Connecticut western news., 1912-10-31
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to Week, CuIIed from The News Files.
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 ming was renominated.
 Forty->ix couples attended the last l D. D. Y. Club dance.
 "Sam Ferguson has been selling tickets in the C. w. R. R. office at this station this week"
 Landlord Warner and family were wis iting friends at Madalin, on the Hudson
 "The C. C. B. boys are to have caps and lamps, and bandstand for summer concerts is talked of"
 Seven of the engines of the H. R. R. were laid up for repairs, and the railroad shops at Falls Village were running day and night.
 "Fred Spaulding has finished his labors in Bridgeport as substitute for Charles Wood, in Superintendent Stillsons office, and has arrived home"
 Vegetables have frozen this winter in cellars where the frost never entered be- fore, and wells that have never before frozen are useless. from the intense cold.
 Frank VanDeusen purchased the hay baling establishment near the Blackberry river.
 Patrick Finnegan fell through the Blackberry river bridge, the ties and plank being covered with ice. He was considerably bruised. l An infant son of Charles H. Fowler, Canaan's Colored barber, died, aged 10 months.
 w. R. North, teacher of the Canaan band, enlisted in the U. s. Army as musi- clan and was transferred to the post at Vancouver Washington Terrttoryv 1 Wm. Camp, of Northville had the -ly NFo ,1 been half fox and the other half coon. ] "Warren's citizens shoveled the snow away from the spire of the church the other day, so the wind could get a chance at the weather vane."
 These towns, in Litchfeld and New Haven county petitioned for new "Waterbury County" Beacon Falls, Middlebury, Naugatuck, Orange, Pros pect, Seymour, Southbury, Bethlehem, Plymouth, Thomaston, Watertown and Woodbury.
 "Pittsfeld has a genuine spook"
 Coal was selling at $9 a ton in Pitts field.
 Adams had new S75oooo company organized for the manufacture of cellu- Ibid goods,
 February 16. "Allen B. St. John, for merly of this place, has gone to Chicago to live"
 Mrs. Ovid P. Gillette, of Canaan, was visiting friends in Amenia.
 "Gat DeIIArt, leader, in>,ructs the Ca naan Cornet Band since the departure of Prof North"
 Chief Clerk Hobart Watson, of the H. R. R. visited his sister, Mrs. H, w. Franklin, in Canaan. The new C. w. R. R. bridge over the Blackberry river was completed.
 Conductor Charles Lathrop, of the H. R. R. resigned. Conductor "Hen" Thomas was transferred to his train, and Conductor Clark Lane to Tbomas's train
 "Bill Fenn had a dream that hell froze over and a cat crossed on the ice About the same time the report came that Satan's Kingdom, near New Hartford |, was frozen over."
 A number of Canaanites attended the wooden wedding anniversary of MT. and Mrs. Henry Winship, at George Blod- gett's residence in Ashley Falls. George Thompson started up his cider large quantity of frozen apples. "Frozen apple cider is supposed to be the cause of so many cold blooded' attempts at incen- diarism in Canaan Valley" w. T. Ferguson, clerk at Fuller & Peet's, resigned, to accept position in George w. Halls store in Falls Village. William Colepaugh, of Falls Village, purchased the barber shop of C. H. Fowler, in Cummings block, the latter removing to Winsted.
 "As MT. P. C. Cummings and daugh- ter were driving to South Canaan Mon- day morning, large patch of ice, which covered the road and extended into the lots on either side in consequence of the recent thaw and subsequent freeze-up, and which they were obliged to cross, broke beneath the weight of the cutter, completely filling it with water, and giv ing the occupants cold bath"
 "Woodchucks are burrowing in the Bridgewater cemetery, and bringing to light the skulls and bones of the dead"
 M. L. Graham, of Salisbury, purchased the Jewell store there.
 "A correspondent of the Litchfeld Inquirer claims to have hen that laid an egg nine inches in length"
 While South, on his recent visit, Lawyer Kibourn, of Litchfeld, was pre- scented with a bombshell cut from a tree into which it was imbedded during the rebellion"
 John B. Darlington, proprietor and editor of the New Haven Journal and Courier, and the weathiest and oldest journalist in the state, died, aged 70 years.
 Henry Ward Beecher was booked to lecture in Winsted. Extra trains were arranged for, and tickets were sold by A. T. Roraback, of Canaan; Ly man Dunning, East Canaan; J. B. Eld- ridge, Norfolk; T. F. Dexter Salisbury, and Hubert William, Lakevil1e.
 During 1880, 36,3Io forty-quart cans of milk were shipped from Sheffield station for New York, besides 4,967 cases. The total freight charges on these milk ship ments were $15,6I593.
 A son was born to George and Alice Goodwin at East Canaan, weight 10 pounds.
 Married, at the residence of the brides father, Hon. Daniel Brewster, Falls Vil- lage, Feb. E, by Rev. D. M. Moore, Mir. Minott Lyman to Miss Dora l. Brewster.
 One hundred and fifty men were em- Ployed by the H. R. R. at Falls Village, exclusive of the section hands.
 Charles Caul, an old resident of Falls Village, died of paralysis, aged 76.
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