Connecticut western news., 1915-01-21
GOSzIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record ot Doings from Week to Week Culled from The News Files.
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1883
 June 20. The Housatonic railroad company furnished the station with q four wheeled baggage truck.
 Christ Church Guild met with Mrs. George $. Fuller.
 \ petition had been signed by the members of the Middlesex County bar to the trustees of Wesleyan University, asking them to confer the degree of L. L. D. on Judge Miles T. Granger of the supreme court of errors.
 Rev. H. l. Bodley was in town call ing on friends.
 Sherwood Cummings and Miss Fan nie Cousins were married at Norwalk, June 12.
 Rev. David Phillips attended the meeting of the Housatonic Valley Methodist Ministers Association, held at Tyringham, Mass
 The carpets and cushions at Christ Church were thoroughly renovated.
 Col. Jacob B. Hardenbergh was ap- pointed county coroner.
 Jacobs Brothers were raising lettuce from seed brought from Manchester, England, many years ago by Horatio Ames, of Falls Village.
 Christ Church Guild was to hold a strawberry and ice cream festival at Village Improvement hall.
 Barnum, Richardson 6 Go. were building large barn. near the lower furnace. E. K. Lorraine was doing the work
 Miss Van Alstyne from Illinois, was visiting her amt, Mrs. Julius Corbit.
 Fuller & Peet's store was burglar ized, the tools for the work secured at G. P. Strong's tin shop.
 The Glee Club met every week in the Conference room at East Canaan.
 Mir. Willard A. Roraback and MT. George E. Taft were admitted to the bar of Litchfield County.
 Harlow P. Harris Jr, of Ore Hill, died at the age of 1G years.
 Falls Village-Rev. Mr. Moore had been spending his vacation in Stam- ford. The Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist church was to meet with Mrs. George Stevens. The musical at E. w. Spurr's was we'll attended and was very enjoyable. William Jenks had returned from his trip on the road selling jewelry. Minot Lyman had purchased a fine horse and carriage. The Children's Mission Society met with Mrs. Lee P. Dean and enjoyed ice cream and cake. Walter Kellogg's little son, aged years, fell over a croquet arch and broke his arm He bod lrpl-nr, fhn cfhar. flraa previously.
 West Cornwall-The marriage of Mir. Myron W. Hallock and Miss Emma Nickerson was to take place. Mrs. Standish, of Waterbury, was the guest of c. E. Baldwin Miss Burtch, a music teacher, from Sheffield, was teaching in this village. Miss Annie Wilson had closed her school in Ellsworth, and was to return to her home in Huntington. A fine Ithaca organ had been placed in the parsonage. Cochrane Brothers had just finished an extension to their store, in which to place large refrigerator. Smith 6 Sons were about to erect a lumber shed for their increasng busi- ness. The church was beautifully and artistically decorated on Sunday under the management of Miss Lizzie Old field. The death of MT. Nathan Hart occurred after an illness of five weeks.
 Berkshire County-The whip shop at Southfield, was doing large business. The new Congregational church at Great Burlington which stands on the foundation of the one burned March 1, 1883, was nearly completed. There were no examinations at the South Berkshire Institute at New Marlboro, but there was a musical entertainment given in the Congregational church, at which essays were read. William Bissell, of Lakeville, one of the students, gave an able comparison of the Roman Republic with our own.