Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-12-03
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LOCAL MATTERS
. snn strokes this week.

I'm of the village schools, OF two weeks,
a stead of one, as we had it last week.
q Hon. Dudley C Dennison, passed
|,.rough this place Monday, on his way
i Washington, to take his seat In Con-
O. D. Gray has an ominous adver-
6.emept this week, in which hint is
q ren that 81 the next thing will be some.
hing else.
N Tonic at the NJ, E. Church next
s0bbatb morning, The 'ceHs ,ohose sea-
! oipes Joy. In the evening at 6 o'clock,
b. bopti.n, Of the Spirit.
Mr. j. F. saker slipped and fell on
pavement in front of Union block
Wedpesday evening of last week. badly
braipipg his ankle and fracturing one
IA the bones of his leg.
An entertainment, literary and
Musical, will be given by the young peo-
ple of the Baptist Society, on Wednes-
Nav and Thursday Evenings of next
neck. Exercises to commence at seven
Md one half o'clock.
n The weather for Tuesday and We'd
pesday continued very cold, below zero
night and morning from 7 to 10 degrees,
hi still is 6 below this Thursday morn
Ihg-remarkable for so early in the sea-
b.
49, The Bellows Falls Library will
Nod meeting at the Library room,
Ee D. Piper's store, on Saturday evening
D. II, 1875, to see about investing
proceeds of last assessment and other
Business. Let there be full attend
4pce of the members. SEC'Y.
- Messrs. Wheeler & Searle, of the
Bellows Falls meat market, have our ire
fageble thanks for very nice turkey
o. Thanksgiving, No market was ever
Blown to fail with so lively and practi-
ii appreciation of the press, and this
IT. testimonial is WARRANTED for their
snterprise
4 - Monday morning the weather was
bite moderate, the thermometer mark
IL 40 degrees, but during the afternoon
Il rapidly grew colder with strong
lind and at 10 o'clock in the evening
twas within 5 degrees of zero, and
nesday morning it was below, and in
one places it was reported II below in
he village, making change of some
0 degrees, and giving a sharp remind
r of the coolest winter weather as the
losing exercises for November.
II james Little workman in the
bop of the VT Farm Machine Co, had
Il left hand caught in planning ma.
Dine, Monday, and very severely ipjur-
d DIR Whitman amputated the fore
hger, but the next finger and thumb,
Ihpugh considerably injured, will be
Ned. Mr. Little is said to have borne
~ amputation with "clear grit" de-
eIiniug the use of ether.
N - The oldest book that has come un-
hr our observation for long time is
one belonging to Mrs. Geo. Bacon, of
Ibis village, which has come down to her
(fom many generations. 1t is entitled,
4 The Vanitie of the creatvre, and vexa-
Non of the Spirit, by Edward Renolds,
Preacher to the Honorable Society of
Lincoln's Inne,' and was printed in
london in 1851, and is therefore now
~ years old The peculiar style of
hnguage of that day and Typography
nake it an interesting relic.
= The lecture by Rev. Mr.. Mighill at
PIE Congregational Church, Monday
eyening, was mainly upon the character
81 Washington, bringing prominently to
view those traits of character both pub
hc and private which made him so emf
nent, as a lesson for the ensuing centen-
nial year. 1t was given in a scholarly
end interesting manner for which Mr..
Mighill is distinguished. At the close
pf the lecture it was announced that
Prof Buckham of Vermont University
sould give the next lecturein the course,
Friday evening of next week.
q Friday of last week, when it was SO
slippery, IL. H. Wolf had an adventure
With his OK team. He was going down
pill Street from the Square to pass be-
low the Tunnel among the mills with a
load of freight, when the four wheel cart
Sid entirely around and headed his
feam for the Square; the danger for a
noment was that the cattle would be
nriven into basement window of Bah.
Pitt q Hayes store, but no damage was
done, and the team was soon under con.
irol.
= A paragraph appeared in this pa.
per last week, containing an uncalled
FOR slur on the Metropolitan Life Insu
rance Company, and in the interest Of
the New York Life Insurance Co. The
of this last named comnenv !.