Connecticut western news., 1913-06-19
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Briggs had to take the second look, and scrutinize sharply. to recognize him. l,st Monday, when he made his first public appearance after having his mus tache cut off ; and the verdict is general that with the mustache went 20 years off his age, so far as appearance goes.
 The fiftieth anniversary of the Litch. field Northwest Sunday School Union will be held in. the Congregations church, Falls Village, Tuesday. July l. The Union comprises all the schools ID this part of the state
 Miss Ellen Bronson, nurse in New York hospital, is spending her vacation with her parents, MT. and Mrs. Levi Bronson, in East Canaan.
 School Principal Strayer will spend his vacation in York, Penn.
 Fred Morin, the barber. entertained his father, from Plttsfield last week.
 Mrs. Maria Fuller, of Hudson, N. r., is guest of her sister, Mrs. J. N. Van Densen
 Miss Ruth L. Peirce is home from the Northfeld school for the summer vaca- tion.
 Miss Clara Hunter has closed her school in Sharon and is at her home in this village for the summer. Saturday afternoon there is to be an auction of household goods and COW at the late residence of George Prenez, at East Canaan.
 Mrs. Mary Geike Adam returned Fri. day. from Indianapolis. where she spent the winter with her daughter, Mrs. J. H. R. Moore.
 Harvey Perkins, of Hadsell street, died Friday, and his funeral was held Sunday afternoon from his late resi- dence.
 The Woman's Mission Society of Pill grim church will meet in the church parlors tomorrow afternoon at 2:S0 o'clock.
 J. Clinton Roraback has been enjoying
 
 New Haven this week.
 The Pilgrim church Sunday school will be held next Sunday at 12 o'clock owing to the Masonic services in the afternoon.
 The last smoker of the Business Mems Association, for the season. will be held in Odd Fellows Hall, this evening Re- treatments and cigars free. Important business to be considered.
 The Roberts lumber shed, opposite the railroad station is being emptied and dismantled and the stock and building transported to the grounds of the Ca- naan Lumber Co. on Railroad street.
 MT. and Mrs. James McGpire and nephews, Edward and Morris Morrisey, of Millerton, N. Y., were in town Sum- day calling on relatives and friends.
 The long delayed shipment of oil for the streets arrived last week, and the oil was promptly distributed on all the state roads in the town, by "Tom" But Ter. the local highway commissioner, and his assistants. The dust is now laid, and existence for the residents is made less miserable by the automobile tourists who .burn up'' the streets in passing through.
 Judge Roraback and family went to Twin Lakes Friday, to occupy their de- 1ightful cottage for the summer.
 Dr. H. l.. Ross and H. B. Ives, Tues day went to Albany to witness a Knights Templar field day at which 5000 Knights assembled and marched in a parade. They left Canaan at o'c clock in the morning in Dr. Ross's auto and motored to Pittsfeld. where they took a train for Albany, and returned in the evening, the same way.
 George V. Wood and Miss Mary Belle Hunter were married Sunday afternoon by Rev. L. E. Travis, at the Methodist parsonage The bride is half sister of the groom and the happy couple are well known and popular members of the younger circles of Canaan society. They left on the south bound express tram. Sunday afternoon for brief honeymoon tonr and were literally sprinkled with rice as they took their departure.
 The first quarterly conference of the Methodist Church will be held to- morrow evening at D. w. Manvel's. District uperintendent R. E. Wilson, of Poughkeepsie. will preside.
 The seventh and eighth grade pupils. with Miss Moore, their teacher. had 8 picnic in Barlow's grove last Friday. No. l, will take place Thursday evening, July 3, at the Town Hall. Music will be furnished by Beeman and Hatch or.