Connecticut western news., 1908-01-16
ASHLEY FALLS
DENNIS SAYS HE'S NOT DEAD

The Eternal Fitness of Things
 Chicken Pie Supper To-night-Cow 2. Moving Front Yard-News of For
 mer Residents-Cutters Working
 Three Days Per Wesk-Grip Getting
 in its Work.
 This (Thursday) evening, chicken -pie supper will be held in the Oongre- Rational chapel. The viands will be ready for devouring at 5:30. A feature .of the gathering will be the mystery r6able on which will be exposed for sale packages with unknown contents. They will sell for five and ten cents. The eonIy guarantee made is that each package will be worth tho amount paid for it.
 Joseph A. Crowley of West Rutland, Mt. is very low with consumption at ithe home of his sister, Mrs. Torrance Mullen, in this village. His death is ex- Epected at any time. ..
 Wedding bell experts say that they were not mistaken in the noises they heard last week and, further, that from the extent of the tones at the present time, they believe the bells will be ring ing -so loudly in less than 8 month that 5hey will be heard by everyone. : Those coal ashes on the sidewalks un moubtedly prevent many a pedestrian from suddenly changing from the per pendicular to the longitudinal but they don't improve the temper of the wife sonto whose parlor carpet they are tracked iby her callers.
 The lumber for the Methodist ente r ttainment hall arrived Saturday and the work will be pushed forward as fast as rShe weather will permit.
 The report was current in the village a few days ago that Dennis McCarty was dead. Dennis claims it isn't so. In other words, he denies the allegation and wonders who the allegator is.
 It isn't every year that you will see gthe family COW out moving the front yard on January 18th but such was the case on certain piece of Ashley Falls property this year. "..
 Myron Decker and his hired man are Dotb f1oored by the grip.
 On Monday, George Hall, the local rnortuary artist, erected a Quincy granite monument on G. H. Kirby's family plot in the Sheffield cemetery.
 The cutters in the employ of the Ash Ny Falls Marble company are now work ing two or three days each week. The company expect to receive some large contracts in the near future that will keep the entire force busy on full time.
 The Ashley Falls Social Club is now running full blast and the members are finding it 8 most comfortable, cozy and | inviting spot to go and while away an evening. t-..
 Miss Florence Johnson of Canaan is s5emp poraTily teaching in the primary de- partMent of the village school during gthe illness of Miss Andrus.
 The annual election of officers of the | Congregational Society, Tuesday even | ing resulted as follows: Clerk, Mrs. Mary | Ives Clark; standing committee, R. P. 1 Lee and J. A. Griffith treasurer, Mrs. | Nellie A. Lee. Sunday School officers as follows: William A. Beattie, Superin- stendent; R. P. Lee, Assistant Superin- rtendent; Corlys'H 'Hurlburt, Secretary and | Treasurer; Miss Ethel Bowen, Organist; Miss Florence Hall, Assistant Organisr.
 A man in the employ of the Nesting | several days at the plant of the Ashley | Falls Marble Company, making repairs ito the gas engine to which an accident happened few weeks ago. John w. Cooney of Curtisville, Mass. was guest of Samuel Bradley last week. .-f -a#.
 1.Some folks don't seem to have much of an idea of the eternal fitness of things" remarked the native, 'as he backed up to the stove in the store, Mon vday, removed his mittens, put them in his overcoat pocket, made @ oabalistic sign to MT. Manvel, which the latter understood to mean that the native wanted another paper of "Buckhorn," khen gazed meditatively out of the win rdow. Was comin' up the street just inow.'' said he ''and when I got along tby Ks house, heard someone playin' the melodeon. And what do you spose they was playin'? Can't guess, can you? Course you can't Couldn' t guess it in thousand years. They was playin' 'Hark, From the Tomb Dole full Sound Now what sort of piece is that to play on day when, after three o'clock ln the afternoon you couldn't look across the parlor and tell whether the motto on the wall reads Home Sweet Home or Everybody Works but Father?' Folks had their lamps lighted, outside it's so dark that it ain't neither day or night, just the sort of a day when feller feels as if he's lost every friend in the world ex- .Gept the old hound pup, The kind of . tune to grind out on day like this is ,@Old Zip Coon, Pop goes the Weasel 'fThe Campbells are Coming or. some 1khing else with some life to it, but