Connecticut western news., 1914-11-05
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record ot Doings from Week to Week .Culled from The News Files.
 I883

1883.
 April 4. With this issue The News passed into the management and con. trol of MT. s. c. Beckley as editor and proprietor.
 Mir. Frederick Watson was said to be gradually failing in strength.
 The newsboys on the Connecticut Western railroad began to wear uni forms.
 Business among the lime dealers was very dull.
 The Goshen correspondent of The News seriously inquired, Ills it right for church members to play euchre, seven up, whist, old maid high low Jack, etc ?''
 Dr. Samuel Camp, of Great Barring ton, was recovering from an accident and was able to walk out of doors.
 Frank Barnum hal removed to the Moon farm in Weato gue
 Rev. Dr. Eddy had consented to oc. cupy the pulpit in the Congregational church in Sheffield for another year.
 John Reed, who had been at Fuller & Peet's store during the winter, is to assist his father at the station.
 The annual meeting of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society was to be held at the residence of Mrs. H. B. Stevens.
 Landlord Warner took possession of the Stevens House, J. A. Macdonald going to Unionville.
 Miss Mary J. Peck had moved her household goods from the residence of s. c. Beckley to the Ferris place on Elm street. After April 10 she was to live with the family of James Beckley ill Chatham, N. Y
 The weekly sociable of the Congrega- tional church was held at the residence of MT. Charles s. Adam.
 At the annual meeting of the Read ing Room Association MT. ID. L. Free man was elected president; MT. D. l.. Peirce vice-presi dent; MT. E. D. Law renee treasurer and Samuel A. Eddy secretary. Because no suitable room could be procured, the property was to be sold at auction.
 The annual meeting of the Tobacco Growers Mutual Insurance Company was held in this place, and MT. Lyman Dunning elected president.
 The new road machine ordered by the town had arrived.
 David Walter had moved to the Elm mons house.
 Burglars entered Garfield & Adam s store and drove away with horse taken from D. O. Whittlesey's barn. Officers VanDeusen and Briggs found the horse hitched to fence in West Hartford
 Torrington people were in state of indignation on account of the marriage of Ann Brooker, (white) to Joe Brad ley, (colored). Bradley was the coach- man employed by the brides father who was prominent citizen of the town.
 West Cornwall-Miss Eliza Baldwin, ot the Barnum school, Bridgeport, has been spending her vacation at MT. ID. B. Baldwin's. Freddie Duby, who had been seriously i'll with brain trouble, was improving. Charles Snyder had rented the house recently occupied by Eli Cum. MT. Samuel Scoville, a Cream Hill collegiate was enjoying a short vacation. Mrs. Leete Rogers, Of North Cornwall, died after lingering illness, at the age of 86 years. A delegation of young men left for Dakota to be employed by Eben W. Chaffee, of Ellsworth. Miss Clara Yutzler was suffering from pneumonia. MT. Ethan Bosworth had returned from business trip though the Naugatuck valley.
 Berkshire County-Rev. E. H. Roys was given farewell supper by the members of his church in North Egre- mont The PittsfieId Daily Journal was to commence publication of liter ary and society weekly, with which Miss Anna Dawes, was to be editorially corrected. Rev. A. E. Nash, super annuated clergyman of Lee, had been willed $10.000 worth of property in Bridgeport by an aged colored woman. There was said to be F unlicensed liquor places in North Adams Noah Gibson, prominent Democrat, and for many years chairman of conventions and political meetings, had died at his home in New Marlboro, at the age of 79 years.