Connecticut western news., 1913-05-01
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to Week CulIed from The News Files.
 1881.

Culed from The News Files.
 1881.
 August 24. Camp meeting was in full blast. The News issued a daily during camp meeting week, from which More than thirty ministers were in the grove on one day. H. H. Cogswell has fruit stand in the end of the oyster house. The children's meetings were conducted by Rev. Fields Hermance and George B. Mead. Miss Bena Rodemeyer was a member of the camp meeting choir. Rev. Robert Hunt, of Pawling, was un- able to attend camp meeting, on account of sickness in his family. "The expert ment of not having camp meeting con- tinue over Sunday is an innovation that may not work to the benefit of the asso- ciation." Among the preachers of the week were Bishop E. G. Andrews, of Washington; Rev. Prof. Upham. D. D., of Drew Theological Seminary, and Rev. Dr. Fla, of Springfield, Mass. More than 500 teams were on the grounds Thursday. Statement of expenses for
 
 police S36; oil, preachers house, etc, $40; total $sI6. Other expenses will in- crease this amount to about 5000" "Aunt Sarah, so we'll known in Pine Grove, spoke earnestly in the young peoples meeting" "In the young peoples meeting Friday sixty five spoke inside of six minutes" Teams laden with camping baggage stirred up the dust all along the road.
 Miss Emma Waldorf, of Suffield, was visiting her aunt, Mrs. E. w. Warner, in Canaan.
 Mrs. Charles Hinkley had geranium bush containing ST blossoms.
 Judge Granger and Key. Wm. G. Peirce started for a pleasure trip to the White Mountains.
 Reuben Mcintyre went "iring" on a Housatonic railroad freight train
 "Miss Jennie E. Moore, of Ashley Falls, was given birthday party by her friends in honor of her 10th birthday"
 "Mr. Casimir Boinay, living near Pine Grove, fell from load of hay, striking head foremost on the barn floor the other day, sustaining injuries to his neck, which make it almost impossible for him 
 able to leave his bed since"
 Prof. s. T. Frost, of New Marlboro, had in press, with the great publishing house of A. $. Barnes & Co. a new l geography, on revised principles.
 Rev J. w. Macomber preached in the Methodist church, Sunday, owing to the illness of the pastor, Rev. w. A. Mackey.
 "The sudden lowering of the water in the Housatonic river in the neighbor- hood of Falls Village last Saturday, has been attributed to the huge string of fish caught by Pierre Mundry and party"
 The Pittstield almshouse contained 24 paupers. f.
 Mrs. Stiles Cady died in Pittsfield, aged 8o.
 v The old Lenox iron furnace was sold at auction last Saturday.
 The new depot at Housatonic was near ing completion.
 "Peru jubilates over seven persons representing four generations of the same family, living in the same house."
 "A drunken table-clotb peddler named 1 O'Harran, fell into the river at North Adams, Friday night, and was sobered. Funeral Sunday.
 "A new Corliss engine of 200 horse power has been put up in Byron Weston's mill in Dalton, which can run the entire | Hllll 1T tue WdIGI
 "An Albany ocuiist named Fleisch- mann attempted to commit suicide with knife, in the Morgan House, Lee, the other evening, but his design was frus- trated by gentleman who discovered him.
 Sheffield reports case of rape per- petrated by one Jim Mullally, an Irish man, upon a colored girl, daughter of Ed. | Moore, last Monday. According to the story, Mullably went to Moore's house, frightened out two or three of the boys, committed the deed, and was put to flight by one of the boys, who returned with shotgun. Officers are in search of the culprit"
 "Thursday night Conductor Clark Lanes passenger train going north encountered pile of railroad ties, about mile south of Dewey's, which had been placed across the track by some scoun- drel whose evident object was to throw the train from the track. Engineer Kingsley saw the Instructions but not in time to stop the train and some of the ties were thrown from the track, while | those on the lower tier were wedged under the pilot so tightly that it was with difficulty that they were extricated." Falls Village--Croquet playing by lamplight was a favorite pastime with solhe ol tle young people oi AnesNHle. Miss Ida Spur returned from her west | ern visiting tour. Miss Cora Tucker visited friends in Torrington and liar wintou. Mir. Levi Beebe, of South Ca naan, had bargained for the sale of his place. A horse belonging to A. F. Gibbs was seriously injured by breaking through the floor, into basement. 1t was extricated with the aid of tackles and the help of neighbors. Perfect Woman at Last. Sandy came home at an unseemly hour one nipht and was surnrised to sea