Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-12-27
: A Merry Christmas to all |


Advertised Letters. Mrs. Catharine
LApe, Ira Russell q Co., Miss Matilda
Hanson, F. S. Black, Henry R. Brown,
The Irish of this village have been
discussing Froude in not very compli-
mentary terms, and Pat Hackett declares
that Froude is fraud.
49, The ladies of Emmanuel Church
laid their tables with choice viands at
their fair on Thursday evening of last
week, and their receipts were some s400.
- monthly paper has just been
started at Springfield by F. w. Stiles.
It il called "The Enterprise" and as
the publisher is a young man well known
for enterprise, we may expect lively
and enterprising paper.
The canine race of this village
have been in great fear and tribuation
during the past week, in consequence of
the manufacture of that extraordinary
sausage filler.
"A very pleasant surprise occurred
in the Rutland Herald office Christmas
eve, by the presentation of an elegant
silver fruit dish, to the proprietor of the
Herald, Mr.. A. II. futile, by the Her
AID employees.
We understand the Christmas trade
has been large IN this place the past
few days, and as the holidays are not
yet passed, it is not now too late for pres
ents and the merchants and dealers yet
have good stocks of goods from which
to make selections.
- The circulation of the TIMES in
this town is now exactly four hundred.
IL Saxtons River it is "a. If any one
there will send us six advance paying
Subscribers, and thus bring it up to the
round 100, we will send them Harper
Pictorial Weekly one year as a premium.
- The week has been exceedingly cold
On "Wednesday morning the thermometer
was 200 to 25o below zero and on Hen
ry street it is said to have marked 2S0
below. Henry street is thus still ahead,
as she was some fifteen years ago when
the thermometer burst one morning at
40.
= In looking over our books we find
that SO copies of the TIMES are sent to
each of the towns of Westminster and
Grafton. We trust the new year will
not fail to bring up to the round 100 in
each, and if more better yet. p. S
Since the foregoing was in type West
Minister has filed her quota.
The Hon. William Parsons gave
an exceedingly interesting lecture on
Wednesday evening on George Stephen
son, the inventor of railways. He is q
fine scholar and speaker, and his lecture
includes rare combination of science
and intelligence, and his cultivated styl'
and earnest enthusiasm, make it ricl
literary entertainment.
- There were services and q Christ
mas tree at the Methodist church Tues
day evening The tree bore interesting
fruit and the picking proceeded will
lively interest We hear also of severa
private trees, so that if there were no
as many public trees as on some forme
occasions, we are glad to believe the it'll
folks we're not forgotten.
The newspapers in and out of th
State have for two weeks advertised
case of small pox in this village, an'
Enough we can't say how soon it may b
true, up to this time the only case know
ia where good man called at a house t
collect his pay for some potatoes, and tn
woman not desiring to be annoyed by al
honest creditor exclaimed in very dra
matte tones and gestures :" Oh, go ava
we've got the small pox ~ And there
lOIc LuS pun SiCuitoi oSootcu'
= All the silver turkey lining o
an editors life Early Christmas morn
ing, with the thermometer at 20' belo'
zero, there arrived at the editors house
Master Fred Lowell, that enterprisin
little butcher of ten years, with spler
did turkey nearly as large as hipsel
Behold how an entire family surrounde
and admired that little master of arts /!
He had thus become the hero not of th
hour but of the whole day, and wit
such an early appreciation of 9Th
press it will be safe to add & Son
90 the enterprising Bridge street mari
Ell at an early day.
GRAFToN.-At the annual meeting {
Key Stone Lodge, No. 50, F q A. NJ
held Dec. Is, in their Hall at ORATOR
fhe followinp named officers we're electe