Connecticut western news., 1912-05-16
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY,
Record of Doings from Week to Week, CuIled from The News Files.
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1880.
 June 2. "New fences have been erect ed in front of Mrs. N. M Browns and MT. G. L. Parsons new houses on West Main street.
 Sherwood Cummings, clerk at Camps drug store. went to Norwalk as drug clerk for H. s. Betts.
 "Willie Shields has launched out on the broad road to fortune and volubility, having apprenticed himself to Charlie Fowler, of this place, in the barber busi- ness"
 Fred Lawrence went to New York to accept position as street car conductor on the Belt line.
 John Lyons of this place captured a snapping turtle at Twin Lakes weighing ten pounds, which is now boarding at the Stevens House, in the swill barrel"
 Myron Decker's horse made mile in 2:57 on the local track.
 The lessees of Lake Buel, A. l.. Hub bell, P. A. Russell, L. F. Reyes and Wm. Gibson, placed 3o,ooo landlocked salmon in the tributary streams, in addition to the 10000 so placed the year before.
 The annual school meeting elected for the ensuing year, E. D. Lawrence, clerk {; J. B. Reed, G. l.. Parsons and l. s. New committee.
 Henry Hamlin, who murdered Wells ShiPman, watchman in the state prison, was hanged in Hartford.
 Teacher Leighton, of the East Canaan school, which closed Friday, reported: Nellie Cartwright neither absent nor tardy, and perfect in every lesson during the term; Susan Garvey, Sarah Smith, Mamie Balton, Evangeline Kegler, Mag gie Ivory Willie Riley and Daniel Sweeney also received special mention forsProgress in their studies.
 Memorial Day was fttingly observed in Salisbury. The veterans, under Cap tain Bates, marched into the Congrega- tional church, headed by the Lakeville band. Thomas L. Norton was president of the day. After reading of the roll of honor by Dr. B. s. Thompson, following prayer by Rev. C. L. Kitchel, there was singing by a quartette, composed of Miss Fannie Turner, soprano; Miss Georgiana Shaw, alto; George B. Burrall, bass, and H. S. Wilson, tenor. Miss E. C. Arm strong presided at the organ. Colonel Homer B. Sprague, of Boston, was the orator. "A chill was thrown over the audience by the report that Lot Norton Esq, of Lakeville, had fallen down in the church porch, in fit, and a few moments later that he was dead"
 Mrs. Minnie Little Hornbeck died at her home in Weatogue, after several weeks illness.
 Miss Hattie Church, who had long been an invalid, died, in Salisbury.
 Henry Chapin was elected president of the steamboat company at Lakeville, and 1t was voted to reduce the fare to the uniform rate of 10 cents.
 "Prof. George Mower, Lakeville's pop ular barber, has refurnished his shop in a pleasing and tasteful manner"
 Sidney Reed, Falls Village, "purchased span of horses last week, of Seth Pratt, which MT. P procured of MT. Dudley" .
 The Sharon opera company, under A. 'G. Sherlocke, presented Pinafore in Falls Village. Special mention was made of l. N. Bartrani as Sir Joseph Porter and Miss Ida May Clapp as Hebe.
 West Cornwall's cornet band, under Leader w. R. North, made their first grand parade" in their new uniforms.
 Deacon James Mars, aged 6I, died in Ashley Falls. He had been a slave, owned by Rev. Thompson in Canaan, where he was born.
 gerously ill, with typhoid fever" in Ashley Falls.
 Rev. L. P. Hallock, of Winsted was the Memorial Day crater in Norfolk.
 S. P. Ensign, of Lime Rock, "reports business brisk at Huntington, West Vir- ginia, where they are casting 36 wheels per day at the foundry, which is a branch of the Lime Rock establishment"
 Winsted's Military Company attended the dedication, ceremonies of the Dan bury soldiers monument, and several of them, under the influence of liquor, in dulged in fighting and other unseenly conduct at the Canaan station while wait ing for train home, on their return trip.
 w. H. Dunbar's house in Ashley Falls was struck by lightning and Mrs. Dun bar seriously injured.
 Johh Tubbs moved. into R. L. Taft's new house at Clayton.
 F. II. Gross, of Lee, was building ,a trotting course on his farm. q
 "A Berkshire colored man, considerA bly, over 100 years old, remembers tAe dark day. May I9, I78o" q
 Ralph I. Taylor, of Great Barringtob, ,, recently caught fish having the heSd of a bullhead, the body of an eeIs a9d tails of the trout and sucker. AE !