Connecticut western news., 1909-03-04
FALLS VILLAGE
irs. Frank Irish is very sick.

N. Y.
 A. A. Roth was out Of town a couple of days last week.
 Cigars. are plenty all at the expense of Wm. Page. Congratulations.
 Mrs. Francis Skiff has been spending a few days in New York City.
 Station agent Davis continues to inn prove but is still confined to his home.
 Mrs H. N. Wright called op her brother ill Great Burlington last week.
 MT. and Mrs. William Palmer have returned from a visit Ill Westheld, Mass.
 MT. and Mrs. Frank Reed have been spending few days i'll New York City.
 At last reports Mrs. Wm. Blodgett was still alive but with little hope for her re- Covery.
 MT. and Mrs. Tinker and Mrs. Seacord of Canaan called on Mrs. H. N. Wright last Sunday.
 We are not prepared for warm sum- mer in our village as there are but four ice houses that are full.
 Mrs A. P. Briggs of Canaan called on her mother, Mrs. D. Hayes, last week. Mrs Hayes is very sick.
 Harry Beuj jlmin, who bas been ill Pittsfeld, Mass during the past winter is home again for short stay.
 Miss Kemp has returned to her home in Bridgepor,. Mrs. Walter Kellogg ac- companied her for visit of few days.
 Dr. Skiff has gone from Ellsworth to New York City where he is receiving instruction along special medical lines.
 Judge Gruber and wife. who h we been spending the winter ill New York City, have returned to their home here.
 "A Gentleman From Mississippi" is one of the best serial stories ever writ ten. It is running i'll THE NEWS. Sub scribe.
 The rail put up to keep the public from crossing the hotel lawn, a short cut to the postoffice. is a good reminder to keep the sidewalk.
 The piles of ties near the station are rapidly growing larger. Many are now being drawn from Cornwall Hollow and from Goshen way.
 We are informed that there will be au unusual small number of changes of To- cation among farm tenements in this section this spring.
 Judge Gruber and wife, who returned Monday night for the summer, report very pleasent winter i'll New York but say they are glad to get back.
 The proceeds of the mems banquet, held i'll the Congregational church last week were $38. It was one of the most pleasant and most successful events of the season.
 While in Hartford last week, tie Rev. H. B Chown obtained from Governor Lilley six autograph portraits of his .ex cellency and these have been placed in the six schools ln the town.
 The funeral service of Almyra Revaz was held at her daughters, Mrs. Watts, on Wednesday Feb. 24th. She was 72 years old and lived about here for thirty years. She was laid at rest ill Grassy Hill cemetery.
 For some reason we did not get last Sundays papers. They were carried by or left at some other station by the rail road company. It caused a lot of ex- planation and some indignant and dis appointed persons.
 Rev. H. B. Chown and H. c. Gaylord went to Hartford last week and Wit messed the operation of the machinery in the legislative mill. John Belden was, as usual, on the job and piloted the visitors through the capitol.
 The manufacture of the maple sugar for which Falls Village IS famous, will soon begin unless the weather man deals out some remarkably unreasonable weather. March is the sap month, the weather being most favorable when there are thaws by day and freezes by night.
 The telephone men who are making their headquarters at The Inn, are back on the job after having spent several days in Goshen and Litchfield where they went to help repair the extensive damage which was done to poles and wires by recent storms. They have now resumed work both north and south of this village.
 There was grand hustle Saturday on the part of thoss who did not fill their ice houses earlier in the season. Every available man and team was pressed into service. The ice was about eight inches thick and the greater portion of it was obtained on the Ensign private pond near Lime Rock.
 Frank Miller, the Bridgeport coal dealer who, for number of years, owned d cottage on the banks of Twin Lakes, where he spent his summers, was in town last week. We understand that MT. Miller is looking for location for a summer residence and is favorably inn pressed with Falls Village as a location and that he may decide to come here.
 Are you reading our serial story "A Gentleman From Mississippi?" If not, don't fail to begin with this issue, The synopsis will epable you to "get the.r run of it," This is one of the best stories ever written for serial publication and becomes more interesting with each chapter, The play from which it was written is being presented nightly to packed houses in New York City.
 The foll owing pupils in the Beebo Hill school were perfect ill attendutce for the month of February: Veronlca Alseph, Ruth AyreS, May BOylan. Leroy Beaujol. E lward Doty. Eiz tbeth Hic- key, Bvroi Latour. G4nrga LltOur, Cuba Welcn. And the following not more than two days: D)uglus Abb3 one half day, Gladys Berry two days, Mary Gould two days, Grace Morrison two q ys John Wright one day