Connecticut western news., 1912-11-07
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to Week, CuIled from The News Files.
 1881.

Week. CuIIed from The News Files.
 1881.
 February 2s. Coal was selling al $S a ton in Canaan.
 A number of Canaanites attended Land lord Frank Keyes's ball in Mill River A horse belonging to Landlord Mac Donald died as a result of Over-driving.
 Col. J. B. Hardenbergh was visiting at his old home in Kingston.
 Floyd Hawley advertised his house. hold goods and farming stock and uten- sils for sale at auction.
 "Messrs. Underwood, Camp and Nc Intyre of this place assisted in the orches- tra at the dramatic entertainment in Falls | Village.
 w. I. Ferguson as clerk at Fuller x Peet's.
 A call for meeting of citizens ito form a permanent organization "for the Promotion of Good Morals" was signed by H. M. Adams, G. P Strong and !. L. l Bragg, committee. A valuable COW belonging to Col IT. P. Harris, of Lakeville, over-ate itself
 Lee Leland Cheese Company. of Cheshire, Mass, made II5,ooo pounds of cheese in 1880.
 Two North Adams boys were arrested | for assaulting their teacher, who attempt ed to punish them. "During the recent thaw the roads in South Berkshire were impossible. The Afford stage driver went there on foot the last three days of last week, and the Monterey stage driver likewise took a 20 minute walk, while the New Marlboro | St tr Ashley Falls and going up on the train. The Otis driver finally managed to drive to Lee Saturday after being two days on the road. Eagle. Harmon Finkle badly injured one of his hands while coupling cars, in Falls Village.
 Edwin Bartram, of Falls Village, went to Lakevllle to work for the>E. w. Spur Co.
 Fails Village home talent presented ."Single Life" in Citizens Hall.
 George North was appointed leader of the West Cornwall cornet band in place of his brother, w. R. North, who joined the army.
 Born, in Canaan, Feb. 20, a son to MT. and Mrs. Geo. H. Rood.
 March ?. "Charles Paul, IT,, has nov ed into A. T. Roraback's tenement"
 
 Henry Ward Beechers lecture in Win sted.
 Miss Lillie B. Wooster closed her school in Sherman and returned to her home in Canaan.
 MT. Sheridan w Barnes contemplatcs connecting his residence by telephone with that of his brother Henry, near their lime kilnS, distance of nearly two miles"
 Mrs w. T. Ferguson went to Winsted for a short visit at her old home before joining her husband at Falls Village. ."A man went into the Warner House the other day and laid down a hundred dollar bill in payment for two scent cigars. The change was promptly count ed out to him in trade dollars"
 MT. Jay A. Underwood was ill with erysipelas in the head, and for time his [ life was despaired of.
 y The Canaan cOrnet band gave a con cert in Town Hall. John Riley, of this place, was killed by while coupling cars. He was 2S years old. ! "Company B., of the Fourth regiment, of Bridgeport, will be the only Connecti- cut militia at the inauguration of Presi- dent Garfield"
 "Frederick P. Miles, son of Congress- man Miles, of Salisbury, was married at Bridgeport last Thursday evening, to Miss Clara L. Gray, daughter of M. w.. Gray, of that city" The name of the Connecticut Western | Railroad, under its reorganization by the i bOndhOlders, was changed to the Hart ford and Connecticut Western.
 The store of NJ. Beers & Son, in Corn wall Hollow, was burglarized.
 IA farmers club has been organized in Pttsfeld."
 "Pittsfeld colored folks have an 'Abra- ham Lincoln lodge of Good Templars
 "Two young men of Lee are going to look at Omaha, with view to buying it."
 Timothy Winchell, of West Otis, and Mir. Crippeh, of Egremont, swapped farms.
 Landlord Strickland, of Lee, was found dead in his bed, having died of heart disease.
 Two young boys in Lee were taken to the lookup, on Sunday, in d sadly intQXi- cated condition.
 "The sum of 53I has been voted to l Mrs. Alexander Hyde, of Lee, by the legislature, as the salary and mileage of her late husband, for the entire session."
 Several horses were injured trying to get through the drifts on the stage route from Mill River to Hartsvile, and q bill of SIoo damages was handed in for the town of New Marlboro to settle.
 As Amos Butler, of Otis, was cutting wood the other day, his little boy came up unobserved and reaching out his band to his father, the quick descending axe cut the arm nearly off, just below the elbow. A doctor was at once sent for and the injury was properly attended to and the boy is now doing wcll.' Asked For a Criticism