100 Years Ago in Suffield

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Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Wendy Taylor, Kent Memorial Library.

November 7

The ministers’ and missionaries’ benefit board of the Northern Baptist Convention of No. 276 Fifth avenue, New York city, has laid claim to the $18,000 residuary estate of the late Carrie L. P. Russell, who was a member of the Second Baptist church of Suffield. The claim is up on an appeal from probate in the superior court, based on a clause in the will to the effect that at her husband’s death, the residuary estate is for the old and infirm Baptist ministers and wives. Her will is tangled up with that of her husband, Irving L. Russell… There are seven lawyers in the case.

November 14

The town plan, which has existed in a way here for the past two years, was accepted. The plan is the establishment of a building line to restrain anyone from building too near the highway boundary, from Louis Grabowski’s place at the lower end of High street to Fuller’s corner and from Fuller’s corner to the Thompsonville bridge.

Wednesday furnished the growers with a long-awaited tobacco damp and many took advantage of it to get parts of the crops from the poles in order that it might be stripped before cold weather. There was very little rain, however, and much moisture is needed before the advent of winter.

November 21

Union Thanksgiving services will be held in the Second Baptist church…The speaker will be Rev. James Gordon Gilkey of Springfield, who will have for his subject “What’s Right With America.”

November 28

John Cackofsky, 33 years, wanted in Youngstown, O., and other middle-west cities for a long series of burglaries and larcenies, was traced by Springfield detectives to Suffield…and captured after he had made a desperate effort to escape… Cackofsky was located in a house but refused to open the door…Lieut. Fleming and Officer Greer started to smash in the front door. At that Cackofsky opened a second story window and prepared to jump. As he hung to the window ledge Sergt. Hurley ran from his hiding place. Cackofsky saw him and managed to draw himself back through the window. Then he surrendered. …According to the Youngstown police the man is a dangerous criminal.

An automobile in which William G. Kingston of Watertown, Mass., and Albert Hill of Cambridge, Mass., were travelling to New Haven to the football game, skidded at the turn at the Boston Neck bridge, near Brooksside… and went through an iron fence and over the embankment to the brook bottom about twenty feet below. Kingston had both arms broken, one in two places and Hill also suffered a broken arm. The car, which was of the sedan type, landed on its top and remained intact. Philip Schwartz heard the crash and went to the assistance of the men. Medical aid was summoned and the injured men were taken to the Granby hospital for treatment. Had it been twenty-four hours later, when the brook had become swollen by the heavy rain, , the men would have probably been drowned before they could have been rescued.

Mrs. Arthur H. Bridge of Halladay avenue is in the Springfield hospital as a result of an injury suffered last Saturday night while at work with her husband taking down tobacco in a shed on their farm. Mrs. [Carrie] Bridge was taking a lath from the poles when another lath fell and struck her in the face. Her eye-glasses were broken and glass became lodged in one of the eyes. Dr. William E. Caldwell attended Mrs. Bridge and had her taken to the Springfield hospital, where it was found necessary to remove the eye.

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