Connecticut western news., 1913-02-20
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to Week. Culled from The News Files.
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1881.
 June IS. "A b-flat bass horn has been added to the brass of the C. C. B."
 Hon. Geo. w. Peet's house was being repainted.
 Neil Lynehan, fireman on Conductor Cummings train, is the happy pa of a nice little girl baby"
 NJ. s. Pratt, formerly connected with the Warner House and the Union Hotel, over the depot, was visiting in town.
 Dr. Eddy preached before the Congre- gational conference of Southern Berk- shire, in Lee. James Garrahan, late manager of the Dudley House in Falls Village, engaged in the carriage business. "Mrs. B. D. Lawrence brought into the sanctum pear twig containing buds, blossoms and we'll developed fruit'' i Miss Bena Rodemeyer, of this place, | is to sing in floral concert in PawIng, N. Y, which is given under the manage ment of Miss Emma Hunt" 1 Eugene $. Lebree, who has for years lived with Robert Little, went to New | York to accept a position as bookkeeper. The committees appointed at the Meth odist church to arrange for receiving 4 poor city children for a two weeks stay this summer are Rev. Mir. Mackey and l J. L. Bragg for Canaan, and H. B. 1 Stevens for East Canaan.
 "Gat DeHart, of Canaan Valley, the land flowing with incendiary fires and | wagon-makers, laid on our table last week a few russct apples as sound as when picked in the fall"
 | "Master Waltie Warner gave birth day party, celebrating his 9th birthday, at the Warner House, Saturday after noon, which was attended by about 30 of | his little friends, who partook of a 1 splendid collation. served in Mrs. War ner's usual excellent style, and left many 1 tokens of friendship and good wishes for ] the future of their little host" i "Mr. H. H. Cogswell gave us a gener- ous sample of his luscious strawberries picked from his garden, which were of immense size. Johnnie Reed also i brought us basket of splendid ones" Charles H. Marvin, formerly telegraph operator at Canaan, and Miss Clara Lloyd, of Sharon, were married today. Mrs. Merritt c. Brooks, aged 24 died 1 of diphtheria at Colebrook Station. Her husband died less than two weeks before, 1 in Canaan, of the same disease. She was formerly Miss Johnson, school teacher | here.
 The pupils of the East Canaan district school gave a fine exhibition in Town | Hall. ...
 After the reunion of the Army of the Potomac, in Hartford, special train conveyed General w. T. Sherman and | Secretary of War R. T. Lincoln, to New burgh, over the Conn. Western railroad, en route to West Point. When the train | passed through Canaan there was big crowd out to get glimpse of the nota- | bles. The cornet band turned out and played "Marching Through Georgia" while escorting the school children from 1 the school house to the depot. When the train stopped at the depot, General ! Sherman, Secretary Lincoln and Cover nor Bigelow made their appearance on the rear platform and were introduced 1 by Hon. l.. B. Merriam, of Hartford, each being greeted with three cheers. which were acknowledged with bows and smiles. Gen. Sherman was called on | for a speech, but just then the train started, and the General waved an adieu. at the same time remarking: "You see the train is going; I can't control the train; good-by" Among the dstin- l guished guests on the train who acted as escort, were Generals Van Vlet, Horace | Porter, Burnside. McMahon, Governor Bulkeley, Hon. Marshall Jewell, Henry 1 C. Robinson, Mark Twain, Rev. Joseph H. Twitchell, Hon. R. D. Hubbard, Gen. eral and Mrs. Miles and others. Alexander Walters assigned estate, in Winsted, paid so cents and mills on the dollar.
 Will Beebe, of Falls Village, got his hand caught between the bumpers of two cars and smashed finger. fa@4a D.
 "Dr Averill, of Falls Village, pulled tooth by horse power the other day. A victim of toothache halted him as he was driving past, and requested him to ex- tract the troublesome grinder. The doctor sat in his buggy, fastened his for horse started up and as the doctor clung to the forceps the forceps wouldn't let go the tooth, and out it came" | Four Lee fisherman caught Is2 trout in Austerlitz the other day, weighing 40 | pounds.
 "They have put 7Io loads of gravel on the roads in Pittsfield, to cover up the dead cats, old boots and banana peels."
 "The Terry Clock Company, of Pitts field, are to open a branch office in New York in order to give New York pure, unadulterated Pittsfeld time"
 "Rev. Rufus B. Hubbard, of Brooklyn, son of the we'll remembered Billy Hib- bard who preached years ago in barns, halls, woods; etc, occupied the Metho- dist pulpit in Great Harrington last Sun | day."
 John Welch, IT,, became sexton of the Congregational church in Falls Village.
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