Connecticut western news., 1913-08-21
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Ooings from Week to Week CuIIed from The News Files.
 

1882.
 January 4. Hon. George w. Peet died, Jan. ?, aged 57, of typhoid fever, after an illness of several weeks. He had served in the house of representa- tions several terms and had been state senator.
 Willie F. Rodemeyer, aged I4, died Dec. 2S. of typho-malariaI fever. He was compositor in the The News office and a member of the Canaan Cornet Band.
 Mrs. Luman Foote was painfully i'll.
 "Miss Siddie Crocker of this place has been quite sick at her home in East Ca man."
 Casimir Boinay rallied of lot of guinea hens.
 A daughter was born to Rev. and Mrs. w. A. Mackey, Jan. I.
 John P. Shields, of Danbury, the poet liareate blacksmith, came home to spend Christmas"
 Col. J. B. Hardenbergh spent a week in Kingston, his native place.
 Mrs. George $. Gillette went to Yonkers to spend the balance of the winter with her sister.
 Agent Lew Moore, at Ashley Falls, was recovering from a long illness.
 Will Barrett apprenticed himself to Barber w. H. Colepaugh.
 William Dean, brother of Julius Dean, died in Seymour and was buried in Ca naan.
 "Mr. and Mrs. David D. Walter will celebrated the tin-th anniversary of their marriage on the IIth."
 Conductor Dick Pollard was running Conductor Jim Lakes train while the latter was laid up with a sore eye.
 Miss Ida May Macdonald, daughter uf Landlord Macdonald. celebrated her eighth birthday with a party at the Stevens House.
 aged 6o, died last week in Afford and is said to have left an estate valued at $2o,- 900, for the possession of which his young wife, nee Kittie G. Reed, formerly of East Canaan, from whom he had re- gently been divorced, will begin proceed ings-so saith Dame Rumor."
 Rev. H. l. Bodley announced to the congregation of Christ Church that he had decided to accept the call to North Adams, and rendered his resignation, to take effect Feb, 2o "This is heavy blow to the society of Christ Church, who almost idolize their rector, and the whole community unite with them in the consciousness of a common loss"
 The Episcopal Christmas festival was great success Santa Claus was there, and came down the chimney which had been erected by Rev. Mir. Bodley.
 A child weighing only two and one half pounds was born to Leon Coe and wife, in Winsted.
 Editor w. A. McArthur enlarged his Winsted Times and reduced the sub- scription price to S. year.
 Captain H. R. Jones, of New Hartford, purchased the New Hartford Tribune.
 E. $. Roberts, of East Canaan, teacher at West Norfolk, was presented with a handsome set of Cowper's Poems, by his pupils.
 Pittsfeld had $40 deaths during the year.
 Falls Villags-The circulating library had received A new volumes. Mrs. Charles Owen was entertaining Mrs. Peck, of Bridgeport. Henry R. Wolfe, of Amesville, went to Fort Wayne, Ind, to learn the machinist's trade. John H. Belden, bookkeeper at Halls store, was recovering from an attack of typhoid pneumonia. Fred Bartlett gave a party to a number of his young friends. Miss Hattie Owen was engaged to teach in the primary grade and Miss Laura Hill grove, of New York, in the higher, in Amesville school.