Connecticut western news., 1912-11-28
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to Week, Culled from The News Files.
 1881.

March I6. Engineer P Bronson, of the H. R. R., recently purchased an old wooden clock standing 7 feet 6 inches high, winding up with a cord, the weights being tin bags filled with sand, weighing six pounds each. It has been in the Bronson family 1o4 years"
 March B. William Hayward was pre- pairing to move his family to Falls Will lage where he was employed in the rail road repair shops.
 A horse belonging to A. B. Garfield, of East Canaan, ran away smashing up the buggy.
 John T. Northrup, who IS now work ing the Mead place in Canaan Valley, Is to have charge of the Dr. Smith farm in this place the coming year."
 Henry Hanchett, of East Canaan, moved his family into the George Gil lette house on West Main street.
 "Dr. w. D. Camp and wife, of Copake, N. Y, formerly of this place, were in town last week, visiting Dr. (. w. Camp, with whom the doctor attended the fun eral of his father, in Norfolk"
 MT. and Mrs G. B. Gardner returned nun llSlA Ol lIdl tour dllu ESGlllCO uOWn to the enj joyment of their honeymoon"
 Prof. Green, of Danbury, was giving music lessons at the Stevens House every Friday.
 "A drunken man imprisoned himself in one of the outbuildings of the Warner House, Saturday night, and kept the whole neighborhood awake with his drunken yells until Butts got up and eS- Corted him out of the village"
 Rev. Mason Noble, IT,, rented Con- gressman Miles's house, near Twin Lakes
 H. H. Cogswell had a number of straw berry plants in blossom at his depot res taurant.
 "The Canaan Band serenaded the Stevens House last night, and were hand somely treated by Landlord Mac Donald"
 Harlow Root, on the South Canaan road, brought to the sanCtum the skin of a rattlssnake measuring five feet from tip to tip.
 Contractor E. R. Lorrain fell from the second story of the axle shop in Norfolk, while putting Tn a window frame. He astride a sawhorse. He was picked up unconscious and remained so until the next day.
 A Newtown rubber factory had con tracted to make 2,ooo rubber bicycle tires.
 A number of tenement houses were to be erected in Lime Rock for employees of the Barnum, Richardson Co.
 "A Waterbury lawyer who bought up and sued claim against a Bristol man, has been fined $2o for the offense, which Is unlawful"
 Two elephants who can understand nothing but German, arrived at circus headquarters in Bridgeport"
 "Thomaston boys recently chased a black and white kitten into a barn, but just as it disappeared it waved with it's tail an affeCtionate adieu laden with per fume rare and rank. The boys are now watching a newly-made grave where their clothes lie buried" : Five ladies voted in the school meet ing at Sheffield.
 Rev. Mason Noble, of Sheffield, had received ST 500 call and decided to ac- cept.
 Hiram Webster, of Tyringham, had calf with feet and legs exactly like those of a dog.
 Michael Green, aged Go, was killed in Lenox, by tree falling on him.
 Four generations of VanDeusens were present at the golden wedding ceebra- ton of MT. and Mrs. George VanDeusen, of Great Burlington.
 Miss Niesner, of New Milford, opened a millinery store in 5. Reeds block, Falls Village.
 Rev. F. J. Belcher was to preach his farewell sermon in the Falls Village Methodist church, Sunday, having been stationed there for three years.
 Married,in Millerton, March I4 Lyman Couch, of Southfeld, and Miss Minnie Sanford, of East Canaan.
 Died, in Norfolk, March I6, Samuel S. Camp, aged So years.