Connecticut western news., 1913-04-03
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to Week. Culled from The News Files.
 I88I

Culled from The News Files.
 1881.
 July a7. Mir. and Mrs. D. L. Freeman were sojourning in the White Mountains.
 "Mr. s. C. Beckley, of Dover Plains, N. Y., spent the Sabbath with his family in this place"
 w. H. Colepaugh leased the barber shop tent on Pine Grove for camp meet ing week.
 Rev. E. H. Roys and family, of North Egremont, spent few days at w. Me- Intyre's.
 "Mr. Levi s. Parsons, of Thomaston, visited his brother George and family in this place last week"
 "Wm. G. and H. D. Humphrey have purchased Stephen Mallory's handsome black carriage horse, and now ride out in style and comfort"
 "Mrs. l. s. New and daughter Florence, started for the seaside last Thursday. Ieete's Island, opposite Guilford, is their present stopping place."
 Barnes Brothers contemplated building lime kiln on the farm of John C. Mum son, of Van Deusenville, where a super for quality of limestone had been discov- cred.
 Hilen Trowbridge, formerly baggage master at the Conn. Western railroad station here, went to Pontiac, H., to work for the Illinois Central road.
 Fred G. Hunt, who had just graduated from the College of the City of New York, was visiting friends in town. The Canaan Methodist society secured L r-<.- Camp Meeting week. George P. Strong was to be the landlord.
 "Willie, four years-old son of Samuel Best, of Ashley Falls, was playing with an ax, and in some way managed to cut his right foot nearly off. Dr. Camp was called and the little sufferer is now doin g we'll" @ .
 "The surveyors of the new railroad running parallel with the Housatonic, passed this place last Tuesday afternoon, on the west side of the Housatonic river. They will run to Danbury. Reuben Me Intyre joined them at this place"
 The following North Canaan jurors were drawn for the August term of the Superior Court: Charles Gillette, Ed mund D. Lawrence, James l.. Bragg, Albert P. Briggs, Nathaniel s. Stevens William F. Pelton, Sabin Ives, Isaac Beebe, George H. Brinton, William J ! Ferguson, Elisha NJ. Rood, Samuel A Bennett, Daniel L. Freeman, Edward Mccarthy.
 Rev, George A, Gordon, of Greenwich, was spending few days with Lyman l Cunning.
 IA 'haying bee was gotten up by Farmers Frank VanDeusen, Peter Hicks Casimir Boiney and others last Thurs day to assist Frank Hitchcock in getting in Mir. Stiner's hay, on the Franklin farm. Five teams were kept constantly busy, three hauling in, one moving, and one raking, and 3I loads were put in. Mir. Stiner is lying in critical condition and his recovery is considered doubtful"
 The famous sewing machine case of Peter Funk vs. John Gallivan, which started with lottery enterprise, was de- cided by the Supreme Court in favor of Gallivan. It was case where both men held the number of the ticket that drew the machine, which was rallied by Ben. Comstock. The case went through all the courts, from justice of the peace to the suprems court. The highest court sustained the judgment of the justice of the peace who first decided it, E. $. Roberts.
 "Rev. L. H. Reid preached in the Mil lerton Presbyterian church last Sunday"
 Sheffield's real estate valuation was S759,724.
 United States Senator David Davis was visiting in Pittsfeld.
 "North Adams has valuation of $4,- 37o,8S7, and 2,72I polls, including report CTS and candidates for the office of deputy sheriff"
 "The Canaan Cornet Band were highly complimented on their open air concert in Ashley Falls.
 "The Falls Village special butchered a horse belonging to John Manion at Lee"
 Born in Falls Village, July I4, son to MT. and Mrs. T. F. Watson"
 Adams has 1923 women over years of age, and several census enumerators were maimed for life, scalded, and bitten by dogs in getting these accurate and in- teresting statistics"