Connecticut western news., 1914-10-08
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record ot Doings from Week to Week CuIled from The News Files,
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 March I. Christ Church Guild was to meet with Mrs. c. w. Camp.
 MT. and Mrs. Arthur Partridge were visiting MT. William Ferguson.
 J. A. Blackman Jr., of Newton, was visiting his sister, Mrs. F. w. Barrett.
 Mrs. Henry Williams was taking a trip to New York, Brooklyn and New Jersey.
 There was to be special meeting of the Grand Army Post in Improvement Hall. T.
 Conductor Lakes train had run off the track at Straton Brook.
 A movement was on foot to divide Fairfield County, taking New Milford from Litcheld County to form new county.
 Miss Addie Wendell, the telegraph operator, was called home on account of the illness of her mother.
 Billy" Shields had been employed at the station for two weeks.
 MT. J. L. Bragg was agent for large nursery in Geneva.
 Prof. W. W. Dayton was to unveil spiritualism at the town hall.
 The annual meeting of the Village Improvement Association was to be held at the residence of ID. l.. Peirce.
 The Ladies Guild of Christ Church had met at the Warner House.
 Barnes Brothers teams had started the spring work and were in most ex- cellent condition.
 The Rhinebeck express was delayed for an hour by breaking a rod of the engine near Winsted.
 MT. Samuel Adam had been obliged to give up his position Ill the patent office at Washington, D. O., because of failing health.
 A horse belonging to Daniel Mulvi- hill, of Norfolk, was frightened by passing train and ran into MT. Zebadiah Adams fence.
 Falls Village-Clark Halstead, of Winsted, had been spending few days in town. Mrs. M. B. Allen, of Sails bury, was the guest of friends in town. w. F. Ferguson was the happy father Frank How'd had returned from trip to New Haven and Bridgeport. Miss Sarah J. Leach, of West Cornwall had been visiting friends in town. Miss Blanche Tobay was recovering from a severe attack of typhoid pneumonia. Norfolk talent had presented "Ten Nights in a Bar Room" in Citizens Hall, in very acceptable manner. Twenty-Five members of Northwestern lodge visited the Good Templars of Cascade lodge at their last meeting. NJ. Turpin and daughter of Stamford were visiting in town. West Cornwall-Mr. Dwight Rogers, who had been dangerously ill with pneumonia, was convalescent. Miss Jennle Madison had fallen on the ice. injuring herself severely. The sociable held at Ransom F. Smiths was success socially and financially. Agent Oldield was gorgeous in his new uni form and rivalled city policeman in the array of glitter and the military bearing he exhibited. James H. Cochrane had accepted a position in Roger 6 Morford's wholesale store in Bridgeport. Frank B. Wood was his successor as clerk at Cochrane Brothers store. Scarlet fever in a, malignant from had appeared at Cornwall Center.
 Berkshire County-Dr. Samuel Camp, of Great Harrington, was suffer ing from dangerous illness, the result of being thrown from a sleigh on a rail road crossing near that village. The population of Springfield was 35, The Monterey cornet band had given a fine entertainment. Gov. Butler had issued Fast Day proclamation exhort- ing the ministers of the gospel on that day, to feed their fiocks with the divine word and not discourse upon political topics. .}e