Connecticut western news., 1914-10-01
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record ot Doings from Week to Week CulIed from The News Files,
 I883.

1883.
 Feb. 2S. G. B. Gardner has been visiting in Shokan.
 Will Roraback had spent Sunday with Sheffield friends.
 George O. Peet had been spending a few days with his parents.
 Station Agent J. B. Reed had new uniform, brass buttons and all.
 Mrs. Van Deusen had been visiting her daughter, Mrs. E. W. Warner. MT. G. $. Fuller had been i'll for several days.
 Mrs. A. T. Roraback had handsome calla with three blossoms.
 MT. Daniel Spaulding had fallen on the ice and sprained his ankle.
 Mir. Wolcott Adams had been enter taining Mrs. Edward Lawrence and daughter from New York State. Prof. Swinston's singing school was progressing finely.
 Housatonic railroad stockholders had free ride to the stockholders meet ing, in Bridgeport.
 MT. Leonard Lawrence, of East Canaan, was recovering from pneu- monia.
 John Van Deusen was shipping from 60 to TO tons of hay and straw every week from his hay press. A horse belonging to Amos Brewer had taken fright at load of hay near Henry Williams's and ran, throwing out the driver.
 Henry Goodro had started for his home in Vermont, for visit of several weeks.
 The stage, route between this place and Southield had been purchased by a gentleman from Middletield, Mass.
 MT. J. L. Bragg's house on Main street was to be occupied by Frank VanDeusen and William Smith. MT. and Mrs. Joseph Ives, of East Canaan, had started for Dakota, where MT. Ives was to engage in mercantile business.
 It was rumored that two passenger trains would soon run through to the Hudson river.
 MT. G. F. Elliott was to give a stere- optican exhibition on Army and Prison Life," at the Town Hall.
 An audience of "A had greeted Dr. Eddy at Town Hall and were pleased and instructed by his lecture on his war experience. ...
 The Stevens House had been sold to E. w. Warner for $10, 900.
 MT. Sartial Root had died at his home in this place at the age of 62 years.
 Falls Village-Hon. Daniel Brewster had been in Hartford for few days. Henry Brinton was shipping large quantities of eggs to Waterbury. There was good skating on Cady's pond, which the young people were enjoying greatly. Frank How'd was spending several days in Hartford, New Haven ana Bridge port. E. D. Goodwin had been in Washington, D. O., in the interests of tariff reform. Eben T. Holcomb of Minnesota, formerly an overseer at the Ames Iron Works, had died at the age of TO years. The insurance company, through the agency of A. T. 6 M. Roraback, had settled for the damage caused by fire in Neisner's clothing store. William Ingersoll was ill with typhoid. "a, 4
 The Norfolk Dramatic Association was to give "Ten Nights in Bar room'' in Citizens Hall. The typhoid musical under the auspices of the Village Improvement Society was to be given at L. P. Dean's.-
 Berkshire County-About $15, GOO had been subscribed toward the erec- tion of hospital in North Adams and the committee were to select site and procure plans for building. Camilla Urso, the violinist, and Solomon Lieb- ling, the pianist, had been engaged for an entertainment at North Adams. Michael Marshall, of Pittsfeld, had caught pickerel in Lake Ashton, weighing six and three quarters pounds.
 The Berkshire Paper Company of Mill River, had gone into insolvency. Charles Couch, of Konkapot, had sent challenge to MT. Kenyon, of Sheffield, for trial of cross cut saws for a prize of $25. -