Connecticut western news., 1912-04-11
Gossip of Days Gone By
News of the Week, as Cu11ed from The
 News Files of DatesaGiven.
1880.

secure the appointment or Mrs. A. E. Wolcott as postmistress."
 "A Lenox COW gave birth to triplets last week"
 At the funeral of Mrs. John Burget in Great Harrington last week, Mrs. Ira Newman dropped dead, of heart disease.
 "The Hartford society forS the proven. tion of crime has, within short time, enforced the marriages of four men to betrayed and deserted girls,'
 April IA. Repairs were being made on the Warmer House.
 Jerome Root went to Norfolk as bag gage master.
 Farmers had commenced ploughing and were planting early vegetables.
 ''Ovid Gillette, the fish peddler. is wrestling with measles"
 Rev. W. A. Mackey was returned to Canaan, by Conference, for another year at the Methodist church.
 Miss Emma Stiner was engaged to teach the Canaan Mountain school.
 Richard Maloney, whose four ohil- dren died with diphtheria last fall, has removed to Tom Browns house on Rail road street.
 Levi Shepard, father of Hon. John K. Shepard, died at Norfolk, aged 95 years months.
 "At the time of the last Canaan Val ley fire three barns were burned, in- stead of one, as reported"
 "A drunken Frenchman from East Canaan, who became abusive and drew Q knife on Conductor Cummings. was roughly handled by the trsinmen, at this station, last Saturday night"
 The cellar for Harness-m maker James Quinn's new house on West Main street was finished and ready for Lorrain's gang of carpenters.
 "The last vestiges of the old school house. have been removed by Frank VanDeusen, who will reconstruct the edifice at Wetaug. as dwelling house. In tearing down the structure 6 book was found, which trio of mischievous urchins had thrown underneath the floor to spite the owner nearly fifty years ago. Some of the participants are now living in this town, and vividly re- call many of thelr boyish pranks. A piece of poetry. also was foundS securely sealed-as letters were sealed in those days, without envelopes-and addressed to Ensign Church, whom our citizens and those of adjoining towns will re- member. The poetry was 8 schoolgirl sffusion. and signed by Mary Peet and Abigail Lawrence, the former the late widow of E. P. Hunt, who died in this place about three years ago, and the lat ter the first wife of Lawrence Gillette, who died perhaps fifteen years ago. These relics were Tn as fair 8 state of preservation as could be expected, hay ing been entombed beneath the old structure for half a century,"
 The pulpit of the Congregational church in East Canaan was occupied last Sunday by "Rev. MT. Gordon. of Cambridge" who was at that time oom- pleting course in Harvard. [This "Mr. Gordon" is now the celebrated Dr. George Gordon, pastor of the Old South Church at Boston,.
 At the annual meeting of the reading room association, D. l.. Freeman was elected president to succeed Key. H. I. Bodley, who declined reelection. D. L. Peiroe was reelected vice-president i; E. D. Lawrence. treasurer Miss s. W. Adam, secretary; Miss s. W. Adam, N. o. Ward, A. T. Roraback, executive committee.
 The Sharon Pinafore Company pre- sented that opera in Salisbury Those mentioned as being particularly good in their respective roles. were, Mir. Newton Bartram as Sir Joseph Porter Arthur G. Sherlock as Dick Deadeye. and Miss M. o. Gager as Little Buttercup
 Rev. F. J. Belcher was reappointed pastor of the Methodist church in Sails bury.
 A union meeting of the Falls Village ladies' aid societies at Mrs. Wm. Sher- mans in Amesville was @ successful affair. The program included flute and piccolo duet, by Henry R. Wolfe and Wm. L. Brown reading, by P. B. Bur- net humorous reading by Mrs. K. 0. Cowdrey,; instrumental selection by Edward Gillette, J. 0. Wolfe, E. S.. Brown and Mary Frisco
 ''Rose Harding. the girl cornetist, of Pittsield, goes to New York this week to take lessons of Arbuckle.'
 "As Edward Steadman was driving from Lee to Tyringham, with piano in the wagon, the other day, the wagon tipped, throwing him out. and the piano oame out on top of him. He died in a snort time."
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