Connecticut western news., 1908-05-07
FALLS VILLAGE
PROPOSED CEMETERY VAULT

The Blind Entertainers-Telephone,
 Rural Delivery and Accommodating
 Grocers.
 Wm. Argall was in Hartford Monday.
 Mrs. Bradford is able to be about again.
 Miss Sullivan of Winsted is visiting Mrs. Vosburgh.
 Mrs. Roth and Mrs. Gillette were in Millerton Friday.
 Now it's up to Judge Eggleston to dis tinguish himself.
 And now Judge Davis, with his five cent fine, steps into the lime light. 1 Dr. Cobb has purchased new horse of Edward Roberts of East Canaan. !, D. K. Colepaugh of Sandy Hook, former resident, was in town few days ago.
 1 John Bartle went over to Lakeville Monday and played ball with that team against Hotchkiss.
 The graded school at Falls Village was closed Monday on account of illness of the teacher. Miss Carlson,
 The residence owned by George Hall and occupied by H. O. Gaylord, has just been newly roofed.
 Tom Bartle sprained his ankle Friday while playing ball but was able to play Monday with Lakeville at Hotchkiss school.
 No repairs have, as yet. been made on the Congregational parsonage inas- much as the carpenters are all busy on other work.
 The blind entertainers from Hartford, who gave an entertainment here about 8 year, will be here again on Tuesday evening, May IA.
 O. N. Gibbs and o. H. Sage, Great Harrington business men, autoed into town few days ago, to get a peek at some scenery worth looking at.
 The ball game Saturday between Falls Village and the Borden Eagles was stopped at the fifth inning on account of rain. The score was to 3. It possessed every indication of being good game.
 The gas machine which provides light for I. P. Hornbeck's store is to be re- moved from the building to a house to be built to contain 1t, thus effecting 8 considerable saving in insurance rates.
 The new state register and manual has been received by various Falls Will lagers and fully sustalns the record es- tablished in former years for being one of the most complete books of it's sort ever issued by any state.
 Town clerk J. Lee Ensign registered TT dogs before the expiration of the time allotted for the $1.25 registration fee. There are many not registered and to these will either be applied the $2.25 fee or the warden's shot gun. A man named Stevens was bought in to Judge Blodgert's court the other day, charged with breaking into Tony War ner's house and stealing cider. He paid a fine of about $18.00. The exhilirating fluid comes high in Falls Village. Dwight Moore, who last week an , nounced his fixed discrimination not to , accept the appointment of dog warden . for another term, seems to be waverlng and it won't be at all surprising if he accepts the appointment after all. John Westervelt of Mount Vernon N. Y., and N. F. Holland of New Rochelle, N, Y, were the first autoists from distance to reach Falls Village r this year. They arrived Friday night remained at The Inn and resumed theil journey homeward Saturday morning. Edward Howe has flock of hens good for nothing except to lay eggs . as he expresses, it, that have been lead ing the strenuous life. Since Novembel c they have laid every day except one They are patriotic hens therefore they took vacation on Lincoln's birthday : During April they laid 330 eggs or a1
 average of Il per day. Good for the E biddies.
 The Grassy Hill Cemetery Association are considering the erection of a con ! iY, ha ! but have not, as yet, settled on a plar E for the same. They have in mind, how ] ever, vault to contain receptacles fol t 12 bodies and room of sufficient size tc E permit of holding the committal service ! ill cold or stormy weather. The need o1 ! such structure has been apparent here for some time.'
 The two rooms of Amesville schoo
 observed Arbor Day by exercises consist
 ing of the reading of the proclamation r singing and recitations, followed by 6 e May party the children dancing around 0 May pole which was decorated with S the national eolors. Marjorie Russell
 was chosen the Queen of May by hel
 schoolmates. Cake and ice cream were served to the pupils and their friends
 who attended the exercises.
 At the annual meeting of the Grassy
 Hill Cemetery Association last week
 D. E. Dean, w. I. Kellogg, K. w. Spur
 G. w. Hall, A. F. Gibbs, W. R. Hubbel
 and F. E. How'd were chosen trustees
 The following officers were elected: F
 M. Olin. president and superintendent - J. Lee Ensign, secretary and treasurer !, A committee was appointed to procure
 plans and obtain estimates of the prob / ble cost of a receiving vault and tt U recommend site for the same. - The following pupils were perfect il T attendance at the Beebe Hill school fol 0 the month of April: Ruth Ayres n Douglas Abbe, ErmlI Burton, Georgi d anna Berry, Gladys Berry, May Boylan ,' Lillian Dean, George Doty, Edward e Doty. Elizabeth Hickey, Marion Latour d Charles Latour, Byron Latour, Georg'