Connecticut western news., 1914-04-23
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to Week Culled from The News Files,
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 1882.
 Sept. IS. Engineer Steve Riley moved back to Hartford.
 William Washburn, of Madalin, N. Y, was visiting relatives in town.
 MT. s. Barlow had quite quantity of sugar cane growing in his garden. G. B. Gardner, Horace Humphrey and Johnnie Reed had just returned from trip to New York.
 The horse-block in front of the War ner House had been moved to the out side of the walk
 At the Roman Catholic Church the marriage of Miss Mary Kegler to MT. Richard Tone was solemnized.
 Some night prowler entered the eel lar of MT. William J. Ferguson and helped himself to about forty pou dds of pork and jar of butter. The next night he returned and carried off nice fat turkey. Lawrence, the eight-year-ol son of John G. Beebe, of East Canaan, walked in his sleep and fell on the stone steps leading to the cellar, breaking his thigh.
 MT. Almerin Gillette, lifelong res ident of this village, celebrated his 90th birthday Sept. 2.
 MT. George E. Taft, nephew of the late Archibald Taft, was the new high school principal.
 The Canaan Cornet Band had ad- vertised a picnic to Parlor Rock. Fare for round trip, s5 cents. The public school in this village opened with 127 pupils on the register. The Litchfeld County Sunday School Superintendents' Association met at the M. E. Church in this village. T. L. Norton, of Lakeville, was the presi- dent.
 The suit of J. Adam Cake against the estate of the late Geo. w. Peet for the restitution of property claimed to have been illegally obtained by the defend ant, was decided ill favor of the defend ant.
 The ore train was stationed at this place with F. McCarty, conductor.
 A peach and ice cream festival was given by the ladies Of the Congrega- tional society, of East Canaan, at the Franklin residence.
 The jury who had been Investigating the cause of the death of Wells Root, who was killed at South Canaan, re- ported that there was not sufficient evidence to procure the apprehension of any person supposed to be connected with his death.
 Falls Village-A new section was being placed in the railroad bridge at Amesville. MT. and Mrs. Clark Halstead, of Winsted, were guests in town over Sunday. G. W. Hall had received his usual, we'll selected, heavy invoice of fall ready made clothing. Ebert Eggleston filled the place in Hall store made vacant by the resigna- tion of Robert Orr. Twenty three horses had been entered for the races at Union Park. Henry O. Crandall was attending school at Park Avenue Institute Bridgeport.
 West Cornwall-Miss Nelly Wad- hams, of Egremont, Mass, was visit ing at Moses c. Buffers. Miss Ellen Cochrane was visiting her sister in- Huntington. The North Cornwall society voted to hire the Rev. M. Spaulding for the winter. Geo. Wheaton was selling onions of every variety from his onion patch.
 Berkshire County-The business men of North Adams were subscribing lib orally for the survey of a railroad route from Readsboro to Wilmington and from North Adams to Wilmington, through Stamford and Hartwellville. The Berkshire Agricultural society's committee on fall crops reported very good potato crop. A company of young men were trying to start cornet band in Monterey. Silas Hyde, of Monterey, lost several calves, they having gone over Hyde's Falls and were drowned. | Messrs. Parsons and Cook, of South field, had purchased telephone and put it up between the whip shop and the postoffice. W. R. Baldwin, of Southfield, was cutting corn 13 feet high.