Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-09-03
LOCAL MATTERS.

and afternoon NJ onoW iialI IN DartonS-
vile, on Sunday next.
A fine lot of land is offered for sale
in Westminster village, East Parish See
advertisement.
Advertised Letters Wv. III. Barnes,
Inis i. Bailey, w. Edgerlsy, Isaiah
Sears.
- Great reduction in prices of sewing
machines. Call at J. c. Richardson's in
\ Westminster and see them.
- William Houghton whose death at
N rs years was announced last week, had
4 been town clerk of Putney thirty-two
II years in succession.
q We ind our paper suddenly full
n this week, and we regret to be obliged to
a postpone the favors of several eorrespon-
dents.
Il = AS the new hall is not sufficiently
4 advanced, freemans meeting next Tues
day will be held in the new village hall
of the Engine building
- Those wanting good cedar shingles,
can get the same by applying to Girls
void q Stone, in this village, or to j. W.
Severance in Saxtons River, to whose
advertisement we would direct attention.
- Asahel Clapp of Brattleboro was
4 thrown out of wagon by the sudden
n starting of the horse, Aug. Goth, break
4 ing his collar bone and badly brusing his
neck and head.
= Parties are briskly at work On Lo-
n Gust Creek, in the town of Woodstock,
Il washing for gold and silver this latter
q being found in very good quantities, SO
q they say.
N VIII our friends please send in the
II returns of the election, and in doing so
81 please includeithe vote for representative
81 We shall send out circulars if we can
# get the time to do it.
81 = Alfred Watkins of South Reading
has fitted up trout pond and during the
last month has been stocking it with
81 brook trout. He simply intends it for
III his own use, and others will find it good
Ri example.
@ There was light frost "Wednesday
morning, Sept. l. The season has been
E decidedly cool one, and it is doubtful
| if there has been a cooler average, from
I'D May to September for half century, or
81 say since 1916.
81 "A valuable farm is offered for sale
81 on the road between this place and Sax
tons River, by J. o. Smith, to whose ad-
81 vertisement we refer for further paticu-
81 lars.
MI We notice by the Dubuque Daily
81 Times, that our old boyhood friend,
b Frank NJ Robinson, formerly of South
b Reading, has recently bought four sto-
| ry block in that place, for $4,000, cash
|& down, which the Times says is a good
81 bargain, and as this is decided indica-
@ ton of our old friends prosperity, we in
common with his old Vermont friends are
glad to hear Of it.
There is great struggle among the
potatoes this year, as to quality. Our
neighbor, L. NJ. Bowman, has sent US a
lot of Jacksons, which are excellent, and
q equal to the Jacksons Of former fame.
He thinks they are not Of the kind which
for a few years past have been rather
poor, apparently deteriorating from their
former good quality.
"A mineral spring has been discover
ed in South Reading on land of Rufus
Buck Just south of Lewis Robnson's old
Starch Mill, the properties Of which are
considered promising. With a spring
and trout ponds for attractions, South
IA Reading will soon sescure more then her
ancient fame!
|M - Mrs. Martha Washburn now re
u siding at Reading, was one hundred years
III of age Jan. 9th, 1859. She was tht
E# daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Solomon En-
mons of Windsor, who were the frs
white persons who resided within the ter
ritory comprising the present town o
81 Windsor.
A few mornings since DIR. o. F
u Woods led his horse out to eat in the
front yard, when the discovery was soor
made that the horse could not eat. Al
examination showed single mai
standing upright inside the lower jaw
1t was soon removed and the horse com
menced eating all right. The nail mus
have got in by eating oats or hay, anc
entered the jaw in this singular manner
II G. E. Holbrook has new kind o
boot and shoe, the distinguishing featur
of which is the screw tap or bottom. |
is a new article and only been out som
six or eight months. Apparently it mus
add much to the durability of the boot
and - = Al. Iaf xt-,l