Connecticut western news., 1914-02-05
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to Week CuIled from The News Files.
 I882


 1882.
 June 28-There were several cases of scarlet fever in South Canaan.
 The freight office at the Housatonic depot was being enlarged.
 Nat Stevens, of East Canaan, was at- tending school at West Winsted.
 Miss Kittie Underwood, of Roxbury, was visiting Mrs. 0. R. Camp.
 Mir. and Mrs. ]. w. Peet were spend ing few days at the sea shore.
 Miss Mary Rodemeyer, a former at- tache of The News office, went to the Ledger office in Bethel.
 Samuel Adam read the service in Christ church, Sunday in the absence of the rector Rev Barnett.
 Dr. Camp sold his handsome span of ponies 10 q New York man, who was spending the summer at Great Barring ton.
 \ little daughter of Patrick Quinn died ot humps.
 Prof. H. M. Adams, principal of the high school, resigned his position and expected to travel in the south.
 Mrs. Mary B. Pease and son of Min neaPolis, Minn., were spending a few weeks with her father, Levi Beckley
 Fire broke out at the Pierce, Lawrence & Co.'s lime kiln, but was discovered be- fore much damage was done
 Mrs. Jacob Schermerhorn had three distinct varieties of geraniums all raised from seed gathered from the flowers of one stem.
 Frank VanDeusen had horse stolen from his barn.
 The Congregational society of East Canaan invited the Rev. w. ]. Thomson, ot South Glastonbury, to supply the pulpit for the remainder of the fiscal year.
 The Housatonic Valley Preachers Meeting was held at the M. E. church at Sheffield. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, D. Mccartney, of Lee; vice presidents, w. H. Byrnes, of Great Burlington; L. Wilson, of Hudson, N. Y; secretary, F. Hermance, of Sheffield; treasurer, D.
 The thermometer registered o6 degrees in the shade.
 A daug ghter was born to Mir. and Mrs. Charles Johnson at East Canaan.
 Berkshire County-A cargo of Indian boys for Monterey farmers arrived in Great Harrington. Walter B. Smith, clerk of the district court, Pittsfeld. has been re-commissioned for five years. The Hinsdale committee have contracted the building of their new iron bridge to Whitbeck x Power, of Hudson, N. Y. brass band was organized at South Egremont. The Collins family, who owned and occupied the residence of the late Dr. Collins at Great Burlington, went to Newport to attend the annual meeting of the Friends, Mrs. Collins be- ing an active member of that religious sect. The Berkshire District Medical society met with pr. ]. L. Miller at Sheffield. pr. DeWolfe, ST, of Hunting ton, presided. Drs. DeWolfe, Sabin of Williamstown, and Peck, of Sheffield, gave "reminiscences of old physicians. Dinner was served at Benjamin's hotel, after which speeches were made by Drs Miller, DeWolfe, Sabin, Mercer. Smith and Colt, of Pittsfeld; Thayer. of Cheshire; Heath of Lee; Knickerbocker of Stockbridge; Parks, of Great Barring ton; Sanford and Peck, of Sheffield, and Rev. Dr. Eddy, of Canaan.
 Falls Village-Mrs. Ellen Peck's house was raised and covered. Mir. James N. Hill, formerly of Falls Village, died at St. Louis. The condition of Miss Spur, who had been dangerously ill was not E the farm of U. Ii. Miner was raised to be used as a granary and for stables. During a severe storm lightning struck George Leavenworth's house. no dam age was done except to scorch the wood work. Peleg Bronson, one of the oldest locomotive engineers in point of service, sent in his resignation to the II. K. R.
 West wall-Miss Kate Caldwell, of Bridgeport, visited her sister, Mrs. James Cole. MT. Luke Nickerson pur- chased one of Beattys famous 27 stop organs. Sherman, the chronological lecturer, gave talk to a goodly array of empty chairs and realized the sum of B cents. The'village school, Frank B. Wood, closed for summer vacation. The examinations were held before L. J. Nickerson, Esq, who was we'll pleased with progress and general good deport- ment of the pupils. Those present every day were Misses Jennie, Minnie, Nellie and Dell Cochrane, Sadie Hughes, Lizzie Listman, Cora Morgan, Bertha Potter, Katie Salewski. Jessie Wheaton, Minnie and Nellie Wetherel. Masters Fred H. Wood, George and Howard Nickerson, George Cochran, Willie Coon, Hortie Ingleson.