Connecticut western news., 1914-04-09

| on friends here Tuesday.
 Miss Marjorie Lowe, of Lime Rock was visitor in town the early part of the week. There will be unlon Fast Day ser. vice at Pilgrim Church tomorrow after noon at three o'clock, the Methodist and Congregational churches uniting. The service will be conducted by the ; pastors.
 The Superior court held session for naturalization purposes Tuesday.
 Rev. E. 0. Gillette preached in Nor folk last night This afternoon he will preach in Salisbury.
 James F. Hines, of New Haven, is spending few days at Joseph Kegler's.
 Housatonic Lodge, F. and A. M., will confer the M. M. degree at the regular communication this evening. All mem. bers are req aested to be present.
 The Canaan postoffice will be open to- morrow, Good Friday, from to 1s. noon and from to p. m.
 Miss Abbie M, Dickinson, of Torring- ton, is at the Naples for few days.
 Mrs. O. E. Badgley and son, Perry, are visiting in Worcester.
 In Christ Church there will be Good Friday services tomorrow from 12 to 3 o'clock. Evening Prayer at 7;S0. Sat 4 o'clock, there will be service of bap- tisn.
 Miss Sara Considine, of Passaic, N. J.. is visiting her sister, Miss Ella Considine.
 Miss Ellen Kane. of Pittsfeld, spent Sunday at her home here.
 Liveryman A. P. Briggs has purchased
 Rec touring car. of Brewer Brothers.
 An exciting basketball game was played in Town Hall Friday night by the Canaan and Hilton, N. H. teams. The Canaan team won with score of 34 to 12.
 Miss Dorothy DeMars, of Norfolk, is visiting at E. A. Brewers.
 Col John H. Wade and Mrs. Wade. of Bridgeport and Stockbridge, called on Canaan friends Monday afternoon.
 Mr. and Mrs. Charles s. Adam spent Sunday in New Haven.
 Master Forbes Adam, son of MT. and Mrs. Charles s. Adam, will be the re- cipient of new Chickering piano. as 8 birthday present from his parents. The piano, purchased in Bridgeport, ,::arrived Monday by freight but in such shatter- ed condition that MT. Adam refused to accept it, and it was returned.
 MT. Robert Lane, of North Adams, was guest of friends here over Sunday
 MT. Percy Stanton, of Old Chatham, spent the weekend at his home here.
 Sherwood O. Cummings, of Rockville formerly of Canaan, was in town, last week, and sold his building lot on Church street, between the places occupied by Wallace Burghardt and Charles J. Beaujon. The purchaser was John I'm hoff. who will shatter the "stagnation in building" hoodoo by erecting dwell lug house on it at once, thus setting pattern which, it is to be hoped will be followed by somebody else.
 Allyn Fuller has sold his house and lot, occupied by Samuel Drumm, on Church Street, to Fred E. Dewey, who | will occupy it May 1. The house to be vacated by MT. Dewey, owned by Sher- wood O. Cummings, of Rockville, will ! be occupied by David Hatmaker, who recently moved from Salisbury to the Peirce tenement. c. O. H. Pease has sold his Church street building lot to Allyn Fuller. The lot is situated between the residences of Mrs. Merwin and Louis E Hester.
 Mrs Frank Hitchcock has been suffer ing for week with severe attack of tonsilitis
 MT. and Mrs. George H. Oldfeld, of Stockbridge, Mass, visited Canaan friends Sunday. MT. Oldfsld is one of the oldest station agents on the Berk- shire division, having been in the em. ploy of the railroad, on, the same division for Al years. He has been station agent at Stockbridge for the last 25 years, and was for a number of years prior agent at West Cornwall.
 Henry Koehler. of West Cornwall, and LeGrand Stack, of Still River spent Sunday at G. H. Trieschmann's.
 Misses Lydia and Della Merwin. &C., by Miss Dickinson, of Tor. rington, spent the week. end in Canaan.
 Miss Margaret Hanlon, of Hartford. spent the weekend at her home here. Misses Louise Trjeschmann and Mary Fitch. of Danbury, are spending their Easter vacation at their homes here. MT. Albert E. Eldridge, of Blackstone, Mass, spent few days at Geo. s. Full Inr'a tha and Of tha wnak Mra, EI-