Connecticut western news., 1908-04-30
FALLS VILLAGE
DOG WARDEN DECLINES OFFICE

Oo0 WHhOEN OCSEiNCo oTTlSC Gypsies Arrive-City Fishermen Here
 -"YelIow Streak" Auto-How to
 Observe Memorial Day-Reminder
 of OIden Days-Shipping Apples
 Mrs. H. B. Mead has been visiting Mrs. George Brown in Winsted.
 Mrs. G. E. Frink and Mrs. Harry Benjamin spent Monday in Pittsfield.
 Mrs. Julia Munson has been visiting her niece in Torrington for few days.
 Frank Reed has been confined to his home by illness for a few days but is now better.
 Rev. P. H. Bradford was called to Danby, Vt.. Monday by the illness of his wife.
 Mrs. M. A. Lyman of Bridgeport has been spending a few days with Mrs. T. F. Watson.
 Strawberries, lettuce celery and other early season garden truck, are on sale ill the local stores.
 And still the hundreds of horse power go to waste daily in the water which tumbles over the falls.
 There was no base ball game on the local diamond Saturday owing to the absence of some of the players.
 Charles W. McCord of Bridgeport was in town for day last week. He was domiciled at "The Salonic."
 Edward Howard of Danbury, accom- panied by his little son, has been spend ing several days in town on fishing outing.
 During their stay in town, the tele- phone crew have their equipment head quarters in a portion of George Hall 8 livery barn.
 Tom Bartle and Fred Pick repre- sented Falls Village at the Village Inn provement dance in Lakeville last Fri day evening.
 The Falls Village base ball team is without captain as Harry Dickinson has resumed his labors as brakeman on the night freight.
 The new refrigerator is in place in Heinz's meat market. It has a capacity of ton of ice and is 8 model of con- venience and mechanical construction.
 There is an unusual amount of drift wood in the river this spring and no man with a pair of As (agility and ambition) need be without summer wood.
 A reminder of olden days was noticed on the Wright farm, near the "point of rocks" Saturday. It consisted of a yoke of oxen pulling harrow athwart a newly ploughed field. Twenty barrels of Baldwin apples were sent to Bridgeport Saturday by J. 6 D. Dean. All in good condition, too. The prices do not rule as high as in some other years at this season. Of course the horsemen in Falls Will lage and vicinity will see to it that the race course is put in shape for few speed contests this summer or, rather, it is presumed they will.
 The grounds about the Methodist church have been put in attractive con- dition by the combined activities of a garden rake, the man behind it, Dwight Moore) and bonfire or two. The fishermen are more successful this year than they were last. Nearly all are catching at least few fish and some are making good catches. Last year good catch was a decided excep- | tion.
 Clarence Turner automobile, ellow 1 Streak" model, is making daily trips between Falls Village and South Ga naan, where MT. Turner is employed on the construction of barn for M. O. Dean.
 Iva, the little daughter of MT. and Mrs. Frank Irish, returned Tuesday from the House of Mercy, Pittsf1eld where she has been since her fall when she sustained compound fracture o1 one of her arms.
 A band of gypsies were in camp for several days near St Patrick's church. In addition to the old horses, laces, baskets, etc., the usual gypsy stock in trade, they had flock of chickens and flock of ducks.
 Several city fishermen have been in town during the past few days and have made their headquarters at the hotel. They have had plenty of enjoyment and were more than usually successful in their efforts to hook the speckled beauties.
 A "hoss raoe'' or two and base ball game wouldn't be out of place in Falls Village on Memorial day, after the con- clusion of the ceremonies connected with the paying of due respect to the memory of the honored dead. There l