Connecticut western news., 1908-10-15
FALLS VILLAGE

Lawyer F. M. W1lllalQS OI NSW Mli- ford was in town Saturday.
 Mrs. Chapman of Florida has been spending a week with her cousin, Mrs Edith Ward.
 Town clerk J. Lee Ensign has granted 21 licenses to hunters thus far this season.
 Mrs. A. E. Blodgett who has been spending three months in Tennessee, returned home this week.
 A. A. Roth couldn't resist the tempta- tion to run down home" and at the same time attend the DanburY fair last week.
 AIT. and Mrs. Henry Fingar of North Germantown, N. Y. have been spend ing few days with Rev. H. B. Chown and wife.
 Deputy Sheriff Hornbeck was kept busy a portion of last week subpoenaeing jurors for the Mclaughlin murder trial at Litchfield.
 The New England supper at the Methodist church Friday evening was fully as good as we said 1t would be and the receipts were $500.
 William Argall has taken a position in Hartford barber shop. Mrs. Ar
 
 move there in the near future.
 An error appeared ill THE NEWS re- port of the town meeting i'll the town of Canaan. Selectman A. F. Gibbs was labeled democrat whereas he is an ar dent republican.
 Falls Village people have acquired the fair going habit this year to a greater extent than ever before therefore a large l .1arro kA kh hn fn, ln1a- bury exposition
 The republicans held their representa- tive caucus in the selectmen's room Friday evening. H. c. Gaylord was chairman of the meeting. M. o. Dean aud w. l. Kellogg were the candidates for the nomination for representative, MT. Dean being chosen. F. E. Egleston, ! Alvin 5. Davis, James Gruber and Miles L. Blodgett were nominated for justices.
 John A. Belcher died suddenly Mon- day night at the age of 77 years, general debility being the cause of death. He is survived by wife, one son, Alexan- der Belcher of Amesville and by two sisters, Mrs. Charles Owen of Falls Will lage and Mrs. s. F. Ensign of Lime Rock The funeral was held at his late residence Thursday. the Rev. H. B. Chown officiating. The remains were inferred in Grassy Hill cemetery.
 Rev. MT. Hazleton, the recently called pastor of the Congregations church, expects to preach his first ser mon here as resident pastor on Sunday November 8. The parsonage is ready for his occupancy. The members of the church are much pleased at the prospect of having seven-day in the-week pas tor rather than the preach and -catch-the train kind such as they have had during several months past.
 Miles Blodgett has just completed a chicken house and proposes to engage extensively in poultry culture. He plans to market both stock and eggs. Next fall he is to erect additional houses and plans to have about 2000 hens. He will also have an incubator plant to assist the hens in matching chicks. MT. Blodg- ett now has a sizeable herd of cattle of which he expects to dispose and devote l his entire time to poultry and fruit. Forty acres of land will be devoted to the latter branch.
 The matrimonial activity ln Falls Vil- lage is becoming positively alarming and something must be done. The marriage licenses used thus far this year l 1 total number issued during 1906 and 1907 combined. Where is there village in the nutmeg state that can show a more startling increase than that? And echo answers "where." The official l figures relative to the licenses issued are as follows 1906 none, 1907 two less than pair, 1908 three.
 The hunters seem divided in opinion relative to the prospect of game thls fall. Some believe it will be plenty while others take the opposite view. Ii Is remarked that many young birds were seen in the summer and that they can not be found now. Some of the sports men declare that the woodticks have killed these birds. Bruno Heinz and his canine dog went partridge bent Friday and returned with two birds. A micro. scopic examination revealed no wood ticks, or signs of them, on either (the cartridges, not Bruno or the dog.)
 We observe that from time to time someone comes along and nails an ad vertisement of the Hew Nork Yerald, Dr Skinnum's plasters for broken hearts pr. Quack'S corn pills or some other nostrum on the public sign post in this village. Somewhere or other we have
 
 of the early customs are for use in dis playing town notices and for no other purpose. If so, it's the duty of someone to lay the violent hand upon the signs which are outside the circle of polite! and probate. During Saturday forenoon an excur sion train of eight cars, partly filled with excursionists from New Haven a a dollar nose for the round trip struggled up the line, bound for Pitts field. The railroad company were show ing them the beauties of the Berk shires." And these folks really acted as if they were having loads of fu1 . peering from the windows at farmers , lugging water from the streams for thei stock, cattle with maRnlfying glasses oI looking ior a mouthful of green feed the parched fields and generally debili tate forests. The beauties of Berkshire are not what they're cracked up to be. a any rate not this year. That verdan glory, that spectacular kaleidoscopicnes those variegated and soulentrancinJ autumnal hues, told about on the ad 1 ciY ,ot