Connecticut western news., 1912-05-02
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of DoiRgs from Week to Week. CuIled from The News Files.
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 Dr. Ii. M. Knight, of Lakeville, were passed by the Litchfeld County Associa- tion, signed by pr. James Welch and pr. Fl. W. Buell.
 At the state convention in Hartford, for the election of delegates to the national democratic convention in Gin cinnati, William H. Barnum of Lime Rock, was elected delegate at large, and Henry B. Graves, of Litchheld, county delegate, This was the convention that nominated Hancock and English.
 Theodore F. Watson, tor six years station agent on the Conn. Western side ot the depot, resigned to become station agent at New Milford.
 These jurors were drawn for the Dis trict Court at Winsted, May term: North Canaan-Frederick Watson, Edmund D. Lawrence, Ira 5. Bunnell. Cornwall Geo. w. Studley, Hiram G. Dean, Silas C. Beers. ShaTon-Enoch P. Everett, Charles E. Benton, John Boyd, Ezra Bartranr, Albert J. Bostwick. An "Evangeline party" was held at the residence of Burton Ives, East Canaan, and correspondent wrote: This grand reform Is the outgrowth of the work of that noble reformer, Evangeline, in the neighboring village of Canaan.
 A batch of ninety cases against Win ! sted liquor sellers in the superior court resulted in fines aggregating $2,I35.
 Rev. MT. Mackey lectured on temper ance in the Methodist church.
 Miss Nellie Richardson, teacher, re- turned from Chatham, visited Miss Jenny Brown for a week, and returned to her home in Chapinville.
 "Fever and ague are shaking up the 1 ~%l@ ~E l. q John C. Wolfe plays cornet in the Falls Village Methodist church choir, as- sisted occasionally by w. l.. Brown, on the flute.
 Mrs. Minnie Little Hornbeck, of Falls Village, was seriously i'll with lung trou- ble.
 The Falls Village V. I. A. set out 30 maple trees in row extending from the Congregational church to the Dudley House.
 Silas D. Crossman, formerly of Falls Village, was killed by the cars on the Hudson River road.
 Among the wedding gifts displayed at the marriage of Hattie l. Mead and Isaac V. Johnson, in Canaan Valley, and re- ported in the paper, after the custom of that time, were: table caster, Tobey and Briggs; pickle caster, Mir. and Mrs. R. VanDeusen; ditto, MT. and Mrs. Alder man Ives; spoon-holder, MT. and Mrs. J. Emmons; butter dish, Mir and Mrs, l. Corbit; clock, MT. Roraback and lady; half-dozen silver folks, MT. and Mrs. I. Morris; ditto forks, Mrs. Fuller and daughter; call bell, G. B. Gardner; sugar spoon, MT. and Mrs. c. E. DeHart; lamp, MT. and Mrs. Wm. Sardam; ditto, l.. Lindsey and Wm. Bunnell; britannia teapot, MT. and Mrs. G. F. Strong; glass sauce dish, Mir. and Mrs. E. s. Roberts; i; ditto, MT. and Mrs. c. H. Brinton; MT. and Mrs. l. s. Bunnell; glass tea set, MT. and Mrs. A. c, Stevens; glass pitcher, MT. and E. G. Rockwell; glass bread-plate, Mrs. Wm. Thompson; ditto, Minnie Briggs; dozen napkins, MT. and Mrs. G. L. Parsons; dozen napkins and work pocket, MT. and Mrs. E. Langdon; i; one pair towels, MT. and Mrs. G. R. Bull; ditto, Laura Smith, Flora Rood. Miss L. Prescott; table-cloth, MT. and Mrs. M. Rockwell; table spread and vases, MT. and Mrs. w. Rossman; pair towels and box paper, MT. and Mrs. A. B. Garfield; toilet cushion, Mrs. Julia pillow shams, Mary Emmons; stand spread, E. I. Webster; vase, Mrs. A. M. Tobey; $3 cash, A. Donalds; $1o, H. J. Mead.
 Daniel Manvel, miller at Cornwall Bridge was caught on the shaft of the turbine wheel of his mill and whirled around it several times and suffered in juries that laid him up for some time.
 May I2. "The C. w. R. R. train re- gently attached at Millerton was taken back to Hartford on a writ of replevin last Wednesday night"
 "Rev. E. H. Roys, of North Egremont, and Rev. ]. w. Macomber, of Great Bar rington, darkened the doors of our sanctum the other day"
 "Harley Beeman, of Kent, and Jenny Stone, of Warren, both minors, recently eloped to New York state and were mar ried.'
 Martin Lane,, for many years a con ductor on the Housatonic railroad, re- signed to engage in farming near Kent.
 "Will Roraback is running a five and ten cent counter at the postoffice, where everything from tin whistle to a cornet band can be had, and all for the small sum- etc"
 "During the illness of Misses Mary Cummings and Lillie Wooster, their schools respectively in South Canaan and SOdom are taught by Misses Minnie Peirce and Florence New"
 Sherwood Cummings was sick with the measles.
 A Sheffield town meeting voted to re- place the Ashley Falls bridge which was washed away, with an iron bridge FPS feet long.
 Frank c. Loomis, of Hartford, succeed ed T. F. Watson as C. w. R. R. station agent here, and "Sam" Ferguson was his temporary assistant.
 Griswold Humphrey, the veteran druggist of Canaan, died, aged g.
 The steam saw-mill belonging to Mir. Kilmer, above Canaan Valley was des troyed by an incendiary fire.
 John H. Murray's circus exhilited in Canaan.
 Charles w. Parsons, of East Canaan, died in Plymouth, aged 27.
 "That Comical Brown" gave one of his "inimitable" shows in Town Hall.
 John Calvin, of East Canaan, started fire to burn out hornets nest. The fire got beyond his control and burned over large tract, consuming about 200 cords