Connecticut western news., 1894-12-06
FALLS VILLAGE.

The Durand family give concert and variety show in Citizens Hall Wednes- day aEdlThursdsy evenings of this week. They are we'll spoken of.
 Oscar Sabin has rented Mrs French's 8 house, lately occupied by Peter Fraser
 Eugene Burkett is night watchman in place of Dwight Moore, who exper- fenced a slight shock several days since.
 A young Miss residing here will don tho bridal outfit Christmas, so the ladies say
 Mrs Olive Hunt Ferris, of Joliet. Ill |, and her sister, Mrs M. A. Brown, of Lenox, Mass, were guests of Miss Belle Maltbie Saturday.
 George Morris and wife were in Wa terbury day or two last week.
 Arthur F. Gibbs and child were guests of relatives in Kent day or two last week.
 Mrs Sidney Reed was guest of rela- tives in Kent Thursday.
 A first class time pertaining to both the social and the attention paid their guests is the statement made by all who attended the hop at Canaan Friday night ... ...
 Charles Brinton accompanied by A. II. McMahon, of New Milford, were at J. Brinton's to spend the annual holi- day.
 Henry Ruiger, of Derby. was home for day last week.
 Mr and Mrs E. J. Hornbeck took dinner under the maternal roof at Cream Hill. Thursday.
 Nicholas Slingland, formerly mast, r mechanic of the railroad shops here, is seriously ill at his home in New Haven.
 The Chapinville correspondent in last weeks NEWS calls our attention to the Savings Bank having elected Q presi- dent. As the election was held accord ing to law in September, more. than two months ago, your readers here call It rather stale news, and the bank officials did not give us the result of the election at the time for publication. Now then, W @ have spread abont as many items on the pages of the 0. W. NEWS for the past fifteen years as any correspondent in this section, as the file will show, and when we are in want of any stale news we can call on the Sage of Hammer town.
 The Litchfield North Ministerial As- sociation will be held in the Cong'l church on the afternoon and evening of the l 1th of December, also the fore noon of the next day, making three ses- sions. The evening session will be pub- lie and twelve or fifteen ministers are expected to be present.
 Vesper services, being a union of the Cong1 and M E. churches of the town, were held Thursday evening at the Cong1 church. There was fairly fill ed house and the services were varied and quite interesting, consisting of double responses etc. Rev Robbins made short address and led the con- gregation in reading, who responded. Rev Hanna followed with readings, which were responded to by the child ren aud interspersed with singing. The first proclamation by Washington, which was quite lengthy, was read, also that of Governor Morris Prof. Chase, of the D. NJ. Hunt school, read 9 selection on the reasons for Thanksgiving for the year 1894 and Miss Carrie Hall read a poem on the day in the olden times.
 The typhoid patients are all slowly recovering and Robert Merriman was able to ride to the village one day last week.
 MILO sherman IS connned to the house with heart difficulty and has not been able to work for several days. The snow storm of Saturday night and Sunday made good sleighing here and the roads were we'll broken Monday. while the double rippers were gotten out and the rust worn off the shoes Monday night
 Thanksgiving guests were as follows: Will Ramon from Eastman College; MT and Mrs Marcus Finkle, of Great Harrington, Mass. NJ B. Richardson and family, of Lime Rock, at U. H. Miners; John Kirchgessner. of New Haven, at Peter Shondy's; Wm. Hutch lnson and family at J. H. Belden's; Fred Collin, of Canaan, at o. E Ford's; Joseph Chapin, of Ashley Falls, Mass. at w. Fl. Chapin's; James Millspaugh, of New Haven.