Connecticut western news., 1912-10-24
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to Week. CuIled from The News Files.
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1881.
 February ?. Up to this date 42H inches of snow had fallen during the winter.
 IA tobacco building belonging to Jacob Decker, of Wetaug, collapsed with the weight of snow upon it last week"
 driving Ferguson was in town with his bride last week. Iry's honeymoon has been somewhat spotted with the measles" "
 Frank VanDeusen is the fortunate Possessor of the cinnamon bear,' to which Ed. Warmers livery stable owes much of its popularity"
 Dr. Camps colt came home alone and on run, with the shafts of the cutter, having got loose at Ashley Falls.
 George Spencer stole horse and sleigh from Landlord Macdonald and left them in Norfolk.
 1.-The Hartford Courant has been taken by the Franklin family since its first issue, MT. Charles Franklin, of East Ca naan, having taken it for 38 years, and it was taken consecutively from its start by his grandfather and father"
 "Merritt Spaulding's team, with load of pototoes, got stuck in the snow near Cassimir Boinay's, near Sandtown, the other day, and, as the road was impassa- ble the team was put out and the potatoes put in MT. Boinay's sitting room, where fire was kept all night to prevent their freezing"
 A horse thief named Roy Willard, who had taken rig from Landlord Warner some months before, and left it at Sharon where he sold it to Perry Loucks, was arrested at Deckertown, N. l., where he had gone with the wife of an Egremont man named Doty, MT. Warner was summoned as a witness against the man.
 Salisbury is having a cat epizooic."
 A revival was in progress at Kent Hollow.
 Snow was three feet deep in the woods at Winsted.
 New Milford was talking of establish ing telephone connection with Warren.
 Marshall C. Dean, of South Canaan, purchased the Chester Holcomb farm.
 "The nine-months old child of Mrs. Harriet Wheeler, of Cornwall, is in jail with it's mother"
 "Ftederick Ostrander, of Mt. Riga, for assaulting his wife, is languishing in Litchfeld jail"
 Chester Ford has assisted in inven- totying E. w. Spurs stock of goods at Falls Village for fl consecutive years"
 A costly monument had just been erected in the Salisbury cemetery to the memory of Dr. H. M. Knight.
 "A Woodbury man recently looked through the bible to find the passage which says; Keep what you got; get what you can.'"
 Barnum Richardson Co. "rented the Landon furnace at Chapinville for three years.
 "A Cornwall. man rose in meeting the other evening and mortified the brethren and sisters by announcing that henceforth he was going to lead a dia- bolical life"
 North Adams young women were organizing land league.
 "The Stockbridge hotel. has been con ducted as a tavern for over Io6 years"
 A Pittsfield firm were gathering 10000 of ice for new Bridgeport company.
 Johanna Sullivan, / of Sandisfeld, was before the court for stealing five pounds of lead.
 "A cat which had been in Great Bar rington just I2 years to day, died on the Hast day of the old year."
 Edwin Morgan, of the Lee Morgan House, had a Paralytic stroke which rendered his left side useless.
 Mill Rivers sewing society had as president, Mrs. Edwin Adams secre- tary, Mrs. E. Pfau; treasurer, Mrs. P. B. Brewster.
 Judge D. ]. Warner and Judge S. B. Moore, of Salisbury, wene on a three months trip to Florida.
 A party was held at the residence of Robert A. Brink, Esq, Salisbury. Is couples attended and danced to music by Prof. Decker, "under the direction of that inimitable and irrepressible Ayres." :. Henry Wolfe, of Falls Village, was obliged to give up work as result of serious cut on his hand with circular saw, at the saw shops.
 Chaupcey L. Hunt, of Falls Village, aged 72, died in Middletown.