Connecticut western news., 1916-03-02
CANAAN

The fourth and last union brother hood supper, for the present season, will be given after Lent, under the auspices of the Pilgrim church brother hood. Friday evening, April 28, i'll the social rooms of Pilgrim church. Rev. MT. Gillette has in mind a well known orator of wide reputation for the princi- pal speaker of the evening.
 All aboard for the union brotherhood banquet in East Canaan tomorrow eve- ming.
 The Cranford Club meets today with Mrs. F. F. Stevens. Tine topics for the afternoon are "Clara Barton," by Mrs. F. F. Stevens and "CrOwn Princess Cecilie' by Mrs. Junius RhOades.
 The Oldsmobile 8.cylinder roadster is now on exhibition at Benjamin's. S. Don't fail to call and look it over.
 Thomas Dalton, of the "switcher, ; has been laying off for a couple of weeks.
 "The Menace of the Mute," five reel Gold Rooster production will be the attraction presented at the Town Hall next Wednesday night. Arnold Daily as Ashton Kirk, criminal in- vestigator, carries his part with donat- ing actions, and the supporting cast is fully up to the demands of the play This is one of the great detective , pictures and should be seen by all.
 George P Hardenbergh and little son are among the latest victims to the epidemic of colds and the grip.
 Deans Rheumatic pills for rheuma- tism and Neuralgia. Entirely vege- table. Safe.-Adv.
 The Methodist church prayer meet ing will be held tonight with Miss M. w. Manvei.
 Mrs. F. F. Stevens was in TOrring ton last evening as one of the in structors in the newly organized teachers training class of the city churches.
 On February 24 the number of freight cars on the New Haven railroad was 55, 526 against 39, 517 for the same day in 1915 and 39, 168 for the same day in 1914. The number of cars on the road February 24, 1916, 55, 526, was the largest of any day in the his tory of the New Haven Company. The number of cars on the road has in- creased over 900 in the last few days; the number of cars awaiting unloading has increased 2,00O.
 MT. and Mrs. O. E. Badgley went to Salt Point, N. Y.. yesterday to attend the funeral of MT. Badgley's mother, who died Monday after an illness of several weeks.
 There will be services. with special preaching at Christ Church every Wednesday during Lent, at 3 :45 p. m. The preacher for Ash Wednesday, March 8, will be Rev. John F. Plumb, of New Milford.
 The pay-up week enterprise of the Canaan business men is now in full blast, and the business men report that the people are taking to it very gen. erally and many long and short-stand- ing accounts are being settled. It will probably become an annual feature. The Bristol Press Clubs annual ban- quet, Monday evening, was a festive event. attended by all the newspaper men, correspondents, etc., in the city and immensely enjoyed. Addresses were made by Speaker of the House of Representative Frank B. Healy, of Windsor Locks, Mayor Joseph Dutton, ex-Mayor Cray, ex-Senator Noble B. Peirce, various city officials and John Rodemeyer, of Canaan.
 The Kensington Club will meet at the home of Mrs. E. A. Creevey, Tues day afternoon at 2:30.
 The Queen Esther Circle meets with Miss Eula Saygers next Monday eve- ming.
 The Woman's Home Missionary So- ciety met with Mrs. A. T. Roraback yesterday afternoon. Miss Grace Rora- back presented a review or the general work as seen during her travels as one of the Field Secretaries.
 Next Sunday morning the sacrament of Holy Communion will be observed at the Methodist church.
 Effective midnight, February 28, the New York, New Haven and Hart ford Railroad Company announces that owing to the accumulation of freight, and the fact that cars are accommodating faster than they can be unloaded, thus threatening complete tie up, the fol- lowing embargoes applicable to all car load and less than carload shipments are in operation, with these exceptions: Live stock, perishable freight, food stuffs for human consumption, feed for live stock, ,newsprint paper for domestic use only, charcoal, fuel oil and gasoline in tank cars,
 The last entertainment in the Pil. grim church course will be the concert py the "The Virginians," d quartet of singers and players from the Southland. Each singer is a soloist-there is an in- strumental quartet, one reads. and all present musical sketches. Violin duets will be feature of their pro- gram. Their extensive repertoire in- cludes jubilee choruses, plantation melodies, descriptive songs. vocal quartets, trios, duets and solos, in strumental quaI tets, duets and solos.