Connecticut western news., 1912-06-13
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to Week, CuIIed from The News Files.
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Record of Doings from Week to Week, CuIIed from The News Files.
 1880. July II. Miss Lillie Wooster closed her school i'll the Sodom district.
 Milton Roraback purchased a half-in, terest in Dr. Camps trotting colt.
 Dr. W. D. Camp, of Oopake, purchased the horse owned by the late pr. A. A. Wright.
 Peter Nihil, of Springfield, came to Canaan as 0. w. R. R. car inspector.
 The state temperance picnic was held at Lakeville.
 "Baggagemaster H. Trowbridge, of Conductor Elmore's train, is sick, at Hartford and Brakeman McOarty bangs the trunks around in his stead" "
 H. J. Mead, of Canaan Valley, was to be associated with Robert VanDeusen ln the management of the Pine Grove boarding house.
 Rev. Elisha Whittlesey was reelected corresponding secretary of the Society for the Increase of the Ministry, at the 23d annual meeting Jn Hartford.
 hAA 0GOlS S6 w. 66I, Ol OduddLly dE- rived in Liverpool on the 10th.
 Martin Phillips, who was brought up i'll the family ot James A. Root, has gone to Negaunee, Mich, to work ill the furnaces there, where D. L. West, for merly of this place, is engaged, under MT. Root"
 The Canaan Cornet Band took it's first lesson, with W. R. North as teacher, July I3.
 William H. Barnum was unanimously reelected chairman of the democratic national committee. Now if Messrs. Miles and Peet should cross swords, how the Salisbury plan would boom."
 The M. E. lawn party of the ladies aid society, on Dr. P. 0. Cummings lawn, with Fuckers band of Falls Will lage, was a great success.
 Winsted had 5,137 inhabitants accord. ing to the new census.
 A William H. Barnum Battalion" was organized by Bridgeport democrats.
 Two boys in Sharon caught white woodchuck.
 7 Litchfield's population was 3.407 an 3.9O7, gain of 321. Sharon 2,580, a gain of 139.
 "An error in telegram brought Miss Elizabeth Joyce home from Michigan to Chapinville, to attend the funeral of her father, whom she found alive and in comfortable health"
 The summer term of the high depart. ment of Lakeville graded school closed and these pupils were specially mention ed department Emma Wallace, Nettie Perry ,AImlra Armstrong, Jennie Cleave- land, Carrie Fox. Belle Camp, Ella Nevil, Oorlie Robinson, Eva Shaw. Willie Stone, Jennie Chambers, Dennis Broad rick
 Great Barrington's population was 4,653, gain of 298.
 Miss Rose M. Harding, the young lady cornetist, of PIttsfield, daughter of Editor Harding. of the Eagle, having completed her instruction under Ar buckle, is ready to accept engagements for concerts, etc. She is A years old, and is believed to be the best cornetist of her sex and age in the country"
 Married in Sheffield July 6, by Rev. MT. Buck, Sloat P. Gorham, of Great Harrington, to Miss Annie Stewart, of Argyle, N. Y.
 July 2I. Frank VanDeusen lost an- other valuable horse last Friday"
 -''Messrs. Scott. Barnum and Decker have>some fine fields of tobacco, across the river"
 Engineer Kib Cogswell's family are | occupying Rev. M. R. Lent's cottage on the Camp Ground. One of Expressman Pratt's horses dropped dead at Mill River.
 H. P. Morse, on the under mountain road. has torn down his old house and is rebuilding, in handsome style. Will Ferguson, clerk at Fuller & | Peet's, is enjoying weeks vacation"
 James Knickerbocker, of Springfield Ill, was visiting his father, Whiting Knickerbocker.
 Rev. Hiram Eddy, of Jersey City, was at William Adams.
 The Cornwall Star, published by a | couple of young men i'll Cornwall, E. D. Cole and J.. E. Whitney, appeared.
 Robert Whiting, of Brooklyn, an old time teacher in Canaan, visited friends i'll town.
 Milo Knickerbocker. who ran hard ware store and lumber yard on West Main street, died. aged 66.
 Hematite Chapter, R. A. M. was in stituted in Lakeville, with William s. Miles, H. P; Seymour A. Prayer, K, and Harlow P. Harris, s.
 "A COW belonging to Stiles Stevens, of Canaan Valley, gave birth Monday to three calves. all the same color and sex male."
 The dwelling of A: s. Reed, of Sails bury, was burned, and the insurance paid within eight days.