Connecticut western news., 1915-12-09
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record ot Doings from Week to Week Culled from The News Files.
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 Culled from The News Files. 1884
 May z. Tho sam of $547 was realiz- ed from the rental of the pews in the Methodist church.
 The Holley Manufacturing comDany band of LakeviIle was to participate in the Decoration day exercises in this 1 town.
 Ninety calves were shipped from this station on "calf day. George Bullard started for Saginaw, Mich. where he had position as book. Keeper
 The Warner house was being painted. William Watson was ill with chills and fever
 The Chautsuqua Circle met at l Horatio Adams.
 Rev. E. H. Roys. formerly of this town, was to lecture in Kingston, N. r., in the Methodist church. Falls Village-Rev. B. N. Lewis was to exchange pulpits with Rev. Robert Hunt, of Fishk;ll, N. r., MT. R. B. Alden, of Boston, spent Sunday in town. Mrs. Chauncy Hunt was guest of friends in town. Robert N. Mills lad been ill for u long period. Mrs. J. 5. Brewster returned from d visit of six weeks with her sister, Mrs, Milton Chapman in Waverly. N. I. Rev. Dr. Hiram Eddy was to preach in the Con. gregational church in exchange with Rev. Mr. Moore. Dr. Eddy was also to deliver a lecture in the Methodist church on ''Love, Courtship and Mar riage."
 West Cornwall-The Cornwall mem bers of the cavalry recently organized in this part of Litchfield county are Henry Sedgwick, George Harrison, William and Edward Brush, Charles Gold. Walter Hart, George Brewster and Harvey Osborne. Rev. Wayland Spaulding recent ministerical supply for the Congregational church in shis town received call to Poughkeepsie. N. '. A. Miller, proprietor of she Mansion House, was accidentally as- phyxiated by gas in Bridgeport, but quickly recovered. Mrs. David Ross and daughter Sadie from New York, were atHouston Cochrane's s for the sum. mer. The death of Mrs. J4oviAa Adams, widow of Deacon Samuel Adams, occurred at the residence of her son.
 Berkshire County-Rev. and Mrs. Sculder, of Great Burlington, gave ape- ception in the new Congregational par. sonage recently given to the parish by Mrs. Mark Hopkins. Mrs. Lydia T. Richards was killed by the cars near Ashley Falls. The death of William Leonard, station agent at Lenox, occur ed at his home ill Kent, Conn. MT. and Ms. Frank Owen, of Sheffield, re- truned from the South.
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 s'TO live as a member of the great whi te race of men, to share its thoughts and its aspirations, it is necessary that a man should read his newspaper, v said U. s. Senator Sterling, of South Dakota. "The newspaper" he con- tinued, "has come to be indispensable. 1t goes and penetrates everywhere. It has been said of the newspapers that they are to the whole civilized world what the daily house talk is to the  household; they keep our daily interest in each other; they save us from the evils of isolation. like to go back to the splendid principle on which the fine structure rests. And that princi- pie is the freedom of the press. Our forefathers must have had the gift of prophecy in regard to the press; they must have foreseen to what power and influence it would come. They had no dread of publicity of official acts or motives. They had faith in the ulti- mate triumph of truth Jefferson was willing that error might be presented if truth could only be left free to con- bat it. He was opposed to a censorship of the press, and said that if he must choose between government without newspapers and newspapers without a government he would prefer to risk the newspapers without the government. He believed that public opinion would measurably correct things if public opinion were left free. but that govern ment without free expression of pub. lie opinion would soon become despo-