Connecticut western news., 1916-04-27
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record ot Doings from Week to Week CuIIed from The News Files.
 

| OepI. S4. JuuRo feTenlce Munger, president of the Y. NJ. o. A., oi Ansonia, preached in East Canaan.
 Miss Ina Bennett was attending school in Hartford.
 George s. Fuller and wife went tc Chicago.
 MT. and Mrs. Edward Evans, of Gaylordsville, spent Sunday at H. H. | Coggswell's.
 Colonel Hardenbergh was ill with malaria.
 Rev. E F. Atwood was to deliver 8 temperance lecture in East Canaan.
 The Putnam Phalanx passed through Canaan, enroute to Albany and Sara toga.
 Georgie Russell, of Wetaug, raised 8 pumpkin vine from one seed, which covered 8 space of 15 feet square. A meeting was called at the Congre. gational church at East Canaan 10 con- slider the ways and means of heating the church.
 \ Cleveland and Hendricks banner was suspended across Main street.
 Rev. W. J. Thomson preached ser mon in the Methodist church from the l text found in Job XXXVII, 21.
 Rev. Dr. Eddy, A. T. Roraback, Esq, and Prof. Baldwin were to dis cuss the presidential campaign at a meeting to be held in East Canaan.
 A force of men began work on the foundation of the tobacco warehouse. All singers and lovers of music were invited to join chorus club under the direction of s. A. Weaver.
 James Beckley, of Chatham, N. Y., formerly of Canaan, purchased the ore mine and furnace property at Dover Furnace, N. Y.
 Miss Catherine R. Cowles presented David $. Cowles Post, No. 50, G. A. R.. with beautiful flag and set of guidons.
 Over 100 persons were presented st the bean bake of David s. Cowles Post.
 Norfolk people subscribed to a fund to be used to purchase uniforms for the fife and drum corps.
 The Litchfield Northwest Conference of churches was to meet at East Ga naan. The churches of Kent, Warren, Sharon, Cornwall, Canaan, Salisbury, Norfolk and Goshen were expected to send pastors and delegates.
 Falls Village-Hon. A. R. Heath, of Waterbury, prohibition state organizer, was to speak in Citizens hall. Rev. Dr. Reid, of Lakeville, preached an in. teresting sermon to large congTeea- ton in the Methodist church. Miss Clara Averill return ed from visit in Bridgeport Wilson P. Owen left the employ of Dr. J. J. Averill and went to Washington Depot. John Welch Jr. |, of Hartford, spent Sunday in town. Edward H. KIlmer was spending a week in New York state.
 West Cornwall-A harp of flowers, arranged by Mrs. William Oldfeld, was displayed at the church Sunday eve ming F. W. Yutzler and family were living in the Bradley house. Miss Flora Baldwin, of Cleveland, Ohio, was visiting at c. E. Baldwin's. R. I. Scoville's notorious woodchuck dog had caught 91 wocdchucks during the season. James Morgan and family, who spent the summer at the cottage on Cream Hill, returned to Montreal. Miss Jennie Cochrane commenced the winter term of school in the Hall dis trict in Sharon. Funds were being raised for repairs on the parsonage and for painting the chapel. Miss Lizzie Derrickson, nf Warren. was teaching in the North Cornwall district. Chas. H. Pease, of Canaan. was a guest of R. I. Scoville. John B. Harrison, of Windham. Ohio, was visiting friends in town. Henry Yutzler spent Sunday at his home in this village. Mrs. Lewis Ocain returned from visit to the Berkshire hills. Miss Alice Gold Was to spend the winter in Sar Francisco an 1 Miss Martha Gold, in Montreal. Miss Lillie Scoville was to spend the winter in Atlanta, Ga. The marriage of pr. W. E. Weed, of this place, and Miss Minnie Stillman, of Bridgeport, took place at the residence of the brides parents. The new Clough 6 Warren organ for the chapel arrived and was very satisfactory.
 Berkshire County-W. W. Rockwell Post, No. 125, G. A. R., of Pittsfield, was holding d fair and a special train was run from Falls Village stopping at all stations, to accommodate those who wished to attend. Heavy frosts very seriously damaged gardens in Pittsield. Farmers ill the country, W hen digging potatoes. found many of them decayed and unfit for use.