Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-01-08
LOCAL MATTERS.

o;ritualist Hall, Bartonsville, Sunday
pext.
- The ladies of Putney held fair
fb,istmas evening for benevolent pur-
,oscs, and the receipts were over $780,
Annual Meeting of the National
b,nk of Bellows Falls, at their Banking
oose, on Tuesday next, at 10 o'clock A
q.
The ladies of the Congregational
$Ocicty of this village will hold their an
nal Fair and Festival on Thursday af-
rnoon and evening of January q.
- Christmas was very pleasantly eel
brated in Felchville by Christmas
&c at the Union church. The presents
ere numerous and many of them valu-
ble
Landon is furnishing his customers
Eth Holsters, as well as the best Of fresh
h, and hereafter will also include pick
and canned fruits. See his new ad-
frtisement.
= During the Christmas exercises at
klchville, a kerosene lamp fell and took
under the stage, and created mo-
entary panic, but some men imme-
ately smothered it with carpet, and
danger was passed.
l. The people of West Townshend
Nd fair on the evening of the 23d,
e proceeds of which are to be devoted
repairing their church. 1t passed off
1 III much success, but we have not
armed the amount of receipts.
- The Burlington Free Press has
bught out the Times of that place, and
Ie two papers are now consolidated in
q one. The Free Press was strong
eper before, and it is now stronger than
Ter, and has the excellence of the very
Fst papers of the day.
The Rutland Herald came to us
the first of January very materially
hlarged. 1t is the first Daily that can
got in the day or morning, on the line
III the way from Rutland to Brattleboro.
has the general telegraph news of the
ISOLATED press every day, and is there
bre very desirable paper for this part
Il the State. We notice it has general
very excellent congressional reports.
"A very pleasant affair occurred in
i Burlington Free Press Office on New
bars Day, being the presentation of an
giant silver coffee urn TO Mr.. Grenville
. Benedict, editor of the Free Press, by
employees Of that office. Mr.. B. was
lite taken by surprise by the happy af-
r, but he is one who fully deserves
eh token.
- new article of dried or " desiccat-
;" cod fish is offered to the public
rough our advertising columns this
kek by Mr.. Hugh Landon. 1t is pre-
red by new patent process, all ready
the cook, and is not only very ex-
lent article, but the housewife will
d considerable saving in work, as well
very handy, being ready for use on
shortest notice.
Advertised Letters: Joseph Bailey,
Aiss Emma Bidwell, Rufus Gle, Miss
anldah Harris, John S. King, Dennis
hne, John I. Pierce, III. f. Reynolds,
lgar Ranney, Ephraim Smith, James
Warden, j. S. Williams, Mrs. A. J.
Ellison, Geo. F. Watts, Mcssrs. Harland
Lowell. Held for Postage, Romeyn
olson, Charlestown, Mass.
-A neat and smart appearing little
hily has just been started in Manches-
a, n. H, called The Daily Ne,cs, in
hlch our former townsman, Prof. j. w.
pore, appears to be the head, being
blished by ]. w. Moore d Co. Friend
7oore will be remembered by host of
~ readers, as the former publisher of
e old Bellocs Falls Gazette, and whose
ple and ready pen is good guarantee
4 his new enterprise, in which we and
Post OF his old friends in Vermont will
Psi him a full measure of success.
Geo, P. Hayes, Esq, of Windsor,
u dead while in church on the Doth ult.
u. Hayes was formerly route agent on
line from Newport to Springfield,
ass. and was man of considerable
Ferary culture, and had written among
her things an excellent lecture on the
ply history of Vermont.
CONNECTICUT RIVER MUTUAL FIRE
HSURANCE Coat the annual meeting
the Connecticut River Mutual Fire
surance Co. ON Wednesday, the follow
g officers were chosen for the year en-
ping:
D'rectors-Col. Asa Wentworth, Jas.
Williams, Geo. Slate, ]. ID. Bridg-
an, W. H. johnson, w. S. Myers OF
elbows Falls, E. B. Campbell, Brattle-
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