Connecticut western news., 1884-04-02
FALLS VILLAGE,

put IS able to De at work agaln.
 Colepaugh is having his pool room handsomely decorated by G. W. Ford.
 Irving Ayers injured two of his fin gers quite seriously on a saw at the shops, last week.
 D. W. Clark, Esq, is trying the liquor cases against Thompson and Shultz be- fore Justice Bennett in Canaan this week.
 The Hanchett Brothers, Miles and George, have Jersey COW and calf for which they have been offered $500, but the offer was refused.
 Frank P. Barnum is busily engaged in moving his household goods to South Canaan. He occupies the W. G. Kel- logg homestead this year. -.
 The poultry business seems to be rushing and the demand for it is large. We understand that one of our butchers had to return home for an extra supply the other day.
 l Andy German went out to shoot black birds the other day, but after viewing the skinned nose and awful lame arm following the first shot he gave vent to few forcible remarks and returned home
 Swan B. Brewster of Chicago and 8 former resident of this place, is on vis- it east with the intention of establishing an art store in Bridgeport. He spent a few days at his uncle's, Daniel Brew ster's, last week.
 There is a gentlemen employed in the painting department at the shops, who is out of cats and wants @ few dozen. Sealed proposals with right to reject any and all bids) may be addressed to box 67, this office. N. B. No bobtails.
 Albert Sheppard returned to Hartford Monday, to resume his duties on the Consolidated road. His brother, Harry, has left the employ of that corporation and has accepted a fine position as re- ceiving clerk in New York for the Peo- ples' Line of steamers between that city and Albany.
 Rev B. N. Lewis goes to conference this week and there will be no services, with the exception of Sabbath school, next Sunday. He will return, however, in time to oficiate on Easter Sunday, at which time interesting services are an- ticipated. MT Lewis ministrations have been exceptionally successful during the past year and it is hoped and ex- pected that he will return for another term of labor among us.
 There is young man on Battle hill who, if he lives long enough, bids fair to rival Stanley of Central Africa fame. He undertook to navigate the noble Hol- lenbeck from Huntsville to South Ca- naan last week in skiff, but after falling in to his waist had to return for repairs. Equipped with dry apparel he again ventured on his perilous voyage. Com ing to a spot where the limbs of a tree hung over the water, the bright idea struck him, that by grasping the branch es and pushing with both feet on the boat, he could accelerate his motion some. He was abundantly successful The boat went out from under him, the limb he grasped broke with his weight and he fell into the icy embraces of the torrent. After foundering about for sometime he managed to gain the shore and started for home in profoundly dejected state of mind and very moist habihments. SKPPEEN.
 COLEBROOK.
 Mir Charles Cobb of Canton was in town over Sunday.
 The Misses Darlington arrived home from Michigan, last Friday.
 Mir James Porter of Lenox, Mass, spent few days in town last week. Mir T. S. Skilton has extended the tel egraph from Colebrook River to New Boston.
 MT James Cowles started last week for Akron, Ohio, expecting to make that place his future home. There are three elderly ladies living within 6 rods of the Congregations church, with broken hip. The mercury stood at 12 deg. Sunday morning with the wind blowing as neal as we could judge, 79 miles an hour. , Mir Walter J. Read having disposed of his farm to parties in New York will remove this week with his mother and sister, to Paterson N. J.
 KENT.
 MT Pierpont Edwards is quite sick.
 There are several cases of measles re ported.
 Rev T. D. Barcley has been in towr for few days.
 Mrs Nathan Skiff at North Kent il very ill and, it is thought, she canno ' recover.
 The spring term of Miss Olive Full ler's select school in this village com menced Monday, March 31.
 That this is a world of change, is fact made evident just at this time, whel loads of goods are seen going in all di . rections, houses are being vacated onl, o to be occupied again by different pe1 sons, many are leaving home for ia distant places, strangers settle dow ' among us; @ general movement al .' around.
 e The funeral of Miss Mary Beach wa k attended at her late residence on Mon l. day, the 31st. A cancer was the caus of many months of snfferinn resnltin