<body><div>Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Wendy Taylor, Kent Memorial Library.Nov 5The biennial state election Tuesday, brought out 868 votes, out of the total list of 1,338. Locally there were no contests on, which may be a reason for the less than 65 per cent. of the vote cast. For state senator in the seventh district, Samuel R. Spencer of this town was given a complimentary vote in the home town that put him at the head in number of votes received.Several sticks of dynamite were found in a lot adjoining the Sacred Heart church on the West Suffield road [now Mountain Road]… by a party of hunters traversing the land, which is also owned by the church, and they notified the authorities. The dynamite had apparently been there for some days and was removed by the officers who placed it in safe keeping while the investigation is being conducted by Officer T. B. Cooney and Selectman Amos B Crane. Whether or not a sinister meaning can be attached to the find is not known at this time.The recent damp weather enabled the tobacco growers to take down their crop which is well cured and promises well for the growers. Some sales are already reported.Nov 12The officers of the Suffield Fish and Game Association are considering the holding of the annual fox hunt this Fall but no definite plans have yet been made and no positive assurance that it may be held.Anthony Zabakleskie of Brooklyn, N. Y. , has sold to Frances Filipcesuk, the thirty-five acre farm in West Suffield known as the Karpinski property, possession to be taken at once.Nov 19On the afternoon of Sunday, October 17th the members of the First Baptist church of Zion’s Hill, Suffield, with a large company of friends from other parts of the town and from many outside towns and cities, met at the church for the purpose of dedicating a bronze tablet in memory of three of the early ministers who had charge of the church there…. At the close of the service, adjournment was made to the front of the church where the tablet was uncovered and dedicated with appropriate exercises.The heavy gale of wind Tuesday caused damage which was not discovered until late in several instances. A large chimney on Bridge street owned by John H. Adams collapsed Wednesday, having become loosened during the storm and in falling nearly struck some of the teachers of the Bridge street school who were passing. Some of the bricks in their fall missed two of the teachers who were badly frightened.Nov 26The town clock which for several days was stopped by the breaking of a large cable holding the weights, has again been repaired and is ticking and tolling again as usual.TO RENT: Tenement of five rooms and bath; $25 per month. Inquire at SPAULDING GARDENS, Suffield.</div></body>

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Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Wendy Taylor, Kent Memorial Library. The biennial state election Tuesday, brought out 868 votes, out of the total list of 1,338. Locally there were no contests on, which may be a reason for the less than 65 per cent. of the vote cast. For state senator in the seventh district, Samuel R. Spencer of this town was given a complimentary vote in the home town that put him at the head in number of votes received.

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Selected from the pages of the Windsor Locks Journal and lightly annotated by Wendy Taylor, Kent Memorial Library. The biennial state election Tuesday, bro

100 Years Ago in Suffield

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