Connecticut western news., 1914-06-04
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sisting of one poor little scrawny, moth eaten, sore-eyed, starved, rowling, abandoned cat, was settled by Kenneth Roberts, yesterday, by request, with 8 gun, we'll aimed. z" --'@. t''
 The canvassers for membership in the Canaan Nurse Association report gratifying success and a widespread and real live interest in the undertak- ing. ...
 The roof of Ives 6 Peirce's store room is being recovered with tar and gravel.
 The tent caterpillars are apparently as plentiful and pestiferous as ever. But think how many millions more of them there would be if the school chll- dren had not destroyed all those, hun dreds of thousands of egg masses ill Ga naan alone! ..
 Judge A. T. Roraback is setting with the supreme court in New Haven this week, where for the first time court is be1ng held in the new and polatlal county court house. ..
 George c. Peet, of Bridgeport, was in town yesterday.
 That carload of oil which is Ion the way" is-on the way.
 Mrs. Julia Merriman, the nurse, is attending Mrs. Charles Shaw, who was so handsomely remembered by the stork few days ago.
 Canaan Lodge No. 50, I. O. O. F. will attend memorial services at the Methodist church Sunday evening, June 21.
 Mrs. Vosburgh has rallied surpris- ingly since her return from the hospital in Pittsfield and her friends are re- joicing in the hope of her complete re- covery. .. .'..
 Oil is being distributed, by private enterprise, on West Main street, from the Camp-Ross bridge to Peirce's hill.
 The barn belonging to R. D. Peirce at Twin Lakes, was destroyed by fire late Tuesday night, together with motor launch which was housed in it. The cause of the fire is unknown. The blaze was seen here by persons alight- ing from the return concert train, and MT. Peirce went over immediately by automobile, only to find the building totally destroyed. The building was insured. :z
 Deputy Sheriff Ed Reidy, of Win sted, was in town yesterday.
 All the Norfolk roads lead to the Music Shed, this week.
 It would be too bad to wet down those pretty concert dresses-but we sure do need the rain.
 Roy Peirce, of Nebraska, is visiting his uncle, D. L. Peirce. !,
 Miss Mary Fitch, of Danbury Nor nal, spent the weekend at her home here. .s.
 Mrs. Kate Daley, of Brooklyn, who spent several weeks in Canaan, left Tuesday for Winsted, where she will sojourn for three weeks at the Beardsley House, before returning to her home in Brooklyn.
 State School Supervisors Ireland, of Ridgefeld; Halliwell, of Watertown; Clough, of Deep River, and Dakin, Of Hartford, spent Memorial Day in Ga naan with Supervisor George J. Vogel.
 George J. Vogel spent Sunday at the
 
 The Rev. Walter E. Lanphear, of Hartford, representing the Connecticut Temperance Union, will give free lecture at Pilgrim church next Tues day evening at 8 o'clock on the subject "The task that Lincoln left us. This will be an up- p-to-date and wide-awake address on the new movement for the abolition of the liquor traffic. MT. Lanphear is an interesting speaker and all are cordially invited to hear him.
 Mrs. R. T. Farnum and son Ralph are spending a few weeks in Spring field, Vt.
 Mrs. Rodemeyer IS in the Presbyter- ian Hospital, Park Avenue and roth street, New York, recovering from the effects of an operation for the removal of an -thoracic goitre, the'inward growth of which had deprived her of her voice, seriously interfered with her breathing, and affected her entire nervous system. The operation was performed Friday morning by Dr. William Darrach, one of the most skilled surgeons in the city. The patient is reported as doing nicely, and may be able to return home the latter part of next week.
 Paul Lorraine and grandchild, of White Plains, N. Y., were in town from Friday until Monday.
 Rev. E. c. Gillette has been elected to membership in the pastoral union of the Hartford Theological Seminary.
 Sixty transient guests, chiefly auto mobiles tourists, took dinner at the Garfield, Sunday.
 Invitations have been received here for the marriage, at North Adams, Mass, June 10, of Thomas William McClelland, of Canaan, to Miss Ethel Fidelia Jerome, of North Adams. The ceremony will take place in St. Johns church at 2:30 o'clock.
 Clarence B., Gillette, son of Ovid P. Gillette, proprietor of the White House Cafe in Canaan and Miss Mvrt1n Bar