Connecticut western news., 1914-05-14
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to Week
 CuIled from The News Files, ~ 1890

HeCoru or DolnSS rom "eek 10 Week Culled from The News Files,
 1882. | October 4. North Canaan voted no license for the first time in several years.
 Rev. David Phillips delivered tenn perance discourse on Sunday evening from the text, "All this evil is come upon us.
 MT. L. Foot had in his vineyard seven varieties of grapes. Mrs. Chandler, secretary of the Women's Board of Missions, addressed the people of Canaan at the Methodist church.
 George s. Fuller and bride returned from their wedding trip and com menced housekeeping in their new house. William Bennett was improving his residence by building piazza across the front and sides. 1 The selectmen were authorized at the town meeting to build or procure a suitable lookup.
 At the fair given by St. Joseph's church, in the contest for gold ring, Miss Goodwin and Miss Tubbs each had sixty-seven notes, and it was decided that each young lady should have a ring of like value.
 Henry Sturges, of Huntsville, died at the age of seventy-four years.
 At the town meeting Frederick Bron- son, Patrick Fitzgerald and John B. Reed were elected selectmen.
 The democratic caucus appointed the following delegates: State-J. B. liar denbergh, Frederick Bronson. Con- gressional-N. O. Ward, H. G. Will Hams.
 George Rood, who had been danger ously ill with typhoid malarial fever, was rapidly improving.
 D. P. Day, an old resident of Ga naan, was taken to the aims house.
 Reuben Mcintyre was at home, i'll with malaria.
 George Smith of the H. 6 O. w. rail- road, was in town.
 The high school closed to allow the pupils to attend Great Harrington fair
 The Ladies' Guild of Christ Church met at the residence of Mrs. Oliver Root
 MT. Scott, an upholsterer, had taken rooms in the Cummings building.
 A comet of unusual brilliancy was visible ill the early morning in the eastern sky,
 Falls Village-The Canaan cornet band was awarded one of the premiums at the Falls Village fair. The railroad bridge which spans the Housatonic river between this place and Amesville had been repaired and made safe and sound again. The excursion from this place to Bridgeport had train of nine cars. O. R. Morris had been offered a position as superintendent of a cop per mine in Montana. West Cornwall-Miss Katie Harri- son, daughter of G. c. Harrison, was attending school in New Haven. MT. and Mrs. s. E. Sherman, of Norwalk, were guests of A. D. Warner. MT. Morris Kelly, of New York, was in town for few days. The new music stands for the band were ready for use and their musical magnet pointed "North." '" Mrs. James Ives died, hay ing been a sufferer for many months. David L. Smith, Samuel $. Reed and R. I. Scoville were elected selectmen. Mrs. Oldfeld had so far recovered from her recent illness as to be able to ac- company her daughter to Lee. Miss Gartie Butler, who had been spending the summer ill town, returned to Oaks vile.
 Berkshire County-The VanLennup school at the Sedgwick Institute in Great Harrington, was in flourishing condition. Hon. MT. Hay and wife, a couple of city boarders at Lenox, sud- denly forsook the town, leaving jewels to pay their debts. Investigation de- veloped the information that they were an eloping couple from London, and the fathers of both were M. Ps. The Rev, Hiram Eddy, of Canaan, gave a very interesting address in the town hall in Great Harrington. Sheriffs Cobb and Kellogg raided the drug stores and hotels in Mill River and obtained some liquor.