Connecticut western news., 1909-07-22
ASHLEY FALLS

Mrs Beattie spent Tuesday in Pitts field.
 Mrs. Boraback was in Great Barring ton Saturday.
 w. A. Beattie was in New York on business Saturday.
 MT. and Mrs. I. E Manvel were ill Pittsfield and Lenox Tuesday.
 Thomas Heaton visited his son, 4. H. Heaton, in Lakeville last week.
 Mrs Mary J. Ferry of Winsted spent last week as the guest of her sister, Mrs. H. D. Ferry.
 Mrs. Reed returned to her home in Hartford Tuesday after a weeks visit with Mrs. R. L. Hurlburt.
 Mrs. A. H. Heaton and daughter, Lonise, of Lakeville, visited MT. and Mrs. Thomas Heaton last week. Mrs. William Durham returned Tues day from Block Island where she went with Mrs. c. G. Smith of Canaan.
 John Colby, who has been employed by MT. Huriburt for the past two years, has moved to Goshen with his family.
 Mrs. Julia Bierce, who has been stay ing with MT. and Mrs. Colby, is now stopping at the home of William Moore.
 Rev c. B. Landon and granddaughter, Ruth, left yesterday for Hillsdale, N. '. to visit relatives i'll that place for few days.
 Miss Bessie Bartholomew, who had expected to tour i'll Europe during the summer. returned unexpectedly to this country few days ago and i'll now in Philadelphia.
 Among the recent guests at the Maple wood Inn are the following: w. P. Nor ton, Jr, Miss Ellen Allan, Torrington; H. D. Utley, George Whittlesey, New London; MT. and Mrs. F. R. Gerry, Phil; s. M. Judson, Troy.
 Mr. and Mrs. K. L. Woodford have been entertaining a number of friends and relatives during the past week, among them being Mr. Lorin Miller. of Lakeville, Florence Miller, of Millerton, Miss Minnie Battershall. of Chatham, and besides these, Benjamin Miller and family of Pittsfeld who spent Sunday here. Misses Elsie and Bertha Wood ford returned with Miss Minnie Batter shall to Chatham for weeks visit.
 There was quite scarlet fever scare in town Friday when phy sician who was called to see one of Joseph Pinkava' s little girls pronounced it a case of scarlet fever and at once quarantined the house. The following day 8 consultation ot doctors was called and the consensus of opinion was that it was not scarlet fever. 1 Dr. Wakefield, of Sheffield, was also called and the quarantine was to have been raised yesterday.
 Among the civil cases entered i'll the district court at Great Burlington was that of Frank c. Dickson of New York, n i'm, GhnfHol6 cS Jefferson Snyder of Reading, Pa., the case growing out of the automobile ac- cident at Salisbury reported in these columns last week: The case promises to be an unusually interesting one. No date has been fixed for the trial. Mir Snyder 8 prominent lawyer of Read ing, and is counsel for biz railroad in Pennsylvania. In MT. Dexters auto mobile aC the time were MT. and Mrs Smith and son of the Maplewood Inn, this place.
 While they say that a swarm Of bees coming to a house bring good luck they do not always bring their welcome with them. Such was the case Sunday morn inf when H. D. Ferry heard loud humming over the house. Investigation showed it to be big swarm of bees that had swarmed inside the chimney. A Mr. Ferry has other uses for the chim ney he built a fire and tried to smoke them out. They refused to stir. Then The burned sulphur and asphyxiated 8 couple of quarts of them. Finally he burned there mainder off the outside o1 the chimney with cloth soaked with kerosene, md at last the unwelcome guests were rendered extinct. Members of the Ferry family were then enabled once more to pursue their wonted ways , around the house without momentary fears of being brought low by one of the enemy. It has not been learned where the bees came from.