Connecticut western news., 1916-05-11
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record ot Doings from Week to Week Culled from The News Files.
 1904

Oct <. +. A. Peet was the happy possessor of handsomely painted dog cart
 Miss Alice Peirce was convalescing from a fever.
 Arthur F. Freeman went to WiIbra. ham, Mass, to attend Wesleyan Academy.
 Colonel Hardenbergh made speech before the Cleveland and Hendricks club.
 MT. D. L. Peirce was appointed ad- ministrator on the estate of Sophia E. Evitts.
 J. N. NanDeusen built concrete walks for D. l.. Peirce, ". N. Adams, Miss $. P. Norton and Mrs. Cora Adams.
 Miss Honora Sweeney won the prize of gold watch for collecting the most money for the Roman Catholic fair.
 Albert A. Hubbard dug 121 pounds of Dakota Red" potatoes, the produce of one pound planted in the spring.
 Miss Emma Lawrence was ill with fever.
 Over 1000 persons from Hartford and neighboring places went on a Hudson river excursion, via the H. & c. w. railroad.
 At the town meeting the democratic ticket was elected by a majority of forty
 Rev. Robert Hunt wrote a very enthusiastic letter from Florida, where he and his sons had orange groves.
 Miss Julia Daboll went to Hays City, Kansas, to spent the winter with her niece, Mrs. Edward Beach.
 The following was the list of town officers for the ensuing year: Select men-Joseph W. Peet, William P Pelton. John B. Reed; Assessors-John 0. Richmond, Edmund D. Lawrence; Town Clerk, Registrar and Treasurer Jacob B. Hardenbergh; Collector-W- H. Camp; Board of Relief-William ]. Ferguson, George W. Cowdrey, Isaac mond, Jeremiah s. New, Lewis L. Cartwright. George H. Rood, George E. Boebe, Charles Collins, Ira S. Bun- nell: Grand Jurors-Gibbie B. Gard ner, Charles H. Johnson, ., Henry !. Mead: School visitors-Jacob B. Har- denbergh, Miles B. Tobey; Registrars of Voters-Frederick Bronson, Samuel A. Eddy; Auditors-George W. Cow drey, Daniel l.. Freeman; Justices of the Peace-Jacob s. Hardenbergh, Edward $. Roberts, Samuel A. Ben nett, Alberto T Roraback, Wallace \. Roberts. Ira $. Bunnell
 ''In looking over papers that be- longed to the late Aunt Jane Franklin, a friend found the following item which was clipped many years, ago, from the Litchfield Enquirer:
 "'North Canaan. The following form was actually used a few weeks since, in uniting the happy couple, whose names are interwoven in the ex quisite verse. We recommend it to other Doetical justices of the peace:
 "Jonson 'Emmons and Mary
 Donalds,
 You, Jonson, now promise this lady to
 wed, And to cherish and love her till life's
 light hath fled, good and i'll fortune you
 here do agree That to her, and her ever, husband
 you'll be? And Mary, you promise this man now
 to take, As a husband, and each and all others
 forsake, the sunbeams and shadows
 that checker this life, Y Ju faithfully promise to be his true
 wife? AS a seal to this contract, your right
 hands unite, And 1, before all these good people to.
 night Proclaim that henceforward you two
 shall be one, You are husband and wife, and my
 duty is done. And 1 trust that none present will
 think it crime,
 To greet both the Bride and Bride.
 groom with kiss, Then may love's balky breezes down
 the river of time,
 Wait their bark to a haven of conjugal
 bliss. Done by MILES TOBIAS GRANGER Esq, Justice of the Peace.
 Falls Village-Henry Boylston, of w dbcl was u 1G" SACAh db SCOlSC | w. Hall &o Go s store. Frank Huiburt and wife, of Bridgeport, were visiting at Lee P. Deans. G. A. Randall was painting the National Iron bank. $. A. Clark and wife. of East Granby, were guests of their son, D. w. Clark, Esq Rev. William McDougal, of North Cornwall, preached in the Con- church. Dr. J. D. Clemens, dentist, moved to Canaan. Mrs. Myron Beebe went to Bridgeport to visit her daughter.
 West Cornwall-The marriage of Charles M. Hall and Miss Mary White took place at the residence of the bride in Winsted. Miss Florence New, of Canaan, was the guest of Miss Alice New. Miss Alice Gold went to San Francisco Miss Eliza Baldwin re- turned to her school duties in Bridge. port Mrs. M. Wetherell and family went to Rockford, Ill.,, to reside.