Connecticut western news., 1912-12-12
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to Week, CuIIed from The News Files.
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Week, CuIIed from The News Files.
 April 6. Druggist Camp is to put in a soda fountain the coming summer"
 "Another domestic jangIe at the Sand, bank north of this village last week"
 Miss Emma Stiner was visiting rela- tives in Wallingford.
 "The famous dog case in Falls Village has been put over for another month"
 MT. Brooks, of Norfolk, moved into L. Foot's tenement on Church street.
 LorrainS carpenters were building a capacious refrigerator in Ives meat mar ket.
 Myron Decker, of Ashley Falls, was sick with typhoid fever, and George Ab- bolt with pneumonia.
 The service pipe in the cellar of Cum ings block burst and deluged Parsons stock there.
 "There are three Patrick Finnegans in this place now, and the postofice clerk is afraid of getting into hot water in dis trlbuting their mail"
 John T. Northrup took possession of the Dr. Smith farm. John Calkins, the former occupant went to work for Butch CT Ives at East Canaan.
 John Mccormick, who died in East Ca naan at the age of 67, had worked for the Barnum, Richardson Go. s consecutive years.
 Jay A. Underwood had fully recovered from long and severe illness.
 Mir. Barrett, of Falls Village, leased Roraback's blacksmith shop, and Grove kniCkerbOcker the wagon shop.
 Mi 1,.A C urday at Humphreys store, drew quite Clemans bought a lot of old forceps and turnkey-just for a curiosity. Saddle bags filled with medicine, and other old fashion trinkets sold for a song"
 Dr. Camp was doing lot of vaccinat- ing, as the small pox cases in Housatonic alarmed the people hereabout. Forty of the operators at the Clayton clay works were vaccinated in one day.
 D. A. Riker and Lawyer F. E. Cleave- land of Winsted, were in town, and com plimented the Canaan band on their fine playing.
 An attempt was made to wreck Clark Lanes train at Kent, by placing large stick of timber acfoss the tracks. No damage was done.
 Bids were called for for carrying the mail on the prospective new mail route between Canaan and Southheld.
 Misses Minnie Peirce and Nellie Andrus were appointed committee to raise $GOo to continue the reading room for another year.
 The large George w. Peet monument, in five section, arrived, for erection in the Lower cemetery.
 Jerome Grannis, of New Preston, lost four horses within year.
 The New Milford Ray said one of the greatest needs of that town was good hotel
 @"SaIisbury is aff1cited with drunken men who roam about the town and smash furniture in the depot"
 "The legislature has made fermented cider an intoxicating liquor. Has the legislature turned into a distillery?"
 "Litchfeld is troubled with witches, in the shape of a family of colored children who have a peculiar disorder, with spasms, which puzzle the doctors, and it is pronounced witchcraft by some of the supcrstitiOus ones"
 Mrs. Henry Walton. of Salisbury, had her arm amputated at the elbow, by Doctors Bissell, Welch and Averill.
 "Ex- Senator Wm. H. Barnum, of Lime Rock, is said to be arranging for the es- tabishment of large car factory in West Virginia"
 "Pittsields postoffice employees are to be uniformed"
 "Pittsfeld thinks of building a horse railroad costing $2o,OOo."
 Frank Durant, formerly of Great Bar rington, went into business in Chicago
 Two North Adams houses were bur glarized by drunken men Saturday night
 "President Garfield is to attend the commencement exercises at Willia I-s College"
 "Great Barrington's history is to be written and published by Clark w. Bryan, Justice Dewey and J. Milton Mackey.".