Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-12-10
LOCAL MATTERS.

There Will De no services ut the
Baptist church next Sabbath.
Elegant aud cheap Holiday presents
at Cheney q Clapp's, Brattleboro.
20. F. Woods has pile of Christ
mas goods all ready for the approaching
season.
First general snow storm in this
section last Monday - about fourteen
inches, sleighing very good
20. ID. Gray has choice lot of nice
things in the dry goods line and his Gus
toners will find it for their interest to
give him a call.
%. Smith & Co., are offering por-
ton of their goods at cost, and those
wanting any kind Of goods in their line
will do well 10 give them call.
&C. F. Glynn, at Cambridgeport an
nounces amoung other things a lot Of
grated apples. He has marked down
his goods, and gives prices in manner
that can hardly fail to attract customers
in his vicinity.
a savare cold snap is prevailing
this week. On Wednesday and Thurs
day mornings the thermometer in vari-
Gus parts of this village ranged from 10
TO IS degrees below zero, and at Chester
it was IS below.
Mr.. L. III. Eastman who will receive
subscriptions for the TIMES in the towns
in this vicinity the next few weeks, is the
most successful canvasser in these parts,
having obtained some four hundred
names for the Household within two or
three weeks.
- The Brattleboro Sewing Machine
advertised in another place, is highly
commended by those who have used
them, and all things considered, it is
doubtful if any other machine is as
cheap.
Now is the time to be cautious about
your fires, see that your chimney fues
are all right, and stove funnel in safe
passages. 1t is good time also to see
that you are properly insured. There
are several good insurance agents in this
village. Messrs. johnson & Rabbit are
doubtless the most extensive fire insur-
ance agents in this vicinity, having &C
cess to large number of the best COM
panies in the country, and will insure
you on the best terms to be obtained.
Our friend Geo. r. Barrett, of Ches-
ter, who has long been in the habit of
dividing his good things with the press,
sent US few days since a barrel of
splendid apples, intimating that editors
might like to eat apples as well as other
people. The scarcity of good fair fruit
is SO prevalent this year, that this barrel
Is an uncommon present. The apples
are large, fine and rosy, being Spleen
bergs, favorite variety, and are really
the very best we have seen this year
We assure friend Barrett that his gene
rous present is fully appreciated, and
long may he and his orchard thrivel
Our readers who may visit Brattle.
boro will find at Cheney q Clapp's a
stock of books which would do credit to
any city, comprising all the new publica-
tons as fast as issued and beautiful books
in fine bindings. Their display of pic
lures is also well worth visit.
The Hunters Guide and Trappers'
Companion, is very neatly bound lit
tie book, giving information how to cap
ture all kinds of game, and also direc-
tons how to tan and cure all kinds of
tkns &c, together with some other mat
tiers of interest, and sold by w. FELTON,
d Co., Brattleboro.
Trough & Ready" is the title of
very pretty and interesting volume, Civ
ing an account of life with the New York
newsboys, especially some account of one
who oontended with numerous obstacles,
but who by enterprise and perseverance
overcome all, in his final success. The
newsboy's life is admirably set forth and
after reading it you will never hear the
ring of one of those wide-awake little
fellows voices, without associatirg it with
the charming story of Rough & Ready"
1t is fine volume for the approaching
holidays, and sold by Cheney & Clapp,
Brattleboro. Price 1925.
WEsrMtNsrEs FARMERS CLUB.-The
Westminster Farmers Club will hold
the first of their winter meetings, at Sem
mary Hall on Monday evening next,
10Th inst. at 81 o'clock, for the election
of officers, and adoption of such rules and
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