Connecticut western news., 1908-09-03
FALLS VILLAGE


 The weighing of the mails is in pro gross at the postotf1ce.
 Miss Carrie Wiley, of Burnside, Conn.,, is guest at Oscar Sabine's.
 w. H. Weising and wife of Brooklyn are guests at J. Lee Ensign's.
 Miss May Willard is home from Pitts field to spend two-weeks' vacation.
 Mrs. Rooney and son, of Southford, Conn.,, are guests at William Alseph's.
 The Ensigns have returned to their southern home after spending an enjoy able vacation here.
 Willard Finkle, of New Haven, has been visiting hIs grandmother, Mrs. Myra Finkle, on Brink Hill.
 Mrs. Beenan and daughter of Jersey .City are guests of Mrs. Beeman's par ents, MT. and Mrs. E. H. Wilcox.
 Louis Davis Is spending his vacation in Bridgeport. Otto Sabine is employed at the station during his absence.
 Colds are prevalent. Nearly every body has one. A cough and a sneeze constitute the fashionable greeting.
 Charles Kellogg and wife of Water bury are spending vacation with his father. Walter Kellogg, on Battle Hill.
 Joseph Jacobi and wife of Elizabeth, N. J. and MT. and Mrs. c. l.. Morse of Bridgeport are guests of Mrs. Catherine Jacobi.
 Miss Nettie Cauls pet crow, the black alarm clock, which had come to be so well known in the village, is no more. It expired Monday. ...-<
 Falls Village sent it's usual delegation to Canaan Saturday to witness the league game between Lime Rock Falls Village and Canaan.
 Timothy Tucker, of Torrington, is mak- ing quite extensive exterior repairs to his building on Main Street, now occu- pied by Edward Carroll.
 MT. and Mrs. George Judd of New York have been spending few days al Lee P. Deans. Mrs. Judd is an elo cutionist of note and gives lessons in the art.
 Reports from New Haven are to the effect that Dwight Moore passed sue cessfully through the operation for the removal of a wen from his neck and 1: doing nicely.
 Miss Clara Dunham, who has beer spending couple of months abroad, hal returned and is spending couple oi weeks at D. E. Deans previous to re turning to her school duties i'll New Haven. ezaE
 But few Falls Villagers attended camI meeting this year. This was a marked contest with the attendance of former years when the roads were filled witl teams enroute to the grounds and wheI people also focked there by train.
 Fred Bosler, of Dingman's Ferry, N Y., and Miss Evangeline Adams, O. Sharon, came to town Thursday and em parked upon the matrimonial sea by th, aid of the Rev. H. B. Chown. Ane Judge Gruber is green with envy.
 Another of those lmpromptu hops wa held Friday evening in Citizens Hall Sixteen couples attended; various peo pie alternated in providing the music and everyone had good time. We ar, informed that another of these event , will be held this week.
 Mrs Joseph Garfield who resided her, many years ago died last week in Evans ton, H., at the home of her daughter Mrs, Marvin A. Dean. The remain ! were brought here Sunday evening ant { inferred in Grassy Hill cemetery. Tn burial service was conducted by the Rev H. B. Chown.
 George Hall many friends are please, to learn that he is gradually recovering from his recent injury. Reports as t ! his injuries and his condition have beel . considerably magnified in some of tn papers. One rib is fractured and on ! lung was somewhat congested but ther ! was no congestion of the brain. Tn 2 nurse is still in attendance but all thing considered his condition is favorable fo ! an early recovery. -t#. ..ea 3 Station agent Davis agrees with TIT e NEWS that the system of umpiring a practiced in the Housatonio Valle, :. base ball league, is decidedly wroni E and he makes the suggestion that at tn ! beginning of next season, each tean 2 select two men to umpire the games an that none of these men be permitted t ! umpire game in which the team iron | their town is a contestant. For instanc a game between Canaan ard Rock Falls would be umpired by one mal from Sheffield and one from Salisbury This system would be practiced through out the circuit The suggestion is good one and worth considering.
 The rule which went into effect re gently whereby the railroad company in structed the local agent to discontlnu using the telephone in the depot tol station on railroad business has prove . most unpopular here, particularly anon the merchants and others in this vicinit who have frequent occasion to commIfn , icate with the station on matters of bus ] mess. The only method by which pee pie hvinga considerable distance fror the station can ascertain whether eS pected freight has arrived, without gt ing to the station in person. is to ca some telephone subscriber near the sts tion and ask that subscriber to go to tn station and ascertain. These subscriber always grant the favor although it ofte means considerable inconvenience t
 them. In Lime Rock, West Cornwall
 Ashley Falls and other stations, the con
 pany have installed telephones for us = of the agents and Falls Village bushes
 men and others recently petetioned tn z company to install such a phone her
 bpt m roOva in that dlraotiop hoe hoo,