Connecticut western news., 1912-08-15
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to Week, CuIIed from The News Files.
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 1880.
 October B. New watering trough was being put in, back of the depot.
 Cat DeHart told of Canaan Valley potato weighing pound 131l ounces.
 Canaan turned out a good delegation on the excursion to Hartford to sec Gen. Grant.
 load of Canaan young men partici- pated in the parade of the Garfield Boys in Blue" in Norfolk
 "Fuller & Peet's cistern has just been filled up. They are going rapidly out of fashion since the Canaan Mountain water was introduced"
 'James Sheffield is building a cider mill near Pine Grove camp ground. The attendance at the meetings hereafter will undoubtedly be larger than ever."
 Falls Village democrats were addressed by Hon. Greene Kendrick, of Waterbury, and Hon. $. s. Blake, of Bridgeport, candidate for secretary of state
 Frank E. Cleaveland, the blind lawyer, spoke on the Greenback question in Town Hall
 A man who registered at the Stevens House as Frank Dean, Hell," was hit by the cars while sitting, drunk on the rails near Lynehan's crossing, and badly bruised, though no bones were broken.
 Somebody attempted to kill Patrick Finnegan'S pig by putting poison it its trough. Antidotes saved the porker's life.
 The Canaan Cornet Band only three months old, gave an open air concert on the balcony of the Ferris Hotel.
 Millerton had an epidemic of diphthe ria.
 Charles J. Porter, of Torrington, was nominated by the republicans for high sheriff, and P. T. Barnum was candidate for senator from the 10th district.
 The Lakeville brass band was raising money for new instruments.
 Anti Garfield workers were marking "32o' on every fencebarn and door step.
 "The programs announced that the procession of the fire departments parade in Winsted would be headed by "a Pol troon of policer Who was he?"
 EelS are being caught in the Otis res ervoir, weighing 10 pounds each.
 Wellington Smith presented the new Lee hose company with a new hose cart.
 A Pittsfeld man, while in jail as q com mon drunkard, was awarded $7SO back pension.
 Mrs. George Roraback had a collar bone broken, in collision of two teams in Lee.
 The new officers of the Great Barring ton Water Co. were, John L. Dodge, president; H. T. Robbins, clerk; F. T. Whiting, treasurer; Marcus H. Rogers, E. Holister, A. T. Hubbell, M. E. Tobey and Henry McNeil, directors.
 Lakeville had Garfield Club With Go members
 Salisbury's delegates to the county con- vention were T. Warner, Wm. Rayns- ford, R. P. Knight, Wm Kane.
 The Hancock Pioneers, of Falls Village and Lime Rock, had torchlight parade, headed by the Falls Village band.
 Hon. Daniel Brewster was substituting for U. H. Miner, as treasurer of the Falls Village savings bank, during the latter's illness.
 Hubert Williams, Esq, of Salisbury, and Miss Clara K. Coffing, of that place, were married by Rev, MT Kitchell The usherS were E. C. Carter, ]. B. Harrison, J. w. Greenwood and R. P. Knight. The best man was D. T. Warner, Esq.
 Married, in Millerton, October 6, by Rev. A. C. Lyon, Wallace Garfield and A. Mary Sardam, both Ot New Marlboro. In Cornwall Bridge, Ira Manvel and Miss Emma Wake. In Falls Village, Sept. 2, by Rev. F. J. Belcher, Frank Doty, of Lime Rock, and Miss Mary Morris, of Falls Village.
 In Cornwall Bridge "cider is so much more plenty than water that our inhabi tants are using it as a beverage.
 Orville Hosford, of Falls Village, was enlarging the store of the Cornwall Bridge Iron Go.
 Mrs. Rosanna Butler died in Lakeville, aged So years months.
 A son wss born to Patrick Finnegan in Canaan.
 There was horse epzootic epidemic in Lakeville.
 Daniel Pratt was president of the Sails bury Hancock Club. At the democratic county convention in Litchield, Frederick Richmond, of New Milford, was nominated for sheriff. | "Mr. Patrick Lynch, of this place, has a spring in his back yard, which had been entirely dry since last July. Last Sun day it suddenly filled up and has been full to overAowing ever since. Who can explain the phenomenon"