Connecticut western news., 1914-07-23
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to Week Culled from The News Files,
 1000

Culled from The News Files,
 1882.
 Dec. 3. The Methodist Sunday school was preparing for Christmas tree.
 The annual meeting of the Hartford and Connecticut Western railroad was held at Allyn Hall, Hartford.
 MT. Oliver Root had lost a valuable horse.
 A son of James Tierney, of East Canaan, had fallen from & chair and broken his arm.
 The adjourned meeting to organize 8 Post of the Grand Army of the Republic, was held at the Warner House
 During a thunder storm, an engine was run back an forth to test the work ing qualities of the electric signal in storm.
 The Canaan Cornet Band, which had been about to disband, had re-organized with new vigor.
 Mrs. Abby Granger, mother of Judge M. T. Granger, died at the age of 87 years.
 Connecticut tobacco growers were sending petitions numerously signed, to Congress, praying for an increase of duty to one dollar pound on Sumatra tobacco.
 Hosea Green, a brakeman on the ore train, had caught his left hand between the coupling of the cars, mutilating it so badly as to make amputation necessary.
 The December term of the Superior Court had opened, Judge Beardsley presiding.
 The dancing assembly given at Town Hall, of which Hosea Green was one of the managers, was given as benefit to MT. Green.
 A horse belonging to MT. O'Brien of Norfolk, slipped and broke its leg, while being driven from Main street to Peirce, Lawrence and Go. s lime kiln.
 Falls Village-The Methodist Sunday school was given sleigh ride, and an oyster supper on their return. James Mcintosh, boiler maker at the repair shops ill Amesville, had finished his labors in that capacity and had moved his family to Hartford. H. O. Crandall and Joseph Mundry were i'll, and both were attended by Dr. Averill. Dr. B. O. Gidman, formerly of New Hartford, had located in town.
 West Cornwall-School had closed for holiday vacation, Mrs. Helen Page teacher. Mrs., Nellie Fairchild, of Bridgeport, and her nephew of Ogdens burgh, N. Y, were visiting at R. N. Cochrane's and F. W. Yutzler's. Miss Clara Smith and MT. Charles Cloud of Royalson, Vt., had been spending few days at MT. James Cockrane's. Miss Lizzie Oldfield had been spending a week at Dr. I. F. Sanford s inSheffield. A daughter was born to MT. and Mrs. Edward Amundson. The Norfolk Jubilee Singers had given concert to large audience. Miss Kate Caldwell, of Bridgeport, was the guest of her sister, Mrs. James H. Cole.
 Berkshire County-Henry Pope, agent of the Housatonic railroad at VanDeusenville, was knocked down by a freight train and seriously injured. The November receipts at the Lee station were $14, 1000. Albert W. Curtis, the Sheffield distiller whose liquors had been seized, was found guilty and fined $500 and costs. He appealed to the superior court. The Berkshire Agricul- tural Society held their annual meet ing at Pittsfeld and elected the follow ing gentlemen as executive committee for the ensuing year: Joseph A. Kline, of Egremont; Wellington Smith, of Lee; John E. Merrill, of Pittsfeld; Marshall s. Health, of Stockbridge; John Stall man, of Lee; F. Dorr Deming, of Lanes boro and s. P. Dresser, of Hinsdale.