Connecticut western news., 1913-12-04
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to Week CuIled from The News Files.
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1882.
 April 26. N. C. Ward was spending the week in Chicago.
 Rev. Mason Noble occupied the pulpit at the Congregational church.
 z. T. Adams was painting his house and ''cleaning up" about his place pre- paratory to selling it.
 ] Miss Grace Langdon has secured a position as bookkeeper in a Naugatuck store.
 Mir. and Mrs. Frank Pset, who have been boarding at the Warner House, moved into the Peet mansion.
 Miss Kate Murray, music teacher of Winsted, had secured class and com menced giving lessons.
 Rev. David Phillips, the new pastor of the Methodist church, was expected to arrive with his family. Rev. Mir. Mackey moved to Monticello.
 Miss Minnie Norton returned to her position as night operator at Pittsfield and Miss Addie Wendell assumed charge of the office in town.
 The Mt. Riga ruffians who assaulted Sam Adam, Lorenzo Lawrence and others were sentenced in the Superior Court, Fred Bailey to a year in state prison, David Funk 30 days in jail and fine of S2o and costs, Willard Funk fined $2o and costs.
 Comical Brown was billed for an en- tertainment, assisted by Miss Alice De We're, singer, violinist, harmonica soloist and actress.
 NJ ] Smith, of Sheffield, was painting the Wononsco House at Lakeville.
 New Milford has circus last week and Bob Irwin tried to swap boots with the big elephant"
 A half dozen silver spoons marked "United States Hotel' were found Collinsville tenement, which were stolen from that hotel nearly fifty years ago
 r. T. Barnum presented the free library at Bridgeport with $I ,ooo worth of new books.
 Falls Village-Miss Minnie Jacobi be- gan school teaching at "Grassy Hill" district. Madame McKennon opened a select school in the Methodist church basement Mir. George Brown, of Corn wall Bridge, spent Sunday at his old home in town. The members of the II. R. K. cornet band, which ceased to exist several months before, sold their uni forms to the Winsted band.
 A large new foundry for soft castings was built at Lime Rock for P. F. Gil more
 MT. Colepaugh sold his horse, harness and wagon to Myron PrindIe, ot "Yelp- ing Hill," Cornwall
 A convention of the Connecticut Sun day School Teachers Association was held at Norwich. P. B. Burnett and A. F. Gibbs represented the Congregational and P F. Storm and Lee French the Methodist Sunday schools.
 Miss Lizzie Oldfield, of West Corn wall, was spending the week in New York buying Millinery stock.
 The News published the following ex- tracts from a letter written by Preston Hunt son of Rev. R. Hunt, to Willard Underwood, son of Jay Underwood: "I wish l might influence you to come to Flordia and make It your home. I came down last November. The principal business here is orange culture. which is very profitable, but other fruits are raised which bring as much, such as lemons, rigs, Times, pine apples, pears, citron and cassava. A person has to be 2I years of age to take up a homestead, which is I6o acres, pay $I6 to get your homestead papers and live upon the land five years. after which it belongs to you to do with as you please. Now if your father should come down here and put up a saw mill, blaming mill, sash and blind factory, any one of them is a sure sue cess. It don't cost anything to live here i; you can raise vegetables all the year round. It costs more for the first year, after that you are all right. A man came down a month after we did and &,n IL ago he was offered $s5 more an acre. Father has bought himself two places and I have homes.eaded. Gene is with me l have only one fault to find, the lack of good society. The country is filled with a class of people who are indolent, lazy, and shiftess, who don't care to know anything but shot gun and deer. They wouldn't have schools if they could help it. They don't like us Yankees, 'd-d Yankees as they call us. The better class of the South are the most hospitable people in the world. I could help to locate 100 families near me. If you know of any one who wish to come give them my address. l am situated on one of the most beautiful lakes (Lake Miniola) in Florida and have some of the best quality land. Now you may stay in Ca naan as long as you please, earn $I a day, pay your expenses for society, clothes and fodder and what do you have left at the end of the year? Here rich and poor dress alike. There is any quantity of fish in the lake and alligators too. Gene caught bass weighing twelve pounds which made meal for thirteen of us."
 "Segregating" the Negro Clerks.
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