Connecticut western news., 1916-11-16

ton. MT. Irleschmann' brother Will liam of that place met with an auto mobile accident; he was thrown out of his car and had his collar bone and two ribs broken.
 Mrs. William Schmitt has been very sick the past week.
 Mrs. W. N. Decker has returned from New Britain.
 Miss Lillian Hall of Ashley Falls, Mass, is the new bookkeeper at The Fuller Hardware Go. s store.
 Mrs. Frank Glass was called to Otis. vile, N. Y, last week by the serious illness of both her father and mother
 George Benedict had his right hand badly crushed at the o. N. E., yards last Friday afternoon. pr. A. E. Cobb accompanied him to Fairview hospital at Great Burlington, where he had part of the two middle fingers amputated. He will have to be off duty for some few days.
 The Hawthorne Club meets today with Miss Louise Bragg at The Naples. The topics are Physical Geography and Topography" by Miss Mary Hill and "The Forward Movement in South America" by Mrs. J. G. Adam.
 The Cranford Club meets today with Mrs. B. T. Rowe. There will be talk by Mrs. E. H. Smiley.
 MT. and Mrs. Wheeler T. Barford have returned from their wedding trip and spent few days with MT. and Mrs. Frank F. Stevens before going to New Concord, N. Y.. where they will make their future home.
 Mrs. Emma T. Rood of Torrington has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Ellen Bunnell.
 Cashier J. H. Lansing was on the sick list few days last week.
 Mrs. Joseph Blair is lsiting relatives in Greenfield, Mass.
 Messrs Ray Whitford and Stanley Mather have rented rooms in the Whit ford Block. recently vacated by the Whitfords.
 Edward Slye of Hartford visited relatives here over Sunday. His son George, who has spent the summer here, helping at Brewer 1ros.' garage, has gone to make his home with his father in Hartford.
 Miss Sara Rood of Ashley Falls, Mass. has entered the employ of G. l.. Parsons 6 Son.
 Mrs. Ella Dunham, bookkeeper for the Canaan Lumber Co.,, is on her an- nual vacation this week and is spend- ing the time with relatives in Green field, Mass.
 Miss Bessie Lorrain of Sheffield was a recent guest at E. R. Lorrain's.
 Mrs. Martin Langs of Sheffield spent Sunday at Clayton Benjamin's.
 Mrs. Archie Adam has returned from a visit with relatives at Merwinsville.
 Mrs. Wilbur Foote of Great Barring ton, and Mrs. J. J. Harrington, of Ray. brook, N. Y., visited Mrs. B. M. Collins the fore-part of the week.
 Keith Adam has accepted position in Waterbury and left for there last week.
 Cranford Club will meet at 2:3O this week instead of 2:45. the usual hour.
 MT. and Mrs. E. c. Atwater and Misses Edna, Maude, Alice and Louise Atwater motored from Springfield and spent Sunday at s. G. Camps.
 Henry Scutt entertained his brother and family of Philmont last Sunday.
 Mrs. Mary G. Adam left for New York city on Monday. where she will visit relatives for couple of weeks.
 Miss Ellen Kane is home for a week.
 A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McClelland in the hospital at North Adams, Sunday, Nov. 12.
 Mrs. E. c. Gillette and son Gardner are spending few days with relatives in Hartford.
 The Guild will meet at the rectory on Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
 Miss Mary Collins is home from Hartford.
 Dr. and Mrs. H. L. Ross, Cornish Hitchcock and Miss Eula Saygers mo. tored to Waterbury last Tn 1rsday and spent the day.
 MT. and Mrs. Freeman Dempsey and sons and Miss Isabel Roger motored to Millerton, Sunday and visited relatives.
 There will be special communica- tion of Housatonic Lodge F. & A. M. :, Friday evening, this week, at which the first degree will be conferred.
 J. Clinton Roraback attended the Yale-Brown football game at New Haven, Saturday.
 The school teachers gave Miss Helen Hanlon a surprise party at The Naples last evening. A handsome present was given her in anticipation of her approaching wedding.
 Rev. E. c. Gillette is attending the 5Oth annual meeting of the conference of Congregational churches in New Britain this week.
 The assessors of the town met Satur' day afternoon making a preliminary canvas for missing tax lists. They found over 50 liable to ten per cent addition