Connecticut western news., 1909-02-18
FALLS VILLAGE
The sick are all improving.


 ford for a few days.
 Mrs W. R. Hubbell has been spcnd- ing few days i'll New York. F. M. Olin observed the fifty sixth an niversary of his birth Saturday.
 Edward Heinz and son Bruno have been visiting Bridgeport relatives.
 Miss Daphne Stickles of Canaan was a guest at Edward Heinz's Friday.
 Miss Anna Goss has returned from New York and IS again at The Salonlc.
 George E. Brink installed, last week. the new gas electrolier in the Methodist church.
 Mrs. G. W. Hall and Mss Lucy Ran dall have been spending few days ln Danbury.
 Miss Grace Armstrong ot Chapinville has been spending few days with Mrs W. J. Argall.
 Walter Carrigan, who has been spend ing few weeks in New York, has re- turned to Falls Village.
 About dozen Falls Village people at tended the concert at Norfolk Friday and were greatly pleased with it.
 Messrs. John and Tom Bartle and ! George W. Hall attended the business mems banquet at Canaan Friday night.
 Lincoln's birthday was very appropri- ately and interestingly observed in the schools of Falls Village and Amesville.
 Sidney Morris and son came up from Bridgeport few days ago to get the goods on their farm ready for shipment to Bridgeport, where they will he treafter reside.
 D. H. Casey, formerly proprietor of The Inn, has entered into partnership with Seth Morris, and they have pur- chased hardware and plumbing buSl- ness ill Bridgeport.
 The success of the business mems ban quet in Canaan Friday evening has caused some discussion of the proposi- tiou to hold a similar banquet in this village in the not far distant future.
 The ice cream sale held Friday even ing in the M. E. church. netted $14.O0. George E. Frink added greatly to the pleasure of the evening by rendering numerous selections on the Victor talk | ing machine, for which he is agent. The proceeds will be applied toward the pay ment for the new chandeliers recently installed.
 An out -of-town man, who was gazing at the Methodist church edifice the other day, asked man prominently identified with the church if the belfry contains bell. He replied that it does not, and that the congregation does not want a bell. Ut don't require bell, said he, to warn people when it is train time. neither should bell be necessary to tell them when it is church time."
 Tomorrow evening will witness the great P D. B. ball. It will be a greater success than any of the successful balls that have passed into history and is an instance of the result of concentrated ef- fort on the part of an interested, active and enthusiastic committee of arrange ments. It is expected that all the char ter members will be present, including those from Waterbury, Bridgeport, Tor rington. New York and Boston.
 The following guests registered'at The Inn during the past few days: Alfred Hozier, New York; R. W. Cochran, | West Cornwall; B. L. Brown, New Ha- ven; A N. Harder, Chatham, N. Y; NJ. B. Holman, New York: Carl Eek land. Waterbury; E. Moran, Winsted; c E. White, Andover, Conn.,: E. L. Roberts, East Canaan; D. c. Garfield, East Canaan, H. M. Ferris and wife, J. O. Smith, Bethel; B. c. Bowen, Sara toga, N. Y.
 Falls Village people were much aroused by the sarcastic reference i'll a certain Litchfield county paper, to the location of the Court of Common Pleas ill this village. It wanted to know why the court should not be located in Corn wall Hollow or some other spot. Judge Welch remarks that this is one of the best and most conveniently arranged court rooms he knows of and is a credit to the village. The slur upon Falls Will lage and its court room is unwarranted and justly resented.
 Mrs. Catherine A. Gibbons, aged 57, wife of Thomas Gibbons, died last week at her home in Great Harrington. For some time she had been afflicted with heart trouble. She was born ill Falls Village, and was the daughter of Ed ward Jennings and Anna Ellwood. She went to Great Harrington about thirty seven years ago, and with the exception of few years, when she lived in Pitts field, all her life was spent in Great Barrington./ She was married thirty-two years ago to Thomas Gibbons, who sur wives her, as does an only daughter, Miss Jennie Gibbons. Besides her hus. band and daughter, she leaves two sis ters, Mrs. Mary Boyle of Falls Village and Mrs. John Donlon, of Portland, i Oregon.