Connecticut western news., 1916-11-09
FALLS VILLAGE

E. l.. Pendletou is laid up with a severe attark of rheumatism. Clifford Prescott Of New Haven spent l Sunday at D. T. Sahjns. Charles l.. Smith is building Il small bhrn in place of the one burnt few months ago
 James Mcintosh of Poughkeepsie wis ited friends ill Amesville this week.
 Lewis Smith has Hnted house in Canaan and will soon move his family to that place.
 Mrs. .. B. Sedgwick entertained relatives from Torrington, Thursday and Friday.
 Mason Noble has resigned his posi-. ton as rural mail carrier. An ex- animation for his successor will be held Saturday, December 9, in Great Burlington.
 The Inn is formally closed and with the curtains drawn looks deserted.
 Mrs. T. F. Watson is visiting the Misses Hull in Danbury.
 Mir. and Mrs. Arthur Wagoner have returned from a vacation spent with friends in New York state.
 Clayton Benjamin moved his house hold goods to Canaan, Monday.
 Rev. T. w. Haven attended the Methodist ministers meeting in Housa tonic, Monday. He reports a most in teresting gathering with a sermon by Rev. F. H. Neal of Sheffield. The new edition of the Discipline was dis cussed also the conference course of study.
 Because it was the regular teachers meeting day and the High school in Canaan closed early Monday, four of our young ladies walked home that afternoon. making the trip in one hour and a quarter. The party was made up of Misses Ruth Ayres, Catherine | 5edgwick, Jennie Weiner and Ellen Hickey.
 Miss Edna Dean of Cornwall is visit. ing Miss Mabel Merriman
 Miss Mabel Russell is making a visit with friends in Poughkeepsie.
 Arthur J. Sabin has been in New Haven the past week.
 Prof. Fellows of Stockbridge, who teaches music in the Salisbury schools, was in town Friday. When you place a telephone call speak distinctly, deliberately and in a moderate tone of voice.-Adv.
 The ladies of the Methodist church are making great preparations for the supper and sale next Wednesday after noon and evening. The sale of fancy and useful articles will begin at 5 o'clock and a chicken-pie supper will be served for thirty five cents per plate. Those who have partaken of one of these suppers ill past season do not need to be invited a second time; everybody will be welcome.
 Charles Miller, who has been with his sister Mrs. Kate Benjamin, for the past two months has gone to German. town, N. Y.
 Mrs. E. H. Kilmer of New Haven was recent visitor Mrs. Moore's.
 Miss Nettie Wilkinson has gone to New York with Miss Ghent. MT. DeMars has moved from Clarence Turner's house to John Griffith's farm, where he will be employed fo the present.
 Emil Mertin will move into the Turner house recently vacated by Mr. DeMars.
 The canning demonstration given by Miss Sprague of the Storrs college, at the Amesville schoolhouse last Friday was much enjoyed and greatly inter- ested those present. A public meeting in the interests of true democracy and Americanism will be held in Citizens hall at o'clock, Monday evening. November 13. The speakers will be A. s. G. Taylor. secre- tary Connecticut Mems League for Woman Suffrage and Mrs. Scranton Taylor, Congressional chairman and chairmen of Litchfield county in the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Associa. ton. Admission is free, everybody welcome. Walter King Stone is chair man of the meeting.
 Miss Josephine Hallock entertained the Blue Birds and their guardian yes- terday afternoon; games were played and refreshments served. This was the first meeting since early summer.
 Election day brought out 154 votes i; 50 straight democrats and 55 straight republican votes being cast The final vote for governor being Holcomb 92; Beardsley 56. For representative in congress, Kennedy had 67 and Glynn 8I. Dr. Skif for senator boiled '94 | votes; R. B. Stoeckel had 60 votes For representative H. k. Howe received 60 votes; Lee H. Kellogg 92 votes. J. K. Mackie acted as moderator, Harry Frink and Ray Dean as checkers Lloyd Brinton and Edward Heinz as ballot box tenders. The principal in. terest was over the candidacy of our own Dr. Skiff for state senate, his own townsmen certainly hoping he would win in the contest.