Connecticut western news., 1908-03-05
FALLS VILLAGE


 What did the man say?
 A prize for every Limerick line.
 Kenneth Sabine has gone to Hartford for months stay.
 Ostar Sabine has been confined to his homo by illness for several days.
 A number of people from Goshen at tended the Callahan funeral Saturday. sons from whom he had not heard in 80 years. It is said they reside in New ark, N. J.
 MT. and Mrs. Daniel Dean and John Dean, who have been ill, are all on the gain.
 An Epworth League social will be held tomorrow evening at the residence of G. V. Capron
 Fred Burton, who lives on the Dwight Brinton farm Is to move to the Gran delI place April 1.
 The many friends of Frank Reed will regret to learn that he has been quite seriously ill for several days.
 The annual house hunting has begun by those who desire to move this spring. There are practically no desirable houses for rent in the village.
 Mrs. F. A. Boics has vacated the rooms she has for some time occupied in the tin shop building and has moved to Hotchkissviile, Conn.
 "It's wise chick that knows its own mother" remarked one little, downy fel- low as he stepped from an egg shell in Bruno Heinz's incubator last week.
 Mrs. Abbe has returned from the Pittsfield House of Mercy where she re- gently underwent an operation for ap- pendicitis and is rapidly improving in health.
 Fred Wiley has moved to the Hattie Kellogg farm under the mountain, and Henry Dean has moved from the Sulli- van house in AmesvIlle to the house va- cated by MT. Wiley and family.
 There is but little prospect of activity in the building line in this section this spring. Turner Brothers will begin the erection of the M. O. Dean barn as soon as the weather permits.
 Lewis Holmes is to move from the Merritt Spaulding farm April 1st and coming year. William Palmer, who now works the Lee Dean place is to move to the Spalding farm. CuWMu T1OW6 IN nOW hCbILR dS 6ukl- neer and fireman of an incubator To- cated in his cellar. He has placed only double-Yolked eggs in the machine this year and figures that out of the hundred eggs should get at least 182 chicks.
 The concert which the young people have under consideration, and which was mentioned in last weeks NEWS, is 1 f~ l, II be commenced as soon as possible. It will be held in Citizens Hall. No date has been selected. .-. | The various terpsichorean events kept Falls Village feet moving last week. A dance was held at Lee Wickwire's We'd nesday evening, one at Lime Rock and one at Sidney Morris Thursday night and on Friday night at Charles Hall s and an Italian dance at Henry Colombo's s.
 Patrick Callahan. an aged and re- spected resident of Lower City died Thursday, death being due to the ail. menes incident to old age. He was 8s years old The funeral was held at St I Patrick's church Saturday morning He is survived by five adult children three sons and two daughters, and also by one sister. The remains were in tered in the Catholic cemetery. Un dertaker l. P. Hornbeck had charge oi the funeral.
 John Belden writes ThE NEWS that i is the instinct of self preservation tha has kept him in Hartford and away iron Falls Village this winter. He remark that he never could have endured tn, social whirl we have had here during the past few months John realizes tha he would have been expected to be ont of those at the head of the procession and he fears his contribution would no have been equal to the strain. Limericks are becoming popular there fore we present another this week. Fil it in according to your own notion Send fifth line. You'll get a little prize whether yours is the winning lin, or not. What is the prize, did you say That we are not telling! The only wa, to find out is to send line. Nam, your nearest postoffice, freight office telegraph office, express office and tele phone station in order to be sure tha the prize reaches you safely. The following transients registered a The Inn during the week: w. N Baylss and wife, New York; L. G Bayles, Cornwall; E. A. Lathrop, Nev Milford; B. $. Willett, Bridgeport; Johl Palmer, Bridgeport: J. E. Bame, Miller ton; s. W. Foster, Boston; E. Robbins Winsted; O. A. Dow, Hartford; F. Skelton, Winsted; James McNiff, Dan bury; F. T. Manvel, New York; B. B McDowell, New York; W. J. Clark New Milford; A. N. Harder, Chatham N. Y.; B. s. Brown, New Haven; s. R Wheeler. Mount Tipton.
 On the evening Of Feb. 24, 1908, merry party of invited guests number ing 28 from Falls Village set out, som by sleigh, some by wagon for Hezek1al Goodwin's country home. On enterin the handsome colonial hall, they wer greeted by the hostess, Miss Julia Good win and her cousin, Miss Ensign, pass ing into the library they were wei comed by the mother, Mrs. E. Goodwin r who has been 8 "shut-in' or half in g valid for some years. The guests vii 3 never forget the pleasing picture; lad S long past middle age, her hair nearly a white as the dress she wore, greetin her daughters guests with a young tim ' smile and hearty hand shake. Whel