Connecticut western news., 1913-11-20
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Ooings from Week to Week CulIed from The News Files.
 1882.

Miss Fannie Benedict was engaged to teach school in New Marlboro.
 Miss Belle Merrifeld, of Ore Hill, was attending school in Canaan.
 Several Canaan Masons atte nded the funeral of Captain Tjbbslls in Norfolk.
 "Drunken prisoners don't seem to ob- ject to being stored in the Warner House parlor, in the conspicuous absence of a lock-up."
 Barber w. H. Colepaugh, of Canaan, opened a shop in Winsted.
 "Mrs. z. T. Adams and Mrs. D. D . flowers, foliage, leaves and vines to the New York flower and fruit mission, and Master ]. C. Becklev a bouquet of rose color oxalis with its green foliage, as Easter offerings"
 Rev. D. Phillips succeeded Rev. w. A. Mackey, as pastor of the Methodist church. Rev. Mackey went 10 Mon ticello, N. Y.
 The selectmea "warned town meet ing" to be held in Town Hall,to consider the question of apPropriating $500 to the project of improving and beautifying the cemetery.
 Three Mount Riga toughs came over to Canaan on rampage, fighting drunk. After attempting to pick a muss with diffs rent persons about the streets, they started toward Ea Canaan. Near Wm. B B.nnetps tenement they met Samuel A. Adam, and after few words of impu- dence, pitched into him. Sam, who by the way, is the present lay reader in Christ Church in the absence of regu- lar rector, was peaceably pursuing the | even tenor of his way, mentally rehears- ing his Good Lord, deliver us,' for next Sunday, and was utterly unprepared for | such an informal reception. At the first indication of war his good will to men l told him to skip the fence, but before he could fairly decide whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and ar- rows of Mt. Riga abuse, or to take arms against sea of troubles, the enemy Was upon him In such aggravating confusion | that he dropped his satchel and with it l his conscientious Scruples, spit on his hands, squared off and joined in the cir GUS, striking out from the shoulder after the most approved and ungodly fashion. | According to an eye witness the first as- sailant went down under the first blow, and while Sam was dealing out to the others, Charlie Cogswell, Sam Bennett's | colored hired man, came to his rescue" " A general riut followed in which Lorenzo Lawrence and A P. Briggs took hand, and the ruffians were finally subdued and brought before Justice Bennett at A. T. | Roraback's office. They were bound over to the October term of the Superior | Court.
 "A Winsted lady who has taught school on being told that Longfellow was dead, inquired innocently, Well, who was Longfellow""
 l. R. Benjamin, Winsted, sold out his music business to R. 5. Frary. l "The Housatonic Railroad Co.,, now sell mileage tickets at reduced rates tickets for 500 miles, good on any part of the road, 2H cents mile."
 The fourth annual reunion of the 1 Connecticut Reporters Association was held at the Elliott House in New Haven and these officers were elected: Presi. dent, Wm. Rodman, of the New Haven | hRegister; first vice president, Henry A. Farnham, Hartford Times; second vice president, Lewis Allen, New Haven Union; secretary and treasurer, Thomas L. Reilly, Meriden Evening Press executive committee, Thomas $. Weaver New Haven Register; Robert E. Day New Haven Palladium; F. C. Pentield Hartford Post; J. B. Lucke, New Haven Courier; Foster Bassett, New Haven Union. The retiring president, Frank E Beach, of the Waterbury American, re ceived a vote of thanks.
 Fall Village MT. and Mrs. George P. Strong, of Canaan, visited Amesvillt relatives. John Jacobi went into the railroad machine shop to learn the trade David Silvernail moved from E. D Goodwin's farm on Canaan Mountain into Mrs. Henry Wolfe's house below the river bridge. The case of State ys E. I. Dudley, for selling liquor was par tially tried before Justice w. G. Kellogg and adjourned until May }. B. J. Brad ley purchased the Curtis Hotel property at Cornwall Bridge. M. $. Pratt, travel. ing salesman for B. Bradley, returned from trip through the west.
 Berkshire County-North Adams men purchased the Virginia gold mine fol 50, 500. Merrick Burbank, of Pittsfeld took up his abode in Las Vegas, New Mexico. North Adams police cost $34t in March, and during that month made 37 arrests and cared for B tramps. Johr Girling, of the old time clothing firm ot Girling & Doolittle in Great Burlington was just elected Mayor of Lincoln, Neb 4,o59 loaded cars eastward bound passee | jess than in March the previous year. A Frenchman Tn the employ of Goodhue Birnie claimed to have discovered . quicksilver mine in Lee, and exhibited 6 pint of the metal as proof; but he refused to tell its location and his story wa: doubted. "Mrs. Sparks, of Austerlitz has become insane and has been placed in the Poughkeepsie asylum. She is g daughter of Oscar F. Beckwith, the miss ing murderer of C. A. Vandercook, and was driven crazy by her fathers crime. Sloat P. Gorham, of Great Harrington committed suicide by shooting himself while sitting in a passenger car at tha place. New Marlboro elected officers as follows: Selectmen, George Gaylord, Ira N. Futile, Martin E. Sheldon; assessors Norman w. Granger, Wm. (. Kasson Michael Curtin; town treasurer, Dyer Stannard; school committee, Elihu D Harmon for three years; town agent Andrew ]. Freeman; fence viewers John J. Hart, J. G. Caulkins. E. D Harmon; collector and constable, Wm Cantield.