Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-02-10
LOCAL MATTERS.

beheld at the Congregational Church OF
Sunday evening.
Lecture this Thursday evening be,
fore the Westminster Farmers Club, by
Hon. 9. b. Eddy.
40 Five persons were baptized at the
Baptist Church on Sunday evening
lat.
~ Messrs. Conant d Whitney have
some Fifty different ) yles Of chairs at
their ware rooms.
The baptist society at BrattIeboro
have recently put into their Church an
organ at a cost Of $500.
st Valentines Day next Tues
day. Valentines may be had of John
con 4 Babbitt or o. +. Woods.
Mr.. d. Brown of New Hampshire,
will give lecture in Spiritualist Hall,
Bartonsville, next Sunday.
- The corporation lot north of Engine
Hall, was sold at auction last Saturday,
and was bought by Alfred Dow at $40.
Those who want first class sewing
machine will be sure of such a one by
calling upon w. II. Upham at the store
of Geo. w. Nutting.
Many young ladies who have recent.
" signed the temperance pledge as well
as those who have not, will do we'll to at
once sign another pledge to abstain from
eating cloves.
- The laws of last session are out,
making nearly $50 pages, and the Secre-
tarY at State, Hon. Geo. Nichols, of
Northfield, has our thanks for an early
copy.
- The friends of Rev. Mr.. Taplin
propose to make him donation visit on
Wednesday evening of next week, and
hope fora general attendance, and we will
not doubt liberal hand.
- The selectmen have put up the
check list for the annual town election
in March, and the civil authority of the
town will meet to revise the same on
Monday March 9th.
- Another cold snap" Last Sun.
day it was l0o to 15' below zero most Of
the day. In other towns north, Caven-
dish, Reading. Springfield, DC, it ranged
from 220 to 800 below.
There has been SO little snow this
winter, that the recent cold weather has
penetrated many places heretofore ex-
empt from frost, and many cellars in this
section have frozen for the first time.
We notice that the young people in
several of the town in this section are
this winter giving an unusual number of
literary entertainments "a decided i'm
provement on some other kinds which
have formerly prevailed
Rev. Mr.. Dewitt who has been at
tending religious meetings here for few
weeks, closed his labors on Tuesday even
ting and on Wednesday went to engage
in similar work at Brat tleboro.
We have pleasure in calling the at
tention of our readers to the enterprise
Of Cheney & Clapp. Their stock of
New Books, Chromos &c. is complete.
They give prompt attention to filling or
ders for Stationery, Blank Books and Sta
pie Fancy goods which result is a large
~ increased business.
The members of the Bartonsville
School, assisted by others, will give
public entertainments ON Thursday and
Friday evenings of next week-Feb.
10Th and 18th. They have good pro-
gramme including music and we hope
will have good house
We see complaints daily of the
drouth and want of water for machinery,
and in some cases it is announced that
manufacturers are abou. to put in steam
that they may avoid similar troubles
again. To all such We would say come
here, where plenty of water is wasting
every day sufficient to carry several shops.
Those interested in fire insurance
are referred to the advertisement OF
Campbell & Cudworth. the extensive life
and Ere insurance agents at Brattleboro.
The business of the Farmers Mutual,
formerly done by the late Samuel Gray,
Of Townshend, for Windham County,
has now been transferred to Messrs.
Campbell & Cudworth, who has entire
charge of the same for this county.
The concert at Union Hall on
Tuesday evening, by "Blind Tom" was a
rare treat. One could but feel deep
sympathy that his mind on other things
than music was not somewhere near in
proportion to his extraordinary and in
deed marvellous ability as pianist.
Blind Tom" plays entirely from sound,
having no knowledge whatever of the
rules Of music, but repeats with wonder
full accuracy the most difficult music.