From the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal, selected and lightly annotated by Lester Smith, Historian of the Town and the Suffield Historical Society.
November 3
The Community Carnival given for the benefit of the Emergency Aid Association Tuesday and Wednesday evenings was a very successful affair both socially and financially! At the close of the Carnival Wednesday evening Principal Truesdell announced that the net proceeds would reach at least $800. Mr. Truesdell also announced that Mr. and Mrs. Dwight S. Fuller had presented $1,000 to the association for a permanent fund for the work.
The carnival opened Tuesday at 3:30 o’clock with a parade, formed on the Suffield School campus, and the line of march was down Main street to Kent avenue, countermarch up Main street to Fuller’s corner, and back to the Suffield School, where the parade disbanded.
The Emergency Aid Association was formed in September, 1905, with the object of keeping on hand sick-room appliances to be rented for a small sum to anyone needing them. Five dollars, furnished by each of the various ladies’ organizations in the town (fifteen in number) was enough to purchase a supply of the most necessary sick-room appliances.
November 10
At the state and national election held Tuesday 780 ballots were cast out of a possible 832, which is the largest proportion of electors voting in many years. [Every office was won by a Republican.]
Miss Mary Quilty, one of the teachers at Lane’s dancing school in Springfield, is conducting a dancing class for young people every Friday evening at Academy hall.
November 17
A Pierce-Arrow limousine ran into the Boston Neck bridge near Brookside last evening, about 10:30, and one wheel was wrenched off and the car turned on its side. The car was followed by another of the same kind, which was stopped before running into the overturned car.
The annual meeting of the board of library directors was held at the library Monday evening. . . . The librarian reported that the West Suffield branch was well patronized and that several magazines had been ordered for that place for the coming year.
November 24
There was a good attendance at the special meeting of the Village of Suffield last Friday evening to see what action would be taken toward the purchase of a combination truck for the use of the fire department. . . . a committee was appointed and authorized to buy a chemical combination truck at a price not to exceed $2,000.
Amos D. Bridge & Sons, Inc., of Hazardville have nearly completed an addition to the warehouse of George A. Harmon on Main street, which doubles the size of the building. Howard F. Russell will be in charge and will pack for A. & S. Hartman Co. of Hartford. He expects to open next week, starting with about fifty hands.
Wednesday morning the thermometer registered 12 degrees above zero at sunrise, the coldest morning of the fall.
The Ladies’ Aid Society of the Third Baptist church served their annual chicken-pie supper last evening in the church.
The Wide Awake Club [of West Suffield] held a whist at their club rooms Tuesday evening. There were fourteen tables in play and the first prizes were won by Mrs. Herbert Wallace of Suffield and Robert Chew and the second prizes by Miss Rena Ahrens and Hanford Taylor. The club cleared $12.25.