Connecticut western news., 1907-08-01
FALLS VILLAGE
SOME AGRICULTURAL SURGERY
A Kick Publicity Needed-Holder oi Bronze Adv. F0und-The 0ld-F ash toned Method of Lawn Moving Domonie's Open-air Service sonaIs, Etc.
AMPUTATED AT THE ANKLE

AMPUTATED AT THE ANKLE
 Inasmuch as this vicinity is so healthy that the doctors are having almost noth ing to do just now. Dr. Wilcox of Lee who is in charge of Dr. Skiff's practice, has bided his time by turning hay maker. In the dewy morn, equipped with scythe, whetstone and look of determination, he sallied forth to perform an operation on the Skiff hayfield and i'll brief time every spear of timothy was neatly am- putated at the ankle. As in the case of all operations, it was successful. The M. D. then gave the hay the usual treat ment after which 1t was carried to the barn on a stretcher, at least that's what 1t looked like to the man going along the road As a matter of fact the hay was being gathered according to the fashion prevailing in 1849. Two sticks were laid down side by side, as much hay as possible piled on, then with a man hold | ing each end of tho sticks, 1t was carried to the barn and filed away for future reference. About two tons of hay was thus gathered.
 TELL FOLKS ABOUT IT Judge Gruber believes that there ought to be some means provided for telling the outside public what a pretty place Falls Village is, particularly the city people who make a practice of get ting out every summer and communlng with nature until they have appetites like hired man and complexions so bronzed by contact with the rays of Old Sol that their friends believe, when they get back to the city, that there is mulatto blood in their veins which has just begun to show through He is right; Nature was in particularly amiable mood when she made Falls Will | lage and she did an artistic job. The folks who have always lived here don't realize it, but it's so and 1t does not take the stranger more than a pair of min utes to find it out. Some neatly printed slips, telling about the village, placed in the letters sent out by the residents would do the trick in good shape. AGRICoLo DILAToRIUM
 We like the looks of those well-kept i lawns Is yours one of them? It re- quires some exertion and causes some of us to perspire a Ia sprinkling cart to keep the grass and we-(we were about to say weeds but the thrifty Falls Vil- l lager don't have any on his lawn) properly amputated but the improvement | in appearance is worth the effort. Years ago. before Falls Village assumed it's present proportions, the lawn grass grew up in the spring and if it wasn't cut by the molars of the old mare or the | family COW, tied to convenient stake, | it wasn't cut until Jack Frost came along and did it but times have changed since then and the man who employs that method now is what the man in the White House would style an agricolo dilatorium if he said anything at all about 1t.
 INN FOLKS
 | Among the weeks guests registered at The Inn are E. B. Whitcomb, Great Harrington; J. E. Bame, Millerton; W.J. | Walsh, John Walsh, Miss Alice Frawley, Ansonia; E. A. Brewer. P. H. Under wood. Orange; A. Klapp, Danbury; w. P. Hanlon, Norwalk; 0. E. Tillottson, F. E. Spaulding, New Haven; E. M. Warehouse, Bristol; W. F. Rogers, Derby; s. o. Judd, Stamford; Christopher Hope, Bridgeport; 0. R. Frank, Brattleboro; F. E. Briggs, Hartford; Miss Elsie Gowong, O. F. Greenwood, Mrs. J. W. Greenwood, Brooklyn; J. F. Walsh, Danbury; W. J. Gridley, New York; G. w. Shepard, West Cornwall: F. H. Van Norman, Oswego, N. Y.
 EXCEPTION TO THE RULE Clarence Turner gets touring car load of enjoyment out of that little blackboard automobile. Some of these buzz wagons develop decidedly yellow streaks and although MT. Turner's con- sists almost entirely of yellow ssreaks. they are not of the undesirable sort. He runs 1t as an automobile ought to be run and it isn't necessary for the man be- hind the horse to close his mouth tight tn art ia fnf in to the right of way when he sees him coming.
 KICKING If the train service becomes any more inconvenient-but, no, that isn't possi- ble-we mean unless it becomes more convenient, we'll all be driven to buying benZine gigs if we want to get out of town, have opportunity to do little busi- ness and get back the same day. En- treaties probably won't do any good, kicks will do less and we'll have to en- dure it although 1t kind O eases our minds to express our indignation at present conditions two or three times in a while.
 THE BIG INN TO BE BIGGER Because of the increasing demand for accommodations at The Inn, particular ly during the summer, landlord D. H. Casey has decided to enlarge the build Ing. It is planned to place commodious addition on the rear this fall. The ex- act size and the interior arrangement have not been determined as yet. It will provide several additional sleeping | rooms.
 TOOK A TIMOTHY TEXT 1 The other day the Rev. H. B. Chown conducted an open-air service. His text "Cut, Whet and Mop" he found i'll | Timothy-and Clover, too. The domonie ! furnished his own music and also took up the collection which as nearly as can be estimated as it reposes in the mow