Connecticut western news., 1916-11-30

some time with Mrs. Esther Williams, { has returned to her home in Ashley Falls.
 John H. Graves made business trip to New York city the forepart of the week.
 MT. and Mrs. Elton Jones motored from Winsted and spent Sunday at Hiram Dings.
 Mrs. Bryant of Lakeville is visiting Mrs. Hiram Beebe.
 MT. and Mrs. Alex McPherson of Winsted are spending Thanksgiving at James Graney's.
 H. B. Ives, Dr. H. l.. Ross and B. l.. Roberts attended meeting of the Shriners at Bridgeport on Monday night.
 Mrs. Walter D. Hayes has been quite ill the past week at her home.
 Miss Caroline Camp has started 8 dancing class at the Berkshire school in Great Burlington.
 D. D. Walter is nursing a sore hand caused by losing the tip of finger while cutting meat. This is the first severe cut MT. Walter has had in ty- five years experience in the meat busi. ness.
 E. Leslie Osborn of New Milford is the new operator in the Western Union office at the station.
 James Keenan Jr. has moved into rooms over N. E. Storms market.
 Mrs. G. H. Trieschmann was called to Lakeville yesterday by the serious illness of Freddie Wehner.
 The second of the Hose Company's whist series occurred Tuesday evening. More were present than the first meet. ing and good time was had by all. Several season tickets have been sold during the week.
 The postoffice will be closed today from 10 80 to 6 o'clock. In many places the offices do not open at all on holidays but Postmaster Roberts will observe the usual custom in Canaan keeping open until 10:30. Schools in town closed last night un- til Monday morning. Most of the teachers remaining here tor the holiday.
 The big clearance sale at the Canaan Mercantile Go. s store has continued all the week, it will run until the stock is disposed of according to notice in anoth- CT column.
 A. w. Nichols, who has been stop ping at The Naples for three weeks, has returned to Brooklyn.
 When Sam Reel returned home Mon T ;-I0% lo l>; >;, fo ;lr,h h hol increased in numbers considerably and, as in other cases we have known, for the want of more explicit explanations, Sam laid it to the dogs. There were five of tEem, and the prettiest bunch of aristocratic bulldog homeliness that ever growled.
 The Fuller Hardware Co.,, have just added to their rolling stock new Ford runabout purchased from c. H. Pease.
 Mrs. Frederick Gillette is reported to be very sick and in critical condition.
 A. c. Hill of Norwich is spending Thanksgiving at The Naples.
 Saturday night at the movies you can learn who the Laughing Mask is for the last episode of the "Iron Claw" will be shown. See also the pictures of a child of the woods transplanted to the city. Next Wednesday, Marguerite Clark is shown in "Seven Sisters.
 MT. and Mrs. Walter King Stone and son are spending Thanksgiving week with friends in Rochester, N. Y.
 Joseph Kegler and Edward McCarty are busy this week putting top dress ing of trap rock on the town roads.
 Mrs. N. L. Jackson. Miss Fannie Jackson and Mrs. George Roger spent Thanksiving with the Misses Landon in Lakeville.
 Mrs. Emiline Field Of Sheffield is at Church Terrace for the winter.
 Bert Leffingwell was home from Storrs over Thanksgiving.
 Mrs. w. N. Decker left Tuesday for New Britain; her father is seriously i'll.
 Horace Hatch has moved his family from South Norwalk into Mrs. Mary G. Adams house on East Main street. MT. Hatch is conductor on one of the New Haven trains.
 A combination meeting of the Dairy.  mems Association, the Farm Bureau and the Dairymen's League will be held at Odd Fellows hall next Tuesday. The grange will furnish dinner at 25 cents. There will be some good speak CTS and profitable sesslon is anticipat- ed.
 F. R. Collins show windows are at tracting considerable attention these days. This week the "fire'' of twigs has been so real that everyone expects to see the sticks burst into flames. Nelson Parsons is the decorator.
 Engineer Norman Hicks, when on the home stretch from the east wi5h a light engine Saturday evening, killed a large buck deer Tn the cut west of West Norfolk. The facts were reported to the proper authorities and it was found that the animal was mangled beyond recognition.