Connecticut western news., 1917-01-25
"REMINISCENCES OF LONG AGO
Interesting Happenings Cleaned from
 the Early Files of The News.
Forty. five Years Ago This wesk-JS72


 Henry William, new tailor in LaSeVille, opened rooms at Mrs. Win chell's.
 The second annual ball of the Mechanics baseball club, Lakeville, was held in Academy hall.
 T. A. Styles of Salisbury, who fur nished bail for Daniel Stewa.t who assaulted n. j. Warner in his office and then skipped, found his uau in Pennsylvania and brought him back to Salisbury.
 William Lyons, of Sheffield, brake man on the Conn Western, fell be tween the cars and was killed, at Sals bury.
 Mrs. M. H. Loomis of Huntsville fel. through 'feed hole" in H. E Wethe rell's barn and sprained her ankle
 Ransom Wnlcott, Chapinville, died Jan. 20, aged G2.
 David Malloy, Chapinville, died Jan 22, aged 70.
 Forty-four Years Ago This Week-fS75
 John K. Shepard's tannery in West Norfolk burned to the ground together with hundred tons of bark.
 Frederick B. Wilcox and Miss Martha Manville of Sheffield were married Jan. 22.
 Mrs. Mary Brown, Salisbury, died Jan. 25, aged 42.
 The Edmund Belden farm in Soath Canaan was advertised for sale.
 George A. Rarnum, Wetaug, sdver- tised "Liye bait for tishermen" for sale.
 A passenger train on the Housatonic road was derailed near Cornwall Bridge by colliding with yoke of oxen. Forty three Years Ago This Week-rS74
 A little French boy named Martin, who started to meet his father who was chopping weed about quarter of a mile from home in Cornwall. was found the next day frozen to death.
 Mrs. John K. Frost, Salisbury, dled Jan. 28, aged 46.
 Charles Everts and Miss Mary O. Gibbs, Salisbury, were married Jan. 22.
 Reuben King Hunt, Sharon, led Jan. 20, aged 7U.
 Mrs. John G. Lawrence, East Ca- naan, died Jan. I9, aged 55.
 Mrs. Carlos W. Adams, Salisbury, dled Jan. l9, aged s6.
 Fort-twO Years Ago This Wsek-fS75
 One of Salisbury's professional iron men pronounced thes prospects con nected with the new ore bed in Canaan "better than any he ever saw"
 Pnt1 .I ..I-~ l at the Scoville quarries in Ashley Falls aLd the work of getting out marble was being pushed.
 c. E. Gorham was appointed postal route agent on the Honsatonic road.
 Mrs Rhoda Reed. Cream Hill, fell and fractured her arm. ..a . a
 Frederick Watson and Miss Ada M KEickerbocker of Canaan were married Jan. 2l.
 Forty-one Years Ago This Wssk-f576
 William Lawrence's horses became frightened at the cars in East Canaan, ran away, threw Mir. Lawrence to the ground and broke his leg.
 MT. and Mrs. Aaron Mallory, Ore Hill, celebrated their twenty fifth wedding anniversary.
 Contracts were signed for the con. struntion of the Poughkeepsie bridge.
 The property of the Carroll Paper O., of Mill River was attached by Meeker & Dean, coal dealers of New York.
 A donation party and oyster supper at the residence of Mrs. John Pulver, Ashley Falls, gave Rev. Robert Hunt $2S.0O.
 Forty Tears Ago This Wsek-f57T
 The wife of Station Agent Barton, Salisbury, dislocated her shoulder by falling on the ice while skating.
 J. $. New, Canaan, sold his hay and straw. pressing business to John N. VunDeusen.
 Rev. Mir. Free of Southfield and the Southfield Cornet Band gave lecture and cOncer: in Canaan.
 Erastus Goodwin of Lime Rock fell from scaffold to the floor of his barn and seriously hurt. A young man in Chapinville named Kepler was arrested aud fined for steal ing wood for a neighbours wife. William B. Hubbard, principal of the South Berkshire Institute, New Marlboro, died. Thirty mine Years Aqo This Week-f8z8 L. Van Alstyne, Sharon, invented an improved ballotAbox. D W. Manvel of Cornwall Bridge, | advertised his mill property for sale, | owing to poor health. The large memorial window in the | Episcopal church at Canaan, was blown | in. , Frank How'd of Falls Village was nearly suffocated by gas in his room when on visit in New Haven.
 At a special town meeting it was voted to order all dogs in Falls Village and Hnntsvilla rnnnzlnd nntil March |