Connecticut western news., 1913-05-15
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Ooings fro n Week to Week
 CuIled rom The News Files.


 September 7. Julius Frein, clerk at Fuller & Peet's store was enjoying va cation.
 Prof. and Mrs. H. NJ Adams returned from their vacation.
 Willard Underwood and Will Camp were enjoying life at Saratoga.
 Mrs. George s. Gillette returned from three months visit in New York and on Long Island.
 Charles Hinkley went. to Delaware county on pleasure trip.
 Mr. and Mrs. s. w. Barnes and Mrs. $. Ryder attended the Barnes family re- union at Bridgeport.
 "The ice cream season at the Warner House is over and Butts, the boss freezer, has gone to the seaside"
 A. B. Garfield was re-opening the store in East Canaan, formerly conducted by the firm of Smith & Garfield.
 "Miss Bena Rodemeyer, of The News force, is enjoying a weeks vacation with her sister, Mrs. Waterman, in Cohoes, N. "" .-e
 "Sheriff VanDeusen arrested a Sails burian named Skelley, in PequIgney's, after a scuffle, Friday night, for obtaining goods under false pretenses."
 "Master Burton Peirce accompanied his uncle, Rev. Dr., Wm. G. Peirce, to his Champaign, ILL, home, where he will remain some weeks" Et..
 Sam Watkins, of Sandtown, has moved to Ghent, N. Y., and now it is hoped quiet will reign on the Plains"
 "Arthur VanDeusen has changed his base again, and is now back in Las Vegas, New Mexico He says in letter: I have had enough of Texas and Old Mexico, and don't you forget it. .'"
 Superintendent Stillson, just to keep his hand in,' ran Conductor Clark Lanes evening passenger train from Bridgeport to Pittsield Friday night giving Clark rest. TheF super hasn't forgotten the business, by any means, and can get through train now as quickly as any ot 'en."
 "Tom" Brown had paralytic shock while standing, apparently as we'll as ever, in his home on Railroad street, and fell headlong to the floor, putting his lame arm out of joint. He lay on the floor, helpless and unable to speak, until neig ghbor, Patrick Finnegan, picked him up and laid him on bed. He was over 70 years old and his recovery was not expected.
 "A Birmingham man fell backward into a ditch, the other day, and hurt himself so badly that he could not be moved so he was carried home in the ditch"
 "'Old Bronse,' the veteran passenger engineer of the H. R. R., made the trip ri ri fn Fall week, distance of 67 miles, in one hour and 56 minutes, the quickest yet"
 The "Second Heavies" regiment were to hold their annual reunion at Wood bury.
 Berkshire County-Lenox is jubilating over the prospect of having a new rail- road depot. C. H. Waugh, Pitts6eld piano tuner has became insane, the effect of opium eating. Two Housatonic roughs were fined ST a piece in the Great Burlington district court for throw ing stones at Hattie VanDeusen. Miss Ida N Roraback of Sheffield, was en- gagged to teach in the Great Harrington high school. "Mr. A. l.. Hubbell, of Great Burlington, was recently present. ed, by his brother in Montana, with pair of buffalo robes, tanned and orna- mented by Indians, which are twice as large as the OrQlnary S1ZeQ rope. lney are tanned with the heads and tails left on, and are quite novelty" IA four years-old daughter of George Darrow, North Adams saloonkeeper, got hold of bottle of whiskey the other day and, drinking from it, got drunk and died in a fit a short time afterward" William 1. Taft, of Clayton, died in the insane re- treat at Northampton. Adam Head, of Hudson,- who had attended the circus in Great Burlington, was cut in two by the through freight train, at Sheffield.
 Falls Village-Misses Jane Hubbard and Hattie Owen were the teachers in the Amesville school. ]. H. Markham twas elected committeeman for the con- solidated Amesville district, where there were formerly three members. Forty sheep owned by Julius Page, of Hunts. vile, were killed and injured by dogs. Orville Hosford was building 2Ixoo foot tobacco shed for Henry Brinton of South Canaan. w. F. Gillette and Henry Root were fined $I each for keeping unreg- istered dogs.
 Mrs. Ralph I Crissey, of Norfolk, died Aug. 30, aged B years.