Connecticut western news., 1909-06-17
FALLS VILLAGE

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 Miss Emma Reed is home from Drew Seminary at Mt. Carmel. | Mrs. T. F. Watson has been spending few days in New Milford. Miss Ella Rathwell Is at her home in Canada for @ few weeks vacation.
 Mrs. Michael Goggin, Jr., is spending three weeks with her sisters and brothers ill Bridgeport.
 Mir. sand Mrs. Frederick Tomlinson of New Britain were guests of w. K. Hub bell over Sunday.
 Miss Edna Anderson of Great Bar rington has been guest of Miss Lottle Buckbee during the past week.
 Miss Sherburne closed the D. M. Hunt school Friday for the summer vacation and returned to her home in Vermont.
 The ice cream sale at the Congrega- tionaI church was we'll patronized despite the cool evening and $l6 was realized.
 George Frink spent Tuesday and We'd nesday in New Haven attending the con- vention of the State Pharmaceutical As sociation.
 w. B. Hall and W fife, also three daugh- ters from Great Burlington spent a DOT tion of last week with his sister Mrs. M. G. Buckbee.
 The school at Huntsville closed Friday and the children were given picnic by Miss Florence Hanchett at her home, which they all enjoyed immensely.
 William R. Hubbell left yesterday for | Waterbury to represent the National Iron Bank at the convention of the Con- neeticut State Bankers Association. C.E. Griffing and wife, A. N. Griff- ing and wife with son, Ralph, of Dan- bury, were in town Saturday in their big Winton touring car enroute to North Adams.
 Averill Hubbell made a splendid re- cord for school attendance this year as he was the only pupil ln the intermedi- ate school that was neither absent nor ] late single day.
 Rev. and Mrs. H. B. Chown and Miss Sherwood attended the concert at Nor folk Friday evening, and MT. Chown remained to the University Club ban quet. He reports splendid time.
 .Dr. Cobb and wife left Monday for an extended trip to the West. They intend to visit Seattle, Yellowstone Park, Los Angeles and other points of interest. The exact time of their return to Falls Village is not known at present.
 Rose Chertock had the misfortune to | fall from her fathers heavy wagon one evening last week and was run over. She was lucky in escaping with a bruised | hand and arm. She was attended by Dr. Skiff.
 The Current Events Club had very | enjoyable session Wednesday evening, About forty were present, and at the close of the entertaining program re- treatments were enjoyed, ice cream and assorted cakes being served, and social hour he'd.
 Mrs. Grant Shultis owns hen which has been doing some extraordinary feats lately in the egg-laying line. Mrs. Shul- tis has an egg which the hen laid and it measures 734 in circumference the long way and 61a inches around. It weighs four ounces.
 John N. Fay, of Danbury, Conn.,, has purchased the Samuel Beckley farm in Sonth Canaan from Wells Yale and it is said he will run big stock farm there. His purchase included the present stock on the place. The farm is in two pieces, one of 190 and the other of B acres. MT. Fay will take possession July and will occupy the tenement house on the farm while MT. Yale will continue to live in the farm house for the present. The new owner, MT. Fay, is said to own 8 large ranch in Texas, and is interested on large scale in the cattle business in which he will engage on the Yale farm.
 Methodist Church.
 An unusally large congregation as. sembled to hear the children render the program Building of the Temple" and were compensated by witnessing scenes that are much rarer than they should lL1 IL with smiling faces, surrounded by ferns and flowers, speaking clearly, singing sweetly, is a picture that appeals tc every mind and heart, and makes us almost long to return to those days, SC free from care, so full of joy and in nocence. About the middle of the ser vice, on behalf of the school, little John Wright presented the pastor with 8 boquet of carnations, as mark o1 esteem and token of their love. Many friends brought lovely flowers for the decorations, which, with the thirty beautiful ferns, the gift of Charles Hanchett, were artistically arranged by the committee.
 The choir sang two selections anC Miss Belle Hanchett sang solo. The whole program was a decided success the children acquitting themselve! splendidly, and the people appreciate very much the work of Miss Sherwood who planned the entertainment ant trained the children.
 Before the rendering of the aboY' program, twenty were baptized anC fourteen were received into Churcl membership.
 The offering for Education was $12.OO
 Rev. R. A. Wilson, District Suprin tendent will hold the First Quarterly Conference on Saturday morning June 18th at 10:30, and will preach on Sunda, morning. The Epworth -Le tgae vii hold an Ice Cream sale on Friday. Jun, 18th.
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