Connecticut western news., 1914-02-12
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to Week Culled from The News Files.
 1882.

1882.
 July 5. Mir. and Mrs. H. H. Coggs- we'll were visiting out of town.
 Mrs M. A. Franklin visited Bridge port and New York.
 MT. and Mrs. Moses Wadhams return ed from their western trip.
 Boss carpenter Schermerhorn made extensive improvements on William Adams farm buildings.
 Frank Van Deusen recaptured his stolen horse In Winsted minus the har- ness.
 The Southfield "tally-ho" had been re- painted and revarnished. Will D. Adam, who was engaged in mercantile pursuits in RoxburS, cele- brated the Fourth at hom= in East Ca naan.
 Mrs. E. Warner and son Waltie ac- companied by Mrs. Nat Green, of Lime Rock, spent few days at Madalin, N. Y.
 Warren Mcintyre was offered $500 for his year old colt
 Judge M. T. Granger, who had pre- sided oyer the Malley trial at New Haven for the previous three months, arrived home.
 Miss Addie Wendell returned to the telegraph office here, after spending month in the Pittsfcld office. Miss Jane Moore went to New Milford.
 Miss Mary Goggin, I4 years old, daughter of Michael Goggin, of Falls Village, exhibited picture of the Virgin Mary, done in worsted.
 Stage driver Grant sold out his stage route to Dennis Hayes, of New Marlboro.
 The directors of the Housatonic rail road company declared a quarterly dividend of two dollars per share on pre- terred stock payable on July IS.
 I22 tickets were sold here for the Ca naan band picnic at Parlor Rock.
 Miss Mary J. Peck erected a monu- ment to her father and mother, Tn Sandy Hill cemetery, South Canaan.
 St. Joseph's church society held pie nic at Twin Lakes.
 Mrs. Julius 5. Corbit presented to the M. E. church society, lot for a parson- age, on Granite Ave, opposite the lot on which George Fuller was erecting a new house.
 A News subscriber advertised for ga girl to do general house work. One who is willing to assist some, and not simply board.'
 Berkshire County-Coal was $6. SO a ton in Pittsfeld. The class of 'S2 were graduated from Maplewood Institute. Rev. Dr. II. M. Field returned from Europe to spend the summer at Stock bridge. C. A. Sumner, formerly of Great Barringtcn, was the democratic nominee for ongressman-at-large in California. Chaffee and Callender, of Glendale, built an iron bridge across the Housatonic river to the railroad track be- How their mill. J. L. Colbv's iron fur mace at Lanesboro was burned, loss $75,- GOO. The $4,ooo memorial window to the late President Garfield, presented to Williams college by Cyrus W. Field, was on exhibition in New York. Two women in Great Burlington were each fined $Io and cost for selling feathers for ladies' hats, thereby violating the law prohibiting the sale from house to house. An attempt was made to blow oper the safe in Moffat & Pease's office at West Stockbridge, but the thieves who had bored two holes in the door were fright ened away. Alfred M. Fletcher, for merly professor of music at Maplewood Institute, was married to Miss Bessie M. Hunter at Englewood, III.
 Falls Village-Nelson Brinton and bride of New York came home for a brief visit. Miss Kate Northrop, of Brookheld, spent Sunday with friends. General $. E. Merwin and wife, of New Haven, were guests of G. w. Hall and A. C. Randall. The teachers and pupils of the Amesville schools held picnic at Brewster's grove. w. E. Sheppard, of Hartford, stopped over for a few days enroute to Rochester and Niagara. At meeting of the trustees of the Savings Bank the usual semi-annual dividends | were declared and George R. Harrison and Chauncey E, Baldwin were chosen auditors. West Cornwall-Miss Lizzie Oldfeld, 1 spent Sunday at Dr. J. R. Sanford's in Sheffield. Mir. and Mrs. Henry Yutzler, l of Norfolk, visited at home Thomas Fenn, chief clerk at Smith & Sons, cele- brated the Fourth with friends in Stock | bridge. Mir. Thomas Hartwell. of Union | City, was guest of MT. Joe Memnot. | R. N. Cochrane was in Vermont pur- | chasing cattle.