Connecticut western news., 1914-04-30
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to Week Culled from The News Files,
 1000

Record of Doings from Week to Week
 Culled from The News Files,
 1882.
 Sept. 90. Alonzo Mallory was en- gineer on the ore train.
 George O. Peet was preparing for an extended trip through the South.
 The jurors from this town summoned to the district court were Henry J. Mead, George Brinton and Levi Bron- son.
 Mr. Stevens new house on West Main street was nearly completed; l; George Fuller's was ready for the painters and the Methodist parsonage was in process of erection.
 The Canaan Cornet Band seranded MT. and Mrs. N. c. Ward at their res idence. .a.
 Rev. MT. Phillips preached a very interesting sermon in the Methodist church on the Influence of pulpit preaching" | Alberto T. Roraback and Daniel l.. Peirce were delegates to the republican state convention and Robert Van Deusen and Samuel A. Eddy to the congressional convention.
 A severe tornado visited Winsted, in- turing number of persons. Damage to property was estimated at twenty thousand dollars.
 The cemetery was enlarged and a fence built parallel to the highway.
 Luman Foot had recovered from severe injuries caused by fall.
 Falls Village-The twenty third au- nual cattle show and fair of the U. A. $. at Union Park was not a financie success owing to rainy weather. c. w., Barnum, William Cook, M. B. Richardson, E. D. Goodwin and Robert Wilcox all had fine exhibits of cattle. Mrs. Ellen Manley exhibited a trio of horned toads from Fresno, California. Alvira W. Hosford was enjoying va cation among friends in Pennsylvania. Miss Sarah l.. Mott was visiting Ames- vile and Lime Rock friends. Miss Sophia Perry was enjoying vacation in Providence, R. l., and Miss Jennie Moore was substituting at the telegraph office. Joseph Mundry had taken the contract to paint the court house, the Olin buildings and E. w. Spurs store. Miss Cora Edwards, of Seymour, was the guest of relatives in town. W. H. Hall secretary of the Sunday School Union, addressed the people at the Con- gregational church. The Congrega- tional Ladies' Aid society met with Mrs. Henry Belden. '.... West Cornwall-Geo. H. Oldfield was selling a fine stock of millinery and fancy goods. James A. Cochrane was in Albany buying stock of stoves and ranges. Miss May Beck returned from protracted visit in Brooklyn. Miss Mary White was visiting friends in Winsted. William Morgan was SUD- plying the home market and the Fulton market with cells, from the Housatonic river School opened with Mrs. John Page as teacher. Miss Annie Wilson returned to her school ill J. M. Halls district. Mrs. J. H. Cole, in company with Mrs. James Gage, of Hudson, N. i Y, was on visiting tour in Wood bury. Messrs. Frank and Fred Wood were spending three weeks in New York Miss Anna Butler returned from Egrement accompanied by her friend, Miss Ida Shirrel, of Hartford. Mrs. O. s. Brewer and her sister, Nellie, were spending, few weeks in Beaverkill, N. Y.
 1 Berkshire County-The Southfeld telephone had been perfected and was in good working condition. The Bald win family held reunion at Gibson's Grove, Southfeld. Harry Davis, of Clayton, had stalk of tobacco, con- taining sixteen leaves, which weighed six pounds and two ounces; the top leaf was two and one-half feet long and eighteen inches wide