Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-02-02
&elluws fails Times,
LOCAL MATTERS.

peared this week, if we had the name o.
the author.
w. p. Wentworth of Boston, is
already engaged as the architect for
Suffers block to be erected on the corner
of Westminster street.
The auditors of the town give no.
tice elsewhere of their meeting on
Wednesday of next week, at the Office
of the town clerk.
= We have received and are much
pleased with our volume of the Home
of Washington" notice of which will
be found on second page.
49, We learn that arrangements have
been made by which Rev. w. III. Muir
ray Of Boston, will lecture in this place
on Wednesday evening, February 2lst.
Particulars hereafter
Advertised Letters.-J. II. Conant,
Andri Couture, A. W. Gibson, Rev. FL
mer Hewett, Willie S. Hayden, Edward
Lincoln.
The next State fair is likely to be
held at St. Johnsbury after all, a COM
mendable feeling apparently prevailing
on all sides to make amends for any de-
linquencies of last year.
- Sleighrides are source of much
i, pleasure during this fine sleighing, and
. are very frequent this winter in many
Z parts of the State, and fine turn out for
such an excursion may be found at
Phelps Il Towns livery stable
- The Woodstock Standard says the
snow in that section is three feet deep
! Here it is but about six inches, but it is
! on such hard foundation that the sleigh
ing continues to be most excellent, SO
good and unusual as to excite general
remark
The ladies of the Methodist society
viii bold festival at Union Hall, We'd
nesday evening, Feb. 7th. 1t is their
first benefit for many years, and they
extend cordial invitation to their anti
quarian supper, candidate auctions and
other festivities old and new.
Il. T. Lowell, I'd, who keeps the
meat market on Westminster street, is
selling salt pork at ten cents per h., or
SIS per barrel, which we believe is less
than at any other time since the war
He has recently been making improve
ments in his market, and among other
things has put in nice marble meat ia
BILE, and sausage machine which he
now runs by horse power, thus doing his
work as rapidly as at the most enterpris-
ing markets.
i - That smart and most enterprising
of New England newspapers, the Spring
field Mass Republican, is out in new
dress of beautiful type and arrangement
of matter, including new Hoe press, ca
pable of running often thousand impress
sions per hour. 1t has just expended
$4,000 in improvements, and the daily
closed on Saturday last with a circula-
ton Of 60,550 for the week, being an
average Of over 10000 per day. The Re
publican is the paper we all like to "hook"
from so well, and we can therefore we'll
afford 10 congratulate it on this new ev-
idence of enterprise and vigor.
- The oldest person in this village is
probably Mrs. Susan Grain, who is liv-
ing with her son, Mr.. A. f. Grain, and
who is now in her S8th year, very smart
, of her age, and in possession to remark
able degree of all her faculties, being
able to perform all kinds of work with
the nicely of her youth. She has re-
Gently accomplished some sewing which
itwould be difficult for the most expert
TO compete with, and will spin twenty
knots day without thinking it much Of
days work. Mrs. Grain is native of
Alstead, N. H., but formerly lived in
South Reading and in Washington coun-
+ H..
She is the mother of eleven children, all
of whom lived to be adults, and ten of
whom are now living, six sons Zone of
whom is clergyman and four daugh-
ters. and of whom she quite proudly says
that until they left her home for their
own, she spun and wove from WOO. of
their own raising every yard of cloth
they wore. This venerable woman is in
excellent health, cheerful and entertain
ing, recounting to those who call to see
I her, events and "reminiscences of her ear
ly life with evident pleasure.
( WIsTMINsTER.-The Ladies' Festival
at Westminster, last week, was a very
. pleasantsuccess. and thereceipts amount.
!. ed to some s159.