Connecticut western news., 1912-07-25
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to Week, CuIIed from The News Files.
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week. SulIeu rom ne NeWS FleS. 1880.
 September 22. "Arthur Lanes place in the band, as trombone player, is to be filled by Willie Rodemeyer."
 Rev. s. B. Forbes lectured on temper ance in the Methodist church.
 Miss Nellie Andrus was teaching in the Sodom district and Miss Grace Lang don in South Canaan.
 President A. T. Roraback made an elo- quent address to the local Garfield and Arthur Club.
 Eighteen persons were admitted to membership in the Methodist church, four by letter and fourteen on profession of faith.
 The l. D. D. Y. Club was to be revived for the winters dancing.
 Warren Mcintyre took first premium on his Hambletonian mare and colt, and also on Dr. Francis Whittlesey's colt, which he was keeping, at the Falls Will lage fair.
 Fred s. Spaulding was again tempo rarily, ticket agent at the local depot, in place of Arthur Lane, who removed to Bridgeport.
 w, M. Deming sold out his interest in the photograph gallery at West Winsted to his partner, MT. Grant, and contem- plated removing to Danbury.
 A number of Canaanites went on Dan Lucey's Long Branch excursion, on the big steamer, Grand Republic.
 The democratic congressional conven- vention at Bridgeport nominated Hon. George w. Peet, of Canaan, for congress.
 "The people of this place will be pained to learn that Alexander Waters, who re- moved from this place to Winsted some years ago, has again made an assignment of his property and has been taken to an inebriate asylum"
 Fred A. Scamerhorn had in his gar den two Hubbard squash measuring re- spectively 3 feet s inches and 3 feet 8H inches.
 At Barnes lime quarry blast threw out rock weighing between 40 and so tons. Itmeasured about 9 feet and nearly s feet square. It was hurled nearly two rods.
 Gray Johnson dug hill of potatoes, on the old Watson farm, containing 77 of the tubers, one of which weighed a pound. The same day George s. Bene-
 
 3o inches in length.
 John Robinson brought to The News office a stalk of corn measuring 10 feet inches in length.
 Miss Lorinda Lyons, of Canaan, and MT. Charles B. Northrop, of New Mil ford, were married at the home of H. w. Woodruff in Washington Depot, Conn.
 The following ladies, most of them schoolmates from I83o to I84o, were in the habit of meeting for a social good time at frequent intervals: Mrs. Leonard Lawrence, Mrs. Lyman Dunning, Mrs. Hannah Stewart, Mrs. Hiram Briggs, Mrs. G. Humphrey Mrs. Henry Holt, Mrs. Amy Andrews, Mrs. C. Morris, Miss Kate Lawrence, Miss J, Daboll. { A 1dastardly outrage" was perpetrated in the dead of night by some "unspeaka- ble scoundrel or scoundrels" who sus- pended from the democratic campaign banner across Main Street, dead rooster, which, on falling into the street when the string broke, was discovered to be hen.
 Hon. George Dudley, of Winsted, died.
 Great Burlington had a Hancock and English Club, with H. O. Joyner as Presi- dent.
 Albert Spnrr, of Sheffield, became violently insane and was taken to the asylum at Northampton. s z Henry R. Wolfe played the flute in the Falls Village Congregational church choir. .'.
 Miss Nellie E. Richardson, of Chapin- vile, was engaged to teach the Beebe Hill school for the fall term.
 Mrs Lucinda VanDeusen, wife of Alp ner VanDeusen, of Ashley Falls, died, | aged 77.
 Winsted had a number of malarial fever cases "caused by the filthy condition of Mad river" Democratic convention called at Litch- field Oct. to nominate a candidate for sheriff. '