Connecticut western news., 1913-06-05
FALLS VILLAGE

 the month of May Jennie Doty, Sarah Dunn, Timothy Goggin, James Goggin, Fred Goggin, Martin Goggiu, Evange line Goggin, Mabel Russell. Lawrence VanFleet, Simon Weiner, James Wiki son. Mary SUapleton.
 Bruno Heinz has been confined to his home for some days with grip.
 Elisha B. Gillette, who is S5 years of age, is seriously i'll with pneumonia. Miss Bertha Smith, of Pittsfeld, a graduate nurse, is taking care of him.
 Harold Russell, of Hartford, was at the home of his parents over Sunday.
 Assistant Superintendent o. P Tom linson, of the Stone 6 Webster Co., was ill Pittsfield, Monday.
 The condition of Miss Ellen Prentice does not improve as rapidly as her friends could wish.
 Two cheap looking characters who gave their names as Fred Woodward, of Norwich, and Arthur Bulgar, of Water bury, came to town few days ago, looking for work on the power plant job They were engaged and promised to go to work the next day. In order to cele- brate their good luck they proceeded to fget drunk, and became such nuisance that both were arrested by Constable Hornbeck on charges of intoxication. breach of the peace and abusive lan- guage. Justice Blodgett fined them $5 each on each count, with costs, and sentenced them to ten days in jail.
 Miss Bessie M. Bartholomew, of Bridgeport, visited Miss Randall Friday.
 Gibson Gillette and Rhoda Reed, of Lime Rock. are on the sick list.
 MT. and Mrs. W. T. Pulver, of Hart ford, spent couple of days last week with Mrs. 0. H. Gillette, a sister of Mrs. Pulver.
 MT. and Mrs. J. s. Tracy and Mr. and Mrs w. k. Hubbel motored to Pough- keepsie and return on Memorial Day.
 Murray A. Brown, of Lenox. with @ party of friends motored to Falls Village, Sunday.
 MT. and Mrs. l.. P. Dean, of Gam bridge, have opened their Falls Village house for the summer.
 Mrs. P. B. Burnett returned to Bridge port, Monday, after visit of several weeks here.
 Bison J. Hornbeck. the merchant, has had new set of awnings put up across the front of his store.
 Mrs. George w. Hall spent few days with Mrs. Charles Griffing in Danbury.
 MT. and Mrs. George Hughes are visit ing at Oscar Sabin's.
 Martin Langs was justly indignant Sunday afternoon when on visiting his family plot in the Canaan Lower Ceme- tery, he found that beautiful bouquet of roses which he had deposited on a grave, on Memorial Day, had disappear ed. Such vandalism should be investi- gated and the responsible parties fitly punished.
 The Falls Village baseball team played two good games Memorial Day and won both. The first was played in the fore- noon in Salisbury, with the home team. It was Thinning game and was won by Falls Village with the score of to 5. The second game was with the Shefields on the Falls Village grounds, and was won by the local team, 15 to 9. There was large attendance of fans at the Falls Village game.
 Harold Wolfe. of New Haven. was at his grandfather's over Sunday.
 A baseball league has been formed with teams from Falls Village, Salis- bury and Lakeville. It is hoped another team may be added to the league, pre- ferably from Canaan or East Canaan. The officers of the league are. William Kane, president Richard Smith, vice president; Donald J. Warner, secretary and treasurer.
 Tuesday morning I. P. Hornbeck saw a boy apparently about IA years of age, walking along the street with coat on his arm. On being questioned. the boy, who was an Italian lad, said he had run away from the gipsy band that got into difficulties in Canaan, who had forced him to accompany them from Philadel- phia three months ago. He had started from Canaan, Thursday. intending to walk home, but friendly Frenchman near Lime Rock had given him food and shelter for several days and written to the boys father in his behalf. The boy was too impatient to wait for a letter from home, however. and started to work his way home. He had applied for work on the power plant job, but was consid- cred too young, and was about to start afoot, for Philadelphia. MT. Hornbeck asked him about the gipsies' method of making a living and the boy said the