Connecticut western news., 1909-05-13
ASHLEY FALLS

J. A. Griffith moved his family to their new home on Cooper Hill Satur- day.
 Caroline During has returned from visit to her brother ill Flatbush, Brooklyn.
 Mrs. A. A. Dunbar is seriously i'll with heart trouble and is being attended by Dr. Camp.
 l F. o. Wait of Granville, N. Y, form erly resident of this village, was the guest of friends in town last week Next Sunday evening A. F. Howes, superintendent of schools in Sheffield, will conduct ttheChristian Endeavor meet ing iA the chapel.
 Attorney G. Wright Gordon, of Spring field, Mass, was q guest of his sister. Mrs. RI Lee, last Sunday and also vislt . edhls father, Nelson Gordon, ill Silver Street.
 George Hall is completing in h;S monument works a monument which l,.. will next Tuesday place on the grave of Charles Humes at Salisbury. The monument stands about five feet hi i. and is made of three pieces of dul. Quincy granite. MT. Humes died ]. 1891.
 The pupils of the grammar and pri- mary schools will hold all entertainment and ice cream sale at the Congregational Chapel, Friday evening. May 2I at s o'clock. The object of this enterta::- nlent and sale is to secure funds for ., school organ. The public is cordially invited to attend. A small charge will be made.
 Howard Decker. of Springfield, Mass, called on his aunt, Mrs. J. H. Turner, Sunday. Howard left Springfield on his motor cycle after work Saturday coming to Great Harrington Sunday a. m. He rode to Canaan calling on old acquaintances there and on his way back to Great Harrington called on Mrs. Tur- ner, expecting to be Ill Springfield by by three p m. Sunday.
 A large fire was noticed northwest of this town on Monday evening and later we learned a barn belonging to MT. O'Harra in North Egremont was | the property consumed. The barn was built about ten years ago at a cost of S4000 on the farm owned by Mrs. H. J. Lewis of Stratford, Conn, and together with long shed adjoining was totally destroyed by fire.
 was Il SOOu dIlGuuhuC6 hb bu6 service in the chapel last Sunday even ing, Rev. E. c. Torrey preaching from the text, "So run that ye man obtain, !" touching particularly on this year be- ing the 100 anniversary of many noted men, among them Lincoln, Poe and Tennyson and in our own town, Frede- rick Barnard was born 100 years ago last week. He was for long time pres ident of Columbia University
 w. A. Beattie went on business trip to Hartford and Springfield Tuesday and is expected home. today. The Ashley Falls Marble company are making several important changes, adding two polishing machines, making six in all and a new counter sinking machine for small marble mouldings. They received last week an Italian block of marble from New York weighing 32 tons and have received recently 29 blocks only a little smaller in weight, 1 These are sawed into slabs about an inch in thickness being used for interior
 work and are shipped mainly to New York city. MT. Beattie, the superinten- dent, states that business is much better and improving as the spring advances. | They are also to move their travelling crane in the quary % feet south making run of 125 feet and are building a wall | 12 feet high. They are to widen it on the east side. In the old quarry that has been given up temporarily the water is so feet deep.