Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Wendy Taylor, Kent Memorial Library.
July 2
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July 9
William Migliora, a clerk at the grocery store of James V. Mix, had a perilous time in stopping a runaway horse… He saw the horse, which was owned by I. Nirenstein of Springfield, coming at a terrific pace down Mapleton avenue, with a small child frantically holding onto the wagon seat, screaming. Stopping his truck, young Migliora made a leap for the horse’s bridle and after being dragged for several hundred feet finally succeeded in stopping the animal. Migliora received a number of bruises and was given medical attention on his return to the store.
Harold Johnson and Pauline Kessler, two children, are being treated with tetanus antitoxin as the result of injuries suffered…in connection with celebrating the Fourth. The Kessler girl, carelessly handling a revolver loaded with a blank cartridge, was struck in the abdomen by the wad when she fired the revolver. Young Johnson suffered a hand wound when he discharged a revolver containing a blank.
July 16
Work has been completed in removing an old landmark, a sycamore tree, which stood between the town hall and the Cooper block, according to records, for more than two hundred years… The old timber… had been considered a menace to public safety for some time.
July 23
Miss Marion O’Malley, who was seriously injured in an automobile accident several weeks ago, is home from the hospital.
July 30
Plans are complete for the annual clambake of the Suffield Fish and Game Association, and the returns from members indicate that this year’s bake will be the largest ever. It will be staged at Babb’s resort at Congamond lakes…. Regardless of weather conditions, [the bake is] to be served in the large grove if pleasant and in the large dancing pavilion if stormy. Between luncheon and opening of the bake there will be several trapshooting events.
Harvesting of the hay crop will be completed by the end of the week.
August 6
The tobacco crop here is approaching maturity and the growers consider themselves fortunate in getting showers which have made the crop look as well as any at this time of the year.
August 13
A beautiful sight that is attracting many people daily is a large acreage of gladioli on the Ude farm on the West Suffield road… The fields are nearly in complete bloom and hundreds of autoists are coming long distances to see the spectacle.
August 20
Allen Scott, Jr., who was reported lost at the last night of the fireman’s carnival, was found later that night, after may searchers had hunted for him, to be safe and sound in his bed. The child, eight years old, had lost his parents at the carnival and started for home a foot and alone, a distance of more than two miles. Not finding the house open when he arrived, he entered by a cellar window and made his way to his room, none the worse for his experience, as shown when he was found sound asleep.
August 27
A well recently drilled on the farm of Robert J. Greer of Boston Neck, which proved to be a gusher of 165 gallons a minute, has been analyzed and found to contain a high percentage of minerals.