Connecticut western news., 1914-04-09
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to We ek Culled from The News Files.
 1882,

Aug. 30. Pine Grove camp meeting was in session and daily camp meeting edition of "The News">was being printed.
 Conductor Sidney Spencer was run ming the camp meeting special train.
 H. H. Cogswell was presiding at the fruit stand at Pine Grove, Frank Van Deusen at the oyster house and G. P. Strong at the boarding house.
 Rev. William c. Pierce of Champaign, H., was visiting his brother, D. L. Peirce..
 The News, of which Col. J. B. Harden bergh was proprietor, installed its new Campbell newspaper press.
 Sherwood Cummings, of Norwalk, twas home on vacation.
 Miss Emma Waldorf, of Suffield. was guest at the Warner House.
 Rev. Robert Hunt, formerly of this village, was in town. Jacob and Fred Schamerhorn began the cellar wall of the Methodist parson- age.
 The mason work of George Fuller's new house was completed.
 Mir. and Mrs. N. C. Ward were so- journing al Nantucket.
 The body of John Lowe, of Salisbury, was discovered on the east shore of Twin Lakes.
 The Christ Church Sunday school held their picnic at Twin Lakes.
 The daily output of Barnum, Richard son and Co.'s furnaces at East Canaan was 40 tons of car wheel iron.
 Mrs. Geo. w. Oles was spending few days with friends in town.
 John H. Peet. of New York, was mak- ing his annual visit at the old homestead.
 Mir. D. A. Proper and family were visiting at Judge Granger's,
 Conductor Cummings, of the H. & C. W. railroad, who had been in the em- ploy of the company for eleven years, had resigned.
 w. H. Camp, Willard Underwood, Moore were in Saratoga.
 Jay A. Underwood had driven over to the Catskills.
 MT. z. T. Adams was transporting baggage and provisions between the rail road station and the camp ground.
 The Franklin farm at East Canaan was advertised for sale.
 Falls Village-John Welch had at- tended every meeting at Pine Grove from the beginning, with the exception of the years of IS6I-62. "The first cot tage at Pine Grove was built by J. R. Ward and the second by Mrs. Oliver" |" Mir. w. G. Kellogg and wife and Miss Emeline Kellogg were the guests of Rev. w. C. Smith at Ocean Grove.
 West Cornwall-Mrs. Isaac Marsh was entertaining Miss Polly Marsh, of Litch- field. Rev. Samuel Scoville occupied the pulpit on the hill, and Rev. Dwight NJ. Pratt preached in the chapel. The annual school meeting resulted in the election of George Hughes, committee {; John Wood, clerk and treasurer, and Hon. Joseph Mallinson, collector. Mir. and Mrs. Alonzo France and Miss Celia Gardner, authoress, of Plainfield, N. l., are guests at Ransom F. Smith. A com mittee was appointed to make the neces- sary repairs on the school house.
 Berkshire County-Pittsfeld fire com. missioners decided to adopt the electric fire alarm. The town water at North Adams was analysed and pronounced pure. It was reported that President Barnum, of the Housatonic railroad, in- tended to extend the Housatonic roa6 from Pittstield to North Adams and to operate the road from North Adams to Wilmington, Vermont, on a lease. An adder, three feet in length, was killed in H. N. Kasson's house in Southfield. Geo. w. Harmon, of Bennington, Vt, was in Berkshire county. looking up the genealogy of the Harmon family.