Connecticut western news., 1915-01-28

MI. duCl hIS SIldI1eS kAtldul few days in Hartford last week.
 The regular monthly teachers meet ing was held in the High School Mon- day. The subject of drawing was dis cussed. A school holiday was declared for Feb. 12, Lincoln's birthday. There was only one session of High School, as usual on teachers meeting day.
 Sodom school, Miss Carrie Couklin, teacher, holds the attendance for the rural schools, for the last week, and in District No. 3, Miss Hanlon's school, grades [ and holds the banner. Bert Brewers new house on upper Railroad street, is rapidly approach ing a state of completion. 1t is covered and the plaster boards are about ready for the masons to slap the plaster on the walls. The outside will be covered with stucco. MT. Brewer expects to be able to move in about March 1.
 Jerome Root is back on duty again at the Canaan Mercantile Go. s store.
 Mrs. w. N. Beebe and daughter, Mildred are visiting Miss G. Irene Green in New York city.
 Mrs. w. B. Brewster attended the funeral of her father ill North Adams last Saturday.
 Miss Myra Lawton spent Sunday in Pittsfield.
 Mrs. Hunt, of Vineland, N. J., is visiting her daughter, Mrs. l.. k. Hester and family.
 At a regular meeting of Queen Esther Rebekah Lodge No. 49 held last Friday evening officers for the ensuing year were installed by District Deputy, Mrs. Minnie P Raymond, of Winsted, and her suite of officers. After which refreshments were served.
 Miss Grace Roraback, field secretary of the Woman's Home Missionary So- ciety, started Tuesday on a three months tour of the South, in the inter- est of the Society, and will labor in Kentucky and the Carolinas.
 There will be stereopticon lecture on travels and mission work in America and Kurdistan at the Pilgrim church Sunday evening at 7:30.
 Esther Chapter No. 72, O. E. S., will hold a social after their regular meeting Wednesday evening, Feb. 3, for the benefit of the Relief Fund. Everybody welcome.
 l.. E. Howe has recovered so that with the aid Of crutches he is able to walk out on pleasant days.
 Attorney J. Clinton Roraback has garnished money due to Angelo Zucco and Tony Marco, from the Allyndale White Marble and Lime Company, East Canaan, in cases brought by Stratton Brothers, to secure payment of grocery bills amounting to $55 in the case of Zucco and $51 against Marco.
 Judge A. T. Roraback is sitting with the Supreme Court ill New Haven this week.
 Allyn Fuller spent Sunday in Vest field, Mass.
 MT. and Mrs. Robert Shaver have moved to Lakeville, Conn.
 Mrs. John H. Graves is improving from her recent illness.
 John Jackson, of Sharon, who has been visiting his daughter, Mrs. George Roger, left for Maine, Monday, where he will visit his son, N. L. Jackson.
 James Flynn has been assisting at the Canaan Mercantile Go. s store.
 MT. Henry B. Ives has been sum- moned to serve on the grand jury to find an indictments in the cases against the alleged murderers of County Com missioner Hubert B. Case.
 Says the Hartford Courant: "Black smoke from the stack of the heating boiler of the Central New England house will, in the future, be eliminated, as far as possible, as will, also that from the train leaving Hartford soon after p. m., according to letter re- ceived by Building Inspector Burton s. Clark from c. w. Wildin, mechanical superintendent of the New York, New Haven 6 Hartford railroad" Wouldn't MT. Wildin be good man for somebody in Canaan to write to, in regard to the unbearable black smoke nuisance here?
 The Christ Church Brotherhood will hold smoker in the Parish House to- morrow evening. All men are invited.
 The simultaneous every member canvass" system of raising funds will be adopted by the Christ Church society, as a business-like method of financing.