Connecticut western news., 1914-05-21
CANAAN

A meeting of the Scout Council if called, to be held at the Boy Scout room Saturday evening of this week May 23, at 7:3O o'clock. All membert of the council and advisory board art requested to be present. ~ ;" ,<......
 Mrs. O. T. Vosburgh returned by auto from the House of Mercy in Pitts field, Tuesday, after about week stay there. She is little, if any, i'm proved, but it is hoped that in the at mosphere of home and with favorable weather, she will experience 8 degree of relief. She is, as ever, cheerful, hopeful and courageous. a.s l>. ..
 Edson Rood is rapidly recovering his strength and vigor, after his four months siege of rheumatism and is able to walk about town, with the aid of g cane.
 Mrs. H. D. Humphrey, who returned recently from the Hillcrest Hospital, is making rapid strides toward the full recovery of her strength, and spends much time in the open air.
 Some of those speeding tourists who tear around the Parsons corner at ex- cessive speed are destined to learn a thing or, two about speed laws, when the new local automobile association gets traffic cop stationed there.
 Irving Roberts, of Torrington, visit ed his sister, Mrs. O. E. Badgley last week. ..a.
 The Cranford Club will meet this afternoon with Mrs. Ross. Mrs. En- ma Rodemeyer Wait, of Cohoes, N. Y., will give her talk on Comparative Womanhood '' Mrs. Ross has issued invitations to the capacity of her home, to Canaan lady friends of Mrs. Wait.
 Truman Floyd Stoddard, of Corn wall, formerly of Canaan Valley, and Miss Ruth Abbe Whitney, of Cornwall, were married at the Pilgrim parsonage Monday by Rev. E. O. Gillette.
 Liveryman Briggs is advertising a number of horses for sale. He is now conveying patrons by automobile. More and more the horse is becoming back number
 MT. c. D. Hine, secretary of the state board of education, who is spending the season at the Naples, was in Hartford over Sunday.
 The Wangum is now open for the season for permanent and transient guests. Adv.
 Miss O. H. Roraback is spending the week with her brother, Rev. A. E. Roraback in Brooklyn. @.,
 John Rains, of South Norwalk, former proprietor of the Model Bakery, was in town Tuesday, looking after his Canaan interests.
 H. B. Ives returned Thursday from Adirondacks. He reports good fishing at Lake Chatiemac, where Dr. Ross re- mains for another week.
 Miss Mary Bolton, of New York, is spending few days at Joseph Kegler's.
 Says the Lee Cleaner: ;'Charles s. Mellen's testimony before the, inter- state commerce commission, would in- dicate that he had concluded to be MT. Mellen instead of MT. Goat. This is his chance to get back at the New Hay en wreckers, and we wish him much pleasure in all such undertakings. No town in Massachusetts has suffered pro- portionately so great as Lee in the New Haven uncertainties, in that the new trolley line which should be under way at the present time, is simply big question mark.
 Mrs. Emma Rodemeyer Wait, of Co., hoes, N. Y., arrived yesterday after noon and will remain with her sister, Mrs. Ross, until Saturday.
 The last session of the Brotherhood class of Pilgrim church for the season will be held next Sunday. MT. Gill lettewill give an account of his exper- fences in home missionary parish in Northern Vermont.
 W.eD. Sheldon attended the session of the Grand Lodge, l. O. O. F., held in New Haven yesterday.
 Decker 6 Beebe have repaired the stand pipe on Railroad street from which the village sprinkling cart is filled. Soon the "water wagon" will be making it's welcome rounds.
 The DuPont Powder Company's magazine, in the north part of the viii lage has been stocked up with dyna- mite and other explosive stuff for some little time now, and that awful ex- plosion has not yet exploded. We are still on the map,
 Engineer Burghardt and James Mo- Cormick have repaired an old and trou- blesome leak in the shut-off of the main water pipe near J. B. Reeds resi- dence.
 MT. Henry Setzer, of Bridgeport, was brought up, yesterday, on special car attached to the noon train, which was switched to the c. N. E. train and conveyed to Twin Lakes, where the in- valid will spend the heated term at his pleasant cottage. He is in a very weak condition, but it is hoped the whole some atmosphere and environment of Twin Lakes will have beneficial effect Dr. Godfrey, of Bridgeport, accom- panied MT. Setzer and family, in the special car.
 MT George S. Fuller and bride ar