Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-08-11
LOCAL MATTERS.

N for sale at the post-office.
Has any one in this village got any
" ice to sell? Ii so please report the fact
at this office.
j. G. Tolman has bought Mrs, Nut.
" tings house aud also the vacant lot nexl
\ to it, ON Henry street.
M Thanks TO some one-we do not
know who-who SO promptly cut down
IN that hedge of weeds on Westminster
NStreet
The following places were made
money-order offices on the frst of August.
N Felchville, Franklin, Pittsford and Ru-
pert.
@ - Col. Asa Wentworth has sold his
Section of Mammoth Block, so called, be-
the west half, and the wooden block
next to it, 10 A. n. Swain, for $4,000.
# = 1t has leaked out and got into the
papers that Brattleboro consumes 800
u bushels of peanuts annually, or % bush
* els per month, or over three pecks per
N day
n - The Terrace Hill and Erin base
ball clubs of this village, played match
game on Friday, in which the Terrace
h Hill was victorious, the score standing
33 to %
- A. S. Underhill has bought lot Of
sSNm. Stones estate, above George States,
on Atkinson street. and commenced
york for building dwelling. One new
louise per week now.
- Five new houses are being complet-
ID or in process of erection, near the five
corners or south end of Atkinson and
Westminster streets. Expect some one
viii start a store there soon
= The ladies of Emmanuel church hold
4 festival at Union Hall on Tuesday of
next week, commencing at 8 o'clock in
the afternoon. They will have good
supply of nice things for sale, aud de-
rcisc a iluSTdl patronage.
= More carpenters are still wanted to
build the houses, &c, now going up in
this place. Nearly thirty carpenters are
It work for the Messrs. Russell on their
canal works, paper mills, &c. Rip Van
Wrinkle Jr., please make note ont.
Geo. o. Guilds railroad ticket
Agency, is doing quite business, and
those anywhere within circuit of fifty
miles who are going west, or desire in
formation relating to Western travel and
routs, will do well to address him or
make him call.
j. G. Tolman has the best and most
pleasantly located sash and blind shop to
\ be found in this section, and those want
ing sash, blinds or doors. or any work in
bis line will do we'll to make him call
He shop is in the large new building at
the south end of where was once the old
Canal locks. Harry's Boy please no.
lice.
The barns on the premises of Mrs.
Sc. Morse, I'd, of Westminster were
truck by tightening during the shower
Of Friday night of last week, and burnt
together with contents, which included a
considerable quantity of hay and corn
We have not heard the loss estimated
The barns we understand were insured in
the Vermont Mutual
- The concert at Union Hall on Mon
day evening by the orchestra ofGimores
Band, was splendid and rare entertain
ment and no one wondered at the repu-
taton oe Arbuckle, after hearing him
"a the cornet. There was much disap.
@intment that Mrs. Western failed to
appear. By some accident she missed
train at Boston.
One day last week beautiful little
Inning bird came into DR.. o. F. Woods
dng store, and though the doors and
Wlndows were all open it RENAME d there
~ several days. 1t seemed to be very
md of boquet in there, but after
Yards more so of plate of honey which
ne DIR. placed near it, and from which
hwould often spin round and sip.
c. B. Eddy, while at Bartonsville
on Tuesday, shot a large crane, rare
bird in this section. which measured six |
feet across the wings. He was passing
in garage in the high way at the time,
and seeing the insect" borrowed a gun
and shot the bird. It is hardly necessary |
TO add that as among his friends here and
the legal fraternity it is considered a |
cost extraordinary piece of Nimrod
fractice.
"A very neat and pretty tablet, cost
ing over a hundred dollars, has been
erected to the memory of Marcus L.
Jones, by his friends and comrades of the
Cheshire railroad. 1t will be remember
ed that he was killed on that road last
Decem Der. 1t was made by George |
Andrews in his usual style of good work,
md may be seen for a few DAVIS at he |