Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-05-20
gelluws falls Times,
LOCAL MATTERS.


Spiritualist Hall in Bartonsville, next
Sunday.
A number of very nice pike have
been caught recently in the river, weigh
ing from three to six pounds.
M. M. Whitney is receiving flower
plants of every variety from Bradley's
green house at Springfield, Mass.
The Hon. Charles X. Field of Brat
tleboro, has been member Of every
Constitutional Convention since 1886.
-E. Ingham, Esq, of Springfield,
has been elected superintendent of the
New Hampshire State Reform School.
Mrs. Mary N. Stone, wife of the
late Hon. Jacob Collamer, died at her
residence in Woodstock, on Tuesday of
last Weekday 10th.
Londonderry had smart contest
for delegate to the constitutional conven.
ton, ballotting seven times before max
ing a choice.
The Seventeenth Annual Conven-
ton of the Church of the Diocese of
Vermont, will be held at Emmanuel
Church in misplace ON Tuesday, May 81.
Decoration Day occurs on Monday
May 80, and preparations for public
demonstrations are being made at Ches-
ter, Brattleboro, Keene and other places
in this vicinity.
The oldest business house in Brat
tleboro is that of Charles c. and Willard
Frost, who together have carried on and
dealt in the boot and shoe business for
thirty-nine years.
- Messrs. Clark q Chapman will sell
Woods Moving Machines here the COM
ing season same as formerly, their adver-
tisement OF which will be found in an
other column this week.
- We were somewhat amused the 9TH
er day at tableau photograph taken
by Taft, representing two of our girl
compositors trying with much patience
to read some Eligible copy-ours, we
presume!
- Mrs. Geo. Dennis set los eggs this
spring from which 50 chickens were
Matched, 70 of them within As hours of
each other-a promising start for good
poultry fair next fall.
Mr. William Stone has fac-simile
of the first number of /" the Boston News
Letter" printed in Boston, April "a,
1704,-the first newspaper published in
North America.
j. NJ. French's Oriental Circus and
Egyptian Caravan with "the towering
camels," six rampaging lions and the
biggest andt allest elephant around, make
the tour of Vermont in July and Au-
gust.
Mr.. Dudley Fox has just received
a handsome addition to his stock of Jew
elry at Arms & Wilson's store, espec-
tally ice pitchers, gold chains, rings, DC.
and also a new lot of clocks, to all of
which he invites the attention of all
wanting anything in his line.
- The Canal Co. have decided to full
ly repair the dam across the Connecticut
the coming season, and Abial Deming
has contracted to furnish some two mil
lion feet of lumber in logs for that pur-
pose, and has gang of men already at
work driving them down the river start
ing at Wells River and other points
below.
Mr.. Geo. G. Bidwell of this town
has Bramah biddy which is soon to be
known to fame if not fortune. She has
recently produced three eggs weighing ]
to 1 of an ounce each, and about the
size of robbins eggs. She is a great six
FOUNDER herself and evidently does not
believe in the modern style of Bramah
progress.
- 1t will be seen that Mr.. ON. Law
ton of Brattleboro has been appointed
to take the census of this town. We
have felt some fear that stranger
would be unable to make faithful GEN.
sus of this locality, but are assured that
Mr.. Lawton will call local aid to his as
sistance through his district, by which
we may secure full and complete emu
meration.
- Mr.. William Stone and Samuel
Guild, two of the four oldest persons of
this village, have recently been very Sc
riously i'll, but are now better, and we
are glad to say are likely to once more
be among us in the streets. Mr.. Stone
rode down street this week from his home
on Atkinson street, and Mr.. Guild has
got up about the house.
i Mr.. S. S. Coolidge has copy of
Massachusetts Almanac, printed in 1747,