Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-02-07
LOCAL MATTERS.

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the advice ON first page, given by an ex-
pcrienced and successful merchant.
The ladies of the Baptist Society at
eaxions River will give their oyster
suppsr md Apron Sale, in the vestry of
the R~.6ist Church, on Wednesday eve
ninr next week, Feb. II. We be-
- - them generous patronage.
he ice crop has been excellent this
vI1lcr. and an unusually large amount
sen gathered, judging from the
~ 1or of teams in the streets frcighted
MN II many of which are from out of
ths village.
The Irish gave Fenian Ball at
Wightman's Hall on Friday evening
last which passed off very pleasantly and
satisfactorily to all concerned.
- Advertised letters: Fred Dean,
Timothy Burns, Miss Mary A. Donovan,
pat McDonough, Geo. r. Pratt, Pastor
Of 81 Charles Catholic Church, Dudley
Putney. MI
4. Afessrs. johnson & Babbitt, who
are largely engaged in Insurance bust
ness. make a new announcement in that
line thia week See their advertisement.
The religious interest continues at
Camhridgeport and (this) Thursday eve
ming, ! prayer meeting is to be held at
the hotel. Over thirty conversions are
announced, and others are inquiring.
~ w. /. Sabin, drover, a few days
since, on returning from his usual trip at
market, brought and presented us with a
very fine fresh cod weighing twelve lbs,
| {or which hat IN hand we tender our po-
litest bow. We found it not only ex-
ccedingIy acceptable on our (domestic)
table but friend Sabin must have got
into drore of Gods TO have found one
Of such goodly proportions.
The Keene Quadrille Band, of
which Prot. Merrill is the leader, gave
some very excellent music in Wightman's
Hall on Wednesday evening, for a half
hour previous to the dancing. 1t was
quite Al entertainment, and We do not
wonder their music is so well received at
the various places where they play this
season.
Mr.. d. +. Cushing of Cambridg-
port has pair Of steers which have done
remarkably WE'LL He bought them Apr
~, 1867, when two years old. Weight
at that time, 1920 lbs. They were kept
in ordinary pasture during the following
season, and in nine months and fourteen
days they weighed $500, having gained
$50 IBIS in that time, and this in spite Of
the fact that one of them had the mis-
fortune to break one of its horns and fol
! while lost flesh in consequence.
-. c. Spaulding of Proctorsville
has the contract for rebuilding the jai
at Woodstock, and has already com
menccd getting his material upon thu
ground.
The ladies of the Congregations
eociety at Walpole, n. H., hold thei
annual festival on Wednesday evenin;
u uext week, Feb. 18th. Their bill
announce a novelty in the performance
Of!afrained dog and miniature skatin;
park
Nothing done in the butter marke
atSt. Adams on Tuesday. Prices nom
inally the same as last week-30 to 4
cents.
John II. Lake formerly of WOOD
stock, died suddenly at Minneapolis
Mimi on the 18th ult.
- The Proctorsyille Library Associi
ton hold Social Leyee at Howe's HI
tel, Feb. 18th. This Society originate
ten years ago, and its first funds were oil
tanned at levee. Since that time it hs
collected library of over 600 volume
The books do not lie idle, but are rea'
and new additions are demanded.
We are much pleased with o,
copy of the book entitled Boys
Blue" a notice of which will be fouI
on second page. 1t is one OF the mo
readable and interesting books y
brought out by the war.
a. F. Lincoln d Co., Boston, a
vertising agents of the TIMES, have hi
specially fitted up for their business
nice suite Of rooms, at 80 Court Stree
and NAV be hereafter found in rooms
md g. This is an enterprising firI
and though comparatively new agenf
it has already become one of the mf
complete newspaper agencies in the cou
try.
The Rutland Herald says that d
ring 1867, eighty new buildings We
erected in that place, at the expense
S246, 900.
-E. S. Ward of Pomfret, made .
v,,s,pdS Of hut+ar from three Jersey co