Connecticut western news., 1913-03-13
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to Week, Culled from The News Files.
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 July 6. "The freight trains on the C. w. R. R. were kept busy nearly all day last Sunday.
 "John P. Shields and Thomas Riley came home to explode their patriotism on the 4th."
 There was a picnic and dance in the grove near Beaujon's in East Canaan on the 4th.
 "Niiss Nellie Richardson, of Chapin. vile, is visiting her sister school teacher, Miss Emma Stiner, in this place."
 Mir. and Mrs. H. H. Cogswell spent the 4th with MT. and Mrs. E. ]. Coombs' of Pittsfeld.
 '"Rev. Elisha Whittlesey and family, of Hartford, are stopping for a time, at their home, the Grove,' in this place"
 Mrs. H. H. Cogswell picked a straw berry in her garden last week measuring 64 inches in circumference.
 "Mrs. s. A. Waterman, of Cohoes, N. | Y, with her infant son, is spending few days at her fathers, Mir. John Rode meyer"
 "Miss K. NJ. Granger, daughter of Judge Granger, now drives a handsome black pony, having disposed of her grey carriage horse"
 "W. H. Colepaugh, our genial barber, 1 is taking a week off, and his brother, D. l K. Colepaugh, of Falls Village, is acting as his substitute"
 "Uncle Farm Rood, of East Canaan, hearing something said about the comet the other night, asked, What kind of | thing is that dunn comic, any howP"
 "The new history of Litchfeld County has just been delivered to its subscribers ;,,f ,Nla of Ta- naan men in its pages are those of Judge Granger and Wm. Bennett.n ] "Silas H. Knickerbocker has done good job in grading and raising the front of his premises on West Main street Mir. z. T. Adams has also fallen into line and greatly improved his sidewalk" | Mrs. E. w. Warner was dispensing ice cream every Wednesday and Saturday at the Warner House. .. 1.-The excursion train to Pittsfield last l Monday, in charge of Conductor Sid | Spencer, was composed of about twelve f1at-cars, enclosed with a railing, and shaded on all sides with hemlock boughs, presenting quite a picturesque appear ance." | Ephraim Brewer, of Southfield, made his first trip with his new stage. "The stage route starts off with good patron age"
 "Last Monday morning large cannon was repeatedly discharged near Wm. Shields residence The first report so startled Mrs. Lavelle, mother of Mrs. Shields, that she jumped from her bed without assistance, and was up and about all day, although for seven weeks before she had been unable to sit up or leave her bed. She is one of the oldest per- sons in town" .r. ..
 A meeting was called, in Town Hall, ! for Saturday evening to discuss the pro- | ject of "free fair and cattle show" in Canaan. A Middletown firm used up I, 100000 OK shin-bones for the manufacture of fertilizer and knife handles. | A Harwinton man named Gum was killed and horribly mangled in Winsted | by the falling of brick wall upon him.
 'Judge Warner, of Salisbury, is build- | ing a new house on his Selleck Hill farm, which is in charge of Ed. Hawver, for merly of Canaan"
 "The telephone line between Lime Rock and Cornwall Bridge is completed, and now the lightning flashes from pole to pole, and back to pole again" 1 "Winsted crows search the pockets of scare-crows for stray kernels of corn and old rye"
 These directors of the C. w. R. R. were elected: c. T. Hillyer, Hartford; i; w. l.. Gilbert, Winsted; T. M. Allyn, Hartford; L. B. Merriam, Hartford; John F. Jones, Hartford; Joseph Toy, Si l-s- bury; Frederick Miles, Salisbury; H. s. Barlow, Hartford; w. H. Barnum, Sails bury; Lyman Dunning, East Canaan; | George Dudley, West Winsted; E. T.. Butler, Norfolk. @=#
 President Garfield was shot, July 2, in the Washington depot.