Connecticut western news., 1914-04-30
GOOD OLD NEWS
Cleaned from the Housatonic RepubII- 3. can of 56 Years Ago.

I. can of 5e Years Ago.
 The Housatonic Republican, Falls Village, dated March 6, 1858, contain cd another whack, editorially,at Editor "Tom" Clark, of the Winsted Herald, in which Editor O. B. Maltbie revealed still further his capability as heavy hammer swinger. He wrote:
 "Our kind and over-indulgent neigh bor of the Winsted Herald, and his cor respondent in this village, have finally concluded that newspaper slang will not kill the Republican, and that something else must be tried, therefore at meeting held by the two last week. it was decided that poor blistered Tom must dip his fingers into the State Com mittee's Funds general, and draw forth enough to enable his Satanic establish ment to flood the towns of this part of the State with Simon-pure Re publicnnism. Well-well-this then explains Toms great anxiety to be put upon that Committee, although con- trary to the wishes of the County. Very well, as the fellow could not bleed Gov. Holley last year, as much | be helped this year to large fat slice some way-probably Gov. Buckingham SS Go. will get great advantage by such means, at all events we shall see how the thing works; but don { fiatter yonr- selves, Messrs. Clark S O., that any such course will put any split sticks on our tongue just yet, for our new sub scribers from Winsted are all paid for, while yours are free, so you say to the subscribers, if not to the office seekers. What an independent journal the Her ald must bep'
 An obituary of Andrew Hotchkiss, of the firm of Hotchkiss & Son, of Sharon Valley, is published. MT. Hotchkiss was cripple, with an abnor. nal bump of ingenuity, who invented the curry-comb, ox-bow pin, screw wrench, riae-canron proioctile, rake head, snow-plow and many other use- full articles of that day.
 A meeting of the inhabitants of the Second district, in South Canaan passed resolutions criticising "the recent strange action of C. B. Maltbie and A. H. Ferguson, a minority of the board of school visitors, for the town, in revok- ing the certificate of approval given December last, to MT. Marsh, the teacher of our public school, by said board, after 1 Gas we suppose) a careful examination, for no other reason than his failure to attend a certain general examination of the schools called by said board" The resolutions were signed by P. M. JaquA chairman. ,and l.. r. Hunt, secretary. The editor comments on the resolutions: "All we have to say is, first, the action of O. B. Maltbie and A. H. Ferguson is not considered at all strange by any member of the original board, except J. B. Reed, and even he, as we under stood, thought the action would beprops CT enough six months hence. Second, that Maltbie and Ferguson are not minority, but the whole acting board | for South Canaan. There is no doubt that the authors of those reso- lutions would have viewed the matter in far different light, had they had the candor to have asked for an explan- ation, rather than in their excessive wrath to have threatened destruction to The Republican by stopping the patronage of few papers, which yield us 25 cents each, clear profit for the year, and by refusing to hear the Rev. MT. Ferguson preach, expect to upset the foundation of the Methodist Epis. copal church. '