Connecticut western news., 1915-02-11
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record ot Doings from Week to Wee CulIed from The News Files,
 

1888
 July II. Rev F. w. Barnett ex- changed pulpits with Rev. J. H. George, of Salisbury.
 Mrs. Henry Hanchett has a green rose ill full bloom.
 Little Eva Corbit, of East Canaan, had been sick two weeks with fever.
 Several city boarde:s had arrived at Robert VanDeusen's, and more were expected.
 The Ladies' Aid Society of the NJ. K. church met with Mrs. G. E. Taft.
 The grand stand at at Riverside Park was blown down during thunder shower.
 MT. George Knickerbocker, brother of Mrs. Nelson Hamm, was killed in a collision on the N. Y. 6 N. E. R.R
 Mrs. Sherman Pease and son, of Bos- ton, Mass, were spending a few weeks with Mrs. Pease's father, MT. Levi Beckley.
 G. B. Gardner had opened a lunch counter at the station.
 MT. G. P. Strong placed a water tank in the post office and MT. A. T. Roraback furnished the ice for it.
 The monthly meeting of the Housa- tonic Valley Ministers Association was held at Sheffield.
 Three deaths occurred in town with in five days, Mrs. Wilbur Deming, Mrs. Clarinda Donalds and Nellie Thoms, the latter of scarlet fever.
 The High school had a picnic in Dorlnx.ysc r.,
 During a severe thunder storm a tree near the residence of Col. J. B. liar denbergh, was struck by lightning and also one near the station.
 MT. M. Keane, of East Canaan, as- sisted by number of patriotic men in this village, adjusted a new rope on the flag pole in front of the Town Hall and at sunrise July 1, hoisted the stars and stripes.
 The camp meeting boarding house at Pine Grove was announced to be opened Aug. 1, by G. P. Strong for the M. E. Society.
 Charles Traver, of Millerton, N. Y, was arrested for stealing vest and was fined $5 and costs. He escaped while being taken to Salisbury.
 $. A. Eddy's dog was shut in the library and escaped by jumping from a second story window.
 George Bullard, who is clerk at a store ill Kent, spent Sunday at his home in this village.
 Frank Bardell, a horse thief, of New burgh, was captured near Sheffield by Bridgeport and New Milford sheriffs, assisted by Dr. Averill, of Falls Will lage, and MT. A. T. Roraback, of this village.
 West Cornwall-Miss Lizzie Oldfield left for Canandaigna, N. Y, where she was to spend the summer. MT. Nathan Hart had gone to Pleasant Valley, Conn.,. for a visit of a few weeks. James H. Cochrane, of Bridgeport, spent the Fourth with his parents. The excursion to Parlor Rock, under the supervision of George Oldfield, was very we'll patronized and netted $25 for the organ fund. The Union Shear Co. was engaged in making extensive re- pairs on the gutta percha dam. Charles R. Smith secured a position at the station ill Danbury.
 Berkshire County-Mr. Chauncy w. Norton, his wife and daughter, MT. Ray, all of Great Burlington, met with d serious accident while driving to Egremont on the Fourth. Dr. H. H. Smith, MT. Thomas $. Owen and MT. Thomas Grey, of Sheffield, were en- gagged in building a telephone line be- tween Great Burlington and Sheffield. The Hurlbert Paper Company's old wooden mill at South Lee, Mass, was destroyed by fire. The loss was $75,- 900; insurance $65, ,000. The residence of Mr. James VanDeusen, of Ashley Falls, was set on fire by a firecracker, but the fire was extinGuished before serious damage was done.