Connecticut western news., 1913-04-17
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to Week CuIIed from The News Files.
 1881.


 August TO. "Mr. Weston Barnes, for merly of Bedding has moved into MT. s. C. Beckley's mansion on the hill"
 "Misses C. C. and F. s. Whittlesey of this place have been enjoying the beau ties of the Berkshire Hills"
 The Canaan Cornet Band extended thanks to. Mrs. A. P. Bennett for cash gift.
 "George C. Peet, son of Mir. J. w. Peet, is spending the heated term at Stephen Powell's farm in New Marlboro"
 Tobacco in Wetaug was damaged by a hailstorm.
 The fall term of the district schools was about to begin with MT. H. NJ. Adams teacher in the upper room, Miss Bertha ]. Granger in the intermediate and Mrs. I. M. Root in the primary.
 The annual meeting of tine Canaan i Cornet Band was held and these officers reelected: w. w. Underwood, president; F. P. Barnum, vice-president; w. H. Camp, treasurer; John Rodemeyer, IT,, secretary; G. E. DeHart, leader. Plans were discussed for band picnic at Twin Lakes about Sept
 Fifty new coal cars were ordered by the Conn. Western railroad.
 Charles L. Taylor, aged I4, of Bloom field, was killed by falling from an ex- cursion train on the Bennett Hill curve, his head being crushed by striking against a rock.
 "Norfolk had three funerals Sunday"
 HI. c. Rowley & Co. have sold the Amenia Times to its former proprietor, Charles Walsh" ..
 "Bethers new fountain, presented by P. T. Barnum, is to be dedicated on the I7th, which is to be a grand affair mark ing the cold water era in Bethel.n
 "Clifford l. Dempsey, the elocutionist who is summering Tn New Hartford, clubbed five skunks to death the other day and was even stronger when he got through than when he began"
 "Last Saturday morning the body of Jennie Cramer, beautiful New Haven girl, was discovered, face downward, ly- ing on the shore at West Haven Cir cumstances give rise to the theory that she had been enticed away from her home, seduced and murdered. The name of James Malley, nephew of one of New Haven's most prominent merchants, is used in connection with the affair, which seems clouded in mystery"
 Lenox had registered I2o dogs.
 T. B. Strong, of Great Harrington, father of George P. Strong, had just re- turned from three months visit in Iowa.
 "The driver of an ice wagon in Pitts field kept cool until his ice melted and turned into stream last Saturday, and then he got sunstruck."
 Two cows belonging to Loomis Joyner at North Egremont, and a horse near VanDeusenville, dropped dead from the heat.
 "At picnic given by Pittsfeld base ball club the other evening, the clock sters and shoesters came off victorious, being several black eyes and bloody noses ahead of their antagonists"
 Frank l.. Mills, formerly of the Pitts field Sun, was local editor of the Journal under the new administration.
 The wages of the workmen in F. s. Gross's quarry in Lee were voluntarily increased IS cents per day by the pro- prietor.
 "As Henry Fellows and Peter Adams, of Housatonic, were fooling with a re- yolver that wasn't loaded. the weapon accidentally discharged and sent a ball into Fellows head, just over the left eye, infecting wound from which he died the next day" se. .-
 Born in Canaan, August 4, son to Charles Paul, Jr.
 Falls Village: Mrs. D. K. Colepaugh was ill, and Mrs. Theodore Watson was suffering with chills and fever. Albert Sheppard was visiting in Hartford. Mrs. H. c. Crandall and Mrs. H. M. Holmes were spending few days at the seaside.
 Al Clayton the barn of E. M. Rood was struck by lightning, which shattered several of the rafters, but set nothing on fire.