Connecticut western news., 1914-08-13

week.
 Mrs. Aida D. Rood is visiting in New York city.
 Edson Rood has been visiting in Waterbury.
 Miss Irene Greene returned to New York city Tuesday after having spent two weeks at her home here.
 Miss Gertrude Parmalee, of Great Burlington, has been visiting relatives ill town.
 Miss Charlotte Beckley is visiting relatives in Cornwall Hollow.
 Mrs. Elizabeth Jack kiln, of Winsted, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. w. Wyckoff and family.
 Mr. William Hawley, of Sherman, is visiting at Mrs. IN. l.. Jackson's and George Rogers.
 MT. and Mrs. Robert Moore and children are spending a few weeks at | the Naples.
 MT. and Mrs. Hubert Dowd and daughter, Gertrude. of Wichita, Kan sas, are visiting Mrs. Dowd's brother, MT. Frank Hitchcock and family. MT. and Mrs. William Drumm were given genuine surprise last Saturday evening by the members of their family in honor of their fiftieth wedding anpi versary.
 MT. James Carroll, from Falls Village, is assisting l.. E. Howe of the Standard Oil Co.,
 k. H. Vondy, of New Jersey, is spending a few weeks at Chas. Rood's. Dr. and Mrs. Charles O. Godfrey, of Bridgeport, are spending a month at Twin. Lakes as guests of Mrs. Henry Setzer.
 Miss Viola Lasher, of Germantown, N. Y, is visiting at the home of her brother, G. M. Lasher.
 Arthur Baldwin, of Chapinville, is visiting relatives in town. ..
 Mrs. Miles Jenks and daughter, Janet, and Mrs. Edward Everett, of Millerton, visited friends in town last week.
 Miss Abbie Collins, of Winsted, is visiting at James Keenan's. MT. George Russell, of New York, is visiting at Mrs. Little's. Misses Elfreda Hunt and Margaret Wilson who have been visiting at l.. B. Hester's for some time, returned to their home in Vinelands>N. J., last Fri day.
 MT. David H. Roger, of South Nor walk, spent the week end with relatives in town.
 Mrs. L. Hugh Drawdy and son, Alfred, of Merritt, Florida, are spend ing a month with Mrs. Helen Pease and Chas. Pease. Mrs. Drawdy will be remembered as Miss Helen Pease.
 Mrs. John H. Burkett has taken rooms in the F. l.. Beckley house and is prepared to do home bakingi and plain sewing. Bread, cake, pies and raised doughnuts Wednesday and Satur- day. Telephone 107. Adv.
 A yellow dahlia of the cactus variety, was grown in the flower garden of Mr. Anson A. Lawrence, and has nonplussed the most experienced of foriculturists who have seen it. It has evidently blossomed from a Siamese twin bud that faced both ways, and the full blown flower, composed of two flowers growing back to back, forms blossom almost completely round, like yellow snowfall. 'The flower has attracted considerable attention and created no little wonderment-~
 President John B. Adams, of the Winsted Business Mems Association, with his family and party, autoing through Canaan, stopped at the News sanctum for brief call, Thursday. He denied the soft impeachment that the presence of the circus, and the bewildering gorgeousness of the street parade had any allurement to influence his route in this direction. President Adams simply desired to find out if pairing would be allowed, at the Bald-Head banquet in the Winchester, next October. He admits he is we'll supplied with bair, himself, but thought he might pair with President 0. H. Dougal, of the Torrington B. M. A., who is to be speaker at the banquet, and who has polished dome acreage enough for both. He was referred to President Orr and Secretary Chapman.
 Former State Highway Commissioner Macdonald and. Mrs. Macdonald were visitors i'll town Thursday. They are summering at their delightful country home in Norfolk. MT. Macdonald has recently returned from a visit ill the Middle West, whither he went on business.
 The Torrington Register says that Charles E. Roraback, brother of Probate Judge W. A. Roraback, formerly of Canaan, is in London, England, where he is acting as European manager for an American concern