Connecticut western news., 1915-08-19

time with friends in Torringford. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Beebe, of Lake vile, are visiting relatives here.
 A son was born last week in Pitts field to MT. and Mrs. Wallace Decker. Miss Helen Osborne is with her mother ill Waterbury for few weeks.
 Hiram G. Oles, of Baltimore. Md, :, spent Sunday with his mother, Mrs. George H. Oles, at A. A. Hubbard's. He left Monday morning for a short visit with friends ill Berkshire County, and will return Saturday to complete his visit here.
 Miss Jennie Barker, of Kent, spent the weekend with Miss May Devjne.
 John Mcclure, of Waterbury, spent a few days last week with his daughter Beatrice at James Mccormick s.
 Miss Willabelle Shurter. of Whining ton, Te'awar whose father is private secretary to United States Senator Dupont. the powder magnate, is visit 1 ing at Mrs. Della Hardenbergh' for a few days.
 Rev. F. C. Gillette cables from Bos- ton, where he js spending his vacation with his family, that he will return to Canaan the latter part of the present week, and there will be service ill Pill grim church next Sunday. | Misses Helen and Lucia Bidwell, of East Rutherford, N. J., are guests of Mr. and Ms. Harry Mulford on Reed street.
 Mrs. H. N. Adams is under the doctors care.
 Miss Lida Miller, of Copake, is visit ing tt A. W. Holsapple's. Mrs. Virgil Miller and Miss Ebba Lindell spent a few days last week at Lake Buell. with MT. and Mrs. Joseph Beebe, of Lakeville.
 Mrs. A. L. Hugins and son Almon are visiting relatives in Lakeville.
 Master Fred Wychoff is visiting his aunt, Mrs. Harriett Webster, in Hart ford.
 Mr. and Mrs. Henry Scutt and child ren, MT. and Mrs. c. E. Badgley and Perry, MT. and Mrs. Charles Shaw, MT. and Mrs Dubois and Mrs. Charles Cross spent Sunday afternoon at Stages Ravine.
 Miss Alice Condon, of Hartford, is enjoying her vacation at her home in Clayton.
 Mr. T. O. Brjnley, of New Haven, is spending few days of his vacation at the Naples. MT. Brinley is engaged on the staff of experts who are securing | q ,F 1p +lo and New Haven railroad systems prop ertv recently ordered by the govern ment. The work is being done by ac- countants of both the government and the various railroads of the country, working in co operation. It was originally expected that the work would consume about three years but it is now thought it will require twice that time. 1 The consolidated system alone has [ about 200 underly ing divisions to be valued.
 Mrs. George Roger is visiting her sister, Mrs. Jane Mallory in Sherman. ! Charles L. French exhibited Monday basket of fine strawberries picked from ever bearing vines at his place.
 Miss Isabel H. Roger, bookkeeper for The Canaan Printing Go. is taking her annual vacation. Miss Josephine Wells is taking her place for the week.
 Mrs. M. c. Corbit returned Saturday | from a visit with friends in Waterbury and vicinity.
 Mrs. D. Hildreth, of Torrington. was recent guest of Mrs. Ellen Bunnell.
 Mrs. Myra Burr, of Norfolk, has 1 been visiting Mrs. Cora Adams.
 Mrs. William Kinney and Miss Stella Ransom. of Windsor, were recent gut sts of Mrs. V. M. Coe.
 V. M. Coe went to New York last week to meet his daughter, Madeline, who had been visiting relatives in Binghamton, N. Y, they visited friends in Jersey City before returning home.
 Ether Chapter, No. 72 O.. E. S., ice cream and cake sale last Friday after noon and evening proved a success both socially and financially. About $1O was cleared. This money will be sent to the Masonic Home in Wal1ingford.
 Miss Margaret Roger spent the week end in Waterbury. MT. and Mrs. Charles Cross, of Am- sterdam, N. Y, and MT. and Mrs. Myron DuBoise. of Walton, N. Y. are guests of MT: and Mrs. Charles Shaw.
 Says the Torrington Register: David R. Lyman, superintendent of the Gay lord farm sanitarium, Wallingford, has accepted an invitation to speak at the meeting of the Litchfield County Pub- 1 lie Health Association in Canaan ill September. Miss Katherine Abbe has finished her course in nursing at Hartford and 1 is spending few months at Twin Lakes with her aunt, Miss Fanny Whittlesey.
 Mrs. c. A. Lindell and daughter Isabelle went to Patterson. N. Y, last Saturday to attend the funeral of a relative.
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