Connecticut western news., 1912-10-03
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to Week, Culled from The News Files.
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Week, CuIIed from The News Files.
 1880.
 December 22. East Canaan, 1t is suid will witness a game of croquet on ice, be- tween Messrs. Mead and Tobey."
 An Irish woman on a Conn. Western train, hearing the conductor call out "Scotland" inquired if the "next station was Oireland"
 Oliver Haskins was crushed to death at Amesville, between freight car and locomotive.
 Hon. George w. Peet published long letter attributing his defeat for congress in this, Fourth, district, to "bribery and corruption" alleging that $8o,ooo was spent to defeat him.
 Rev. Henry J. Lynch of St. Marys K. C. church, Lakeville, celebrated the tenth anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood.
 At Sunday school entertainment in West Cornwall, George Hughes sang, kitty of Coloraine;" Miss Emma Mem mott sang, "Long Ago." quartette, "In the Bright Light" by Mrs. James A. Cochrane, Mrs. R. P. Foster, T. J. Bos- worth and w. C. Hart; Character song, "Homeless Tonight" by Misses Nellie and, Dell Cochrane; tableaux, under beautiful colored lights. representing, Sunrise, Moon, Sunset and Midnight, "Miss Lizzie Oldfeld as a representative of the above, looked too beautiful to be approachable."
 January 5. United States Senator David Davis visited at William Adams.
 Miss Emma Stiner spent the holidays with friends in Collinsvile.
 Jerome Root threw up his job at the Norfolk depot and returned to Canaan.
 John B. Cogswell, of Kentucky came home to attend a family reunion at the old home. Those who gathered were George B. Cogswell and family, of Falls Village; John B. Cogswell and family, of Henderson, Ky; E. ]. Coombs, and wife, (who was Sarah Cogswell,) with~two children, of Pittsfeld. Two fthe family, unable to be present, were "Kib" Cogs- well, of St. Louis and Mrs. Libbie Cogs- we'll Gray.
 The I. D. D. Y. club gave another dance in Town Hall.
 ~ Harry Sheppard, a brakeman on the Housatonic freight train had the fore finger of his right hand smashed off while coupling cars, at this station, 'caused by the frost on the shackle ad- herring to his wet glove so that he could not pull his hand away" Dr. Camp the finger. | , Frank w. Smith, who was well known in Canaan and East Canaan, a travelling salesman, was roasted alive in a South Carolina railroad catastrophe.
 Rev. MT. Bodley, who had recently re- turned home from a European tour re- sumed his work az rector of Christ church |
 The band entertainments-the concert and the drama, Bread on the Waters" with the farce, A Little More Cider'-l was repeated, "by special request"
 Miss Bena Rodemeyer, Miss Jennie Brown and MT. Willard Underwood, who were on the program for songs and music at the Falls Village band concert at Falls Village, drove to that place, in a sleigh. 1 While going through Sandtown, the cutter upset fh deep snowdrIft throw ing all the occupants out, and the horse ran away with the cutter and a portion of the costumes in suit case. The dere- 1 licts were sheltered at Casimir Boinay's, while the men-folks went in pursuit of the rig, which was finally stopped, a mile i or so farther down. In the meantime a DIE SlelSn-lOaO or AandanlIeS, enTOuLG to the concert, came along and were stopped at Boinays by a sentinel posted there to watch for them. The girls were taken aboard the big sleigh and all reached Falls Village in time for the concert. 1 The program consisted of music by the band, in their new uniforms; quartette singing, solos by Miss Alice Dakin and by Miss Rodemeyer accompanied by Miss Brown, pianist; violin solo by MT. Underwood This was on New Years eve, and the mercury registered B below zero.
 Mrs. Kate L., wife of pr. J. J. Ayerill, died in Falls Village, aged s years.
 Falls Village correspondent: Several from this village attend the present session of Rocky Dell Institute at Lime Rock, including Albert Sheppard, Henry Crandall, Adolph Ruiger, Fred C. Brown, Fred A. Bartlett, John Jacobi, Blanche B. Tobey, Minnie Jacobi.
 The members of the West Cornwall Cornet band presented w. R. North, their leader, with an elegant $6o silver cornet, elaborately engraved.