Connecticut western news., 1893-10-12
FALLS VILLAGE.

Mrs Ezra Smith and daughter. Clara, of New London, are guests of Mrs John Belden.
 MT and Mrs N. H. Brinton and daugh- ter, of New York, l.. O. Ferguson, Of Bridgeport, R. l. Shaver and wife. of Torrington, O. Metcalf, of Pittsburgh, Pa, Stanley s. Smith, of Bridgeport, Mrs Dwight Graves, of Winsted, O.. Il. Blackman, of New Haven, A. Decker, of Millerton, N. r., W. s. Chapin, of Shelf field, Mass, w. B. and Herbert Collier, of Cozsackie, William A. Burkett, of Danbury, Geoage E. H. Hill, of Bridge port, w. O. Daley. of Hartford. and John Warner, of Bridgeport, have been recent visitors in town. ...
 Geo. W. Adams, of Colchester, is the station agent here, vice Geo. H. Brown, resigned, who has performed the duties of the position for many years and whose official retirement is regretted by many friends.
 Ward Eggleston has closed up his "Village Market and gone out of the business.
 Frank P. Barnum has wound up his business for well defined reasons.
 Messrs B. W. Spur and Geo. w. Hall left town Monday en route for the Worlds Fair and Lyons, Ia., and ex. pect to be absent two weeks.
 The junior Y. P. s. O. E. and tue young people and adults connected with the Cong'l church, had dinner at Mechanics Hall Saturday and then took ride through Salisbury, Lakeville, around the Hotchkiss school buildings, through Lime Rock, home. They were conveyed in nine teams
 Thomas F. Gilmore will address the people at Mechanics hall Saturday evening. Admission free.
 J. l. Ensign and wife are in the "White City" looking over the worlds wares and exhibits, having left Friday. Court was held at the court room Monday, Judge Warner, of Woodbury, presiding. D. K. Colpaugh left town with pri- vate conveyance for Woodbury Monday, taking his family, and will be absent a week or more. Louis Waldecker runs | the shop during his absence.
 Two new wings have been built on the blacksmith shop.
 Rev J. G. Oakley, D.D., of New York city, will give his famous lecture Rome and Pompeii" in Falls Village Thurs day evening, Oct. 18th.
 Good Tidings day will be observed l next Sunday in the Methodist church; exercises by the Sunday school in the evening.
 If, as the poet states it, October is the lovliest of months" then to get a view of Natures handiwork in the many tints she bestows upon every bush and tree can best be seen and appreciated from the summit of some lofty noun tain as recently viewed from the high est point of land in the state of Connec- ticut, Bear Mountain. In taking a drive over the Taconics, as you pass the heights of Riga, the guide board points you to Bald Peak. where a path from the main road leads thither some sixty rods distant, which is much frequented by tourists, and short distance beyond is 8 lake in 8 wild region, where the cranberry and pitcher plant are found on the borders of the pond, which is equidistant from the main road as the peak just mentioned. Bear Mountain is reached by taking by road some. thing like mile or more through the forest and then by foot path one hal1 mile up the south side in gradual as. cent. From the top of the stone tower, which is about fifteen feet square at the base and thirty feet high, an iron pipe reaches still fifteen feet higher from the center, surmounted by large gilded ball two and one feet in diameter. The tower may be ascended from eithe, corner, but any one expecting to find g stairway to reach the top will be disap pointed. In the center of the east side is marble block with this inscription "This Monument marks the highest ground in Connecticut, 2.354 feet above the Sea. Built A. D. 1885. Owen Ira wis, Mason" The view from this point takes in wide stretch of country and no pen can do justice to the beauty oi the forest foliage as witnessed from that point at pfesent.