Connecticut western news., 1912-04-18
Gossip GGlI'i of Days Gone By
News of the Week, as Cu11ed from The
 News Files of DatesRGiven.


 April 21. Several private telephone wires are talked of in this place."
 Miss Carrie Smith was teaching school in Ame1ia. :,
 Camps drug store is to have new ceiling and other improvements"
 GA hive of bees belonging to W. J. Canfield in Canaan Valley swarmed last Wednesday, April IA. Spring is com ing.
 Boys were scooping out suckers with their hands from Underwood's brook, some of which weighed nearly two pounds.
 Fred Young has been engaged to take charge of the reading room, hang up the papers, turn out smokers and take the cussin' this year."
 William J. Ferguson and Frederick Bronson were drawn as jurors at the United States District Court, at New Haven.
 Miss F. A. Dean, teacher in the inter mediate department of the Canaan school. was ill ,and Miss Bertha Granger taught in her place.
 The tin, stove and furniture store of Frank Strong, at Hinsdale, Mass, was burned out; loss $1 ,O0O.
 The Housatonic R. R. new locomotive "John B. Peck" was received. "It is the heaviest engine on the road, weigh ing, when coaled up. 54 tons."
 Judge Granger sentenced Allen, of Hartford, to life imprisonment for the murder of the watchman, Shipman.
 R. J. Lake, formerly of Canaan, died in Chatham, April 15
 The sidewalk in front of MT. Wm. Adams was being raised and substan- tially balIasted with gravel.
 Irving Ferguson, Housatonic railroad ticket agent at Canaan was promoted to station agent at Housatonic. Arthur Lane, of Falls Village succeeded him at the Canaan ticket office
 "A good story is in circulation at the expense of conductor on the o. W. R. R. According to the story passenger got on the train at this station and paid the conductor his fare, but on arriving at his destination, concluded to go farther, and accordingly paid h1s fare to the next station, and then to the next, without leaving the train, although in so doing thls fare cost him more than it would if he had bought a ticket at the starting point. The conductor suggested that it would have been economy for him to have bought @ ticket and thus save unnecessary expense and bother. In explanation the passenger said: This railroad company once played mean trick on me. and then made up my mind that they'd never get another cent of my money. That's the reason pay my fare to the conductors.
 The East Canaan Congregational So- eiety was reorganized, with this society committee Anson A. Lawrence, flora tio N. Adams, Homer 0. Allyn collect or, Everardus Ives.
 Prof. DeAlmo. the celebrated wizard and ventrlloquist," who started to give . Punch and Judy show on. Cummings corner, and uttered left-handed compli- menus to the Canaanites generally for the1r lack of ability to appreciate his classical entertainment, was drenched by pail of water that came from an upper window in the block.
 Sperry Sisson, of Mill River, commit ted suicide by shooting himself through the heart.
 Robert L. Taft had begun the erection of his new house between Clayton and Hadsell street.
 The Sherlock family were organizing a Pinafore company in Lakeville.
 Anson Norton, of Norfolk, died aged 90 Undertaken Geo. w. Scoville, of Norfolk, who had just started in busi- ness there, was surprised to receive @ visit from a delegation of gentlemen, headed by Rev. F. J. Gleason; who pre- sented him with 'eh envelope containing S55 and instruction to purchase the best ice casket the country affords.
 P. Bronson, the oldest engineer in actual service on the H. R. R., had been in the employ of the road 36 years.
 Whooping cough was prevalent in Falls Village.
 Fred A. Bartlett joined Fuckers band in Falls Village, and was the youngest member.
 ''Somebody has offered $500 toward stocking Berkshire streams with trout, provided the Sportsmen' Club will raise 8 like amount"
 "A Pittsfeld butcher, while splitting 8 hog through with cleaver, thrust the instrument through hls foot, by mis- stroke"
 A four-year- old son of Ebert Kinney, Monterey, recently fell into cistern while attempting to put on the cover, and was drowned.
 C0IITH CANAAN AND HUNTSVIL E