Connecticut western news., 1913-12-11
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to Week CuIled from The News Files.
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 May 3. S. C. Cummings, of Norwalk, was visiting his parents in town.
 Miss Sarah Schermerhorn gave party to her young friends in honor of her I2th birthday.
 Rev. Elisha Whittlesey and family, of Hartford, were occupying their summer home "The Grove" mile east of this village.
 The Philharmonic Society met with Miss Carrie Knickerbocker.
 Miss Gertie Pulver, of Copake, N. Y., came to this place to escape malarial fever. "To dodge the ills that flesh is heir to, come to Canaan"
 The I. D. D. Y. Club gave the last dance of the season at Town Hall. "Bub" White fddied for the occasion.
 Mrs. C. H. Bell, of Chatham, N. Y., spent few days with her sister, Mrs. J. $. New.
 Ben Bradley assumed the manage ment of the Cornwall Bridge hotel, and advertised to sell out the entire stock in his store at Falls Village.
 A case of small pox was reported at Torrington.
 A $I2,ooo bridge was being built over West River, at Chapel street in New Haven.
 Pittsfield selectmen raised the price of circus licenses to SI5o.
 The ladies of the Lee Baptist church held an aesthetic party. Sunfiowers adorned all the guests
 The newly elected officers of the Hope
  were as follows: Foreman, John Norton first assistant, James Crotty; second as- sistant, C. E. Tici; foreman of the hose, John K. Siggins.
 Falls Village-D. W. Clarke, Esq, had been engaged as counsel on a case in the Supreme Court at Hartford. The new palace cars being built at the Mason car shop at Springfield expressly for the Housatonic R. R. were expected to be finished and put on the road early ir, June. Mrs. U. H. Miner entertained the ladies of the church benefit society. William A. Burkett was home from Dan- bury, for a short visit. Mrs. H. M. Holmes closed out her millinery stock.
 West Cornwall-Mrs. A. D. Warner visited friends in Bethlehem, Conn. Miss Annie Wilson, of Long Hill, com menced school on the hill. Robbie, little son of Houston Cochrane, was very iii with dIphtheria. Dr. and Mrs. I. k. Sanford, of Sheffield, spent Sunday at MT. Oldfeld's. Robert N. Cochrane was expected home from Vermont with load of cattle. Mrs. Brewer, of Beaver Hill, N. Y., who had been staying with her son, the doctor, for several weeks re- turned home. Charles Wolfe dropped into town from Norfolk and secured Edward Kahler for the shear factory at that place. MT. Henry Yutzler and bride of Norfolk, paid the old homestead short visit. Miss Lizzie Oldfeld re- turned from New York with millinery enough to set every lady within the limits of Cornwall wild with delight.
 Salisbury-Mrs. Oliver Jewell and Mrs B. s. Thompson were delegates to the Conn. Sunday School Teachers Associa- ton at Norwich. Rev. l.. H. Reid preached an interesting sermon on the necessity of joining the Church oi Christ. M. l.. Graham, the druggist who had been very ill with erysipelas, was again in good health. Mrs. J. 6. Landon rented the Park House opposite the park and expected to fill it with sum. mer boarders. The Congregational par. sonage had been rented to family from Charleston, s. C., for several months.
 Timothy McCarty and Augustus Bige- low, aged S4 and So, died in Canaan.