Connecticut western news., 1916-11-02
"REMINISCENCES OF LONG AGO
Interesting Happenings Cleaned from
 inc Early Files of The News.
Forty-6ve Years A0o This week-rs7r

of Salisbury was stolen in Millerton. The first train on the c. W. K. R. ran into Millerton, Friday, Oct. 27, 1871.
 John Adam, Canaan, died, aged S6.
 Josh Billings lectured at South Ga. naan.
 One of George Melvin's painters in Salisbury fell from ladder and was seriously injured.
 Forty -four Years Ago This Week-f572'
 An epidemic of horse distemper wa- prevalent.
 The flower mill" st Mill River was destroyed by fire.
 Boss Carpenter Turner fell from the roof of the roundhouse st Falls Village shops and injured his back.
 The grist mill in Ashley Falls was undergoing thorough Depairs.
 The Cornwall Bridge Iron O. was making from nine to eleven tons of iron daily.
 Charles w., only son of John Van. Deusen, Canaan, died, aged 5 months. Forty-thsee Years Ago This wseE-fS75
 New stained. glass windows and a fine emblematical window were put in the Episcopal church in Canaan.
 The '"south wye" at Canaan was built
 A new street, from Main street to the railroad station, was laid out in Salisbury.
 George B. Selleck, Salisbury broke his leg when moving large beam in Mrs. Catherine Selleck's barn..
 Ransom Smith was teaching school in West Cornwall, and Mark Kicker son taught in the Puffingham district.
 Forty-t~ Fears Ago This Kes&-sS74
 Levitt Bryan, Salisbury, chopped two toes nearly of.
 l.. B. Beckley's store, Lakeville. was broken into, but little was taken.
 The town safe in Salisbury waa con- demned bw the county commissioners. Rev. Dr. hNiridge, Norfolk, preached his farewell sermon, after a,pastOTate of 42 years Fred SpaUlding succeeded Frank Gray at the Canaan station.
 Mrs. Hirars Merrill, Canaan, Valley, died, aged 1T.
 Mrs. L. B. Beckley, Lakeville, died, aged 26.
 Fory-one Years Ago This Weekt-n875
 Three inches of snow fell Nov. l. Benjamin Cumstock's barn soubh of Canaan was burned.
 Street lamps were being putup in Ashley Falls
 Lewis Moore succeeded ]. S.. Nsw as agent at Ashely Falls station.
 Ashley Falls depot was blokem into and express, packages stolen. An OK belonging to c. k. Hatch, West Cornwall. was killed by light. ming.
 The lodge, of Good Templars i'm Falls Village, numbered l0S members.
 Mrs. Almira Sage, Sheffield, died, aged 94.
 Forty Yengs Ago This Wsek+-d6T6 A three.years old daughter of Land. lord Dudley, Falls Village, was seri- ously burned by settiug her dress on fire when:playing with matches. Burglars endeavored to enter Jacob Rood's house in Clayton. ] George IF. Clark's horse. took fright from the Salisbury frieghts depot and ran away.
 John Pulver opened a meat market in the basement of the Cummings block, Canaan.
 Mrs. Horace Humphrey Norfolk, died, aged 67.
 A professional trappen was trapping the Housatonic river with two boats, a tent and 900 traps. Edward Howe erected older mill on the south side of his,house in Hunts vile.
 Thirty-eight Years Ago Tbis Keek-fS78
 First snow of the season Oct. 24.
 Edward Fitzgerald, Canaan, was sick with typhoid fever.
 Deacon George H. Swift Cornwall, fell out of an apple tree and nearly broke his neck.
 George Benedics,. Canaan, fell from load of cornstalks and broke his leg
 Rev. Adam Reid D. D., Salisbury, died, sged TO.
 Joseph W. Peet was elected reppe- sentative in North Canaan.
 Election returns at Canaan made the telegraph office a lunstic asylum and the waiting room at Union station a perfect pandemonium. "'Lyme' Dun ming climbed the post in the middle of the room, Squire Roraback didn't know whether he was afoot or horse back, and George Fuller was hopeless case" all over the Republican victory.
 The J. Mallinson & Go. sheer shop, grist mill and cider mill in West Corn. wall were destroyed by fire.
 Thirtf-ssssn Years Ago This Kesk-fS7s
 Frederick Watson was appointed president of the Canaan Savings Bank vice Hon. NJ. T. Granger, resigned.
 O. H. Crane's drug store in Sharon and Fuller's saloon in Sharon Valley were burglarized by two boys who were caught the next day.
 The furnace at Chapinville was burned; also J. c. Landon's horse barn and one known as the Loop barn, | oIl i'm Ibaniuvilla