Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-05-08
LOCAL MATTERS.

Bullock's invitation ON Friday and Sat
urday of this week.
r Shall our streets be sprinkled 7 The
prevailing dust of Tuesday ought to
settle the question.
z New goods are now the order and
g. d. Piper q Co., announce the same at
their new store on Bridge street.
Arms d Wilson make general an
nouncement this week, more especially
with reference to farmers supplies.
- The Sal bath School connected with
the Baptist Church, will give concert,
next Sunday evening at 81 o'clock.
= Monday was quite warm, but the
Tex has been cool, and mostly pleasant.
ne season is full two weeks behind last
year.
Chase has waited his banner to the
bresze If you don't get goods there now,
you will fail to appreciate the good and
the useful.
- The spring drive of logs has just
been started at McIn ioes Falls, several
weeks behind time, on account of the
late snow storms.
- Hollis Streeter has just put in his
store the largest stock OF boots and shoes
he has ever had, and it is just the time
now for good article and good bar
gains at his store.
Look out for the vagrants. They
esgarming into the country, and at
tine perfectly impudent in their &C.
maud. Extra caution will be needed
during the presence of this idle class
Geo. w. Nutting has good assert.
nisnt of farmers supplies, besides cut
l65y and hardware, and those wanting
~ goods in his line will find at his
store chance for good bargains al the
present time.
- Clark Chase is constantly making
additions to his really nice stock of goods
his furniture department is far superior
" any previously kept in this place, in.
Guiding some very fine chamber sets and
upholstered goods.
The Bailifs, in behalf of the village
evaporation, have offered reward of
1900 for the detection and conviction of
the person who shot John Wilmoth. No
hrrest has yet been made, but certain
circumstances are being worked upon
shich may lead to one.
Mr.. w. w. Howard, who has sup
piled milk to this village for the last FIVE
years, has sold out his business to Mr.. T.
Dinsmore. of Alstead, N. H., and the
milk on Mr.. Towards route will hereaf.
Ter be distributed by S. J. Rowell, who
will have charge of the business.
- Mr.. NJ. NJ. Whitney is agent for
TIE sale of plants from C. Z. Aliens
green house at Brattleboro, advertised
for some time in this paper. Mr.. Aliens
plants are not excelled by any other
green house in the state or in this section,
and all orders will be promptly filled
through Mr.. Whitney's agency.
The number of applications for aid
n transient poor and Migrants arriving
Ia place is large. Mr. F. A. George,
one of the selectmen, and has the
bee of the care of this class on his
II here, has of late been overrun
them. Many of these applications
from stout able bodied men, lew Of
Aom are willing to accept work if of
ered. Not long since nine of this class
called upon him in one day, and we be-
lleve nearly all at one time, each of the
several railroads having brought in a
quota. On Tuesday evening we hap.
pened 10 be at Mr.. Georges house when
four able bodied tramps arrived. Such
applicants are now directed to the poor
farm, which is an effectual cure in most
cases. OF this army of applicants but
two accepted and went to work, one man
aud one boy. Of the four on Tuesday
evening, one of them Indignantly threat
ened that he had never been in Bellows
Falls before, and would never come here
again, which Mr.. George heartily en-
dorsed.
Mr. A. N. Kidder, proprietor of the
Bellows Falls Marble Works on Cana
Street, is busy man these days, having
sold some $500 worth of work last week
Nd some $1,000 or $500 worth on hand
= be delivered in few days. Among
SINE very beautiful work just finished
~ now standing in bis shop, are the
Ndouments for the late Hiram Grave.
- selden ]. Hunt. They are botf
very excellent specimens of work. 9th
here are equally so. He has alsC
1nished larger monument to Tru
- Abel, the distinguished Almana,
- who died in 1858. A curiosity a
Kidder's shop is an ancient slat
IA ken from the cemetery at Che -las