Connecticut western news., 1916-04-06
GOSSIP OF DAYS GONE BY
Record ot Doings from Week to Week CuIIed from The News Files.
 1884

September 3. Lawyer w. A. Rora. back, of Torrington, was in Canaan from Friday until Monday. Rev. William G. Pierce and daugh- ter returned to Champaign, III.
 Mrs. T. F. Watson and children were visiting friends in Canaan.
 Judge Hardenbergh and F. A. Peet were delegates to the democratic state convention aG Hartford.
 Edward Knickerbocker and wife re- turned to their home in Youngstown, Ohio.
 The number in attendance at Pine Grove camp meeting on Sunday was about 5000. Eleven car loads came from Bridgeport.
 MT. W. H. Camp and Miss Jennie Adam were married at East Canaan
 Tine Congregational Sunday school, of Norfolk, enjoyed an excursion down the Hudson river.
 Julius Dean was siezed with an attack of epilepsy at Pine Grove.
 A band of gyspies had been encamped near Patrick Fitzgerald's.
 Lawyer Taft, of Unionville, and formerly of Canaan, was to open an office at Plainville.
 MT. and Mrs. Wood, of Thomaston; Mrs. Abbott, Mrs. Fray and Mrs. Dun. bar, of Bridgeport; Mrs. Bement, of New Haven; MT. Lawton, of Hudson, and Mir. and Mrs. Caulkins, of Great Harrington, were guests of Mrs. B. O. Ives.
 George H. Cole, Archie T. Evans, Arthur Raymond and Eugene Conklin, all of Bethel, spent Sunday in town.
 "Hite" Barnum, returning from a baseball game dressed in red uniform, caused the engineer of the fast express to shut off steam and apply air brackes, mistaking the ball players trousers for red flag.
 A republican campaign club was organized with the following officers: President, Rev. pr. Eddy; vice presi. dents, H. O. Stevens, Rev. David Phillips, E. D. Lawrence, M. B. Tobey, Everardus Ives; treasurer, G. s. Fuller; secretary, s. A. Eddy.
 Clarence Vroman and wife. of Brook dCAd, "OAO SuCSh1 OA Ds l4s Il C11OO.
 Rev. Robert Hunt was taken very ill while in town, but recovered in few days, so as to be able to return to his home, at Fishkill-on- the- Hudson.
 George Soules caught, at Twin Lakes, a salmon trout weighing seven pounds and 10 ounces.
 George Oles, of Tyringham. Mass. |, formerly of Canaan, manufactured and sold over 4S, 900 hand rakes, in eleven months.
 Miss Greenwood preached a sermon on Gospel Temperance, at Pine Grove.
 Miss Emma Hunt was organist at the Pine Grove camp meeting.
 Falls Village-Swan Brewster, of Bridgeport, spent Sunday with rela- tives ill town. Captain Hale, of Saugerties, N. Y., was visiting Rev. B. N. Lewis. Sam Beers, of New Haven, had been spending a week at A. O. Rendall's. Misses Nellie Hall and Cora Tucker went to Bridgeport to att tend school. Benjamin Bradley, of Deerfeld, Mass. visited friends in town. F. E. Eggleston was i'll with rheumatism. The Canfield house was receiving coat of paint at the hands of J. D. Eggleston. Miss Nellie Peck spent Sunday in Hartford. T. H. Palmer and wife celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage. Miss Fanny Watson. of Bridgeport, was the guest of Mrs. E. H. Peck.
 West Cornwall-Wilbur F. Harrison returned to Windom. Ohio. Edward Baldwin visited at U. H. Miners in Falls Village. James Cochrane and George Oldfield were appointed dele gates to the democratic convention. MT. and Mrs. T. $. Gold gave a dinner. Rev. Samuel Scovllle, of Stamford, preached at North Cornwall Mrs. William Oldfield, was visiting friends in Stockbridge and Lee. William Morgan secured l9 pounds of bass i'll his eel rack MT. James Moser started for Atlanta, Ga. John Calhoun pur- chased a landscape, Among the Pines" painted by James Moser. Sixty people were entertained at Camp Lalaoohoo, Cream Hill lake, by Rev. MT. Scoville and family.