Connecticut western news., 1912-05-23
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to Week. CuIIed from The News Fiji Ies.
 1880.

June 9. The Adam brick kiln was running with capacity of 6,ooo bricks a day.
 The pr. Wright place was offered for sale.
 "Ida May, Landlord MacDonald's lit- tie daughter, is suffering with measles, and last Sunday was taken with a violent ft."
 Ernest I. Webster succeeded Sher- wood Cummings as clerk at Camps drug store.
 The work of stringing the telephone wire from East Canaan to Lime Rock was completed.
 The family of David s. Draper, of New York, returned to Mrs. H. w. Franklin's for the summer,
 James Quinn removed his family froen Great Burlington to his new house on West Main street.
 Foxes carried off 3S chickens belong to George Benedict, on the Peirce < Lawrence farm, Monday night.
 ."There were shipped from Sheffield in May 3545 fortY-quart cans, 52I 2I-quart boxes of milk, the total freight aggregat- ing $I,71s.q3.
 Frank E. Cleaveland was a delegate to the Greenback National convention in Chicago.
 "As Frank Emmons. was driving be- tween this village and Canaan Valley last Tuesday, his horse fell down and broke the shafts, and Frank came tum. bling after"
 Local talent will celebrate four con- secutiye birthdays, beginning today, and Mrs. E. W. Warner proposes to furnish refreshments gratis, for grand mutual celebration"
 Miss Emma Hunt, daughter of Rev. Robert Hunt, was conducting a music school in Sheffield. .r
 Sheridan Barnes horse ran away on West Main street, Sunday, throwing out the occupants of the buggy and consider. ably damaging the vehicle.
 Mir. Garfield, of East Canaan, had a runaway, Saturday; the occupants of the wagon being thrown out but not seri- ously hurt. ,.
 ot Sharon, visited at Mrs. Sabra Humph- rey's.
 "Johnny" Beckley, while playing with other children, near the Town Hall, "climbed on top of the sign-po which consists of four boards nailed together in aquadrangle, when he slipped and fell feet first inside the post, wedging him. self so tightly that he could not extricate himself, and the post had to be knocked to pieces before he could be got out"
 Miss Hattie Wilcox, our obliging tele- graph operator, did a public service by announcing the bulletins of the republi- can national convention in Chicago, which nominated Garfield and Arthur.
 Milton Roraback, the census taker, re- ported an amusing experience. Calling at certain house near the village the other day, with his large book under his arm, the servant girl came to the door, and said in answer to an interrogatory, Yes, she is at home, but you needn't come in; she don't want to subscribe.'"
 Stephen Cudney, employed at the Peirce & Lawrence lime quarry, had a marrow escape from being crushed to death by half-ton rock that fell into the quarry with him after he had pried it loose. His leg was badly bruised and he was laid up for some time, his boss, James Reel paying him $s week dur ing his confinement.
 Russell Bierce's colt beat pr. Camps colt, two out of three heats, on the local track, the winner taking the first two heats in 2.58 and 2.57 and pr. Camps colt the third in 2.s4.
 Miss Belle Holcomb, of South Canaan, and Charles H. Judson, of Salisbury. were married June 7, at the residence of the brides mother, Mrs. Harvey Hol- comb, by Rev. Mir. Belcher.
 George M. Hanchett, clerk at George w. Halls, resigned to become mail agent on the Housatonic road.
 At West Cornwall Sunday school en- aL-.- North, furnished music, and the singing and declamations were of high order. Miss Carrie Barnum's representation of "Love;" Mrs. I R. Sanford's "Mother" and Mrs. A. Cochrane's "Widowhood" receiving special mention. Mrs R. R. Pratt sang Longing for Home" and Westendorf's Il Long for the Old Home Again" was sung by quartette, George Hughes taking the air. Charles M. Hall presided at the organ: Given in Marriage in which MT. George Oldfeld was the happy bridegroom of fair young bride,' Miss Mary Miller,who was given in marriage by Mrs. C. E. Bald win, was an interesting picture. George makes just the handsonISt kind of bride groom, and Miss Miller-well, she look ed too angelic to be apProachable." The entertainment was under the direction of Rev. MT. Fitch.
 Selectmen s. A. Bennett, F. Bronson and ]. B. Reed issued notice to dog own CTS, that the dog law would be strictly enforced.
 Bucholz was sentenced to life imprison- ment for the murder of John H. Schulte.
 Jake Pulver and Pat Sparks formed painters copartnership in Falls Village
 Vim. Gangell, of Southfeld, reported that crows were pulling up his. potatoes and carrying them off to the woods.
 Where Do 1.-The People" Come ln7
 A short time ago the court gave this verdict in the famous Beef Trust cases, "Not guilty of restraint of trade" In O iAol so& TIA