Connecticut western news., 1881-02-16
Falls Village


 tems at time, remembering that meecs is not by age.
 Falls Village. l5O men are now employed by the H. R. R. Co.,, exclusive of the section hands, and plenty of work all the time, at that
 Miss Carrie l.. Giblett of New York city is visiting at ohn Landon's in Amesville.
 Willie R. Hubbell of Amssville is attending school at Rocky Dell Institute.
 Mrs. Sidney P. Ensign and daughter of Lime Rock went last week on visit to her father, MT. A Belcher, in Sheffield.
 Mir. Chiffon Brown of New York was in town last week, the guest of his brother, MT | Cornelius Brown.
 Elias Hart of Cornwall is saving wood for | some o. the villagers and others in this vi | cinity by horse power.
 Charles Caul, an old resident, died last week at his home near Lime Rock of paraly- sis, aged 76 years.
 The valentine epidemic has broken out here, and many are they who are afflicted herewith.
 Mrs. M. A. Brown has returned to Lenox, accompanied by her mother, Mrs. c. L. Hunt The latest mania seems to be that of col lecting old postage stamps. An Amesville boy has collected nearly 800, and wants to swellsthe number to million. Mir. Erastus D. Goodwin and all his family are recovering from sickness his wife and ] two children having had the whooping cough while he and daughter have been quite sick with pneumonia.
 MT B. J. Bradley informs us that in ad- dition to bis large and varied stock of goods, week.
 Abner Bailey. youth Of nearly 20 yyears' residing near "Lower City," we are informed went away three weeks ago in a violent snow storm, and had not at last reports been seen or heard from since.
 A spring on the premises of Mir. E. Turpin, where he procured his supply for family use, has been dry for several mouths, and since | the recent thaw he went to see if water had come into it yet, but instead of finding any water there, he found 35 frogs two snakes, and lizard which bad gone into winter quarters.
 Mir. Henry Landon of Vinland, Kansas, writes to friends here that there is a dearth \ of water there, and all the small streamlets are frozen solid, there having been no rain since September, and the snow fall has been only two inches all told.
 Mrs. w. G. Gardner and daughter, former ly of Amesville, have been paying Mr. L. a month s visit Wm. Gardner, Jr., also called on them. He is employed in machine shop in Kansas city.
 Miss Sarah Landon of Sugar Hill has been making weeks sojourn with friends in Win 1 sted.
 i That individual who sold beef so tough that physician had to be called in when the customer ate, to force it down his throat by means of an instrument, (mastication be. ing impossible), had better not show himself in that locality again unless he has taken out policy in the Accidental Insurance Co., 1 Northwestem Lodge l. o c. T. was visit ed last Wednesday evening by IS from Cas- cade Lodge, where very pleasant time was had by all who attended.
 1 Mr. Minott Lyman and Miss Dora l Brewster were married at the residence of the brides father, Hon. Daniel Brewster Sunday evening, Rev. D. M. Moore performing the ceremony.
 A good joke was played on 8 gentleman who buys calves to send to Bridgeport. the other night. While in the barber shop gen. tleman informed h1m that he had calf which he would give him if he would treat the crowd to cigars. The cigars were bought, and the purchaser was told that the calf was dead one, greatly to his discontinue.
 The attachment which the gentler sex form for pets, is shown in the following narrative, which happened last Saturday night at a house not far distant: Thomas orchestra and full choir of !'felines' were giving one of their highly entertaining(O concerts on the lady's doorstep about o'clock in the morn ing They began to get too musical; she forthwith started for the scene of action, at- tired in undress uniform. She finds them having pitched battle, and wading into the deep snow, with one solid blow she succeeds in separating the combatants, and by this time the other members are aroused from their slumbers, wishing to know the 'cause of all this confusion" It is explained, and with the assistance of another female member of the household the darling little creature'' is caught, and they retire agaln, evidently pleas ed and exultant over their exciting adventure.
 That thing who replies to me in regard to a gentleman seeing an appartion. according to her own story, must be peculiar being for she claims to be headquarters, a ghost, and to belong to the human family, and very sensibly says she 'don't think the master mechanic cares to be mixed up with her." so far we agree witt her. She seems to be little vexed because l have not called on her, and gave me another invitation, which I &C., cepted and went twice to Headquarters, but 1 ''Ghost' was not to be found, and her non- appearance, after so much clustering and bravado, reminds me of great coward,' who fees when no danger is near Now call on me at my home next Sunday night, Ghost, and will feed you taffy IDLEwILD. | West C0rnyaIs.
 1 Geo. Oldfeld spent the Sabbath in New Haven.
 | Freddie Wood came near getting severely hurt one evening last week, by falling from double ripper, which was going at lightning speed; fortunately he escaped with but few scratches and bruises, which somewhat marr ad his haaminr cnnntenance for a few days