Connecticut western news., 1907-09-05
FALLS VILLAGE

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 G. E. Frink spent Tuesday and We'd nssday in New York.
 A number from here attended the Hartford races this week.
 MT. and Mrs. Henry Houghtaling and son, Arthur, are visiting in Sharon.
 George Hall was the guest of o. E.. Griffing at Danbury last Thursday.
 Edward Ward has sold quantity of cedar posts to 8 Norfolk summer resident.
 Roman Seegar and wife of Winsted were over Sunday guests at Frank Owens.
 MT. and Mrs. Milton Chapman of Sayre, Pa., are guests at Mrs. Lydia Sherman's.
 The time is near at hand when the forest-covered hills will be resplendant in their gorgeous autumnal tlnts.
 MT. and Mrs. L. w. Baird leave this week for two or three weeks vacation at his former home in New York state.
 Frank H. Dean and son, Earl, of Win sted visited his brother, Edward Dean, Monday of last week.
 Mrs. Pitchard, nee Nellie Stuart, of Washington, D. O., called on friends in town Saturday after an absence of nearly 40 years.
 The young people were obliged to postpone their dance from Monday until Tuesday evening on account of the weather. .
 John H. Belden arrived last Saturday for a weeks vacation. He and his fam ily took 8 trip to Mount Washington Tuesday. .a..
 Miss Clara Mead spent few days in Brookfield Center last week, attending the closing concert of Prof. Greene's summer school of music.
 MT. and Mrs. Amos Beaujon and MT. and Mrs. Lewis Holmes were in Ashley, Falls and Chapinville Sunday, recently.
 The Epworth League of the Methodist Church has completed the payments on the piano purchased shortly after con- ference. ........
 Charles D. Ocain of New York came up from New York in his auto Saturday and spent Sunday with his sister, Mrs G. E. Frink.
 The Congregational Sunday School held the annual picnic at Lake Wonons- copomuc, Lakeville, Friday and everyone had fine time.
 The Beebe Hill school house is being re-painted, inside and out, and put in ship shape for the opening of school September 9.
 Lawrence Toole is to go to Hartford, where he has a position i'll the Hotel Garde and will occupy his spare time at- tending a business college.
 Judge Gruber has temporarily with drawn that free splice offer as the farm ing operations he is carrying on nowa- days occupy his entire time.
 Mrs. Edward Merriman and daughter, Mrs. James Brown, and three children visited her sister, Mrs. Edward Dean, Tuesday of this week.
 The David M. Hunt Library will hold it's annual reception Friday evening, September 6. A musical programme has been arranged and very pleasant even- ing is promised.
 Tomorrow morning at 9:30 o'clock an entrance examination will be held at the Hunt school building for students who desire to enter the high school. School opens next Monday.
 Miss Carleson of Stafford Springs, Conn.,, has been engaged as teacher in the intermediate department of the school, to take the place of the woman who changed her mind.
 The work on the road repairs between the arch and the Shultls' residence on Railroad street are well under way and when completed, decided improve ment will have been effected. ...
 w. J. Argal's many friends here and hereabout are glad to know that fresh air and rest are bringing about desira- ble result and that he has rapidly inn proved in health since retiring from business. .
 Weeks guests at the Inn included E. s. Willett, Bridgeport; Carl Eckland, Waterbury Southerland Beckwith, Litchfield E. L. Swift, New York City; w. l.. Dickie, Boston; H. G. Miller, Hart ford; H. E. Burton, Springfeld; E. Rob- bins, Winsted; E. J. Kirkpatrick. Ossi- ming; Ernest Laraby, New Milford; J. P. Walsh, Danbury; O. E. Fowler, ,Pittsfield: W. P. Rogers, Derby; A. E. Fairman, Essex.
 Mrs. Bridget Brennan, aged 80 years. died Friday morning at the home of Welles Yale in South Canaan where she had been employed for 24 years. The cause of death was tuberculosis. She is survived by one son, John, who resides in Millerton. Undertaken Hornbeck pre- pared the remains for burial and they were sent to Poughkeepsie where they were inferred by the side of a sister who died several years ago. A funeral service was held in that city.
 The season of 1907 has been one of the most prosperous in the history of the Falls Village Inn. The demand for accommodations from summer people has been almost unprecedented and landlord Casey has, on various occasions, been compelled to turn away parties numbering from three to six because there were no vacant rooms. In order to accommodate this increasing patron age next year, MT. Casey plans to erect a Broom addition during the next few months.
 There are some interesting genealogical facts connected with Mrs. Myra Finkle, aged 83. She has seven children: Myron, the eldest, has 8 children living and one dead. He has four grandchildren. liar