Connecticut western news., 1912-04-25
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to Week. CuIled from The News Files.
 1880.


 1880.
 April 28. "Adam's brick kiln is soon to be started up"
 Dr. Camps three-minute colt was mak- ing fine showing on the local track.
 John B. Reed was purchasing calves, Thursdays, at the old freight house.
 Superintendent Stllson and General Freight Agent Cogswell of the H. R. R. were in town the other day."
 Barnes Brothers set the example run ming wide tire wagon wheels.
 MT. David S. Draper and family ar rived at Mrs. Franklin's, for the summer. "A faint attempt at a snowstorm last Saturday morning convinced the world that old winter is still lingering"
 Congressman Miles was home from Washington.
 Trailing arbutus was plentiful.
 Mir. Griswold Humphrey had so far re covered from protracted illness as to be able to ride out
 The "Old Squire Peet store" in front of the Barnard House, Salisbury, was demolished to make room for the park.
 Miss Hattie Mead and Isaac V. John son, of Neshanic, N. J., were married in Canaan Valley at the residence of the brides father, II. J. Mead.
 Miss Emma Abbott was engaged to teach the Ashley Falls school.
 "Mr. Charles Gillette has opened an undertaker's establishment in the build ing opposite the Methodist church, form erV occupied by Robert Marvin, as a bakery.
 Burglars who attempted to rob the safe of Congressman Miles, at Copake Iron Works, were frustrated in their de- sign and one of them was arrested.
 Sheffield boys are killing black snakes by the wholesale in rocky lot near Sill yer street. In one afternoon last week twenty were killed, and 1t wasn't much of an afternoon for snakes, either.
 Mrs. Charlotte Gillette, wife of Law renee Gillette, died after a lingering ill., ness, aged 57 years.
 A mass of rock estimated at 200 tons !, became loosened near the top of Canaan Mountain, just back of Benson's, and crashed down to the foot, a distance of half mile, but doing no serious damage.
 Mrs. Cornelius Brown, of Falls Village, had Houdan hen that laid an egg meas uring GA by s inches.
 The Falls Village Improvement Society elected E. w. Spur president; Mrs. U. H. Miner vice president, and Mrs. Geo. w. Hall secretary and treasurer.
 "Our Best Society" was produced in Falls Village by local talent, including A. P. Chapman, Mrs. c. w. Hall, John H. Belden, Miss Stella Millspaugh, Albert Sheppard, Fred A. Bartlett. Miss Mary Maltbie, Miss Abbie Kellogg, Dwight E. Dean, Miss Estelle Bartlett Charles H. IT C ArI L. Brown, Miss Lucy C. Randall. Tuck CTS orchestra furnished music.
 Willard Baker, of Sharon, opened a law office in Kent. Joseph Selden was elected president of the Farmers Club in Norfolk.
 A meeting of soldiers in Lakeville re- suited in a vote to erect a soldiers monu- ment in Salisbury.
 Mrs. Susan Ostrander died at the home of David Jones, Lakeville.
 The first tobacco growers mutual in- surance company ever organized had its headquarters in Canaan, and advertised for business. The officers were Lyman Dunning, president; Frederick Bronson, vice president; J. B. Hardenbergh, treas urer; Charles H, Briggs, secretary; Ed ward s. Roberts, general agent, Among the directors were George w. Cowdrey and Miles B. Tobey.
 A I3-year-old boy in Pittsfeld was fatally hurt by brick thrown by play mate and striking him on the head.
 May 5. The first of May brought a snowsquall, and on the 4th the mercury stood at S7 degrees above zero in the shade.
 A five gallon keg of French brandy be- longing to Druggist Camp was stolen from thesdepot.
 Frank Peet, son of Hon. G. w. Peet, spent the Sabbath with friends in Water bury"
 drank Comstock has a tame young fox which he caught in the Sandtown swamp recently, and which runs about the house and yard like a kitten"
 Miss Anna Carman, whose mother, (NIrs. Lawrence Gillette) recently died, Mas to make her home with MT. and Mrs. s. C. Beckley.
 Camps drug store had been newly ceiled and overhauled generally.
 "The Conn. Western R. R. has been turned over to the state treasurer, who will run the road for the present, and foreclose in the interest of the bondhold- CTS as soon as practicable"