The Newtown bee., 1907-05-10
LITCHFIELD COUNTY
KENT.

 WHAT THE MACEDONIA REPORTER l. WRITES.
 Through the kindness of Mrs Abby NOrthrop, the writer had the pleasure of reading an old manuscript, "Early History of the Town of Kent" The old document is dated 1872 and in ex- cellent preservation and in an enter taining manner states of the early settlements of the town, of the Indi- ans who arrived a few years previous to their pale face neighbors and settl now thing of the past in this section. The curiosities and beauty spots of Nature also come in review. The names of the first settlers, Tn which a few family names now present in the town can be recognized. The meeting of the inhabitants, stood just across the road from Mrs Northrop's In Flander s district, and there are some now living whom the frosts of nearly 70 winters have silvered their hair, who can tell of religious instruction fashioned houses in the vicinity, in some of which can still be seen the old brick ovens in which the grand mothers did their baking by the old fashioned methods of century ago, links of the past, which will soon be
 
 Mrs Oliver B. Wolcott, who has been in Bridgeport for several months, returned home, Monday.
 Mrs Julia B. Pitcher of Thomaston is visiting with the families of her brothers, George s. and Charles L.. Thompson.
 Messrs Charles and Oscar Smith of New London are doing carpenter work for MT Hopson.
 Edward Powers has sold his farm and disposed of his stock and farming tools by auction and his familiar fig the highway will be seen no more.
 Lyman Darling has hen that is above the general run of biddies in egg production. Two eggs, one St 64 inches around, the other trifle small CT, is something to cackle about in the poultry house.
 Perry Thompson killed snake about B feet long of the adder species, one day last week, and placed the dead reptile on rock; returning that way two or three days later, he was surprised to find two live snakes of side of their dead companion, which MT Thompson also dispatched.
 SUICIDE OF E. W. HUFFCUT, GOV
 HUGHES LEGAL ADVISOR AND FOR
 MFR DEAN OF THE CORNELL LAW
 SCHOOL.
 Ernest w. Huffcut, native of Kent, formerly dean of the law school of Cornell university and legal advisor to Gov Hughes, shot himself on board the Albany boat c. w. Morse, going down the Hudson river, Friday night. His body was found, Saturday, upon the arrival of the Morse hidden be- hind a pile of chairs at the extreme after part of the upper deck. On the body was found an envelope addressed to ''The coroner of New York, !" and in this were found two letters, one to the coroner and the other to H utfcu $ sister, Miss Lillian Huffcut, of I27 East Forty sixth street, New York City. Later Gov Hughes identified the body as that of his legal advisor The letter to the coroner read:-
 Please let the addressed have other letter and body as soon as possible.
 Huffcut. The other letter read as follows:-
 Friday, May 3.
 Dear Sister: I left for Ithaca to- down to you in New York in order that might be cremated. You will attend to that for me. If you have any difficulty call on my old triend, De L., who will assist you. am go- ing down the river, enjoying the pros pect of going out to sea. The ashes l leave behind may be disposed of at present as the others prefer, but eventually you will take them to East services of any sort anywhere. If the immediate family want private ser vices in B-let it be soon, but have no one else. 1 was never so glad to rest in my life. We must be quiet and live, so I've been thinking all the way