Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-08-04
FALLS, AUGUSTA, 1871
LOCAL MATTERS.

M "S"ot SfiehO1 was prompt
" on hand the first day of the month.
M = Mrs, M. A. Adams Of BrattleborC
kil speak in Spiritual Hall, Bartons
Mill, next Sunday.
= The heavy showers of last week wash
"a the streets so much in some places tina
Ihey need repairing.
= After some ten days of rainy, show
ory old fashioned oog days, we have had
kveral days of very fine weather.
- The body of one of the victims Of
he steamboat explosion passed through
IBIS place on Tuesday evening for burial
81 Middlesex.
= We are gratified to learn that Rev
Addison Brown of the Brattleboro Phe-
nix has returned from Saratoga consid.
efably improved.
Several ladies request that the hedge
" weeds which has grown up by the side
Nalk above G. E. Holbrook's store, be
M down. Who responds /?
- The south end of the village is
Aarting up finely this summer, several
dwellings, being in process of erection
there at the present time.
- Rev. Dr. H. w. Bellows of New
York will preach in the Unitarian church
81 Walpole, N. H., on Sunday August
6th, at l0l o'clock A. NJ.
Justus Lyman has bought lot be-
tWsen George Underwoods' house and p.
WE Taft's lot, and commenced work on
WI foundation for dwelling.
The water was let into the new ca
al on Wednesday afternoon, and the
Nhistle of the pulp mil resumed its orig
inal sovereignty" this Thursday morn
ing
We have on our table large and
f1e specimen of fig, raised by Mrs
Geo. Lawrence of Grafton. 1t was full
~ ripe and would do credit to more trop-
zeal regions.
-On Thursday of last week - Tole
on the opposite side of the river was
brought before Justice j. H. Head, and
fined fifty dollars and costs, amounting
% s66, for selling intoxicating liquors
- Henry Kendall, of some eleven
years, son of A. NJ. Kendall, fell from
he platform of Phelps livery stable,
where they wash carriages, on Monday,
and broke his wrist. 1t is now doing
we'll.
~ Rev. j. Hazard Hartzell, D. D., of
Albany, N. T., will preach in Engine
Hall next Sunday morning at 10l O'Clock
Rev. Geo. S. Weaver will deliver the
fourth lecture of his course in Engine
Hall next Sunday at o'clock, P NJ
A child some five years old was on
thu railroad track on Monday just anove
Bsattleboro station, and came near be-
iig killed, the train being stopped when
The Engine was within five feet of it or
jnst one foot for every year Of the child's !
sge.
The tobacco fields in Westminster
are looking very finely and promising
The great new tobacco barns loom up |
hkefactories. As there are some eighty |
Acres tobacco planted in Westminster,
some idea may be formed of the amount |
Of slobbering there is ahead.
~ Mr. james Smith, living up on the
upper meadows in this town, was brought
before Justice j. d. Bridgeman on Sat
nrday, and fined $40 and costs, in all
amounting to 1878, for an assault Oh
Htnry Green. The affair appeared to
1.-the head of some former i'll will be-
tQR n the parties, in which meal bag
NS3p bone of Contention.
The celebrated Haskins' gold pen.
a kich we made mention some time
ag4Fis superior to any We have ever
ueq4 AT least that is our experience
VIII it. The manufacturers will make
ons|to order to fit any hand writing
They are sold by Messrs. Johnson &
haobitt, and we would recommend them
g trial to those wishing good pen.
A sad case Of drowning occurred in
Goodellville, on the line between j lmai-
@ and Londonderry, on Sunday 23d nit.
a little son of Rodney Chamberlin fell
into the race way OF Henry Stewards
chair stuff factory and was drowned.
How he got there no one knows. His
body was soon recovered by his father
and all efforts to restore him to life prov
~ unavailing.
The Concertat Union Hall on Mon
q evening next by Gilmore's Select or
e5estra, will be an interesting occasion,
eorving us with first class vocal and in
etrumental music. The bills and posters
IRE out, aud embrace fine programme
Al. Arbuckle the great cornet PLAYER.
conductor, and Mrs. j. W. Weston. So
rsno. 1t can't fail to be popular en-.
efainment, and we hope our people will