Connecticut western news., 1916-03-30
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record of Ooings from Week to Week CulIed from The News Files,
 1884

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 August 27-On account of Camp Meeting there were no services in the M. E. church.
 w. N. Noble and wife of New Mil ford, were guests of Frederick Watson.
 Rev. G. B. Clark, of Milan and Bangall, Y, preached in the Metho. dist church the previous Sunday.
 Charles H. Pease was taking vaca- tion and F. B. Young was supplying in the composing room of The News.
 About 100 persons attended the Episcopal Sunday school picnic at Twin Lakes.
 Mrs. Archie Evans and Miss Martha Evans were visiting in town.
 Benjamin Comstock, formerly of this town, died in Winsted.
 Miss s. W. Wright went to visit friends in Goshen and vicinity.
 Junius Rhoades placed a cigar counter in his barber shop.
 The young son of Rev. F. W. Bar nett was i'll.
 Mrs. l.. A. Baldwin, of Jefferson vile, Ind. was the guest of her brother, J. A. Underwood.
 About ITO attended the Congrega- tional Sunday school picnic at Twin Lakes. In a boat race rowed by s. A. Eddy and A. P. Freeman, MT. Free man was the winner.
 James A. Root, of Negaunee, Mich. formerly of Canaan, in a letter to his son, wrote: Dwight West was absent from Negaunee only three days on a hunting expedition, but he shot three deer" He added: "Mrs. Root has a fuchsia with 25O buds.'
 Robert Fitch, of the Boston Post, called on friends in town.
 A frost occurred in this vicinity.
 F. N. Cutler and wife, of Dover Furnace, N. Y, and Mrs. James Beckley and daughters, Lizzie and Clara, of Chatham, N. Y., were guests of s. O Beckley.
 Miss s. W. Wright erected monu- ment at the lower cemetery to the memory of her father and mother.
 s. O. Cummings and wife, of New Haven, were visiting in town.
 W. W. Underwood, s. A. Eddy, Mrs. Hiram Eddy and O. H. Briggs and wife were spending few days on Talcott mountain.
 The Housatonic R. R. Co.,, was re- moving the old freight house.
 There were 70 boarders at the Stevens House in Norfolk.
 Pine Grove-There were 72 per- manent buildings on the encampment. A we'll was dug near the barn and 8 telephone office was opened. c. P. Strong had charge of the boarding house and Mrs. Thomas Heaton, of Ashley Falls, of the pastry department. The oyster house was conducted by Milton Roraback and J. N. VanDeusen; the ice cream tent, by Frank Strong and wife of Hinsdale, Mass. the fruit stand by H. H. Coggswell, the peanut and pop corn stand, by E. $. Root and Edward Merchant; Clarence Sanford was postmaster and Clark P. Lane was conductor on the camp meeting train. Henry Drum, the watchman had ac- commodations for 50 horses. The as- sociation built 24 more permanent settees with backs, making 4o in all.
 Falls Village-Presiding Elder Fer. guson preached in the M. E. church. The Sunday school excursion to Bridge port was largely attended. Rev. D. M. Moore exchanged pulpits with Rev. MT. Bourne, of Sharon. E. M. Turner and son were shingling A. O. Kandall's house. Mr. Frank Hall and Miss Lizzie VanBurger, who were married at South Lee, were guests of Mrs. Maria Hall. W. O. Baldwin was talk ing trip up the Hudson William Jarrett was at Sharon Springs, taking the cure for rheumatism. Walter Hubbell went on the Housstonic rail road as fireman. Charles White was recovering form an illness. The cor net band was progressing finely.
 West Cornwall-Rev. w. H. Mo- Dougall was at Guilford for his health. Miss Ada Sterling, of Bridgeport, was visiting at Hillside cottage. Elder Hill, of Long Island, was 8 guest of George c. Harrison and preached at the Center church. Miss Jennie Coch. rane was to teach the winter term of the Prospect Hill school. Miss Eliza Baldwin was with her sister, Mrs. Louisa Hubbell, who was ill. Mrs. William Dean had night blooming cereus in blossom.