Connecticut western news., 1914-05-07
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to Week Culled from The News Files,
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|. 1882.
 Sept. 27. Judge Granger was at- tending court in Hartford
 Mrs. Ophelia Camp was visiting rel atives and friends in Kent.
 Mrs. Frederick Watson, with her mother and sister, was spending a few days with her brother in Hartford.
 Henry Goodro was assisting Warren Mcintyre, the blacksmith, who had been ill for some days with malaria.
 MT. H. B. Stevens had removed to his new house on West Main street. MT. Taft occupied the house vacated by MT. Stevens.
 The electric signals on the railroads in this place were finished and would be put in operation as soon as the en- zines were provided with the necessary mechanism
 The funeral of William s. Stevens of Mamaroneck, N. r., was attended at the Episcopal church, and the burial was in the lower cemetery. He was a brother of E. O. Stevens, of Norfolk, and H. O. Stevens, of East Canaan.
 The first meeting of the Debating Club was held in Village Improvement hall. The subject for discussion at the following meeting was, Resolved, that the system of trade unions as now con- ducted is detrimental to the pest inter- ests of the country"
 The ladies of St. Joseph's church were conducting fair in Town Hall. Miss Shields and Miss Colligan were competing for gold watch.
 Mrs. Levi Beckley entertained her Sunday school class at a picnic at her home.
 MT. and Mrs. J. B. Reed celebrated the twentieth anniversary of their mar riage by entertaining about forty of their relatives at dinner. In the evening they gave reception to their friends.
 A large building filled with tobacco belonging to Levi F. Bronson, was swept away by the river. A plan was organized to procure funds to be given MT. Bronson, to make good, in part the loss he sustained.
 Ferris W. Henry, formerly of this place, whose family had been spending the esummer at Robert VanDeusen's, had returned with his family, to their home in Tuckahoe, N. Y.
 During the absence of the feminine portion or their families G. P. Strong, J. $. New and Will Camp were board ing at the Warner House.
 Falls Village-A very heavy rain raised the Housatonic river five feet and the little falls near the R. R. shops, where the rocks are usually bare, were very pretty, the water being three feet over the highest rock. Vim. T, Ferguson had gone to New York to pur- chase a stock of dry goods, cloaks, etc., for G. w. Hall Miss Phoebe Gardner, of Ligonier, Indiana, who had been spending the summer in Amesville, re- tunred to her home. MT. Lyman Page, who had reached the age of TT years, cradled one and one-fourth acres of buckwheat in one day. Deputy Sheriff H. Brinton was going into the poultry business extensively. MT. and Mrs. Lucius Landon and son, of Milton, Yer mont, were the guest of friends in Amesville.
 West Cornwall - Rev. Wayland Spaulding was again preaching at the chapel. Mrs. Edward Barnum and her sister, Miss Eliza Baldwin, of Bridge port, who had been spending two months in Goshen, had returned, much improved ill health. Mrs. William Oldfield was ill and was being cared for by her daughter, Mrs. Charles Durant, of Lee. Mrs. George Hughes had returned from an extended visit in Meriden and Ansonia.
 Berkshire County-The village inn provement society of Williamstown celebrated their fifth anniversary by an open air meeting. H. T. and W. J. Oatman of Pittsfeld, had bought the North Adams Hoosac Valley News and the firm of Angel 6 Evans, the publish CTS, was discontinued. President Bar mum and Vice President Draper of the Housatonic railroad drove over the line of the proposed Pittsfield and Williams town road and were pleased with the route. Seneca Gordon sold the Brush Hill soda spring, known as the Pool" for $2, 300 to MT. Winters, of Michi- gan. Pickering Clark, formerly of Pittsfield, but now of Bombay, India, had been on a visit to his former home. He presented Mrs. Walter Cutting with a valuable desk and chair which he brought from India. They were made of rosewood and it took three years to carve them. They were procured at cost of $500 in India.