Connecticut western news., 1915-08-26
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record ot Doings from Week to Week
 CuIled from The News Files. I224

| ehSA " Oiii fNC"S FHCSs 1884
 January 30. A new lamp in front of the Town Hall added to the cheerful ness in that part of the town.
 MT. D. l.. Peirce and daughters and Sheridan Barnes and family went to Jacksonville, Florida
 MT. and Mrs. M. V. B. Gillette, of Colorado, were guests of Julius Corbit
 Talmadge Pulver, of Norfolk, bought the Alderman Ives farm at East Ca naan. 4
 Miss Lillie Fuller and her pupils went to Great Burlington for sleigh ride.
 The pancake party at the 1ectory netted S8 50 notwithstanding it was a very stormy night.
 Will D. Adam returned to his duties in Plymouth after illness of a week.
 Edwin BaEnes rented the z. F. Adams place:
 Calvin Barnes and wife, of Winstets,. occupied s. w. Barnes residence, while the latter was, in Florida. L. $. Parsons, of Sheffield, was as~ sisting G. l.. Parsons in taking inven- tory. ... 2. T., Adams purchased the William Phelps place at West Norfolk. | The death of David P. Day occurred iat Canaan Valley. A juvenile entertainment was given i'm Village Improvement hall, for the M. E. parsonage fund. ..
 A party from Jalirs Corbit's en- jcyed sleigh ride to Great Barring ton. '...
 The Sunday passenger and news. pager tram ran through to Pittsfeld, but no stops were made between Ashley Falls and Pittstield.
 Mrs. Thomas Shields, of Catskill, N. T., was visiting friends in town,
 The wages of the ooopers employed by Peirce, Lawrence & Co.,, were re- ducsd cent barrel.
 Charles Paul was. badly bruised by falling from sleigh.
 The meeting of the ChautsuQua Cir cle- was to be at the residence of c. H. Briggs.
 Oscar Keith, of Boston, a temperance lecturer, spoke in V. !. A. hall.
 The directors of rae Connecticut Western road purchased the railroad between State Line and Boston Cor nerS
 Falls Village-Lawysu ID. W. Clark had to defend several persons on cases of violation of the license law. Mrs. T. l. Sparks returned from Il visit to hen old home in Sheffield. Union ser. x-so h11I Ev ducted by Rev. Mir. Lewis and Rev. Mir. Moore. James H flakes leased the property known as the Hunt farm in Huntsville A dancing party was given at the residence ot Peter Hicks.
 West Cornwall-Rn John Weir spent Sunday with his father-in-law, J. Mallinson. G. M Cangill was soon to go to Dakota. Miss Mary P. White was spending two weeks in Winsted. Mrs. R. R. Pratt fell on the ice an byoke her arm. Ma James A. Ford re- tarned from all extended visit in Wood bury. Henry YutEler, of Norfolk, was at his home over Sunday. A. D. Warner, lawyer. sf Wocdbury, called on friends in tovvnh The Ladies' Be- neyolent Society had an old fsshionedl quilting at the nssidence of Mrs. James. H. Cole.
 Berkshire CoGnty-There were only two Chinamen in Pittsfield and they celebrated the Chinese New Year. The stock of pig iron at the Cheshize. furnace was the largest ever accum- ulated there the piles being 12 feet high. The Berkshire Agri cultural so- ciety held a farmers institute in Pitts field, at which Henry Noble was one of the speakers. A town meeting was to. be called at Lee to vote upon tha quea- tion of running Sunday train on the Housatonie railroad. A tree oEer 100 feet in height was cut on the farm of Samuel Newell near Seekonk.