Connecticut western news., 1913-03-20
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 rooms next Monday evening at 7:30.
 The store occupied by G L. Parsons is undergoing extensive alterations at hands of E. R. Lorraln's force of car penters. Besides radical changes i'll the interior arrangement, two-story seven foot extension is being put on the the west side. This permits of an ex- tra show room on the second floor, as well as an extensive addition to the the grocery department on the main floor.
 Allyn Fuller returned from Hartford yesterday. with his Cadillac car resplen- dent in new coat of dark blue.
 The Ladies' Aid Society met yester- day afternoon with Mrs. Oornford at the Methodist parsonage.
 W. N Decker has just purchased a No. Royal Typewriter of the Canaan Printing Go.
 Canaan friends of the senior class of the Sheffield High school, will be in- terested to know that they will give a play in the Town Hall in that village, Friday evening, March 28. to be fol- lowed by dance.
 Albert G. Eldridge, of North Adams. was an over Sunday guest of friends in town.
 From the "Forty years ago" column of the Bridgeport Standard, date of March IS, r873: 'Mr. Stillson, conduc- tor on the Housatonic road, is slowly inn proving, though still confined to his house in Canaan. MT. Charles Elm mons, formerly conductor on this road, who smashed his hand badly while coupling cars recently, is again on duty, though he has to favor his crushed up hand considerably"
 The Easter services at the Methodist church include sermon and special mu- sic in the morning. The evening ser vice will be given up to an Easter "Fes- tival of Song"
 Mrs. N. A. Preston was at her post at the Douglass Library yesterday. after an absence of six weeks
 Miss Katherine Considine is visiting her sister, Miss Ella Oonsidine.
 Rev. E. O. Gillette married Lloyd T. Blanchard, of Pittsfeld,, and Frances Louise Hurley, of North Adams, yes terday afternoon at the Pilgrim parson- age.
 MT. and Mrs. John 0. Smith, of Shef- field, were Monday visitors at the home of Charles G. Smith.
 Miss Gladys DeHart has about twenty pupils in music, vocal and instrumental in Great Burlington, Sheffield, Saiis- bury and Canaan.
 Manager Hewitt has secured Robert Mantell for appearance at the Mahaiwe Theatre, in Shakespeare. April IT.
 The public schools closed Tuesday for the Easter vacation of one week. The teachers departed for their respective homes on the first trains Wednesday morning.
 F. F. Stevens and G. P. Hardenbergh inspected the poultry department of the F. s. Pearson estate in Great Barring ton, Monday.
 The Ladies Aid Society of the Meth odist church, will hold their annual Orange Tea in the church parlors. Fri day evening, March 28, from 5:3O to 8 o'clock. Shortcake supper will be served for 35 cents including ice cream.
 Miss Grace M. Roraback is visiting the churches in Waterbury and Water town this week in the interests of the Woman's Home Missionary Society
 The Cranford Club meets this after noon with Mrs. J. E. Rhoades. Mrs s. G. Camp takes charge of the program, speaking on '.The relation of the United States to Mexico"
 Quentin Roger returned home from the Winsted hospital yesterday.
 Mrs. A. J. Wigglesworth entered the Hartford hospital Monday, where she underwent an operation yesterday.
 Miss Cora Manvel attended the funeral of her cousin, Reuben Manvel, in Shef- field, Wednesday of last week.
 Mrs. Erastus Burr, of Norfolk, was a recent guest of Mrs. Cora Adams and daughter on Church street.
 Miss Alice Westor and Miss Maud Atwater, of Springfield, have been guests of Mrs. s. G. Camp the past week.
 Miss Ethel Potter, who has spent sew eral weeks at pr. Camps. returned last week to Cazenovia. N. Y.
 Mrs F. F. Stevens attended the meet ing of the directors and officers of the State Sunday School Association held in Hartford on Tuesday.
 The Canaan amateurs will again play