Connecticut western news., 1914-10-15
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record ot Doings from Week to Week Culled from The News Files.
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Record ot Doings from Week to Week
 CuIled from The News Files.
 1883.
 March IA Dr. William Camp, of Copake, had been a guest in town.
 George Smith was home over Sunday.
 The schools were closed for vacation of two weeks.
 John O'Brien was painting and papering the Methodist parsonage.
 Peter Boinay was to work his fathers farm.
 Thomas Riley was home for a few days.
 Stevens 6 Bragg were moving their lumber to the new yard on Main street.
 Robert VanDeusen had closed his meat market under the Stevens House.
 The last shipment of tobacco for the season had been made. It consisted of two carloads.
 J. H. Drake, blacksmith at Norfolk, had moved to East Canaan.
 Revival meetings were being held in East Canaan by Rev. MT. Phillips.
 Lyman Dunning, of East Canaan had the contract for repairing the roads in town for the coming year.
 The selectmen had purchased road ma;hine.
 . Professor Swinston was to close his singing school with a concert.
 Miss Cornelia Crissey, youngest daughter of Representative Crissey of Norfolk died at her home of pneumonia.
 Thirty-six hundred freight cars were transferred to and from the Housatonic & Connecticut Western railroads at this station during the year.
 A car on the switch at Peirce, Lawrence 6 Go. $ lime kilns broke loose and made extra work for the train men.
 The gravel train on the Connecticut Western road ran twelve cars off the track and delayed all trains.
 Dr. Samuel Camp, of Great Barring ton, who had been confined to his bed by injuries resulting from being thrown from his sleigh was improving.
 The largest crop of tobacco raised by one man in the Housatonic Valley in 1882, was 12, 950 and was grown by W. W. Tobey, of Marketable.
 P. T.. Barnum's circus cars passed through town on the way to Bridge port, with some horses and camels which had been in winter quarters in Duchess County.
 Silas Knickerbocker had been giving the interior of Fuller & Peet's store coat of paint. Marshall Wright, who had been em- Ployed by Barnes Brothers for three years, had accepted position in Falls Village.
 Robert Erwin, formerly connected with the New Milford Gazette, had taken an interest in the Danbury Item.
 Miss Mary E. Rood died at her home on Rood street at, the age of 70 years. J. B. Reed was elected president of the Village Improvement Society. The Ladies Aid Society of the Meth odist church were to hold dime social in Improvement Hall. -r ' -e'
 l.. B. Stillson, formerly superintend- ent of the Housatonic railroad, had accepted position as train dispatcher on the Toledo, Cincinnati and St. Louis railroad, with headquarters at Delphos, Ohio. as ...
 The "Ticlzet of Leave Man." was to be given by home talent. Underwood s | orchestra was to furnish the music.
 Falls Village-The ladies of the Con- gregationaI church held their society meeting at the residence of Mrs. Henry Belden. George B. CoggsweIl and family were to move to Lenox, where MT. Coggswell had secured position. A musical was to be held at the resi- dence of U. H. Miner George H. Brown and family were to move from Cornwall Bridget to this village. Mrs. Isaac French had been very ill but was recovering. MT. Edward Thorpe was to locate in Waterbury. F., E. Egles- ton was selling sheet music at three cents a copy. Harry Sheppard, of Springfield, and w. E. Sheppard, of Hartford, were over Sunday guests at their home in this village. CIV. Hall had sold fine span of black horses to Scoville Brothers of Chapinville. Myron Finkle was i'll with typhoid fever. John Capron, of ,Amenia, was the guest of c. V. Capron. W. T. Ferguson had returned from a trip to New York. -s'
 West Cornwall-Miss Annie Wilson was to begin her school in Ellsworth. James Carter, of Ogdensbury. N. Y, was visiting in town. Miss Julia Roraback had accepted a position in Waterbury. Joseph Cole and Miss Nellie O Brien were married in Sharon. Mrs. Silas Benedict had died of dip- theria. George Harrison and his sister Ella had returned from Wilbraham, Mass, where they had been attending school.
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