Connecticut western news., 1908-11-26
ASHLEY FALLS

town Tuesday.
 Miss Abbie Snyder of Southampton, Mass. was home over Sunday.
 Fred Smith of Northfield, Vt. is home to masticate Thanksgiving gobbler.
 Miss Ruth Landon of Chappaqua is the guest of her grandfather, O. B. Landon.
 The postofice will be open to-day from TAO to 1O:15 a. m. and from o:Oo to TAO p. m.
 Laura, daughter of George Brewer. has been quite i'll for a number of days but is recovering.
 Everett Carlson has gone to Lee, Mass. where he has a position with a marble company.
 A Mems Club is to be organized to- morrow evening by the Congregational church of Sheffield.
 Mrs. Scutt, housekeeper for O. B. Laudon, is spending Thanksgiving with Millerton relatives
 c. B. Landon and granddaughter. va Mrs. Julia Roraback today.
 The Christian Eudeavor Society held a very pleasant meeting Sunday evening. Mrs. Hurlburt was the leader. Harold Bowen returned Tuesday to Fort Mott. Salem. N. Y, after spending ten. days furlough at his home here.
 Fred Capron, wife and daughter of Danbury are spending Thanksgiving with his mother, Mrs. Julia Roraback.
 Several Swedes in this place, nearly all of whom are employees of the marble comfany are going through the process of becoming naturalized.
 Gust and Henry Storm, employees of the marble company, who went to Warren, Pa recently. where brother resides. have secured employment in that place and expect to remain until the marble company's plant Is put i'll operation.
 The Ashley Falls Marble Company are removing their vertical pump which for SO ne time has forced water to the boilers in their plant from the Blackberry river and are installing horizontal pump | pump has been out of commission, water for the boilers has been obtained from one of the quarrles and, being hard, it has not agreed with the digestive econo- mics of the said boilers. and has pro- duced scales In abundance.
 MT. Sabine, of Falls Village, one of the railroad carpenters, was in town last week, inspecting the station. He re- marked that the N. Y. N. H. 65 H. Go. have provided, in this years budget, for repairs to the building. Among other things they propose to transform the two waiting rooms into one With an arch between and will install hard wood seats, though the present wood seems to be plenty hard enough Just when all this is to happen, he didn't know but supposes it will be sometime during the coming twelve months. A certain newspaper corr lespondent has been try | ing to get that station down off stilts and onto the ground at intervals for year or more and perhaps the company will do this when they enlarge the wait ing room And mabhe they won't. They've been thinking for two or three years of lighting the Canaan railroad station by electricity and they're think ing yet.
 E. L. Woodford purchased a steam engine and boiler last week which he Is to place III the basement of his black smith and wagon shop. The boiler will be utilized to provide steam heat for the shop and pipes will also be extended to his chicken house for the purpose of persuading the hens that December is June and thus induce them to produce eggs with summer rapiditY when prices are at the winter altitude. All the old roosts will be torn out of the house and steam pipe roosts substituted in order that there may be no frozen feet on the chickens. Heretofore MT. Woodford has been obliged to go to his coop each winters night and place canton flannel night caps on his hens to keep their combs from freezing and flannel bootees on their feet to keep Jack Frost from getting in his work and he remarks that this Is no small chore when one has a hundred hens or so. And 1t isn't. After the shop and the hen house have been thoroughly equipped with steam fixtures, the pipes will probably be extended into his residence. The engine will be placed i'll position and used for reserve power when his gasoline engine settles back in the traces and refuses to budge
 Since operations were discontinued, or nearly discontinued, in the marble company's plant, the stranger might think the village is afflicted with mild attack of innocuous desuetude. It's not quite as bad as that but it is becoming so all fired quiet here that person who can [ more II half hear has no difficulty in noticing tho reverbration when the beef trusts jacks up the price another notch or when some other trust does stunt i'll elevation. We don't know how it would affect them If price should drop. There hasn't been crash of this sort i'll so long that most folks wouldn't know how to act. But what we started ont to say before our mind began to wander, is that the cessation or activi- ties at the marble company's plant makes dull times in Ashley Falls Many of the employees do not live here, there fore they go to their homes or to some other place to find employment, and those who do live here go to other places | for work if thev can find It. Bnt thls is