Connecticut western news., 1912-12-26
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to Week, CulIed from The News Files.
 1881


 1881.
 April 2o Mrs. Ophelia Camp was wis iting in Kent.
 Miss Lillie Wooster resumed her teach ing in Sherman.
 Miss Hattie VanDeusen returned home fro l. school in Suffield.
 "Bub" Whites orchestra furnished music for calico masquerade ball at the Stevens House.
 James Drake, of Philmont moved to East Canaan to engage in blacksmithing.
 "Ensign Butts, Warmers rignt-hand man, has gone on a visit to friends in New York state, with a pair to the pole"
 Judge M. T. Granger sold fine span of horses to Mir. Mark Hopkins, of Great Burlington.
 Miss Hattie Heaton, of Ashley Falls was engaged to teach the school in Dis trict No. 5.
 "Jerome Root is baggage-master at the Conn. Western depot, Reuben Mcintyre, the former incumbent, having left to ac-
  Housatonic R. R."
 Rev. Mir. Mackey was returned to Ca naan by the Methodist conference, for another year.
 Thomas Riley went to work with the bridge building gang of the N. Y. X N. E. railroad.
 "Will Ferguson is made happy by the birth of bouncing boy, at Winsted." It weighed I34 pounds.
 Miss Jennie Brown of this place, con- templates opening a select school in East Canaan. Miss Brown is in every way qualified to teach a school of high grade, and will undoubtedly be successful in that calling"
 G. B. Gardner resigned as snare drum mer of the Canaan band, and Peter Hicks took his place.
 P. ]. Gilmore, of Lime Rock, and Mrs. Ida Jane Beach, niece of Mrs. ]. A. Mac Donald, of the Stevens House, were mar ried at the hotel, by pr. Eddy. q
 William Waller, of Canaan, and Miss Chloe E. Lawrence, of East Canaan, were married April I4, by pr. Hiram Eddy.
 Canaan was being canvassed by repre-. sentatives of Philadelphia publishing house, for the forthcoming history of Litchfield county.
 Thomas Hawthorne, formerly of Ca naan, died in Elgin, Ill.,, on his 7oth birth day, of strangulated hernia.
 James Capron, IT,, of New Milford, died at Bergen Point, N. J., aged B.
 Mrs. Milo Landon, of Falls Village, celebrated her S5th. birthday She had resided on Sugar Hill for 40 years
 William A. Burkett, of Falls Village, left the employ of E. w. Spur, to work for the Joseph T. Bates lumber concern in Danbury.
 Rev. Mason Noble contemplated visit to Florida
 "Conductor Cummings has a hen that can lay four-ounce eggs, and not half try"
 '''The Falls Village Item comes out en- larged to seven columns, and presents quite a contrast for good, to its first ap- pearance" Dr. Averill had treated 30 cases of pneumonia, within four months, only two of which proved fatal.
 Burr Mallett, of New Milford, has just purchased two carloads of working oxen. He has the contract for moving the Gazette mans boots to the shop for spring repairs" A number of Ore Hill young men joined the Barnum circus brigade. Conductor ElmOre's train on the C. w. K. k. StruCk the hand-Car Ot SeCt1on gang at New Hartford, injuring some of the men and inficting injuries upon the boss, Patrick Connors which it was feared would prove fatal. Clark w. Bryan gave the Great Bar rington library 100 new volumes. The estate of the late Dr. Collins in Great Harrington was inventoried at $25o ,ooo. Mill River was laughing at one of its butchers for buying split horse hides for calf skins. A Monterey farmer gathered 3 barrels | of sap from 100 sugar maple trees, in one day. "Great Barrington's selectmen have appointed Y special policemen to enforce the mo license law"
 "Pittsfeld's license vote has resulted | in the leasing of all the unoccupied 1 buildings for liquor saloons"
 w. w. Langdon succeeded J. A. Brewer as chief engineer of the Great Burlington fire department.
 A Pittsfeld firm made 5o,ooo pairs of shoes last month.
 "Pittsfeld, it is predicted, will be made a city in less than two years"
 Bridgeport elected for poundmaster a negro who had died eight years before. | North Adams had more than 100 cases of measles, all at once. Rev. J. L. Gamble was assigned to the l Falls Village Methodist church.