Connecticut western news., 1910-01-13
"REMINISCENCES OF BY-GONE DAYS
OLD-FAsHIONED SQUIRREL HUNT
Josh Billings at South Canaan-0Id Market Report Items Of Interest From the Files of the Connecticut Western News Over 38 Years Ago.
OCTOBER, 1871

Western News Over 38 Years Ago.
 OCTOBER, 1871
 2-Four pigs of iron, cast in the Holley 6 Coffing furnace, in which the shot and shell for tho Revolution were cast, were plowed up in Lakeville.
 3-Dennis Buckley, Canaan, died, age 60.
 8-Chicago destroyed by fire.
 8-Married: At Sharon, Henry Reed, of Amenia, to Miss Lucina Tucker, of Sharon.
 William, son of Chauncey W. Warehouse, Sharon Valley, died, aged g.
 11-Connecticut We stern railroad rail laying finished to Hartford.
 1l-Funeral of Captain John Dewell, West Norfolk.
 12-New locomotive, "City of Hart: ford," arrived.
 13-Another new. locomotive, Twin sted." arrived.
 14-Mrs Deacon Is ,ac Kellogg, Falls Villag~, died, aged 62.
 16-T. L. Norton's wooden wedding, surprise party, Lakeville.
 16-Mrs. William Kelsey, Ore Hill, died, aged 79. Mother of seven child rsn, and first death ever in family.
 17-Married: At Richmond, Mass, H. J. Dresser, of Lime Rock to Miss Jennie S. Slausson, of Richmond
 IF and 18-Squirrel hunt of Canaan, Ashley Falls and Salisbury hunters. G. W. Barnum, of .Wetaug, and J, Hayes, of Canaan, acted as choosers. The for mer and his sho, ,tists bagged over 2400 and the latter oyer 1900 victims, consist. ing of gray and red squirrels, chlpmunks, partridge, quail, pigeons, hawks, crows, one weasel, an owl and a blue heron. Hayes and his party paid for the supper at Riker's hotel in Canaan.
 18-Thirty-five laborers from New York arrived in Canaan to work grad ing the Connecticut Western railroad.
 19-Reading association reorganized at West Cornwall.
 2O-Ashley Falls depot finished. (The largest depot on the Housatonic railroad between Pittsf i'd and Bridgeport.)
 2O-New cemetery at Salisbury staked out into lots.
 21-Mahaiwe bank at Great Barring ton robbed by William Hine, teller, who "eloped" with something over $lS,0o0.
 21-Joseph Stake, Salisbury, had hls hand lacerated by bursting of gun while hunting.
 21-William Conklin's horse sickened and died at Salisbury.
 2l-Horse of Mrs. Butterly, Salisbury, driven by John Cannon, staked. Driver hitched yoke of cattle with chain around horses neck aud 'snap went the horse S neck.'
 25-M. B. Richardson. Lime Rock, broke ground for $25 900 dwelling.
 25-Married: At Salisbury, John R. Hicks, of Stanford. N. Y, to Miss Ella M. Clark, of Salisbury.
 25-Married: At Sheffield, Charles J. Decker, of Wetaug (Salisbury) to Miss Minnie Taft, of Sheffield.
 2G-Canaan Literary society in run ming order. The officers were: E. D. Lawrence, president; E. M. Rood, vice president; A. T. Roraback, secretary and treasurer; Robert VanDeusen, c. Beckley and G. s. Gillette, trustees.
 27-D. J. Warner, Salisbury, remodel ng office building in Mrs Reeds yard for his law office.
 28-New organ placed in M. E church, Lakeville, by Joseph Brinton, of Falls Village.
 28-Landon 6 Co.,, of Chapinville ship ped "via Connecticut Western and other railroads" 30 tons pig iron to Chicago. 28-Married: At Amenia, N. Y, Robert McCarrick, of Lakeville, to Miss Amy Hanson, of Amenia.
 3O-Philip Phillips sang in Lakeville M E. church
 SO-Philetus Hicks, Salisbury, horse and buggy stolen i'll MillertOn.
 31-TwO magnificent passenger cars'' for Connecticut Western railroad came down Hon eatonic road from Springfield, switched oIt at Canaan.
 31-Married At South Amenia, John H. Sterling, of Cornwall, to Miss Ellen Jane Thayer, of Sharon.
 There were shipped from West Corn wall station during the month of Octc- Der, 2009 cans of milk.
 NOVEMBER, 1871
 1-Josh Billings lectured in South Ca. naan Congregational church.
 1=Ex-GoVernQr Holley, of Lakeville,