Connecticut western news., 1912-08-29
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to Week. CuIled from The News Files.
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 October 27. The passenger receipts of year ending Sept. 30, showed an increase of $27,ooo over those of the previous year. The total freight and passengers receipts for 1880 were expected to show an increase of $I42,ooo over 1879. Abel Stevens sent to the editorial sane tum ''a bushel basket chuck full of great big, sound, perfect apples and there were twelve varieties, too"
 The Litchfeld village improvement as- sociation reported $500 receipts last year.
 Sharon democrats nominated George P. Goodwin and Myron F. Whitney for representatives. covered judgment for $8o,26s from and damages connected with State House contracts"
 Lee had 754 voters this year and Great Burlington 7o2.
 Frank s. Gross, of Lee, was the demo- cratic candidate for Senator. l A Housatonic milkman's COW choked | to death on an apple. | The third annual supper of the Berk- shire county newspaper men was held at the American House, Pittsfeld. Speeches were made by Henry w. Taft, Esq, | Hon. Marshall Wilcox, F. w. Rockwell, Elizur Smith, Wellington Smith, l. A. Royce, Alexander Hyde, T. A. Oman, Postmaster Chickering, Dr. ]. F. Adams, l a c. E. Baldwin and w. R. Plunkett, Esq The committee were James Harding, of the Pittsfeld Sun, and H. T. Oatman, of the Springfield Republican. On the Sharon side of the river, at 1 West Cornwall, Theodore Owen shot at his wife and attempted to chop her legs off with max. She was seriously but, not fatally hurt. Owen was being search ed for by officers.
 The renovated Congregational church at Norfolk was re-opened, with impress i've ceremonies. The Eldridge memor- ial windows and the mahogany pulpit were gifts of the Eldridge sisters.
 Dr. Miles Belden, of Canaan, died, aged S6. He had been a member of the Methodist church for S years. In Lime Rock Joel Pierce died, aged S8 years.
 November 3. Mrs. Miles Belden, widow of Dr. Belden, moved to Goshen to live with her niece, Mrs. J. B. Thomp- son.
 Ed. ]. Prescott returned to Canaan from Naugatuck where he been engaged for some months.
 John P. Shields, of New Haven, and Sherwood Cummings, of Norwalk, came home to vote. -y w. H. Camp and his mother moved in- 1 to Merrill Humphreys tenement on West Main street.
 Rev. Elisha Whittlesey preached in Christ Church Sunday, owing to the ill., ness of Rev. MT. Bostwick.
 IA lookup Is needed in this place, | where such drunken howlers as those | from Sandtown, who made fools of them | selves on the depot platform last Satur- day afternoon, can sbe put for safe keep | ing and reflection"
 Rev. Hiram Eddy, of Jersey City, and E. Emory Johnson, of Middletown, talked | republican politics in Town Hall. Dr. | Eddy had just attended a reunion of the l Eddy family at Providence, where 100 members of the Eddy family celebrated | the landing of Samuel and John Eddy at | Plymouth Rock in I63o. The election in North Canaan resulted | as follows: For representative, L. L. Cartwright, dem., 2I7; D. L. Freeman, rep, I28; Congressman, George w. Peet, dem., POS; Frederick Miles, rep, I4o; general state ticket, dem., PA; rep, I27; greenback, I. One ticket was cast for Benjamin a Bristow, president; Charles F. Adams, vice president; Rev. Elisha Whittlesey, governor; Rev. w. A. Mackey, lieutenant governor.
 Litchfeld had TYP voters.
 Mark Twain addressed a German au- dience in Hartford, on politics. speaking both English and German.
 Norfolk elected Dr. w. w. Welch and l George w. Wooster republican repre- sentatves.
 The Canaan band participated in a big republican torchlight parade in Lakeville | and Salisbury.
 The C. w. R. R. directors passed reso- lutions on the death of Director George | Dudley The resolutions were signed by Alex H. Holley and E. T. Butler, com mittee.
 The Lee Cleaner told of apples in Monterey measuring twelve inches "in diameter"
 Robert Wilcox, of South Crnaan, pick ed I2o bushels of selected corn from ten rods less than one acre of ground.
 Miss Lizzie Oldfeld opened a new millinery store in West Cornwall.
 "A child was born in Adams, Mass, at | 9 o'clock last Tuesday morning, and at 12 o'clock it was taken on the cars to North Adams, to be christened."
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