Connecticut western news., 1915-05-13
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Doings from Week to Week CuIled from The News Files,
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 October 10. The next meeting of the Housatonic Valley Methodist Minis ters' Association was to be held at Ga naan.
 Miss Adelle Kegler was visiting friends in Vermont.
 Mrs. George Lawrence of Stamford. was guest of friends in town.
 $. c. Cummings, who had been em- ployed in drug store in Norwalk. had gone to Mount Vernon, N. Y, to take charge of drug store.
 MesSrs. Elihu Donalds and Frank Emmons attended the Danbury fair.
 W. H. Camp was visiting friends in Roxbury and Newtown.
 George Oles, q former resident of this village, made 90, ,000 hay rakes, using 1000, ,00Q teeth at Lis factory in Tyringham, Mass.
 George w. White, of Yonkers. N. Y, was n visitor in town. Twenty four years ago MT. White attended school in the Town Hall, Rev. W. G. Plerce, teacher.
 EdwarL Rose, of Geneva. N. Y, was spending the winter with Mrs. Charles Lewis.
 The Chautauqua Circle was organ ized with 20 members.
 r. A. Bartlett was chosen as leader of the Canaan Cornet Band, to succeed Friend Northrop, who had moved to Newtown.
 Christ Church Guild was to give an entertainment by the Peek sisters, at Village Improvement hail.
 Miss Nellie Andrus was cnnvalesc- ing and was to return to her school in few days.
 Rev. w. J. Thompson was holding social gospel services in the different school districts.
 The blast furnace at Dover Furnace. N. Y., leased James Beckley, of Chatham, N. Y, was totally destroyed by fire.
 John Lyons, of Adams, Nebraska, was visiting in Canaan.
 Mrs. M. A. Peet and Mrs. F. Sedg- wick had gone to Elmwood H., where they would spend the winter.
 Miss Marcella Ferris, who had been living at Tuckahoe, N. Y, for two years, was the guest of friends in town.
 Miss J. E. Norton was having her house shingled.
 Rev. David Phillips had returned from a visit in western New York state.
 The Litchfield County republican convention was to be held at Litchfield.
 The democratic sensatorial conven- tion was to be held at Falls Village.
 Calvin Barnes was spending a week in New York.
 A son was born at Gaylordsville, to Edward B. and Lillie B. Evans. Mrs. Evans was furmurly Miss Lillie B. Wooster. of Canauu.
 Fails Nillage-The town voted to build lookup. T. Il Palmer raised a California cucumber five feet in length, d foot ill circumference and ten pounds in weight. Isaac French had so far recovered from recent illness as to be at his usual place of labor. The thermometer registered 20 begrees above zero. William Cook was awakened by a shot, and upon investi- gation found some one trying tu shoot HIS uOS, III OlNeI tO JUL BLol iEo Ils house.
 West Cornwall - Rev. Wayland Spaulding, of New Haven, was ex- pected to preach in Sharon. Village merchants purchased three thousand bushels of potatoes. A. D. Warner and wife were to move to WoCdbury for the winter. J. NJ. Morgan and family attended the Pittsfield fair. Mrs. Nathan Hart had returned from an ex- tended visit in Pleasant Valley.
 Berkshire County-The paper mill owned by John A. Decker, ut Lee, Mass, was destroyed by fire. James Holmes, a Great Harrington farmer, was robbed of $1,O00 by three card monte men. The Burbank Hotel barn was burned, as the result of care lessly dropped match.