Connecticut western news., 1914-09-17
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record ot Doings from Week to Week Culled from The News Files,
 I883

SulleQ rom he NewS FHeS,
 1883.
 Feb. 14. Fuller & Peet's store had been undergoing some changes which gave them more desk room.
 The thermometer was dergees be- low zero.
 Freighting was very light on the H. & c. W. R. R.
 MT. Charles Collins had moved into his new house near the Catholic church.
 Mrs. Homer Franklin of Middletown. Conn.,, had been spending a few weeks with Mrs. N. c. Ward.
 MT. Sartial Root had been i'll but was convalescing.
 The Ladies' Aid Society of the M. E. church was to meet with Miss Frances Fuller.
 George H. Bullard, of Kent, had spent Sunday at his home in this village.
 G. B. Gardner had purchased large safe for use Ill his jewelry store.
 Rev. Dr. Eddy was to lecture in Norfolk on ''Jots About and Recollec- tions of the War;
 A special train with tailor on board had been up the Housatonic railroad to measure the station agents for uniforms.
 Two carloads of choice tobacco had been shipped from this place to New Milford.
 The trial of George Thompson for illegal liquor selling resulted in con- viction and the case had been carried to the Superior court.
 Annie, wife of Maurice Horan, had died at East Canaan.
 A load of young people from this village had enjoyed sleigh ride to Falls Village.
 The Ladies' Guild of Christ Church was to meet with Mrs. Oliver Root.
 Mir. Ava Root had been thrown from his sleigh when driving down Canaan mountain.
 JohL ) Connor had been bound over for trial by the Superior Court His offence was the burglary of A. B. Gar fields store at East Canaan.
 Prof Henry J. Whalen, an elocu- tionist, of Fishkill, N. Y, was to give an entertainments in Improvement Hall, under the auspices of the Ladies' Aid Society of the M. E. church.
 Falls Village-Mr. and Mrs Humph- rey Rood, of Norfolk, had been visit ing friends in this vicinity. Miss Maria Mott had returned from Hartford to qer home in Amesville Peter Hicks had leased the Peet farm. A large number from this village had attended social promenade at Lime Rock Station. Rev. MT. Spaulding, of North Cornwall, had occupied the pulpit of the Congregational church, in exchange with Rev ID. M. Moore. MT. Henry Belden had purchased a fine specimen of the Holstein stock, from the herd of MT. Bradley, an importer of Lee, Mass. MT. Charles Dean, of Lime Rock, was erecting a grist mill. MT. Gilbert Eggleston had accepted a position as bookkeepnr for G. W. Hall 6 Go. Miss Catharine Landon had fallen and sprained her ankle. Dr. B. O. Gidman had exhibited an English Hawthorn came which was cut in the year 1730.
 West Cornwall-Mr. George O. Harrison and daughter had gone for an extended trip through the west Wm Reinstein had sold his farm, known as the "Gibbs place." Miss Lizzie Old field had gone to Canandaqua, N. Y, for an extended visit. A communion service of unusual interest had been held in the chapel, Rev. D. H. Moore, of Falls Village, officiating. Cochrane Bros. had purchased 90 COWS ill Yer mont. Dr. Howard North, of Goshen in company with MT. Whiting had rented the drug store. E. M. Judd of Cornwall Bridge, was to lave the supervision of the Beers House the coming season. MT. Luke Nickerson, of Rockford, Ill.,, had come home to attend the funeral of his mother. Mrs. Jane Nckierson had died of typhoid pneumnoia at the age of 65 years. Berkshire County-Great Burlington had 66 births fl marriages and 75 deaths last year. Stockbridge had IS marriages, 36 births, and fl deaths. Dolly Sexton of the Lebanon society lacked but two months of being 107 years of age. MT. E. A. Hill, of the editorial staff of the Springfield Daily Union, had accepted the editorial man. agement of the Pittsfield Daily Jour- nal. The Lee Cleaner office had been sold for $5, George Shultis of Monterey, had been very successful in trapping, having captured II foxes, 8 minks and coons in four months. The Cooleys had leased the we'll known Clapp carriage manufactory. O. L. Dowd, of Monterey, had lost a cat which was 21 years old
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