Connecticut western news., 1917-08-30
"REMINISCENCES OF LONG AGO
Interesting Happenings Cleaned from
 the Early Files of The News.

| COlllusNllIe lI NeW DIltdlH. 1b WOuLu 1 cost $250, 000
 Seth Pierce died suddenly at Corn- wall, aged 72 years.
 1 A convention of milk farmers in this section, was called at the Y. M. c. A. hall in New York city, to consider a remedy for abuses in the milk business.
 Nineteen carloads of the children of
 the poor of Bridgeport, were given
 picnic at Beers Mills. It was estimated
 there were 2,000 in the party. Two
 wealthy men of the city paid the bills.
 Stage connections for Litchfield
 were made at New Milford on the ar- rival of the 10: 53 train from Bridge port, the stage to run every other day.
 Forty-four Years Ago This Wssk-fS73
 The new Baptist church at Millerton was nearing completion.
 The. Holley Manufacturing Co.,, Lakeville, were putting up new forg. ing shop to be built of brick and stone and to accommodate eleven forgers. The school term in Salisbury of IT weeks, closed August 29.
 Shepard's new tannery at Norfolk was completed.
 MT. and Mrs. William l.. Abbott of Ashley Falls celebrated their crystal wedding Monday, Sept. 1. One feature of the celebration was a match game of croquet, played just before mid night.
 Forty three Tears Ago This Wssk-f674
 1Ie gris5 mill at Canaan Valley, ownel by J. J. Bailey, burned to the ground, supp7-e, t1 ba the work of an incendiary.
 Camp meeting at Pine Gr1re we9 attended ny large crowds: it was es l. i-~'8zed there were 5000 oi. the grornds 1 Sunday -
 Joseph Eai,iusonSrd John Wood Of
 West Coruw.I ,lissJ-fed partnership.
 MT. Mallinson was to continue the
 bus mess.
 4 quarter of thousand coal baskets
 were shipped by Merchant Jewell from Salisbury to Negaunee, Mich.
 A daughter of MT. Blackman of
 Great Burlington mysteriously dis
 appeared, leaving her home in the
 night.
 Forty two Years Ago This Week-f675
 The hottest weather of the summer
 was reported, the mercury running up < to 95 degrees. An excursion from along the line of the Housatonic railroad was to start from Fall3 Village at 5:45 in the morn. , ing for Pittsfield, thence to Albany and down the Hudson by boat to New burg and West Point. The new town hall at Sharon was . finished, "everybody was disappointed . with it". ~ . The malleable iron works at Sharon . Valley were running on full time, with full force of hands. Forty one Years Ago This Hssk-fS76 The Housatonic railroad was selling : rou nd trip tickets 10 the Philadelphia T Centennial exposition from Canaan for $8. 65.
 A great drouth was reported. No rain , thad fallen during August, the fields i were as brown and the grass as dead as in midwinter.
 I. N. Bartram of Sharon had taken 2 the contract for building the new town | hall at New Milford.
 ]. Ezra NJ. Rowland of Dro~ ~kfield was | killed by the cars at Falls Village. | ". B. Blndgett has raised 1,50C | water melons on his farm at Soutl Canaan the past season. !. Forty Years Ago This Week-fST i The barn belonging to Fredericl Waoson, standing thirty feet back O | Christ Church. Canaan, was completel! ]. destroyed by fire Aug. 25., But fo | heroic efforts, the church would cer + tainly have gone tno. [ A huge pine tree was cut on Ashle, | mountain, near Ashley Falls, tha f yielded fifteen logs, 10 feet long, tw' | logs IA feet long, two logs 12 feet lonI + and two,7 feet long. The logs measuret | fco.n twenty one inches to fourteen fee + and nine inches in circumference. T Samuel Saoville, a prominent resi- I dent of Cornwall, died Aug. 23, age | 76 years.
 I Forty years ago it WAS the fashion t [ publish the names of delinquent suh I scribers to The News. What do yo I suppose wodld happen if such was don f now?
 T For another season the Camp Meet f ing Daily News was issued. Editor T Harding and Oatman of Pittstiel + assisted with the final number. [ Thirty-nine Years iqo This Reek-fS76 f Darius Prescott, member of on | of Canaan's oldest families, died Aug | 29, at the home of his brother Wesle T Prescott.
 I F. s. Roberts was engaged to tax 4 charge of the upper loom at the Ea' I Cs naan school for the winter term. < SIC. Beckley had reopened his stor | in the town hall building and give + not ice that he should sell or give ava T the stock of merchandise. + George Thompson's mill at Canaa