Housatonic Valley Methodist Ministers meeting will be held next Mon- day February 5,at Falls Village. A paper will be read by Rev. G. E. Montrose and the sermon preached by Rev. W. E. Ridgeway.
 The Borden people are preparing to cut another crop of ice on their pond near the milk factory.
 An interesting exhibit in rubber and the process of manufacturing rubber footwear by the Shawmut Rubber Go, is given ill the show windows of Benton & Wright, showing valuable ball of solid crude rubber, various specimens of rubber in different sCages of preparation, numerC us aluminium forms used in the