Connecticut western news., 1912-09-12
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to Week. CulIed from The News Files.

Record of Doings from Week to
 Week. CuIIed from The News Files. 1880. ! November A. Governor Andrews was visitor in town last week.
 George Smith is learning the watch business with Gardner"
 Dan Buckley rallied off horse.
 Joseph Gillette was bitten in the leg by one of his hogs the other day"
 "Conductor Wm. B. Curtis of this place runs the Danbury branch passenger train, and also has charge of the Dan bury station"
 Congressman Frederick Miles called on President-elect Garfield at his home in Mentor, Ohio.
 The primary schoolE was closed last week owing to the illness of the teacher, Mrs. Root.
 J L. Bragg was bitten in the leg by Mrs. Franklin's dog.
 Ice formed on Peet's cove and Gus Caldwell crossed the river on the ice.
 D. Hamilton Hurd, of Philadelphia, was in town arranging for the compila- tion of the History of Litchfeld County.
 Rev. MT. Mackey was chosen one of the vice presidents of. the Litchield County Temperance Union.
 Landlord Macdonald gave a Thanks kgiving dance at the Stevens House.
 The Salisbury Dramatic Club gave a supper and dance.
 A Pittsield man has a hog weighing 53I pounds.
 j.. Decker, of South Lee, shot a big wildcat the other day
 "Gershom Fitch, of Clayton, now in his 8oth year, is sick and not expected to recover"
 "Frank D. Mills, formerly of the An sonia Sentinel, is now local editor of the Pittsfeld Sun."
 A pet deer owned in Lee was struck. by a train and had one leg broken. It was afterward shot
 A Pittsfeld band of Christian young men are to do considerable evangelist work in Berkshire this season. A Cornwall correspondent wrote, con cluding lengthy general epistle: "I unfortunately voted early in the morn ing, before it was known that votes were to sell at $I5 each, which was the rrice at which both parties repeatedly bought men-and that without any attempt at concealment. But enough of this. What we really need now is a real first-class murder; one in which the victim is really slaughtered. We have had so many abortive attempts lately, in which the victims have only been wounded and crippled, that it is getting monotonous. UntIl such an event occurs we shall wait impatiently for 'sump'n to happen"
 George T. Johnson, of Norfolk, the popular druggist, weighs upwards of ton. now-a- days. It's girl"
 The old Baldwin & Wolfe store in Amesville was being made over into a dwelling house.
 December I. "The H. R. R. loco motive David Leavitt' is just out of the shops with little red stack" s Mir. and Mrs. Bell, of Chatham, N. Y., visited their daughter, Mrs. J. s. New. f "A meeting of the citizens is called at Squire Roraback's office next Monday night, for the purpose of organizing a fire company ii -tt.. 4 .. tl .. h..
 James Hamblin, of Millertop, took charge of Jerry News hay press.
 Walter Paul came home to spend Thanksgiving with his parents, and brought his bride along. ... ..
 Billy Humphrey has purchased a much larger holiday stock than usual, and takesa righteous pride in exhibiting It." The first dance of the l. D. D. Y. Club was scheduled.
 P' The buildings and machinery belong Ting to the Maxwell marble works at East Canaan were destroyed by an incendiary fire. The machinery alone was valued at $6o,ooo. There was no insurance on the property, which was to have gone into the possession of J. c. Patterson, of Hartford, on the same day of the fire, | T1k. NF fl4n fnv~ against Alexander Maxwell.
 P. T. Barnum of Bridgeport was seriously i'll in New York.
 The Conn. Western milk train killed a horse belonging to James Winchell of Millerton.
 Huntington voted license by one majority, but the selectmen refuse to grant any licenses, and the Tumsellers will take the matter into court"
 "Philander Vaill, of Cornwall, had a family reunion recently, when nine of his sons and daughters, with their families, assembled at the old homestead. MT. Vaill is 77 years old, and quite vigorous for one of his age"
 Pittsfeld has a population of I4376.
 MT. Grogan died at Lenox recently, aged Io7 years.
 has been appointed state detective. Ralph Turner, of Great Burlington, shot an owl measuring feet inches | from,tip to tip.
 Mrs. Henry Sisson, of Mill River, re- gently made three pounds and seven ounces of butter from the cream of ten | quarts of milk.
 "There are over 100 stations on the North Adams telephone circuit, at the central office of which from ago to 300 calls are answered daily" A New Magazine.
 The American Men of Affairs Maga- zine," published in Hartford by the American Press Biographies Co. deyotes