Connecticut western news., 1913-01-16
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to Week, CulIed from The News Files.
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 Week, CulIed from The News Files.
 1881,
 May II. Rev. Father Lynch sailed for Ireland to be gone all summer.
 "George NJ. Brown, son of the late H. R. R. superintendent, is now conductor on the Danbury Branch"
 Miss LiIle Wetherell, of Huntsville, plies the needle and thread in Miss s. P. Norton's dressmaking establishment"
 "Mrs. ]. R. Fuller is improving her premises, re-shingling the house, etc. She has recently purchased Dr. Camps cream -colored carriage horse"
 Dr. Camp had just bought finely matched team of dark bay horses. He had also "a llambletonian colt that is bound to make a fast stopper when bro- | ken"
 IVY. T. Ferguson, of Falls Village, was in town last Monday, on his return from Winsted, where he went to take another peep at the little I2-lb. popsv-wopsy that came to gladden. his parental heart few weeks ago. He will move his family to ! Falls Village iu a few weeks" Tronson and Fritz, of Red Hook, N. ] Y., opened a shad market under the Stevens House next door 10 Ovid Gil | lette's.
 Deacon A. C. Woodward, of Sharon, owner of the brick kins in this place, died
 A fire in Sandtown destroyed the office ] building of Maltbie's lime works; sup. posedly the work of an incendiary. "Mrs. w. A. Mackey was agreeably surprised last Thursday on receiving from the express office a package, which was l found, on opening, to contain a magnIti- cent silk dress, trimmings. etc. complete Suspicion points to nome talent as the originators of the donation, and impli- cates several of the ladies of the parish, who, it seems, have warm corner in their hearts for the gude wife of their faithful pastor" ! "C. k. Hunt and workmen have finish ed stringing the wires for the Canaan | Ashley Falls-Clayton telephone line. In struments will be placed in the telegraph office, Sheridan w. Barnes house, Dr. Camps house and office and Judge Granger's house, and Hon. George w. Peet contemplates putting in one. A + private line is being constructed to con meet The News office with the house of Col. Hardenbergh about half a mile dis tant."
 | A "free concert" was given in Town Hall, by the Canaan Cornet Band. assist ed by other talent, including Miss Rose | Harding, cornetist of Pittsfeld, and Prof C. NJ. Green, music teacher, of Danbury. | The program was as follows: Gem | Quickstep, Band; cornet solo, Miss Rose Harding; Duet, "Cheerfulness, Miss ] Bena Rodemeyer, Mrs. l. A. Mac Donald {; CnIn ' M ..I. "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep" w. | w. Underwood; Lovers Serenade, waltz, Band Elsinore, Quickstep, Band; song, "The Camelie," Miss Bena Rodemever; cornet solo, Miss Rose Harding; stump speech, John Rodemeyer, Jr. alto solo, The Cows are in the Corn," Mrs. l A. Mac Donald; violin solo, w. w. Under wood song, "The Man O Warsman," Prof. Green; comic song, Mir. Charles H. Briggs; cornet solo, Miss Harding {; closing piece, Band.
 "Dr. w. w. Knight, of Sharon, and his young daughter, are recovering from a serious illness"
 "New Milford has G5o button makers, so there is no reasonable excuse for the Gazette man buttoning his trousers with pin."
 II. R. Wolfe and F. A. Bartlett, of ralls Nlllage, LOOK the contract 10 paint all the switches, railroad signs, etc. along the line of the H. K. R.
 The following officers of Cascade Lodge, Good Templars, in Falls Village were installed: w. (. T., s. r. Ensign; w. V. T., Mrs. H. M. Parmelee; w. S, F. E. Eggleston. Assistant sec, Miss Ella Preston; F. S., (. E. Ford; treasurer, Miss Abbie Kellogg; Chaplain, P. Melins; Marshal, Iohn A Belcher; D. M Miss Kinnie Ensign; Guard, Graham Vos- burgh; Sent, Wm. Ashman; R. S., Miss Fannie Decker; L. S., Miss w. Stephens.
 Married in Canaan, May 4, by Rev. Father Lynch, Mir. Frank Dempsey, of West StockbrIdge, to Miss Maggie Kane, of this place.
 Died, at Ellsworth, May 6, Deacon Nathan Dunbar, aged S4.