Connecticut western news., 1910-02-03
"REMINISCENCES
 OF BY-GONE DAYS
THE HAPPENINGS OF MARCH, 1872
Canaan Savings Bank First Talked of A Pigmy in Canaan-Census of Old Maids, Widows, Widowers and Bachelors.

odCHGIUFS.
 1.-The good people of Canaan are stirring about somewhat in the matter of establishing savings bank"
 3-Quicksaud in cut east of the "big fill," East Canaan, thawed out and run down, blockading the track.
 At Sheffield town meeting, N. Peck, Charles Roys and Albert Leroy were elected selectmen; H. H. Hoadley, D. Boardman and Frank Roys, assessors. 4-James Sardam, Mt. Riga, was stabbed but not killed, by his brother, in all argument for @ bottle of whiskey. 5-Married: At Mill River, Charles H. Rood to Miss Celia A Spaulding, Also, Chancey B, s. Brewer to Miss Ella A. Spaulding.
 5-Fourteen below zero at Lakeyille and Norfolk.
 6-Married: At Sheffield, Joseph W. Candce to Miss Eunice B. McArthur.
 8-'~S c. Beckley, merchant and post master, at Canaan, has sold his store to the Connecticut Western railroad com pany."
 8-Edward Friss succeeded T. F. Wat son as station agent at Salisbury.
 8-Charles L. McElroy was first depot agent at Chapinville.
 8-L0comotive "Falls Village" ex- ploded it's boiler at Winsted. -
 9-J0hn W. Souls, Jr., Halnmert0v'n, went to Salisbury, got drunk, went to sleep in horse shed aud froze both feet. Ills wife, three children and three dogs were "upon public charity" 1o-Margaret Murry, Lime Rock, died, age 10.
 1s-Married: At Cornwall Bridge, John Wells to Miss Sarah Linn. of Bethlehem.
 13-Mrs. A. A. McArthur, of Western Sheffield, sold at auction to Charles Spur the part of her farm east of highway for $2,15O; Zacheus Candee bought the west side, with buildings, for $4, ,010.
 15-Major Samuel Edgar Houghton, 19-year-old pigmv-31 inches tall and weighing Al pounds-visited Canaan.
 15-"Deacon A. c. Woodward, Sharon, exchanged his farm for A. R. Smiths corner and store of goods.''
 15- Cornwall Bridge has got the mumps"
 15-Norfolk boasted of 19 old maids, II widows, grass widow, 1 widower and one bachelor, living in 20 houses on ''the green" Canaan claimed 8 wid- ows, 9 widowers, 13 bachelors and 16 old maids within @ radius of one mile from the center. Cornwall proper had 15 old maids, g bachelors, 13 widows, 4 widowers living in 9 houses.
 18-The Shepaug Valley railroad dis continued running trains "to repair and ballast the roadb bed preparatory to spring rains and spring business"
 18-Dr. Knight Iectured in Lakeville on his overland trip to California.
 18-Old fashioned house warming at new residence of J. M. Hall. West Corn wall
 19-The people of Hartford voted to purchase the Trinity College ground s for an extension of the park and site for the new state house, for $6O0.O00
 21-Caleb Meine, Cornwall Bridge, was killed by the cars.
 22-Lime Rock boasted of two dozen men who "all in heap would weigh exactly four tons, six hundred and nine teen pounds"
 22-Washinee factory, Salisbury, was running to it's fullest capacity making cloths for AT Stewart of New York
 22-Michael Moran, Salisbury. died. age 26.
 23-Eli Webster, 92 years old, was made an elector ill Salisbury-the oldest man ever made freeman i'll that town
 23-Charles Dean, Canaan, died, age U
 24-Charry A. Dean. Falls Village died, age 58.
 25-William Hayes, Canaan, died, age 72.
 26-A colored woman enroute from Tariffviic, to Hartford, gave birth to a child on the train before reaching her destination,
 - 26-Joel A. Phelps, Ashley Falls, died, age 72.
 2S-Hawley Cunning, East Canaan, died, age 75.
 29-Iyes & Alderman, Hammertown, formed company called the Connecti- cut Western Flocking and Shoddy Co.,, running three fiocking mills grinding about half a ton of fiocking per day.
 29--John B. Gough lectured in Win sted.