Connecticut western news., 1914-09-10
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record ot Doings from Week to Week Culled from The News Files.
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1883.
 Feb. 2. Mrs. Edward Barnett and son had been guests at the rectory.
 Representative Wells, of Roxbury, had been visiting friends in town.
 Christ Church Guild was to meet at 'The Grove"
 Messrs. w. W. Underwood and w. H. Camp had spent Sunday ill North Adams, the guest of Rev. H. l. Bodley.
 Rev. A. N. Benedict was to lecture at East Canaan church.
 Patrick Finnegan had been thrown from sleigh and was confined to the house for several days.
 Good tobacco had been selling at l5 cents per pound
 William $. Ferriss, proprietor of the hotel at Ashley Falls, had received pickerel from Oshkosh, Wis, which weighed Is pounds.
 About 200 Masons and their friends had attend the Masonic reception at Town Hall.
 Rev. H. I. Bodley had lectured in Improvement Hall on Tongue and Mustard.''
 Deputy Sheriff VanDeusen had arrested John Connor and two Freeman boys (colored,) for burglarizing A. B. Garfield's store at East Canaan.
 O. M. Thomas, foreman of the Thomaston Express had been visiting in town.
 The Sunday evening service had been omitted in the churches because of the n of kI,
 Falls Village-A meeting had been called to reorganize the Village I'm provement Association. William A. Burkett, of Danbury, had been home over Sunday. MT. Edward Dibbell, of Winsted, had been visiting in town. Rev. B. Tomlinson formerly pastor of the Congregational church in this village had accepted a call to church in Philadelphia. MT. and Mrs. Roman Segar of Canton, had been the guest of friends in town. Mrs. Emeline Burgurt, of Albany, was spending a week in town. A number of masons had attended the Masonic ball in Canaan. Dr. J. O. Barker had returned to New Milford after sojourn of two weeks in town. Geo. M. Hanchett, route agent between New York and Boston, had been at his home over Sunday. MT. Albert Strong and family, of Vaill, Iowa, and Edwin Strong, of Rochester, N. Y., had been guests of George Coggswell. The death of MT. James Ensign had occurred at Lime Rock. MT. Ensign's death was caused by typhoid fever. The Ladies' Aid Society of the Congregational church held a sociable at the residence of George w. Ford. MT. A. L. Brown had invented an economical appliance for heating house with hot water
 Berkshire County-The Germans had masquerade ball at Burbank hall, Pittsfeld. The Pittsfeld Methodists had held protracted meetings for IS. weeks and had numbered 100 converts. Eleven of the Berkshire Paper Co.'S. horses, 4 wagons and sleighs had been sold at auction. Andrew l.. Hubbull, of Great Burlington, had pre- scented St. Andrews Masonic Lodge, Winsted, with handsomely framed portrait of his father, Lyman Hubbell, formerly prominent business man of that town. Connections had been made by telephone from c. H. Heath's office, Lee, to Pitrsfeld, thence to Springfield, Hartford, Greenfield, through the tunnel to North Adams and back to Pittsfeld, a circuit of 300 miles. The town of Egremont had purchased the old academy property at South Egremont, and was to make changes and improvements preparatory to its permanent occupancy as town hall. The 18th farmers institute of the Housatonic Agricultural Society was held in the town hall at Great Burlington. The Berkshire County grange meeting was to be held at Lanesboro.