Connecticut western news., 1916-09-14
"REMINISCENCES OF LONG AGO
Interesting Happenings Cleaned from
 the Early Files of The News.

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 The 18th annual cattle show and fair at Falls Village was held on September l2 and 13, 1871, and the horse show on the 14th.
 J. N. VanDeusen. produce and com- mission merchant, Millerton, quoted sheep at 4c. to 6c. per pound; lambs, DC. to 7c.; veal calves, 7c. to SC. |; spring chickens, 15c. old fowls, I3c. i; butter, 25c. to 35c.; eggs, soc. per dozen
 The first locomotive rolled into Nor. folk, and the event was celebrated by Jubilee. The Lakeville band furnished music, amid firing of cannon, ringing of church bells and the pro. longed whistle of the locomotive.
 Baseball: The Buena Vistas of Huntsville beat the Cream Hill team 42 to 37. The Lone Stars of Salisbury trimmed the Greasy Nine of Washinee, S4 to 25.
 Hunt & Lyman Iron Co.'S horse dropped dead at the Falls Village horse show.
 Caroline E. Wickwire, South Ga. naan, died, aged 66.
 Frederick Watson, Canaan, had a narrow escape on the railroad crossing from being killed by freight train making flying switch. His dog was killed.
 Fort-foUr Years Ago This Week-fS72
 The railroad shops at Falls Village were in process of construction. W. H. Yeomans, former conductor, became superintendent of the Conn. Western railroad.
 John Crosby, of Ashley Falls, 70 years old, was knocked down by an ugly ram, and, although his leg was broken and shoulder seriously injured, he saved his life by grappling the animal by the horns and squirting strong and copious decoctions of to. bacco juice into the rams eyes, which cooled his ardoruntil help arrived"
 The remains of a human skeleton were found by workmen engaged in excavating Dr. Bissell's cellar, in Lakeville. From the confined position in which it was found it was con- jectured that it was an Indian skeleton, as it is well known that Indians buried their dead in sitting posture.
 The Hicks Wilbur Co.,. Salisbury, were erecting a new storage building, 24x60, for lumber, etc.
 Ex Governor Holley arrived home from a years travels in Europe
 Coal was selling for $7.60 per ton. Fort-three Years Ago This Wsek-1S73
 The Washinee Mill property ut Sails. bury was advertised for sale by H. Hubbard, Trustee
 Ed. Negus, of Salisbury, shot big hole in his hat and peeled his scalp" by discharging both barrels of his gun at once in an attempt to shoot squir. Tel.
 First frost of the season, Sept. 15.
 Hiram Bundy's horse was struck by the locomotive at Salisbury and injured but not killed.
 The Ticknor district school house in Salisbury was overhauled and new furniture added.
 J. Mallinson 6 Co.,, West Cornwall, caught about 400 pounds of cells in their eel rack in one night, and shipped them to New York, receiving l2b cents per pound.
 A New York firm leased the marble quarries of E. P. Allyn and Cornish Rood, East Canaan, and were employ ing about thirty men. l Smith & Sanford opened store in East Canaan.
 Mrs l. B. Cohen, Falls Village, ac. cidentally dropped revolver on the floor and shot her mother through the arm.
 Forty-two Years Ago This Yeek-fS74
 The "unsightly hollow north of rhe beautiful new station at Ca aan" was being filled in by the combined labor of the two railroads and the citizens.
 A large barn belonging to William 1 Adam, Ed, East Canaan, was burned loss, $500, insurance, $500.
 John l.. Cooper's barn on Cooper hill, Ashley Falls, was burned. A negro, sent to the barn to thresh, was stung by hornets, and, in attempting to shoot down the nest with a gun, ignited the hay.
 East Canaan and immediate vicinity boasted of six residents whose com. bined ages totaled 506 years, viz. Mir.
  Cowles, 90; George Tobey, ST; San ford P. P. Stevens, 84; Joseph Corbin, S3, Palmer Stevens. S2; Deacon Dennis Rood, so.
 o. H. Rowley, sharon, purchased of MT. Thorp and took possession of the hotel in Lime Rock. 1 A new fence was built around the park in Ashely Falls.
 FOrty-on Years Ago This Week-fS75
 The new cemetery at Ashley Falls was just completed and the first monu. ment, to the memory of Archibald Taft, had just been erected. M. c. Jewell opened a new store in Salisbury.
 Tom Thumb and wife passed through Canaan enroute to Great Harrington.
 Ashley Falls people raised money to purchase a set of telegraph instruments