Connecticut western news., 1914-11-19
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record ot Doings from Week to Week Culled from The News Files.
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 April IS. The amount of freight moved on the Connecticut Western rail road was large and three freight trains and two passenger trains were at the station daily at the noon hour.
 About twenty friends of MT. and Mrs. George E. Taft, principal of the high school, called on tham and pre- sented them with handsome parlor table. The occasion was the fifth an niversary of their marriage.
 Miss Fanny Mcintyre, of Illinois, was visiting friends in town.
 Rev. F. w. Barnett attended the fun eral of one of his old practitioners at Wilton.
 Mrs. Cornelius Lynehan was very ill with pneumonia.
 MT. James L. Bragg was painting his residence on Main street.
 Rev. David Phillips had been return ed to Canaan by the conference.
 Mrs. F. W. Barnett had returned from visit of several days in Newtown.
 The residence of Dr. O. W. Camp was being painted cream color with maroon trimmings.
 MT. P. Jacobs was the owner of a COW that produced 300 pounds of butter between September 20, 1882 and April l, 1883. She yielded 13,000 pounds of milk during the year.
 Josie Reel and Mary Goodwin were seriously i'll with measles.
 William R. Baldwin's store and barn at outhfield, Mass, were destroyed by fire.
 The wedding of Miss Minnie Kenny, of Morrisania, and William N. Noble. of New Milford, occurred at Morrisania.
 MT. Horace Holt had entered the em- ploy of the Barnum Richardson company at East Canaan.
 The marriage of MT. Jerome Root, of Canaan, and Miss Addie Wendell, of East Chatham, occurred in Millerton, N. Y.
 The Canaan Cornet Band was out of debt, and the boys were given great deal of praise for their perseverance,.
 Miss Frances Fuller was having an artistic balcony built on her residence.
 Georgie Belle, daughter of John Van Deusen, died ill Great Burlington, at the age of years.
 MT. E. J. Prescott had moved from Rood street to East Canaan.
 The intermediate school was closed on account of the illness of the teacher, Miss Nellie Andrus, who was one of the measles patients.
 Dr. George Adam had sold his half interest in the blast furnace at Chat ham, N. T., to J. J. Warehouse & Go.
 Falls Village-An orchestra was in the first stages of growth with MT. Timothy Tucker as leader. MT. Peter Hicks, of Weatogue, had moved to the Peet farm at Amesville. Miss Fannie Watson, of Bridgeport, spent Sunday with relatives in town. Grass fires were very frequent and it required the dilligent labor of several men to keep one of these fires from extending to the barn owned by the Hon. Daniel Brew ster. A very successful musical was held at the residence of MT. G. w. Hall. The performers were Mrs. G. W. Hall, Mrs. l.. P. Dean, Miss May Maltbie, Miss Alice Dakin, Mrs. J. l.. Ensign, Mrs. O. E. Wolcott, Mrs. M. Hall, Mrs. U. H. Miner, Miss Belle Maltbie, Mrs. H. Sheppard, Mr., P. B. Burnett, MT. A. F. Gibbs, Mir. F. E. How'd, and Henry Crandall, Jr. Rev. J. Lee Gam ble received the appointment of pastor of the M. E. Church at Liberty, N. T., and Rev. R. N. Lewis was sent to Falls Village. MT. E. L. Bartlett and Miss Winnie Stevens were married at the home of the bride. Uninvited visitors under cover of darkness dispossesed Miss O. Landon or her whole flock of poultry. This town had just purchased Pennock patent road machine. MT. Orville Hosford was building large addition to his house. MT. and Mrs. s. J. Adams were to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their wedding. Miss Jennie Taylor, of New Britain, was visiting in town.
 West Cornwall-Cream Hill lake had received a donation of 5000 trout, through the efforts of Hon. T. s. Gold. Mr. J. H. Moser, an artist from New York, was the guest of MT. Ralph I. Scoville. Mrs. R. R. Pratt was the guest of Col. O. D. Blinn, of New Mil ford. MT. F. s. Dana had returned from an extended trip through Mary land and Virginia. Edward Baldwin and Fred Wood were attending school at Rocky Dell Institute, at Lime Rock.
 James A. Cochrane, of Bridgeport, spent Sunday in this village. MT. and Mrs. W. H. Porter, of New York, spent Sunday with R. ". Cochrane, on their i return from Lenox, where they had att tended the funeral of MT. Porter's mother.
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