Connecticut western news., 1909-03-04
ASHLEY FALLS

Robert Shaver has moved to Canaar. Miss Jennie Ferry, of Canaan. was at i the parental home last Sunday. i Curtis Dlhia was guest of Myron i Decker last Monday and Tuesday.
 Miss Carpenter, of PittsieId, visited Miss Ira Manvel one day this week.
 Mrs. w. R. Bunker is spending few : days at her home near this village. ] Leroy Pinney has moved to the Patrick ] Lee house between this village and Ca naan.
 Andrew Horn has been on the sick list for few days but Is able to be out again.
 Mrs. Ezra Atkins has gone to Fishkill. N. Y. to assist ill the care of relative W Who is seriously ill.
 The meeting of the Epworth League was held Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. Sarah Manvel.
 Mrs. Dougal McGregor entertains with whist at Walter s. VanDeusen's this (Thursday) evening:
 Mrs. Wln. Moore is assisting i'll the care Ut the sick at MT. Aliens, near the so called "Hoag's crossing"
 Dougal McGregor's family vacateMrs. Jane Snyder's house and move into the house of Levi VanDeusen April 1st.
 "A Gentleman From Mississippi" is one of the best serial stories ever writ ten. It is running Ill THE NEWS. Sub- scribe.
 If present indications count for any thing, there will be much less changing of residence than usual in this village and vicinity on April 1st.
 of hoe int n Geo. Woods tenement north of R. R.. station and is to work for Walter S. VanDeusen the coming year.
 Irving Bowen has been off duty for a few days because of illness and station agent Atkins has been acting as carrier Of the mail between the mail crane and the postOttice.
 c. R. Dubia. formerly a resident hel but who has been operating portable saw mills ill Maine and New Hampshire for couple of years, moved his furnl- ture, Tuesday, to Shelton, Conn. It has been stored here since his removal from town.
 Two new stone polishing machines have just been purchased by the Ashley Falls Marble Company for use ill their works. They are now busily engaged in
 
 Italian marble referred to i'll these col umns a few weeks ago and larger ship ment of it is on the way.
 w. A. Beattie made use of new source of ice supply this season and his ice reposi cry is filed with fine quality ? of the su-!uInr necessity taken from one of the " li'- p"2r the marble com- pany's W ... <. some, time ice has l + foE F-r, mi arr u between Canaan and Clayton but this IS the first year use has been made of that which formed ill the local quarry.
 The people in this vicinity were rather more fortunate ill obtaining a supply of ice than those in some other sections. Nearly every ice house contains its usual tonnage. The Ashley Falls folks pro- ceed on the assumption that the time to get ice is when there is ice to get rather than to wait for the late season freezes which sometimes fail to materialize And good idea it is, too.
 One evening last week MT. and Mrs, George Hall gave whist party to about 30 of their friends at the commodious home of MT. and Mrs. Walter Van Deusen. Mrs. John Griffith won the first prize for ladies, MT. Griffith the fir=t prize for men, Mrs. McGregor the consolation prize for ladies and John Beattie the consolation for the men folks Delectable refreshments were served and the party was one of the most pleasant ever held ill this village.
 The debt on the hall which the Meth. olist people erected recently is now ell. tirely paid and there is balance i'll the treasury. This work was accomplished almost entirely, if not quite so, by the efforts of the ladies'. aid society, the members of which organization circula- ted the subscription papers at the start and who have labored earnestly i'll vari- ous ways since to pay for the building. For some time the need of kitchen has been apparent but the ladies decided to pay for the main portion of the building before they assumed further indebted ness It is now their intention to pro- ceed at once with plans for this much needed addition.