Connecticut western news., 1913-02-06
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to Week. Culled from The News Files.
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CuHeQ rom ne NawS FIleS.
 1881.
 June I. Judge Granger was attending i Supreme Court in Norwich James Mccormick moved into A T. Roraback's tenement lon Maiden Lane"
 "The small pox scare has subsided and quoit pitching is now the popular cpl demic"
 NJ. w. Prescott was loading three cars of baled hay for shipment to Hartford.
 "Decoration Day in this place was as free from public demonstration as the day before it."
 A large white oak tree near Chester Deming's was stripped by lightning.
 "Mrs. Sedgwick, mother of Harry Sedgwick, is visiting at Hon. George w. Peet's."
 The East Canaan district schools were preparing to give public exhibition | "United States Senator David Davis, of Illinois, was in town Thursday, visit | ing at Mir. Wm. Adams, to whom he is | related"
 Barber William Colepaugh was sick with ague, and Julius Mentz, of Great
 
 Rev. NJ. R. Lent, a former pastor of the Canaan Methodist church, was visit ing friends in town. | Mir. George R. Brinton, of Canaan Valley, went to New York to consult an eye specialist.
 "The C. w. K. R. milk train has blos- somed out in a new spring dress of deep green, just to keep abreast of the season, and Conductor Pollard thinks it shows off we'll"
 Prof. H. NJ. Adams had a collection of stuffed birds, squirrels, etc, mounted, in glass cabinet-his own handiwork-on exhibition in the postoffice. James A. Garrahan resigned as man. ager of the Dudley House in Falls Will lage, and was visiting in Canaan. The Canaan Cornet Band was invited to take part in union band excursion and picnic at Seaside Park, Bridgeport. "Mr. Charles Franklin, of this place, has in his possession a steel tobacco box which was once owned by a carpenter, and which bears the date I773 and repre- | sentations of a saw and axe, together with the name of the first owner" The West Cornwall cornet band stop | ped at Canaan, on their way from Nor folk, Decoration Day, and gave a short concert in front of the Stevens House.
 "Riverside Park is coming into favor again. The other day Myron Decker's 'Blacky' went in '47, and McIntyre's sor- rel mare in 3'oo."
 "Mr. and Mrs. Frank VanDeusen have the sympathy of the community in their l bereavement. Frank has had an unusual share of hard luck, in the burning of his house two years ago, the loss of property and recent serious runaway accident, but the latest-the loss of his little son seems the most unkindest cut of all.' The child, Peter Foster VanDeusen, died ! May 25, aged years. The bondholders of the Conn. Western railroad voted to accept the provisions contained in special act of the late legis. lature and reorganize the company.
 Mir. Whiting Hunt Knickerbocker,aged | 72, died May 26. He was the oldest member of Housatonic Lodge, F. and A. | NJ. A widow and eight children--five sons and three daughters, one of whom 1 is the present Mrs. ! E. Rhoades, sur viyed him. Rev. II. l. Bodley officiated at the funeral services at the house, the ceremonies at the grave being conducted | by the Masons. "Milerton is to have a bank, as the citizens are tired of seeing the Telegram 1 folks go off every week to deposit their surplus in an out-of-town institution" County Commissioner Brooks, of Tor | rington, bought the first copy of the re- vised Testament sold in Hartford.
 The Torrington Register office was totally consumed by fire last week. "Frauk Bailey, who escaped from Litchfield jail recently, was captured last Saturday night in Ashley Falls, and taken back to Litchfield. He is under sentence for assaulting James Shultz at l Clayton"
 1.-The telephone llne between Lime Rock and Amenia, through sharon and | Sharon Valley, is finished, and Cornwall | Bridge will be the next point attached. There are now 42 miles of wire running out of the Barnum Richardson Co.'S. office at Lime Rock" One hundred and fifteen soldiers | graves were decorated in Pittsfield last | Sunday.
 A West Stockbridge selectman was fined $50 for keeping a liquor nuisance, | last week.
 "A new depot is to be built at Housa- tonic. That vexed question was settled last week" ..
 "The factories in Adams were shut down on Decoration Day, but the saloons kept running. to their fullest capacity" l The Journal vs. the Sun and Eagle compositors were matched to play a game of baseball in Pittsfeld.
 "One of the Hurlburt Paper Company's truck horses fell through bridge into a narrow canal 20 feet deep, at the Com pany's mill in Lee, the other day, and swam quarter of mile against power full current before the water could be drawn off so that it could be exlricated." "Conductor Thomas's south going pas senger train ran over and killed Peter | White at Great. Burlington, Saturday afternoon. He was nearly So years old. Two of Kind.