Connecticut western news., 1913-01-23
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to Week, CuIIed from The News Files.
 1881.

Week, CuIIed from The News Files.
 May IS. Billy Humphrey has started his soda fountain, and many there are who find it."
 "Roll NJ. Rood of this place has secured position as clerk in South Manchester" :"
 Rev. C. N. Fitch, of West Cornwall, preached in the Congregational church Sunday.
 Reuben Mcintyre was working with the C. K. Hunt telephone construction gang, building the line from Lime Rock to Armenia.
 Owing 10 the illness of Miss Bertha Granger, teacher, there was no school in the intermediate room Monday.
 George Dean, while stringing tele. phone wires between Canaan and Ashley Falls, killed a black snake feet 10 inches long.
 A daughter was born, May r2, to Frank s. and Libbie Cogswell Gray, at Sheffield.
 Peter Boinay rallied off watch, re- taining for himself one ticket, which proved to be the winning ticket
 "The Canaan Cornet band goes to Falls Village tonight to attend the band con cert, in which four bands will participate Miss Bena Rodemeyer and Mir. Willard w. Underwood, of this place, also take part"
 1.-Two Sandtowu gals went to jail with Sheriff Richmond last week to await trial next October for theft and arson, in piilaging and burning the Maltbie build ing recently. They are Miss Rice and Miss Dewitt"
 Arthur w. VanDeusen, son of Robert VanDeusen, has located in Las Vegas, New Mexico.
 "Last Saturday night Mrs. Lavelle, mother of Mrs. William Shields, and one of the oldest persons in town, fell down stairs and severely injured herself, while groping around the room in the dark 10 shut a window during the storm"
 "The concrete walks in front of War ner's and Humphreys are finished, and are one of the greatest improvements of the village. Messrs. A T. Rorablck, D. L. Freeman and z. T. Adams are to have portions of their walks concreted, and several of the West Main streeters, vino have concrete walks, will have them re- paired"
 ".The humors of the telephone are many and ludicrous. In Huntsville last week, it is said, the machine was some what out of kilter and raised the dickens with the dispatches, and when Agent Sam Bradley said 'Hellor the 'hep went to Lime Rock and the 'lo' tu Canaan"
 T. F. Watson's family, of New Milford, are at Falls Village for the season.
 Three live young foxes were captured alive by couple of Washington boys the other day.
 "Bub" White opened his summer re- sort at the Winsted Lake.
 "Rev. Arthur Goodenough, of Win sted, was presented with a purse of $I4o the other day, showing that he is plenty Goodenough for his parishioners.
 At the centennial meeting of St. Pauls Lodge, June I, D. C. Kilbourn, Esq.,, was to deliver the historical address.
 A Windsor Locks paper company had just received HOO tons of paper rags from Egypt, making 8 carloads, on which the freight from New Haven alone was nearly $5oo.
 Congressman Frederick Miles had just purchased 1000 tons of charcoal iron from th. Chatham furnace, as his own furnace in Copake was unable to meet the large demand, although it had not been out of blast for a number of years.
 "A woman was found by the roadside dead drunk in New Milford the other day, and put on wheelbarrow, wht eled to the lookup by a temperance lecturer, and tried before Justice Levy and fined $s and costs, in default of which she went to jail"
 "Pittsfield has $7ooo license fees, which covers a multitude of sins"
 "Fenn street in Pittsfield is situated 'in front of the Journal office|"
 "The Lee creamery is an assured fact, and the capital, $2,5oo, has been subscrib- ed.H
 "Henry Frisbee, of Pittsfeld, got a finger blown off last Sunday while fool ing with pistol that wasn't loaded."
 Conductor Sam Arnold, of one of the night freight trains. was seriously i'll with diphtheria, at West Stockbridge.
 "A Pittsfield landlord was arrested Saturday for false pretenses. He pre- tended he was going to pay for harness that he bought"
 Edwin Hurlburt of Great Burlington, bought the we'll known trotting horse, "Wilkes Spirit" in New York, for John A Cone