Connecticut western news., 1910-02-24
"REMINISCENCES OF By-GONE DAYS
JUDGE T. RORABACK's BEGINNING
Carpanter Work Begun on Union De- pot, canaan-Game of Wicket vs. BasebaIl-Loaf of Cake 32 Years OId-Molasses Cask Exploded.
JUNE, 1872

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 1-James Gordon Bennett, founder of the New York Herald, died, age 72.
 LA. T. Roraback seeded from the office of J. B. H lrdenbergh, and secured rooms on the second floor of F. c. Gum mings' new building, Canaan, and pro- posed to run law office on his own hook. His long course of study under the learned practitioners, D. J. Warner, of Salisbury, and J. B. Hardenbergh, of Canaan, together with his natural tact and talent for the business, renders him we'll fitted to enter the arena of justice andcombat successfully the enemies of law and order. That MT. Roraback will be successful lawyer is no prophecy it is already fixed fact @. 1-Married: At Millerton, Charles Whitney. of Kent, to Miss Stowe, of Millerton.
 2-James B. McCarrick, of Lakeville, age 57, committed suicide by hanging to tree.
 3-The Shoddy Go. at Hammertown while removing an old wheel, found a shaft of wrought iron supposed to have been made at Mt. Riga nearly hundred years before.
 3-Eli A. Sickmund, East Canaan, died, age B.
 5-Married At Richmond, Mass, Frank II. Chapin, of Ashley Falls, to Carrie R. Landon, of Richmond.
 6-Norfolk reports frost every morning the past week.' ....-. 7-"The old game of wicket seems to have entirely superseded baseball in Salisbury"
 7-Eugene Wolfe, Salisbury, lost a $150 horse. .e-.
 7-Housatonic railroad company in- stalled a five horsepower steam pump to supply water tank at Ashley Falls.
 1O-"The directors of Pine Grove camp meeting association met on the camp ground in Canaan to direct MT. Ensign, their surveyor, in regard to laying out the grounds.
 10-Deacon Hutchinson's drove of cattle "took possession of the Connecti- out Western railroad between Salisbury and Chapinville" and brought freight train to a standstill. The train crew drove them off until the train moved past them,
 12--Kent reported: "a devastating hail storm. 40 window lights broken out of the Episcopal church; hardly a house escaped-50 broken out of one house; grain spoiled; tobacco, just trans planted, was driven four inches into the mellow ground"
 15-"A lover Of butter entered T. l.. Norton's cellar ill Lakeville and made love to jar of butter"
 17-Gilmore's Worlds Peace Jubilee in Boston-20, 900 voices.
 18-Carpenter Bundy, of Lakeville, began W ork on Union depot at Canaan.
 l8-David F. Smith, West Cornwall, went to Saratoga to engage in the lum- Der business.
 18-Thirty pupils from Hillside sem- mary, Norfolk, opened camp with tents, at Twin Lakes, and "camped out' for five days.
 19-Charles Worden. IS years old, threw stonesin car windows of passenger train at Lakeville. Caught and bound over to Superior court in Litchfeld.
 2O-William A. Crowell at the steel yard shop in Lime Rock invented and constructed model of what promises to be the best water wheel in the world"
 20-John Dempsey. Cornwall Bridge, was drowned in Housatonic river, age IA.
 2o-Augustus B. Swift. Cornwall Bridge, died, age 59.
 2O-Oaroline, daughter of Frederick Holley. Lakeville, died, age 15.
 21-THE NEWS described the "new one cent postal cards, authorized by the open to all eyes,"
 21-THE NEWS of this date was edited by T. L. Norton. Lakeyille, while Editor Psase attended the Worlds Peace Jubilee in Boston.
 21-Railroad bridge over the falls at Falls Village was ready for the rails.
 21-George Wheeler, West Cornwall, died, age 56.
 21-A boarding house at Twin Lakes was talked of.
 22-Fire broke out in coal bush on Mt Algo, Kent, and destroyed 500 cords of wood belonging to Kent Iron Go. and 8 collier named Pleasant.
 23- Jabez Brewster, Falls Village. was