Connecticut western news., 1912-10-17
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to Week. CulIed from The News Files.
 1881.

"ockI SuHeQ rom n6 NeWS TU6S'
 1881.
 January 26. NC. Ward was on bus mess trip to the South.
 "A telephone is talked of to connect this place with Ashley Falls"
 Miss Anas Shields was visiting in New York and Brooklyn.
 "Steve Riley is the happy father of a bouncing boy baby"
 The sixth dance of the al. D. D. Y. Club" was given in Town Hall.
 "There are I36 children in thIs school district between the ages of 4 and I6."
 Rev. MT. Mackey attended the temper ance convention in Meriden.
 Ex-Governor Andrews and Judge Warner were in town.
 The club dances in Ashley Falls were to close with a grand masquerade.
 Canaan Valley is showed under; the roads are impossible, the travel being mostly through the fields.
 "Fred Lawrence, who has been em- ployed as conductor of a horse car in New York has returned to this place" ' Engineer P. Bronson, the oldest en- gineer on the H. R. R., was obliged to leave his engine anal go home, owing to violent attack of neuralgia. sr
 Rev. Dr. Eddy occupied the pulpit of the East Canaan Congregational church, Sunday. In the afternoon he took the milk train for Jersey City to attend the funeral of his grandson, Willie Daly
 Trains on both railroads were blocked by the heavy show fall. F The Litchfeld county representatives caucus, at the Capitol, selected Donald ]. Warner, of Salisbury, as judge of the district court
 N. Eager, of Winsted, went to Utah to engage in the cattle business. r H., Barreuther, of Winsted, was organ izing juvenile brass band
 The masonic fraternity had II6 lodges and 5000 members in Connecticut.
 Luke Judd has bought the Hammer town mill, and will proceed to improve it."
 Ruel s. Rice, of Barkhamsted, vet eran of the Second Heavies, died, aged 57.
 Edwin McNeil was appointed superin- tendent and general freight agent of the Shepaug railroad.
 General Joseph R. Hawley, of Hart ford, was elected United States Senator to succeed Senator Eaton.
 Lenox had B births last year, ,and about half that number of deaths.
 Mrs. M II. Wickwire, of Sheffield, has a cactus containing 325 buds and blos- soms."
 A milk dealer paid $5s in the Pittsfeld court the other day for adulterating his wares.
 s A Lee debating club decided that slavery was beneficial to the negro. LenoX Furnace has a child, born Christmas, with I2 toes and I2 fingers. 2, "WIllis Bartholomew, of Sheffield, for making cider brandy, has paid over $6, 900 government taxes since last Septem- ber."
 sl. H. T. Oatman, Pittsfield newspaper man, was given birthday surprise party by members of the press. l "Constable Brown, of North Adams, under arrest for stealing butter, has run away"
 During December 6,692,s5s pounds of freight was shipped from West Stock bridge station, on which the charges were $3,682 26.
 Nathaniel C. Fowler, IT,, of the Pitts fed Journal, was presented with hand some god-headed cane, by attaches of this office, in honor of his 23d birthday. Mark Neisner, of New Milford, opened branch clothing store in Miners build ing, Falls Village.
 Theodore Owen, of West Cornwall, was bound over for the attempted mur- der of his wife.
 George Jenks, of Lakeville, was severely injured by falling, in the woods, and striking the back of his head on the edge of an axe which he was carrying.
 Miss Kinnie Ensign, of Lime Rock, started for Huntington, w. Va, to visit an uncle.
 Prof. Hulburt's school, Lime Rock, organized a sleighride followed by a dance in the school house.
 Representative Cartwright, of North Canaan, was assigned place on the com mittee on new town and probate districts Capron, of Falls Village, on the commit tee on military affairs; Welch, of Nor folk, committee on humane institutions Gillette, of Salisbury, committee on sale of lands; Wooster, of Norfolk, roads and bridges.