Connecticut western news., 1917-03-01
"REMINISCENCES OF LONG AGO
Interesting Happenings Cleaned from
 the Early Files of The News.
Fortj five Years Ago This Week-tS7z

phIn Nnu ldHl III Ashley fallS 10 A. Leroy.
 A saving bank was talked of in Ca naau
 R. N. Cochrane, West Cornwall, brought the Mrs. McMurty place for $500.
 Mrs Elizabeth Brown, Falls Village, died Feb. 23, aged Gl.
 T. F. Watson resigned as ation agent at Salisbury and entered the em. ploy of E. w. Spur, Falls Village. Ed. ward Friss succeeded Mr. Watson at the station.
 Charles L. McElroy received the ap- pointment ot station agent at Chapin. vile.
 forty-four Years Ago This Week-f873
 The Orr place in Salisbury was sold to Warren sparks of Chapinville for SII0O.
 The funeral procession of Mir Schalley of Falls Village consisted of fifty teams.
 Thomas A. Stiles, Salisbury, died Feb. 24, aged II.
 Monroe Miller, of the Miller House, Lakeville, was struck on the head by two men who were driving past him.
 Gov. Holley lectured in Lakeville on My travels in Europe''
 Mrs. Jarley's wax works exhibited in Lakeville.
 The Ashley Falls school, under the tuition of Edward Roys, gave an ex. hibition in the church.
 Forty-three Tears Ago This Week-fS74
 R. H. Ball, Salisbury. bought the old Stiles homestead and 70 acres of land for S5600.
 Cornelius Quinn was killed at the Chatfield ore bed, Ore Hill, by big boulder rolling down On him.
 Martin Decker, Salisbury, was taken to the insane retreat at Middletown.
 William P Burrall, native of Ga. naan, we'll known in Lakeville, vice. president of the N. Y, N. T. 6 H. R. R., died in Hartford. George H. Brown resigned his posi- tion as station agent at Falls Village and was succeeded by k. D. Norton.
 Forty y-two Years Ago This Wsek-fS75
 South Canaan fox hunters reported for the season: The Hanchett boys eight, John Crandall three and F. G. Dean two.
 Abram Herman's barn and U. H. Miners store in Falls Village were destroyed by fire March l.
 George Fuller of Great Harrington accepted a position as clerk in Fuller & Peet's store, Canaan, to begin in the spring.
 An ice jam and freshet created havoc in West Cornwall doing considerable damage to dams, buildings, etc.
 Mrs. Roxey Miles died at the resi-. dence of Frederick Miles, Twin Lakes, Feb. 23, aged 83.
 Forty-one Years Ago This Wsek-f876
 Munson Bros., of Falls Village leased the Lakeville hotel for $750.
 Forbes $. Adam, Canaan, died Feb. 2l, aged 65.
 Giles Pettibone Thompson, Norfolk, 1 died Feb. 26, aged 67.
 Junius P. Adams, Mill River, died | Feb. 2l, aged 42.
 James Bird of Lakeville leased the | Miller House to take possession April 1. |
 T. $. Gold was appointed as one of | the com mittee on agricultural products at the Centennial.
 John Chipman, Cornwall Hollow, died Feb. go, aged 90.
 Forty Years Ago This Week-rS77
 The dwelling house and lot of Will liam Jones. Lakeville, was sold at auction to George Wood.
 William Conklin leased the meat market in Lakeville, then occupied by Judd brothers, the latter going to Mil. lerton.
 Will. Williams bought and liberated forty-tw quails ill the hunting grounds about Lakeville and Salisbury.
 Mrs. Sally Trowbridge, Sheffield, died Feb. 26, aged SC.
 Charles Olmstead, Chapinville, died Feb. 23, aged fl.
 Mrs. Edward l.. Gaylord, Norfolk, died Feb. 2S, aged 31.
 George R. Rudd, four years-old son of William B. and Maria Holley Rudd. died in Lakevills, Feb. 21. Thirty-nine Years Ago This Week-fS78
 The Horace Landon furnaces at were turning out about eight tons of iron a day.
 Seth Walton sold his fine residence in Lakeville to Henry Chapin of New York.
 "Ten nights in a Barroom" was played by the Good Templars in Falls Village, and the following week in Lakeville,
 Fred Runde, the Canaan tailor, moved to Winsted.
 The Murphy temperance workers I were in Salisbury. Nearly everyone was wearing a blue ribbon, and over TOO signed the pledge. MT. and Mrs. s. W. Morris, Falls Village, celebrated their twentieth I anniversary.
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