Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-03-04
LOCAL MATTERS.

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their .avors in sending us town election
returns.
Z. p. Cook had one of his fingers
cut eff a few days since, while at work
about the pulp mill.
Mr.. Geo. N, Kellogg will give a
public reading at Engine Hall this
Thursday evening. The public are cor
daily invited.
Westminster voted $500 in the dis
erection of their Selectmen, to meet the
town of Walpole in buying and making
the toll bridge there free.
Our readers visiting Brattleboro
should notfail to call at Cheney & Clapp's
EXTENSIVE book, stationery and fancy
goods establishment.
Andover is probably the banner
town of the State on womans rights,
having elected Mrs. Miranda S. Carlton
superintendent of schools.
All having in their possession articles
saved from the fire are requested to re-
port the same at the store of Arms q
Wilson for Identification by the owners.
= Advertised Letters-Mrs. Albert
Wright, Mrs. Oris j. Richardson, w. S.
Johnson, Miss Louise Z. Hadley, Albert
E. Holden, j. A. Butler, William Brown,
Henry ]. Allen, S. I. Wits.
S. ID. Winslow ID, of Townshend,
has been appointed Depository of the
American Bible Society, and can fur
nish Bibles and Testaments, at cost of
publieation-a good opportunity which
should be improved.
Col Wentworth has promptly be-
gan repairs on his building injured by
the fire, and already carpenters are max
ing plans and calculations. 1t is also
intended to put on an additional story
which viii be occupied by the TIMES Of
fee.
= The papers and records in the
town clerks Office were all saved, few
papers only being slightly damaged. The
school district records in c. b. Eddy's
office, and the records of the Connecti-
cut River Valley Medical Association
we're all lost.
- Woman's rights are progressing
Besides the election of women as super
intendents of schools in Andover and
Wardsboro, two votes were thrown in
this town for Lucy Bailey for Selectman
---or perhaps we should say selectwoman
haven't got used to the new order of
things yet.
We have on hand some two bushels
Of papers, letters, memoranda, DC, saved
81 gathered up in confused mass during
the FIRE, and in which are doubtless some
things shich should have received our
attention this week, but we have had no
time to look them over, and our cores
pondents may attribute any omissions to
this cause.
We feel under special obligations
to several persons who so constantly and
faithfully worked on the left flank of the
fire, on the roof and inside of Went
worth's block, and thereby saved our of
fee from destruction. Among them were
the printers in our Office, S. S. Coolidge
o. B. Arms, Albert Derby, j. H. Girls
void, j. w. Snow Whose case is men
toned elsewhere,) Capt. Walter Taylor
John Arms and others.
W. The town of Wardsboro elected
Mius Ellen A. Brimhall school superin
tendent by large majority, but TIL
iupgallantl moderator decided that
was not legal to elect woman to sucl
Office, and directed the meeting to cleo
another person. Question Mis-
Brimhall did not decline the Office t
which she was duly elected, isshe not al
terall the legally elected superintendent
When the first alarm of fire wa
given in the street some one ran to tn
door of Union Hall and shouted fire!
Capt. Taylor seeing the panic that woul
follow instantly shouted there was n
danger, and ran to the platform and CT
t6Srefrom the hose and pipe which ha
hoon placed there as decorations for tl
cy6ning, and thus by his theughtfulres
prevented jam and panic, besides S
curing early the necessary attachment
to the engine and hose.
CAMBRIDGEPoRT.-Th hotel has bee
under the management of j. N. Blak
Esq, for the past year, who knows no
to keep good house. The hotel und
his care has been such an one as evel
country village ought to have,-it h
ben strictly temperance house. III
citizens of the place, pleased with tt
1,rrsant state of thiuos assembled at II