Connecticut western news., 1908-10-15
ASHLEY FALLS

IldyS III WhGeTDuTy, OOuu'
 Fred Sackett and family, of Collins vile, Conn, are guest at George Wood s. Miss May German of P1ttsfeld was an over Sunday guest of her parents ill this village.
 Business remains dull with the marble company and few more men were laid off last week.
 Mrs. Ward and Mrs. Hall of Lee have been spending week with MT. and Mrs. E. L. Woodford.
 Fred Capron, linotype operator on the "Danbury News" is visiting his mother, Mrs. Julia Roraback.
 B. A. Pierce has his new Hume in po- sition and he has enough left over for a good sized smoke stack.
 Miss Jennie Powell, of Mount Wash ington, Mass, formerly school teacher here, was an over Sunday guest in town.
 F. P. Smith is raising his public shed skYward about two feet ill order that wagons with high tops may be driven under.
 Henry Strong, one of the men laid off at the quarry because of shortage of work, has gone to Warren, Pa. to visit his brother.
 Frank Moore of Troy, N. Y., has been spending few days with MT. and Mrs. Wood. MT. Moore is ticket seller in the Troy railroad station.
 MT. Hi Ball wants to know if the license question is to be voted on at the coming election. No, itlsn't. The next vote on th1s question will be taken next spring. .. .... | Advertising certainly pays. The other l day "Wife wanted" signs appeared ln number of places on certain house ill town and it wasn't three days before there was bride Inside.
 The Methodist congregation plan to complete the interior of the church hall this fall or winter, by ceiling the same, and the kitchen will be added to the rear of the building next spring. One of the members of the married mems base ball team asks us to state that the unmarried fellows are so com pletely ''broken up" over their last de- feat that they are all taking correspond ence school courses in base ball, particu- Iarly in pitching and batting, but we ab solutely decline to so state. Saturday last marked the 18th anniver- sary of the marriage ot MT. and Mrs. Thomas Heaton and the event was
  on Main street. A. H. Heaton and fam fly, of Lakeville. Charles Rood and fam l fly, of Clayton, and MT. and Mrs. l. E. Scoville were present and the day was very pleasantly spent.
 The board of registrars. F. w. Hub bard, Frank Roys, Henry o. Clark and Ralph Hurlburt, met Saturday at the hotel for the purpose of enrolling voters. l They will hold another meeting at the l office of the town clerk, next week Sat urday from dinner time to two O clock. If you are not enrolled on or before the 24th, you don't vote at the coming election.
 | It seems almost waste of space and time to say that the harvest supper held 1 last evening in the Congregational church was success Everyone knew it would be and 1t was. Plenty to eat and plenty to eat 1t. This church long ago gained the reputation of furnishing enough and then some more when they served supper and the habit hash t worn off.
 On Friday evening, October 23, alHal- lowe'en chicken pie supper will be served in the Methodist Church hall. For 0 quarter one may eat from six to nine. A large crowd is expected and if previous suppers are criterion, the crowd will be there. The mysteries of the witch s cauldron will be explained and possibly other wierd things may happen but ner vous people need not stay away on this account.
 A certain Canaan man came to town the other day and prognosticated as to the outcome of the license vote in Ca- naan. He proved false prophet, there fore on hls last trip to town he left one dollar, good and lawful coin of the , realm, with local man who prognosti- cated the other way. There was noth- ing Stormy" about the inverview when the money changed hands, either. It is difficult matter, as rule. to disturb the serene unbanity and the steady mental equilibrium of station agent but one does become fustered oc- casionally. Station agent Atkins was the victim last Friday afternoon. On the arrival of the southbound local he suddenly discovered something he hadn' f known before, i. G., that he had step father. His mother, Mrs. Cora Atkins, and Ralph 0. Whitney were married Wednesday, October 7th in Springfield Mass. MT. and Mrs. Whitney took par ticular pains to "keep it quiet" there. fore the calithumpian band gathered Saturday evening and ''sorenaded" the happy pair. The groom, disguised by 8 box of cigars which he carried in his right hand, did the honors and the band retired ill good order after setting fire tc the perfectos.