Connecticut western news., 1913-01-09
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to Week, CuIled from The News Files.
 1881.

week. Suleo rom | ne NeWS FileS.
 1881.
 May 4. Miles Ferris was clerking at the Stevens House.
 Robert VanDeusen, of Canaan, re- opened his meat market in Great Bar rington.
 Frank Dean, son of Julius Dean, re- turned to Michigan to engage in the numbering business.
 "The band has two new members, w. L. Barnes and Henry w. Go0dro, one to take Reuben McIntyre's place, and the other to manipulate pair of cymbals."
 Milton Roraback entertained !. l.. Dennison, general agent at the Travellers Insurance Company, of Hartford.
 Frank Hitchcock purchased a large bay horse from w. H. Miner, of Monterey.
 Ovid Gillette opened a market in the basement of the Stevens House.
 (. K. Hunt, of Winsted, former resi- dent of Canaan, was engaged to put up the telephone wire and install the instru- ments for Dr. Camps Ashley Falls line.
 Miss Emma ]. Stiner was teaching school in Huntsville.
 pr. Eddy accepted the call to occupy the pulpit of the Sheffield Congrega- tional church for the year. "In secur- ing Dr. Eddy's services, the Sheffield people rather got the bulge on their East Canaan brethren, who tried hard to retain him."
 .Jule Stedman and family, of Sand town, have removed to Collinsville."
 "Round trip tickets are now sold at Canaan, Falls Village and Lime Rock, to Bridgeport and return, for $4. These tickets are good for two days"
 "Frank VanDeusen was thrown out of his buggy, near the hay press last week, by the breaking of one of the reins, and sustained broken rib"
 Two carloads of brick, from Wood wards brick yards in Canaan, were ship. ped to Kent
 Prof. H. Cook gave an "expose of spiritualism" in Town Hall.
 A Winsted lady had rose-bush con- taining 2,ooo buds.
 "A Litchfield man recently sold to q tin peddler lot of rags containing a pocket book with $40 in bills, and now Litchfield is overrun with tin peddlers."
 "Sol Freeman's (colored) sons and daughters, of Norfolk, are under arrest for burglary of L. P. Phelps house, in company with white nigger' who is color-blind."
 "The reunion of the Army of the Potomac is to be held in Hartford, Tune s, and there will be present President Garfield and cabinet, Generals Hancock, Mcclellan, Grant, Sherman, Phil. Sheri- dan, Slocum and other dignitaries."
 Horace Landon, one of the pioneer iron manufacturers of this section, died in Chapinville, aged S4. "In him the last of his generation of pig iron men passes away, except Hon. Wm. H. Bar num-"
 "A water main burst in the street at Winsted recently, and as the water forced its way to the surface, hundreds of eels boiled up out of the aperture, squirming and wriggling over one another in hor- rifying confusion, and crawled off pur- sued by boys and men. The water pipes are full of eels. which quite frequently clog them up and impede the passage of the water" r..E
 The Litchfield county medical society met at Litchield. pr. I. R. Sanford, of West Cornwall, was appointed to read paper at the next meeting.
 Stephen Whitney, of West Cornwall, :, was sentenced to two years in state prison for burglarizing Fred Yutzler's store.
 A son to MT. and Mrs. Fred w. Yutz- Ter was born in West Cornwall, April 2S "weight 9 pounds"
 "A loon was shot the other day in Pittsfeld. where they have a liquor It. cense."
 North Adams had a acock-fght, and one man made $4oo out of it.
 The Smith Paper Company, of Lee, bought a truck horse weighing I54o pounds.
 Michael Clary was killed by the cars near Pittsfeld, while walking on the tracks.
 The engagement of Editor N. C. Fowler, IT,, of the Pittsfield Journal, to Miss Fannie A. Foote, was announced.