Connecticut western news., 1915-04-29
EAST CANAAN

The funeral of the late Mrs. Nelson E. Stratton, who passed away last | Thursday after brief illness was, held saturday afternoon from her residence, Rev. Worthy F. Maylott officiating. i The attendance of relatives and friends was very large and the flowers beauti- ful and in profusion. The bearers were relatives, James Garfield, Burton Stratton, l.. M. Whitney and Dewey Garfield MT. Maylott paid fitting tribute to the life of the deceased talk ing his text from l Cor. 15 57, "Thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. " Among the relatives and friends pres ent from out of town were, k. J. Web ster, of Grafton, Mass. MT. and Mrs. A. J.. Hasson, of Housatonic, Mass. ; MT. and Mrs. W. D. Garfield, Miss Marguerite Garfield and Oscar Stead man, of Great Burlington, Mass. MT. and Mrs. Edward Steadman, of Mon terey, Mass. Mrs. M. E. Webster, of Waterbury; Mrs. H. Whitney, of Win sted Mrs. George Melvin, and Mrs. W. P. Stone, of Salisbury; MT. and Mrs. Jason Gordon, of Sheffield, Mass. j; MT. A. A. Hubbard and Mrs. George Oles and many others from Canaan. Misses Lucy Hall and Ruth Gaylord, sang "There is a land that is fairer : than this.' The sympathy of wide circle of friends go out to the sorrow ing family.
 MT. McMahon, of Springfield, Mass, is at the Stevens tarm.
 Mrs. Burton Stratton is recovering from severe illness.
 Edward Avis, the famous bird mimic will give free lecture recital at the church Friday night.
 The Cheerful Workers will hold their postponed ice cream social Friday night.
 Next Sunday the communion will be observed at the church.
 James Allen, of Colebrook. was visitor in town Sunday.
 The annual meeting of the Ecclesias- tical Society will be held Friday at 3 p. m.
 George and Alfred Adott are ill. T. Miss Philander Stevens led the meet ing last Sunday night William Bond sang a solo. The subject for next Sun- day night is ''The joys of the Christian Life" Miss Minnie E. Briggs will lead.
 The local Sunday school is we'll represented at the convention in Ga naan today.
 The Springfield Reporter of Tuesday said of Edward Avis, who gives a free lecture recital Friday night at the church. Edward Avis, the bird mimic, gave a most interesting address oD birds and the songs of birds at the Highland school hall last evening un- der the auspices of the Highland school parent-teacher association. The lecture was aptly named "An evening in bird land," and there was an audience which filled the hall present to enjoy the address. MT. Avis not only gave of birds and bird life the use of a stereOpticon, but he gave exact limitations of the songs of the birds, either by whistling or through the use of a violin. He dealt largely in the lecture with birds native to New England, which added to the interest In throwing the pictures of the birds on the screen he also threw on bar of music, showing the notes used by the l birds in their songs.
 The baseball team opens its season when they will oross bats with Salisbury.
 Hon. E. $. Roberts, Rev. W. F. Maylott and others from here attended | the funeral of Thomas Norton, Wednes- day at Salisbury. MT. Norton was ire quent visitor here and will be missed. l
 A Card of Thanks.
 To the neighbors and friends who |